I am planning on replacing my 1 gig of ram with another model as the ram
I have is cheap it cost less than £50 and as i'm haveing problems
already mentioned in another post I thought I would get better ones (
it might not help but I would rather have my husband buy me that for

I put my opticals on an ATA133 pci card, and now they won't autostart. I
asked in another hardware group how to fix this and everyone who replied
said I should not be autostarting because it puts things on my computer.
What are they talking about and what is the big deal about ...

I have PC runnong XP Pro SP2. I have an older externalfirewire  HD enclosure
that I used as a backup HD. Recently I bought a new HD that is bigger than
137 Gb and for some reason I am unable to get it to work.
I formatted it on IDE channel (NTFS) using MaxBlast4 utility. Then I ...

hi, I'm using SE HBH608 and try to pair it with XP original bluetooth stock.
It works as an audio device.
But any one know how can i use SE headset to talk and listen teh internet
phone or music from PC?

My Mother has Windows XP Home edition and while booting up
her computer, she recieved this message, "Disk read error
occurred during startup". The boot up freezes while still
in bios and instructs her to press c-a-del to reboot

COULD UNPLUGGING MY SCANNER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY CD DRIVE SUDDENLY
DISAPPEARING?  NOT EVEN FOUND IN MY DEVICE MANAGER.  ERROR REPORT STATES
"DISAPPEARED WITHOUT PROPER PREPARATION FOR REMOVAL".
ANY SUGGESTIONS?

One of my Win XP PCs is getting an image burned into the monitor. I
thought that this did not happen with modern CRT monitors. It's a
wallpaper image that I've had up for a few months now, and when that
screen goes away, you can see part of that image, like a ghost of it,

Everytime on startup my machine does a chkdsk on one of the partitions.
 Can this be elimnated?  OS is WinXP Sp2.  TIA
shaka

The installation process of my MAudio Audiophile 192 requires that the
driver is installed before inserting the card into the PCI slot.
As I am about to restructure my installation which is going to include
partitioning and multi boot into several OS's (about 10 in one PC) this

Management has asked us to disable the ability to write to a cd in win2000
and xp. Any idea if this is possible from a hardware or software perspective
and if so how?

Is adding 512 MBmemory, made by KingstonTechnology (Value Ram)  compatible
with the 256 MB, that came with the new Compaq Presario SR1010NX?

Hi all. I'm on a laptop with XP SP2 and my graphics card is a GeForce FX
Go 5200 (dunno what else you need to know, please let me know).
Basically every so often the display will "stretch" so the whole screen
is not visible, everything looks stretched out and weird (like

I can't remove a program called "Picture Package" from add/remo, i have tried
going into safe mode and get the same error mgs. I can remove anything else
no problems, i have deleted most of the files but its annoying me. The error
i get is...

I just fitted a PCI USB 2 card into an old PC I have and I cannot seem
to get it to work at all. Does the spec of the old motherboard
(Chaintech 5AGM) make it difficult if not impossible. I am running XP
SP2 so should it not work ok? The card uses an NEC PCI to USB enhanced

Hi, Is it possible 2 have 2 hard drives 1 for booting into Win 98 and the
other booting into Win Xp. I have had no luck so far, I keep getting the
win98 drive
and I have no choice to boot into the win xp.