I recently bought a new machine. It's meant to have a combo CD/DVD
drive, but I can't play DVDs -- either films or data DVDs.
Is there a simple way to find out if it is indeed a combo drive?
If I look in device manager, and click on DVD/CD-ROM drives, it lists:

My modem works fine with SP1.  After installing SP2 the modem disappears from
the device manager. It cannot be detected by the add hardware wizard.  I have
tried 2 different modems, both function correctly with SP1. Restoring back to
SP1 restores the functionality of the modem. ...

I just installed a new Gigabyte motherboard and it has 2 lan ports. Should
both of these be connected to my router?
Thanks for any info,

I had a SATA disk with drive letter C, an IDE DVD with letter D and a IDE
disk with letter E.
To day I mounted two more IDE disks.
This changed the letters of my DVD to G, an the already installed disk got

i installed some older software on my computer and now it is all bung, i
uninstalled it and done a system restore but it did not work.  now i have
backed up all the stuff i need to keep and i want to use the disc's that i
got when i brought my computer to start again, but i dont ...

As soon as I installed my 320 gig Wes.Digital, it showed in Computer
Management as being only 298gig. After I formatted and assigned it a letter,
it still showed 298 gig. So where did the 22 gig go?
Thanks!

I am running Win Xp Home Edition with all the updates. Recently, I had
problem with my CD-RW/DVD combo drive and my Creative Live Sound Card. I
have managed to fix the DVD but not the Creative Live 5.1 Card. It is
present in the Device Manager but not under ' Sounds' in the ...

I have the Microsoft brnaded MN-520 Wireless PCMCIA Adapter. I have mispalced
the instal disks and cannot reintall it. It shows up in my device manager as
not properly installed etc. Help!

we have computers at the library the you can download to.  i noticed
that, when you reboot the computer, everything you downloaded is gone.
anyone know how it does this?
it reboots way too quickly to be doing a normal delete.  even if you DL

I'm looking for driver of
SIS 6215c display adapter
for windows XP
and I couldn't found it

I just plugged in a mass storage device through a USB port, and it appears as
if it installed correctly.
I go to "My Computer" and the device is not there.
I deinstalled, rebooted, turned off all security, and plugged the device in

My floppy went bad a few days ago. I realized that I never used it anyway,
and it is the only bay I have left available in the case. My PSU is a
450watt and my MOBO supports a front panel usb2 connector.
I was thinking about looking for a module that had a joystick and USB 2

Guys,
When I originally bought a Seagate 40Gb drive I partitioned it into 3 with
the C drive being 10Gb in size. My intention was always to keep this more or
less free of clutter so any new installs I put on a different partition from

I have been fighting problems encountered when trying to burn CDs and
DVDs on my Dell XPS Gen 4.  During marathon calls to Dell support, I've
reinstalled drivers, drives, reseated cables, taken out registry
entries, rebooted a minimum of 100 times (maybe 100,000 - I've lost