I am going to buy a Media Centre PC and build it myself. I know what to get
TV tuners wise, but I was wondering if It was possible to use my NTL CABLE
via the PC. I am basically using MCE to get rid of all them boxes... dvd
players, etc etc.

OS Windows XP home edition.
DVD drive (drive D) is registering as a CD drive in "My computer" window.
When I place DVD disc in the drive it wont work. In Device Manager it is
recogonised as DVD drive and there is no conflict showing. Can anyone help me

I have a Dell Dim 4400 W/Pentium 1.8 GH processor and Win XP SP2.  I have
been using a flash drive with no problems, drive G.  I purchased a 2nd flash
drive and installed both.  The new one was recognized immediately. It,
however was not available in either My Computer or Windows ...

Just a month every thing work on my computer for the past 1 year. But for
some time I noticed that my CD is not reading the the CDs. I run the windows
updates but I don't konw exactly when updates really happend and if they
could affect anything. Any way, on under the Device Manager ...

sons computer running  xp home .does not show cd drive if you go to my
computer it does not show cd rom.
It plays music disk Okay.Help

I just bought a used laptop and after i was done using it I turned it off.
Anyway, when i went to turn it on again, there was nothing showing up on my
screen and there was this repetitive beeping.  Ive looked through beep errors
and i havent been able to find the definitive error ...

Appreciate if someone could help this:
I recently have a strange display problem on a desktop system (Windows 2003
Standard, but I doubt it has anything to do with the OS) and I simply don't
know how to find out the cause of the problem.

objective:  within XPProSP2 be able to assign mcafee, and other "mgmt" agents
to one core, and make that core offlimits to everything else.  from
experience- opening a file, installing a SP... it is the anti-virus/spyware
that burns CPUs.  launching an email attachment is ...

anyone with advice about a computer that is lagging at start up
i have a 40 GB HD with only 10GB used on it
IBM Think Pad T30  2366
i have studio.net, adobe photoshop, acrobat pro, office xp, mcafee firewall

If I disable HT in the BIOS will I have to reinstall Windows XP ?
Or will windows recgonize that I have disabled the bios and load the correct
HAL/Drivers?
Robert

Heya.
Some of you may recognise me. I'm the guy who's PC kept lagging up for
no reason.
Well, now I've spotted something else. It still lags up every now and

How many pins on the new card to fit and replace the old card.?

My Power supply recently failed and took the motherboard with it  (and
keyboard). I have replaced these three items. The computer now starts up, but
after recognising the various disk drives (HDD, DVD etc), it prompts to start
in Safe Mode, Windows; Windows with networking etc. ...

I have a Windows XP Home PC which will not automatically find and install
USB devices such as pen drive/camera.
Starting the installation wizard manually installs them fine.
Any ideas?

Could someone point me to a tutorial for adding an old HD to a new
system. Both systems are Gateways and have Windows XP Home installed.
The old system's motherboard is fried so I cannot access it to store or
transfer files. I have on four occasions successfully added a new