How can you determine the AGP architecture of an installed video card
(2X,4X,8X)?  I am wanting to upgrade my current video card (nVidia RIVA TNT2
model64/Model64 Pro) and I would like to determine which video card
upgrades, if any, are compatible with my pc.  Do you always have ...

I am getting and USB device not recognised error. I know both USB ports
work,i get a beep from the camera when plugged in. I have done all steps in
the windows XP troubleshooting section and nothing works. I even have gone to
vivtars main site and looked around and found nothing ...

Hard Disk Free Disk Space keeps changing wildly
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Gotta a really strange problem for the last month. I`ve  got a 120Gb
hard drive (Win XP Home). I have repeatedly done everything to delete

Hello. I hvae a HP ze5300 with 768 RAM and 60GB running on WinXP Home
SP2. The laptop runs fine but... it won't recognize usb speaker when I
plug them in. Iv'e tried 2 different type of speakers (logiteechs V2o
and Creative TRavelSound Notebook 500) and neither worked.

I have a small network consisting of One 2003 server, two Windows XP pro
machines connnected to the domain and two Windows XP Home computers setup on
a workgroup which has the same name as the  domain. The XP Pro machines work
fine. The Workgroup machines can map anything shared ...

That is the error message when I boot up my HP. I was having problems. Any
key I hit repeats the same error message.
Previously before this, I was encountering some partitions issues. So I
mounted the HD as a slave drive to my other PC and deleted it under Disk

I'm running XP Pro SP1, with 2 IDE HDDs. The secondary one is particularly
noisy and I only use it occasionally for video projects, but of course it
spins up whenever the system is started, and although in Power Options I have
set the hard disks to turn off after 3 minutes, it ...

I have an old P2 PC running WinxP professional but the modem is not
functioning but believed to be in good condition.
The modem did work originally, but I had to go into the control panel
and select phones/modems and diagonistics and "query modem" to get it

One of my partitions (total 3 on a maxtpr200GB) is suddenly not recognized by
windows. It is a pure data partition. There are a lot of tools out there to
recovery files, but does anybody have already experience on how to recover
the entire partition?

Can someone explain the best uses for external hard drives. If i have 3
computers in the family, 2 have win xp and 1 has win 98. Can i use 1 external
hard drive for backing up all 3? When backing up can the external hard drive
store programs or just data? When backing up is the ...

I've got a Sony Vaio with 13.97 GB (1.3 GB free) on drive C: and 129 GB
(10-8.8 GB free) on drive D.  I'm ok using a computer, but am no where near
understanding how it was set up and have simply downloaded programs and
stored data in "my documents" which is all on drive c.  This ...

Where do I find drivers for "PCI HOST Bridge" and "PCI to CARDBUS Bridge."?
My system (correctly!) detects these on my Presario 2110CA notebook, and the Add
Hardware wizard pops up. It doesn't find the drivers online, on the hard drive
of the notebook, or as part of the CD that came ...

I need, on occasion, to connect to a device (some older POS terminals &
certain industrial equipment are good examples) that has a parallel port.
With newer laptops coming out sans parallel ports, I can get a physical
USB-to-parallel adapter.

I have an external LG GSA-5163D DVD writer IEEE 1394 /USB 2.0 which I use
with my Toshiba Satelite Pro A60 Laptop which is running Windows XP with
service pack 2.
The dvd writer connects to the laptop OK, However, when the laptop comes out

where do I go to find my chipset properties? kind of new at this stuff...
thanks.