Got an XP Home system (now on SP2) that won't properly install drivers when
you attached a USB flash drive (Lexar Jumpdrive Sport 1GB). I was hoping
after all the Windows Updates and such, the problem would go away but
apparently not. I've also tried removing all the USB drivers ...

I have 2 had drives on my primary IDE bus, and 2 optical storage drives on my
secondary IDE bus.  Both pairs have a designated master and slave.  The bios
recognizes each device correctly.  Windows device manager shows the hard
drives under Disk Drives and the optical drives ...

I use xp sp2 home.  The card readers that I have in my pc how can I tell
what firmware version it has.  If the latest version is available then I can
download it.  Thank you.
Regards

I have an 160 GB hard drive and recently I started getting delayed write
failed error messages when I was copying files over.  Since my 200 GB drive
died a few days earlier(unrealted) I had just ordered a 300 GB Maxtor drive
so I started coying over my files since I didn't trust ...

I've got Windows XP Pro and an ABIT VA-20 motherbord with an integrated
VIA Rhine II NIC, and I'm having trouble getting Wake on Lan to work.
If I boot the machine into DOS, and then shut it down again, Wake on
Lan works - I can start the machine by sending a magic packet (I use

I'm trying to install a wireless mouse. When I plug it into the USB sucket, I
get the message that "My new USB device exceeds the power limits of my HUB
port". Do I have the wrong hardware, or that can be fixed by changing some
settings?

I have a two button mouse with a scroll wheel and the right button behavior
has changed. I cannot right click on files in Windows Explorer, drag then and
be presented with the "COPY/MOVE/etc" dialog box. In fact, not right click
drag operation works.

I am trying to wake up computers on our network and it is working on a
majority of the computers.  There are about 200 that do not wake up and I
have found that they do not have the NIC property set to allow the device to
take the computer out of standby mode.  I can do this at ...

I have a Dell C400 laptop with windows xp.
It starts normally and shows my background photo fine at first, but by
the time it finishes the bootup sequence, it has reduced the resolution
to the lowest possible - 640 x 480.

Am going to upgrade a larger HDD for the notebook, and my question is - will
7200 RPM really outperform 5400 RPM with a "noticeable" difference?
The price between the two are "noticeable" but wondering about their
performance would be the same?

Sorry if this question is an obvious one but I'm fairly new to this. I want
to install a new larger SATA hard drive, my motherboard supports this
although at the moment it has an ATA hard drive. I want to use the SATA as
the master and the old drive as a slave.

I have a laptop (made by a german company called targa).  The fan comes
on full power every few minutes or so, depending on what I am doing.
This is quite loud and slightly annoying, the rest of the time it is
not on at all.

HELP. When there is no disc in the DVD drive it says its a DVD-RW drive which
is right, but when i put in a DVD it says it is a CD Drive and that it cant
run it. What should I do.

could anyone tell me why a fan terminals on a mother board would stop
working. checked the fan its ok but two different fan terminals have ceased
to work Thank you.

Hi,   I'm running Windows XP Home   SP2.      
I'm wanting to create a logical drive on the already formatted hard disk.
The entire hard disk was given to Windows XP and obviously is given the
letter drive c:.