First of all, am I on the right newsgroup?
Blue screened my WinXP SP2 system.  After much fooling around and minimal
advice, reinstalled plain Jane original version of XP off the repair disk.
Original XP on C:\ drive, second XP installed on separate partition H:\

I'm an unhappy owner of a Maxtor 160Gb hard drive (6L160P0). I'm
unhappy because I'm not able to make it use the UltraDMA mode, but only
the slow PIO4 mode. I have WinXP Pro sp2.
My motherboard is an Asus A7A266 with Alimagik1 chipset (North bridge

Situation:
I have a Dell 2300 with XP SP2 operating system. There is a 40G boot drive
in the chassis (which only has space for one drive). I also have a 80G WD
drive in a USB enclosure. I recently purchased a Seagate 200G drive.

I am trying to add an event to my scanner start button.  I have a Fujitsu
Fi-750c scanner and I was at one time able to send a document to Adobe
Acrobat and when I installed XP it disabled that option.  I used to have 2k
installed.  Does anybody know how to go into device manager ...

My computer has slots for SDRAM  And DDR Ram and I have been usuing the
SDRAM but I upgraded to the DDR RAM and when I install it my computer
won't boot or anything? I went to crucial site and got what was
recomended for my computer so I know I have the right kind. I have a

I'm trying to install Win XP Pro onto a new Maxtor 300GB hard drive
using my Win XP Pro Upgrade CD (with my Win 98 CD as 'evidence' of
eligibility for the upgrade).
I've used Maxblast 4 to partition the drive into 48GB and 251GB

Its scrolls down normally, but scrolls up uncontrollably fast. If I
roll the scroll wheel toward me very slowly I can see the window
scrolling down a line at a time. If I roll it away from me very slowly
I can see the window scrolling up a page at a time!

My system is 7 months old and is running on WinXP-Pro(SP2).  I presently
have a 40 GB HDD with partitions C, D & E.  I have named my CD-RW drive as
'F' and DVD Player as 'G'.  
I am planning to install an additional Hard Disk of 40 GB.  I would like to

I just upgraded to a new computer and after moving crucial files over,
I mounted the old disk into the new computer, along with a CD/DVD
burner that replaced a CDR in the new computer. So, I have two devices
in the PATA chain. Found out the hard way that only by making the

having lots of problems with the above cd /dvd drive. It will play movies
etc but when burning its either really slow or fails completely. To add to
the issue I have just tried to install a game and again it is really slow
can anyone help

I just needed an answer to a tech support question about a MS keyboard.  Im
not sure if this is the right place. Its a MS Wireless Comfort Keyboard 1.0A
that connects to a notebook through a Targus USB port replicator.
The additional keys on the board such as the My Documents ...

Recently I had some problems with my PC that made me want to run Norton Disk Doctor to analyze my hard drive. When I attempt to do so, I get an error message that says "The operating system, or another process, currently has exclusive access to the drive, or some of its files."

My ThinkPad T41 w/XP Pro SP2 has lost capability to suspend and hibernate.
It has latest firmware and drivers, but "hibernate" tab is missing from Power
Options, and neither "Suspend" nor "Hibernate" is available in Start-Shutdown
menu.

I have a GA-7A8DW main board and a SATA ST320082 2AS drive. when copying
large amounts of data
to the sata drive i get a pageing timeout. I have updated to the latest bios
and downloaded a windows driver

A sound appears to play, but I do not hear anything. this problem newly
occured for me.
windows xp troubleshooting steps could not help me about this problem.
please suggest me alternative articles.