Anyone know what is causing a computer starting around midnight every night
by itself.

in windos vista usb drives can be used as extra ram. can this be done in
windows xp? and if so, how is it done?

Hey, Ive searched over the net about this but... I dont particulary get it,
So, how do you dual boot with XP Home and Windows Vista ....Ive got XP Home
installed on my 80gb hard drive.
And I have another hard drive with 2 partitions, 86 and 96 gb or

Computer work okay but had a noisey fan so I change the fan computer started
for about a half a second and stops. help

I've just re-installed my Windows XP and my AOC LM721 flat screen monitor
hasn't been recognised. Only the default monitor is available and so I can
only display 600X800 resolution.
How can I get my monitor operating correctly?

Hello All;
I am working on a project where I have to utilize three monitors using two
dual channel Nvidia graphics cards in a single high-end computer. In order to
be able to directly guide our software developer in the bast way to make

Tech people are always asking me for my computer manufacturer and model. I
bought this at a pawn shop and it has no markings. The only information I can
get is a bunch of numbers. Can anyone tell me what the following means?
System Manufacturer 00101880 6735

I have a network of WinXP PCs, one with a Brother  MFC-8500 printer.
Most of the time printing works fine, but every know and then a print
job will take a very long time to print, it will take about 5 minutes
for the first page to print, then another 3-5 minutes inbetween each

No sound from audio cd also headphones to dvd comb drive no sound. Media
player locks up when you pause have to open drive to clear it. win xp
disable digital audio in  cd rom device manager cause the whole computer to
lock up have to hard reboot. All other sound works. Cds spin ...

Does anyone know of any software that will partition a hard drive without
deleting all data first?

I currently have XP pro running with the APIC disabled in the bios.  Enabling
it in the bios makes no difference.  If I enable it in the bios, and then do
a repair from the original CD, will the enabled APIC be detected, and
appropriate drivers installed?

The problem is that I can not disable writing cache on my HDD, because the
system sees it as SCSI device, and there is no proper checkbox in the menu.
The disc is IDE, but it is connected to the VIA RAID controller on my
motherboard.

I have installed a Hitachi 120GB hard drive and a 60GB Fujutsu hard drive in
my notebook. Both computers are running on the most current BIOS version and
up to date SP2 and all the other update. During the start up both computers
display the full hard drive storage space both in ...

OK....so I've made a couple data DVD's - on DVD-R with a Dell XPS running
Windows XP Pro SP2.
Inserted into a Asus W2V notebook running Windows XP SP 2 with a Matshita
UJ-858S DVD-RAM drive.

I want to add a 1 GB DDR (PC2100) DIMM to my emachines C2685. There is one 512 MB DIMM
in it now.  The specs say that max ram is 2 GB. So looking at the 1 GB DIMMs on NewEgg I
see there are "ECC registered" and "unbuffered". How do I know which to get? TIA