I am trying to help a friend set up an older computer which he got from
a friend.  The computer is running XP.  We were trying to install his
Kodak camera on the computer, but can't get it to work.  We installed
all the kodak software first, plugged the camera in, windows recognizes

hello, i have an exclamation mark in my "other devices" in my device manager.
It keeps trying to find a driver but never succesful. there is no name of the
device and i don't know what the device is. is there any way i can figure
this out. i have installed the dell resource cd ...

Since switching from W2K to XP a few weeks ago, some of my USB equipment
i.e., scanner, web cam, camera link and USB memory stick are no longer
recognized (well, they were not, then they were, now they're not again.).
I've checked all my other USB peripherals, eliminated then ...

I'm installing WIN XP Pro on a P3 computer with a clean hard drive
installation.
I have the six winxp boot disk to install my XP.
I keep receiving this message upon the resding of the first disk:

I have recently installed a new motherboard.  It all went worryingly well
until Windows tried to install one of the PCI to PCI bridges.  Now, whenever
Windows loads it finds this new hardware and prompts me to install it.
Things go OK until it tries to make a restore point; upon ...

I have bought new disk Seagate 250 GB ATA100 to my PC. Actually I use
160 GB SATA disk connected to Asus A7N8X Deluxe serial ata controler. I
would like to use only the new one disk so the problem is that I can
not install XP on new disk. I have partitioned new disk under XP (16GB

Somehow I managed to freeze both the attached mouse and the touchpad and
can't seem to undo it.  It only seems to happen when I enter under my
profile.
When I entered in under my profile, the tapping function of the touchpad

I had properly working Windows XP SP1 with one CD-ROM drive. Then I installed
second CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (model GCC-4482B). Now I can see Recording tab in
CD-RW Properties, recording on CD-RW is enabled. Nevertherless Windows
CD-writing wizard can not write on CD-RW after PC ...

This is gonna sound goofy, but I've been meaning to ask
about it for a long time, so here goes.
I do a lot of text entry on my computer, and the thing that
wastes the most time for me is when I press a Shift key,

Perhaps a stupid question but is it possible to have more than 2 devices
i.e. 3 on an IDE channel ?
Tx in advance

 I have just purchased a new system, but have a few queries concerning
RAID.
 Although I am more interested in security than speed, I am worried that
implementing RAID1 will slow down my system. Is that a valid concern? Will

5 have a  pentium 4 with  asus k8v SE mboard.  bios recognizes all 3 HDD's
and CD.  XP does not recognize secondary slave which is Maxtor 6L250R0.  The
primary master is Maxtor 6B250R0 and the secondary slave is 6L250R0.   Just
bought the second and third drives asthey were on ...

If you use 2 DVD burners, are they both on the same cable?
Set to cable select?
Or, set to Master / Slave ?

I installed a Netgear WG311v3 wireless adaptor a couple of days ago.
Initially it was slightly troublesome - it would regularly drop
connection if using the Netgear utility provided.
However, I switched to the Microsoft utilities which worked fine and

Dell laptop C800  XP Pro sp2 fully updated:
My external LG SuperMulti RW dvd drive connected to
firewire IEEE 1394 port often just disappears. I need to power the
drive on/off to have the drive detected by XP again.