I have a brand new Dell 5100 with Philips DVD -rw 8701.  I had no problems
burning DVDs until a week ago.  Looking at some of the posts I now think the
problem may have started with a Windows update.
When I put in a DVD-rw it shows up as a CD Rom in Windows explorer.  The

Dear Newsgroup,
I request for assistance.My laptop does not have USB 2.0.
Last week I enjoyed using my external harddisk at a USB 2.) at a laptop with
USB 2.0 port.

Well, just randomly my right mouse click doesn't work; well, it does
work, but it takes like 5 seconds to appear, but it normally takes less
than a second.
is there anyway that this will be fixed? like, can somebody please hook

Any comments about this device?
Have notebook, with
Windows XP Home, SP2, and am seriously considering getting this.
What happens if the device is set and, say, the mouse fails:

I have recently encountered a problem with my USB port. I'm using a dell
Latitude d505. I plugged in a USB mass storage device, a toshiba 60gb one,
and the device manager pointed out a problem "Could not start device (Code
10)" ..

when you attach/install an internal CD/DVD drive, do you need to set
anything as master/slave drive?  I am thinking of using a separate cable
to do this.  I am not replacing anything except trying to install a new
one on a PC with no CD drive.

 Had a primary HD failure, replaced and reloaded, everything working.
Slaved failed HD, ckhdisk fixed, can read drive, but... the files I really
need are in the Documents and Setting/my name folder. When I attempt to acces
it I am denied. It was passworded and I'm guessing that ...

Anyone know of a good DVD-RW forum?
Thanks,
Ryan

Is there such thing as a USB 2.0 AGP CARD?
If there is, where can you buy 1?
thanx

A friend has just been given an LCD monitor by his children. He
is 80 years old and his eyesight cannot run at the 'native'
resolution (1280x1024) of the LCD monitor.
Advueu 17" LCD, 18.1" LCD or 19" LCD = 1280 x 1024

Windows disabled my DVD-RW and my CD-RW drives.  Came up as a code 22.  It
worked fine then I rebooted my system and windows says it cannot detect my
drives.  
I went to the device manager and clicked enable and the message comes back

My computer has a DVD drive and a separate CD-RW. Up until recently
everything was working fine but I have noticed that WinXP is no longer
showing my CD-RW drive in Explorer. I've had a good look around these
newsgroups and have already tried the registry fix which hasn't worked ...

When we attempt to re-install our Windows XP Pro 2000 Edition,
we put in the OS CD and it pops up a menu.....either for set-up
installation or for REPAIR...
We've tried using BOTH - just get the ball rolling, but it

i am looking to add another monitir to my computer so that i have 2 running
at the same time
now the computer that i have the motherboard does not allow for this to
happen and cancel out the onboard graphics when you add a graphics card, have

Having had crashes in the past, I was happy to see a site go up taking
a survey of Maxtor hard drive failures.
They will contact you with the final results if you provide contact
info.  It might be interesting to see how many had issues with warranty