Trying to start  my PC with Win XP. No beep signal  and the screen is. black
Internal fan runs both on motherboard and graphics card. Controllamps on DVD
and CD-rom flashes on start up .  Tried to run  recovery CD.  Same results.
Suspecting Graphics card is broken. Any one  who ...

Sometimes when I plug in a new USB peripheral the installation is successfull
but it is not available in the "explorer". In the properties it says that it
is in location 0; is that the problem ?
The installed device is visible in the "unplug or eject hardware" task.

I had problems with a disk installing software, so I tried to copy the
contents to the hard drive to make a new cd.  It also errored.  Now,
when in My Computer, if I double click on the C: drive, it asks to be
directed to the autorun file from the cd?!  If I right click, it also

Is hibernation mode relevant for a desktop computer? From all I see it is
relevant for laptops only.

which GPU is performanter in the same hardware-enviroment? Intel Extreme
Graphics from the Intel 865GV chipset or a ATI Radeon 9200 graphic card?
Thank you.
regards,

I am thinking of building workstation with 2 dual core xeons.
With HT enabled system will have 8 (logical) cpus.
My question is will WIN XP pro handle 8 cpu system?
If not, any other operating system(NOt expensive) recomendations?

The title says it.  I don't have my new drive yet, but would like to format
a new external USB 250GB hard disk with the NTFS system.  I want to get
around the 4GB file size limitation of FAT32.  I have been told that I won't
be able to do it.  If I can, I would appreciate knowing ...

We have a small network of 8 machines, all running xp-pro. I recently added
a new 300GB drive (NTFS). I added a folder and have set this folder to be
shared among the network. In Performance& Maintainance/Computer
Management/Disk Management I can see the new volume. When I right ...

I am running XP SP2 on a Sony Laptop.  (preinstalled)  
My plug and play generally works well, but has started to have problems with
the two USB ports.  Devices I already have installed work well with these,
but when I try any new hardware (storage, ipod etc) the new hardware ...

Well, if there's a problem, I'll find it, but this is a new and extremely
exasparating one for me.
Just reformatted my C: Drive with Windows XP Pro. After installing a few
bits of software for hardware from disk (Nero, Monitor, Fax Modem) I then

I have a strange problem involving a SATA drive and an XP install CD.  
I'm hoping someone can help me understand what's going on.
The machine in question is one I built myself.  It's got an Abit IC7-G
Max2 motherboard, a Maxtor 160GB SATA drive, and two Maxtor 40GB IDE

I'm using Windows xp and I downloaded an electronic
phonebook called tulsaepages. It's not what I thought it
would be and the program will not remove the program! It
will prepare to delete and even start, but when it's

Last my week old scanner a CanonN1240U stopped working (error message
suggested a broken cable). This was not the case and after some
preliminary investigations I thought the scanner was defunct and bought
a replacement (Canon Lide 60).

Could the radiation is weakened when the display gets into the screen saving
status?
Thanks.

Hi, I have a 3 year old Dell Demension 8250 PC with Windows XP SP2.  My
PS2 keyboard port failed, so I replaced the Dell PS2 keyboard by a
Microsoft Digital Media Pro USB keyboard.  Initially this worked fine,
but after a few days the keyboard started to lock after a couple of