I went to install from my cdrom drive today and found that both my cdrom
drive and cdrw drives were not working properly. I have a Pentium III 1Ghz
512Mb Ram running Windows XP Service Pack 2. I tried to uninstall and
reinstall the drivers but both drives remain disabled with ...

I recently bought a new HP Pavilion a1220n Pentium 4 Computer with a HP DVD
Writer 740b Lightscribe drive.  It advertizes that it is an 8x writer.  I
have 4X dvd blanks and it will only write at 1.3x speed.  Even the CD writer
only writes at about 9X speed.  I use Sony 1-8X dvd ...

could any1 pleasssssse help me..!!
Windows media player (and any other programme ive tried using) keep
freezing up when I try to play a DVD on it. it freezes and then come
on..then takes ages again b4 showing angthing.I've restarted m

can windows XP Pro support hardware raid 1 ?
i found some article of how to hex windows system files and make windows XP
support software raid,
but i don't like that kind of ideas, i'm planning to buy a normal server

I have an 80 gig Iomega USB external drive that has been working fine for
several months. All of a sudden the drive letter is not showing up on My
Computer. I am running WinXP Pro with all updates.
Device Manager is showing that the "Device Can Not Start (Code 10). I tried

I stupidly loaded a USB driver for my mobile phone, which wasn't Microsoft
compliant.  It halted my internet, I managed to uninstall it but now it keeps
reinstalling itself and knocking out my internet.
Can someone help to tell me how I rid all traces of this driver from my

what can I do?

I robbed a SATA HD from another computer I have because I need it as a slave
to off load some files so I can reformat my main. From what I've read it
should just auto detect because there are no jumpers. My mobo has 4 SATA
plugs and I've plugged it into 2 of the slots so far and ...

I have just upgraded my PC from ME to XP Pro. Now when I shut down the PC,
the PC shuts down but the CPU fan continues to run until I push the power
button. How do I get the PC to completely turn off automatically, like it did
before I installed XP Pro.

I'm planning to upgrade my processor and motherboard from an Intel 2.4 gig
to an AMD64 bit processor. Please can someone advise me on what needs to be
done to XP for upgrade the OS with the correct drivers etc when the new board
has been put in place.

My external storage device, when connected to my USB port complains but is
detected but, is not detected under my computers and I can not access the
drive. Can you please help?
When I plug in my external hard drive, the following message appears:

I created a PCI device that worked fine in Windows 2000, XP SP1, and XP SP 2
until I tried to deliver one to a customer.  In their Windows XP SP 2
machine, windows would not detect the device.  It IS configured in PCI space,
I can even read the onboard memory, but Windows will ...

Hello. I've recently gotten a samsung usb move hard disk box (external hdd)
with 40GB. I receive the error msg "Delayed write failed" frequently however,
the result of which prevents me to play my mp3s or view files etc from the
hdd.  

I bought a used celeron 2,9Ghz. It works fine. And I was able to use my
headset with the ubuntu live cd.
Now however I installed WinXP and all of a sudden both the microphone
and the boxes work only when I plug them into the left port (of the

I am running a system with 2 hard drives. recently my D drive vanished.
I have recieved messages stating things from "insufficient parameters"
to "Disk D is not formatted". fortunately the D drive is not the main
one so i still have windows (yay). is there anyway for me to fix this