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working. When I got to my Device manager the "Universal Serial Bus
Controllers " is not even there. I tried going into BIOS and formating ...

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Is there anway to block certian users from hearing sound?
thank you in advance for the help,
dan

I am using an Asus 9600XT graphics card, where the VGA output is for my
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work beautifully untill i created a new user account.  Since then windows
turns off the secondary output when it starts up.  I have ...

I recently installed (fresh install) on my computer.  In windows device
managers, there is a problem with my communication ports.  I get the
following message: "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported
problems. (Code 43)."  The loacation is "Intel 82371AB/EB PCI ...

Can someone please help? I don't have much experience of laptops or flashing
BIOS.
After a WinXP reinstall about 6 devices wouldn't install including two PCI
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I recently got a couple of older Lucasarts games (i.e. Monkey Island, Indy
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After I open up the application to run the game, you have to configure your
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I have recently purchased a Logitech Desktop, that uses a Bluetooth
dongle to communicate. However when I insert my dongle it shows up in
Device Manager as a Generic USB Hub, so I cannot access any bluetooth
settings or connect any other Bluetooth Devices (such as my mobile).

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gig master, 40 gig slave.
2 Optical  drives,   one slave to other.
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Hi, I am currnetly facing a slight problem gettin my newly
built computer to boot to my HDD. The operating system I
am using is XP, I partitioned the HDD into 3, one primary
and two logical, all were 40GB each. I installed XP on the

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sound,I have checked all options and items ,all are ok,but  i dont no what is
the problem,,,thank u