I recently bought a Maxtor 200GB external USB drive for backup and
storage purposes. It came with a backup utility called "BackupKingX",
apparently a Taiwanese product. I installed it to give it a try
(requires Microsoft .NET 1.1 to operate). Software is mediocre, much

Broke the seal on the case of an emachine, xp-pro to clean out the inside.
Noticed two HDD in the bay, only one hooked up as master, 20BG maxtor, also
noticed another HDD, not hooked up at all, a 40 GB WD.  Why would a 'spare'
HDD be there??? remember I broke the seal for the ...

How does a person use an ExpressCard?  In the HP Help and Support Center in
my Notebook, I have read about how the card is inserted and removed from the
computer and how it complies with standards, but I still do not understand
how to actually use the card and it's functions.  If ...

Does a S.M.A.R.T reading on my spin up retry count of threshold 97, value 97,
worst 96 mean that my hard drive will fail soon.
                                   Thanks in advance
                                       Paul

I have a morning routine which includes my finance program which on closing
is backed up to a usb flash drive. On my old system, I would click the tray
icon, stop the device and remove it. On the new system, half the time it
works like the old, and the other have I get a message ...

Does any one know how to get to the windows memory diagnositc tool center?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I have an Ultra 31342 PCI firewire card that i am trying to install. Windows
can not get the drivers loaded. The error i get is can not install drivers
error code 28. I tried it on a different pc and works fine. I have tried
uninstalling and reinstalling. I tried uninstalling ...

in case of disaster [like surge strike]
1st scenario:
mb is destroyed, but harddisk is left untouched is it posible to move
harddisk with xp to new box [same proc, same mb type] and boot?

               when booting win xpsp2 video flickers and becomes stripes
running up and down the monitor. Swapped hard drive fresh install of xp ,
same problem
swapped video cards no luck,

I've just replaced an old dvd ROM drive with a new Pioneer DVR110D dual
layer writer for a friend. (Prior to running the latest driver, device
manager reported that the installed driver was dated 2001).
Downloaded and attemted to run latest driver (DVR110D_FW137EU), only to

I have an old ATI All-In-Wonder card that I wish to continue to use as
my graphics display card.  However, I would like to disable the tuner
and capture devices.  (They never worked to my satisfaction, and I have
since acquired an external USB capture device, with hardware mpeg

I have just replaced motherboard & processor
Mobo = ECS Elite K8M800-M2
Everything works fine ntil....I try to connect the LAN.
I insert the ethernet cable and start the PC, all runs ok for a few

Have recently been experiencing problems with my Emprex DVD +/- RW Drive.
The drive is able to read Audio CDs, DVD's and DVD-ROM's but every-time I
put a blank DVD-RW or DVD+RW disc in the drive it changes to read CD drive.
The details for the blank discs, new out of the packet, ...

When my pc starts to boot and is doing memory check and checks drives and
accessories it stops before loading windows.  I get a prompt to push the
delete button to continue then it load windows just fine. I know this
probably has nothing to do with OS but if anyone has seen this ...

Can someone please tell me which is better memory, 400MHz or 533MHz and what
the difference is.
Thanking you in advance.