I want to replace my current 40GB Maxtor hard drive running Windows XP
Professional with a new 120GB Seagate drive. Ideally, I would like to ensure
a clean installation of WinXP Pro on the new drive, reinstall the programs,
and transfer the data files from the old drive. ...

It can boot Windows after several reboots, but each restart is accompanied by
a STOP screen. You’d think the screen is the same, but no-it is not. I’ve had
7E ; 7B ; 8E ; 0x00000050 ; c000021a ; 0x0000000A stop screens. Since I
changed the DIMM slot, 8E has appeared just once. ...

I recently built myself a new PC and decided to go RAID5.
Everythings great but today my PC did not want to come out of standby so I
hit the reset
button and reboot.

My computer has a motherboard with onboard sound, it also has a sound blaster
live 5.1 sound card. I recently purchased a new case which has a front audio
panel. I've checked my motherboards manual , and my mother board does indeed
support front panel audio connectors.

Ive just got an Ipod nano and it suggests that you better run it off usb 2.0
for the proper power supply to charge. I got the message It can run fast or
some crap I dno. Its a fairly modern computer i asumed the USB ports wud be
the later models... Its got 4 usb Ports at the back ...

I just installed a 40g USB 2.0 external hard drive on my system for backup
purposes mainly. Is it possible to boot directly from this drive? Thanks

I have a very strange problem ... the Marvell Yukon 1Gbps onboard
ethernet on my brand new P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard simply won't
accept the drivers from the install CD.
This is the third system I have built with exactly the same motherboard

I have an old cd drive and a new dvd drive which were both working fine, now
I can get either of them to open.  There is a green light shown on one so I
assume the power is getting through.  I went into BIOS and enabled the
peripherals and saved and exited.  Still no good.  Can ...

Please pardon my ignorance when it comes to computers, but I need advice...a
couple of years ago, I upgraded my RAM to 516 MB.  Recently it has gotten
very slow...and I notice when I boot up, it only displays 128 MB of RAM when
booting, but when I go into System Properties, it ...

power seems to be to the cd rom but rarely does the cd writer operate, i am
running xp and would like to run a cd-fix sometime soon but kinda hard to do
without a cdrome or writer

my computer often crashes. sometimes it starts again no problem but sometimes
i get a message saying "sysytem halted hardware malfunction. the latest error
log report says
"error code 0000008e, parameter1 0000005, parameter2 00064183, parameter3

How do you Move a Windows xp Installation to Different
Hardware (motherboard)

I'm planning on removing a hard drive from one computer and installing into
another computer as a slave drive.
Before I start, do I have to do any grounding of any sort or am I ok with
just unplugging all the power plugs?

I have an MSI K7N2 Delta series motherboard (NVIDIA nForce2 chipset) which
has IDE1 and IDE2, to which I've connected 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120
GB Plus (ST312022A), plus 1 x CDRW and 1 x DVD+/-RW
It also has 2 x SATA interface ports, SER1 and SER2.  "Both connectors are

I use Windows XP Pro and have the following disks or partions:
Cdrive
D drive
E drive