I am having a strange problem with a SATA drive installation which has
resulted in my IDE Promise card no longer working. I am using an Intel P4
630 on an Intel D915PBL Board W/ 82801FR SATA/Raid Controller. Before I
installed the second SATA all was well. Now the System will ...

    Ok my two cd rom drives no longer work for some reason.
Heres what Ive tried.
control pan/system/hardware/device manager
This shows all my dvd/cdrom drives have little yellow exclamations on them.

For no apparent reason, my computer began printing dashes evey time I type
the letter "p".   Happens every time and the dashes continue until I hit the
backspace key.  I plugged in a brand new keyboard and the problem persists.  
Occasionally, the stampeding dash problem will ...

I've never had so much trouble with my Wireless card.
I have a Safecom MiniPCI Wireless Card on a Dell Latitude c640 WinXP Home
When I install the driver all is fine but I can't pickup any networks at all
I have checked the connections of my aerial of the card and it's all fine.

The problem
is I have ons stata drive as my primeary boot drive. When I install the IED
drive from the old computer all hell brecks lose! The drive is set to slave.
Either windows will not boot it gets to the windows xp screen and then just

When I was running Windows ME, my HP CD Writer Plus 8000 Series would work
just fine with 3rd party Software(Nero 6).
I make the move to XP and my CD Burner will play just fine, but not burn?
XP tells me that it will not load the drivers because of a instability

I'd like to replace my laptop 40G with an 80G.
1. How to dupe it?
2. Is windows going to not boot or want to reregister or something?
"How to" things I'm not sure about: Can I use an external 2.5" drive

I've been looking and can't seem to find a good free DVD codec. Can anyone
recommend a good free program?
Thanks

i have a problem with my new pc, the windows can detect only 3GB of the 4GB
memory installed in the pc, eventhough in the BIOS it detect all the 4GB
memory , i tried diferent kind of ram but still the same problem (4GB in
bios, 3GB in windows), my pc specs are:

Every time i put a CD ROM into my CD ROM drive i get the message:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. This system file is not suitable for
running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.
Really have no idea why this is doing this!

I reloaded xp from a new disk I purchased, and activated it, but now my
monitor is not working correctly. It is a KDS Xtreme Flat screen, the
manufacture says I do not need a special driver to run it. When I go to
display ,properties, monitor, it won't let me change it. Any ...

my monitors is flickering and changing colors. I have alreadyy gone into
control panel, settings, advanced and refreshed and checked for
compatability. My monitor is compatiable with windowsxp home. I need to know
how to check to see if my bios needs to be updated but this ...

I have recently installed a wirless LAN using a speedtouch 580 router.  
It works fine on my laptop, but I have an annoying issues with my (Dell)
desktop.
If I start up the PC with the dongle in place, then although the

When I leave my new Iomega HD plugged in at startup, I get an error
message, "NTLDR is missing  Press CTRL+ALT+DEL"  I have to unplug the
External HD and restart to recognize the internal HD and then my
machine boots properly. After that I plug in my external HD and all is

Anyone have any suggestions on what to look for when you hard drive light
stays on?
Thanks