If anyone can help me out PLEASE,
I have two hard discs, Windows is drive D on SATA via an Abit Serillel adapter
and storage is drive C (IDE) which simply does not show in explorer.  It shows in
the device manager which says "this device is working properly".  And it shows

(note: I posted this in general section earlier today, but have gotten no
response.  Hopefully somebody can help me with this).
Yesterday, I asked a question on how to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro, because
the XP Pro disc I had didn't have SP2 (when my XP home version did).  With

I am trying to access anything that will help me repair/recover the
computer.  I cannot access the BIOS to change the boot sequence so as to get
to the DVD/CD drive and it immediately goes to the boot menu in which all
options lead to the BSOD with a bad_pool_caller error message ...

A friend of mine has a very strange problem. I formatted the machine
and reinstalled Win XP for him, but then the graphics cars seems to
have problem. The symptons are also very bizarre. There is always a
square of black lines behind the mouse pointer. The card is an Mobility

Sometimes, when I boot up, I can only get an upload connection, no
download. If I reboot, sometimes I will get the download, sometimes not.
If I uninstall the drivers to the NIC, reboot and let XP install the
drivers, it will come back and stay up until I reboot again. I am

I have a webcam with intergrated microphone that I use to contact my folks
in another country via yahoo messenger...but suddenly (well for a while
actually) my microphone won't work ???
The webcam is a PCL-W310 ... any ideas ? My webcam works fine though ?

I have a HD I salvaged from my old laptop. I put it in an external case. This
drive was configured to have an extra partion (I believe it's called) to
backup saved data. So, when the drive is plugged into the USB port, it shows
two drive as added.  The primary section is 7.49 GB ...

I have 2 boot disks (using swappable caddies) - win98se and XP pro. My
hardware setup is
IDE1 -> DVD/R -> Disk1 (boot)
IDE2 -> Disk2 -> DVD/RW

I installed a Lexmark X2350 on my laptop running XP home SP2 with only 1 USB
1.1.port, it being 10 years old and short on memory! Installing it on my PC
(same OS) with 5 USB 2.0 ports via PCI slot and 2 USB 1.1 ports on board,
just does not work. I have trawled all similar posts ...

Occasionally the devices connected to the USB ports that are built into the
motherboard of my PC go offline - you hear a ding-dong noise when  this
happens, then they go online again along with a dong-ding noise.
Is this an OS problem, or hardware related? I wondered what could ...

I realize that this may have nothing to do with Windows - then again, it just
might!
I've been working on a friend's Dell Dimension 8400 - the problem was a
noisy CPU fan which I just replaced. The noise is now much better than it was

I.'m doing 'Hard Drive Test,' found by typing 'Hard Drive'
on 'Help and Support.'
It was running smoothly until 70 - 80%, but still keep
running even already one hour went on. It should be done

My computer will not play any sound. When I track to play something on
Windows Media Player I get an error message saying 'WMP cannot play your file
because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not be a sound
device installed on your computer, it might be in use ...

Whenever I open a blank DVD+R disc and try to drag files to it  , I Get an
error message that states " Windows encountered a problem writing to this
folder. What do you want to do?"
Whenever I open a file and try to copy it to a blank DVD+R disc, I get the

My neice has cdrom problems.
It is actually a CD-RW drive.
It worked ok till she had to do a system restorebecause she tried to
download some crazzy screen saver and it