I purchased a new HP desktop.
It's Intel 915 chipset.
I fresh-installed Windows XP Professional.
Before the installation, it came with every driver properly installed.

After installing a new HD as master on the secondary IDE, all folders,
programs and even the drive name shows in blue letters in My Computer window
as opposed to the master and slave on primary IDE showing all folder names
and files in black. Is that a sign of trouble?

Of late I started getting the dreaded hardware failure yellow triangle (with
the ! mark) in the system tray shortly after my standard back-up job is done
every other day (from my system and other drives to USB 2 external drives).
Event Viewer turned up the following in relation to ...

I just upgraded my system with a new motherboard, cpu, video card, ram, and
sata hard drives. Did a clean install of XP Pro
I have a safely remove hardware icon in my systray, which points to my two
internal sata hard drives. Obviously, I am not going to be wanting to stop

After installing a new SATA drive, cloning my existing two IDE drives
onto it, setting the BIOS boot order to boot the SATA first, and
changing the C: to D: references in the registry, I'm able to boot off
the SATA just fine until I remove the IDE drives. Then the boot fails

Hi, I have managed to load my wife's 1GB shuffle without using iTunes.
I am not experiencing the blinking orange green LED symptom of an
improperly loaded shuffle.  This is on a Windows XP system.
Most of the explanation can be found here:

I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 and after I installed WinXP SP2 I noticed
the flash message "Loading PBR for descriptor 2...done" to the screen
right before the WinXP boot login logo.  Does PBR have something to do
with the primary boot record?  WinXP desktop loads and nothing seems to

I have recently installed 2 usb hubs. When i use one of the usb hubs it works
fine but when i try to connect using the other hub windows tells me that the
usb hub has been exceeded and it does not let me connect the device. Is there
a power limit to usb hubs connected. If there ...

I am trying to get all of my stuff of of my computer and I am currently
trying to burn off my music. I was able to open my CD drive to burn the CD
and the burn was successful but when I tried to get the CD out, the CD door
wont open. This happened to me about a week ago also. ...

Hi. Short of substitution or test equipment, is there any way to choose
between the CPU or Mb for failing to even get a POST, no less a Bios.
The fan works, but nothing else, including the floppie drive, so I can't
recover the bios, if in fact there is anything wrong with it ...

I have just finished building a new PC (A8N-Premium MOBO, 4400 X2 Processor,
XP Pro)
When I ordered my components I ordered a PATA hard drive by mistake (thanks
to hitachi who have the same model numbers for both SATA II and PATA drives!)

I have a new Lacie hard drive that was working perfectly until yesterday when
I connected it and got absolutely no recognition from the PC.  Device manager
doesn't register it at all.  Lacie have told me to try and use error checking
tools to locate it but I have no idea how to ...

Is it possible to add a password to printer access?  We have a number o
users here who we want to have access to a PC but whom we don't want t
print from that PC without authority.  I know that I can just remov
them from the printer access altogether, but I'm looking at a way tha

my son has a pc that has two hard drives both have/had XP profesional ver 2002.
while working in a program on drive #1 it locked up. after rebooting sys he
started getting errors. (did not say what types). for some reason he made a
choice of reformating drive #2. (which had one ...

Have a raid1 array, with 2 sata disks.
Installed Astra32 to get temperature info, etc... and in one of the disks of
the array it displays that the health is "poor".
Not sure why this is the case....