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

I have two 250 GB SATA hard drives in my computer. I could use Hardware Raid
but that would wipe out all my information . I added the 2nd drive with the
intention to use XP Disk manager and create a Mirror. But the ADD MIRROR is
greyed out. I already upgraded both drives to ...

I have Windows XP Home Ed with SP2 and fully updated running on a Dell
Dimension 2400 with Pentium 4. I have just bought a Pentax Optio S55
digital camera which plugs
into a USB port but my computer will not install it. Yes I have

I have not been able to install a Brother DCP 115C printer/scanner and the
company does not even try to help (no replies to emails and a site that
isn't worth a toss)
Anyway, the installation stops at 50% and a look at the Windows logs seems

Well recently I purchased the game 'F.E.A.R' and had no problems installing
on my winXP pro until I tried to play it and a box came up saying "The video
card in this computer is not supported. Refer to readme.txt file for more
information." It turns out I need Radeon 9000 or ...

I have installed a second hard drive taken from my Tivo!  it is a 40Gb
drive, but for some reason Disk Management only sees a 9Mb partition.
I have tried formatting it - it just formats the 9Mb
I have tried deleting the partition - it just shows 9Mb unallocated

I am about to put together a computer by myself for the first time and I
would like to know how to choose the right motherboard
With processors, there seems to be more info and comparisons in terms of
frequency and architecture.

I've got a Pioneer DVD drive and  Philips CD drive.  If I insert a DVD or
audio CD, they autoplay fine.  If I insert any application disks, nothing
happens.  Setup does not start and the drive appears empty in Explorer.  If I
attempt to copy or xcopy from a command prompt, I get ...

Although a systems check says my cd/dvd drive is installed and working fine,
neither  winamp or  Sonic DigitalMedia LE detect a suitable drive when
commanded to burn a disc.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

         my cdrw has suddenly stopped working when i put any cd in the disc
in light flashs for a few minutes but it does not load .i thought initally it
was a autoplay problem but i ran the microsoft autoplay fix program but it
found no problems.the cdrw is detected on boot up ...

On my old monitors I was told that the smaller the dot pitch the better. But
now I am looking at the ultra thin monitors and I see things like 800:1
Contrast Ratio. They all have higher dot pitches than I am used to though.
One I am looking at has the best Contrast Ratio but it ...

when running any CPU-intensive program, generally gaming involving heavy
video, my CPU usage runs around 50-60% for a minute or two, then suddenly
skyrockets to 100% and sits there until I terminate, or switch tasks, at
which time it falls back down to a sane level, unless I ...

I just recently got a a new computer that works fine for about 5-10
hours or so. After this downloaded files (firefox or internet explorer,
it doesn't matter) are presented by Windows as "corrupt" in a variety
of way. Basically they are uninstallable. This would be explainable if

When I first got my computer, the speakers would work. But now no sound will
go out and it wont detect any of my speakers that I hook up. If you know what
I can do, please let me know.

I have bought 4 of these mice, and installed them into our network.  On 2 of
the pc's, the cursor now starts moving automatically, and the mouse starts
clicking, making programs start.  This also happens when nobody is working
on the pc's, so it can't be one mouse influencing ...