I have a BenQ FP71G+ monitor and windows update gives me a new driver for a
FP705. I contacted BenQ about this and they told me NOT to use the driver
posted on the windows update website. They told me that my monitor would not
function properly or not at all, as the FP705 and ...

I am trying to run the XP Home system recovery on a Compaq Presari
6000, with the 5-cd recovery kit that came with it, and the (...
computer won't accept the second cd, saying it is not the right one.
think the cd may be scratched, but can't really see one, so am open fo

Having just bought a new system with WinXP Pro SP2 and loading on my trusty
joystick, I find to my horror that I cannot add new profiles or change my
existing profiles via the recorder facility. The error message 'An exception
has occured cannot run shell32.dll, control_rundll ...

laptop developed a Blue vertical line on the screen that is always there!
It is about 1 1/2 inches wide, and a fairly solid blue. Nice clean edges,
a  streak that appears from the moment I boot up. So, I see it as the
Windows logo appears, and it stays all the time!

My system -XP Pro, totally updated, has been experiencing stability problems
and has been locking up, especially when doing CPU intensive activities like
DVD rendering. I believe that the problem is due to the CPU overheating,
causing the system to shut down.

I'm tryna to add a Nvidia RIVA TNT2 PCI video card to my computer but WinXP
(SP2) hangs when starting up (Windows XP logo and animation on black
screen). I already have a video card onboard, but it's only 4 megs, that's
why i'm replacing it. When I switch back to the onboard vid ...

I just installed the new driver pack for logitech XP, hoping that I could get
my mouse to scroll.  Unfortunately that did not work.
I have had this mouse through Win98, Win 2000 Pro and now on XP Home.  Is it
possible to get the scrolling function too work?

i just swaped my DVD+RW drive from one computer which had an DVD driv
paired with the writer to another which does not have a DVD drive (onl
a CD drive) and now whenever i try to write a CD or DVD i get th
following error:

I'm having a problem with some memory I've recently installed on my XP
system. I thought I had purchased a 1gb stick of memory, but it is
showing up in Windows as 512mb.
I have been told that it's possible that it's high density memory and

For the life of me, I can't think of the small computer. It is a sq. box,
some have a little handle on top. Please advise.........Peter

I have installed to the point where Device Manager sees it and says it's
working properly. At the moment of truth, when I connect my drives to the
card and restart, Windows sees the drives as Secondary (not Primary) and
hangs. How do I get the drives to be seen as primary?

I installed a second hard drive andit works fine in my new computer one is
labeled C: and the other is labeled F: the c: drive is a 40 gig drive and the
f: is a 180 gig drive.  Today i tried to drfrag the smaller C: drive and got
a message saying that because of insuffient disk ...

Having upraded my laptop from ME to XP pro, via a usb 1 port which now
is not recognised because the service pack cannot now be loaded, as I
have only an external floppy drive and NO internet connection, How can
I get it to see the usb 1 port again?

I recently bought an LG Flatron L1710S LCD monitor which is using a NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5200 graphics card.
I would like to improve the appearance of text on screen and have been
trying to use ClearType fom the Display Properties/

I was making a backup a few days ago on a IDE Plextor PX716A drive, and at the
end of the backup it failed. From that moment on the drive cannot recognize ANY
discs at all.
When I put a disc in, the drive usually moves the heads around the disc for a