We took the shell off the computer to clean it out and ever since we cannot
get the cd rom drive to open.  We have opened it back up and closed it again
and it still will not help.  The DVD Drive will open.  I tried the paper clip
idea and I can hear it trying to open but it will ...

I want to put my printer into a different room.  The printer connects
via USB, but it also has it's own power cord (so it doesn't need power
from the USB cable).  It's pretty old, from around 2001, maybe 2002.  I
don't know if it supports wireless anything.  Does it have to?

Do all SATA mobo's support SATA II?
Thanks!!
Eddie G

Hi, guys
I encountered a problem on USB memory stick:
I bought a 512M SimpleTech USB memory stick, it worked smoothly. Recently,
when I plug the memory stick into the laptop USB port, I can find the drive

  I did a pretty thorough search on google, and wasn't able to find
anything that solved my problem, so I turn here!
  I decided this week to upgrade my computer's memory from 1 GB to 3 GB
and found that Windows didn't like that!  Where the black Windows XP

Not sure if these are 2 different issues or one in the same. I get an error
that says drive c may be corrupt. I've also received an Windows Corrupt File
error:
The file or directory  \windows\prefetch\dumprep.exe-1b46f901.ff is corrupt

I  just had to totally reinstall XP on my machine and the system is not
recognizing that my speakers are hooked up. It just says "No Audio Device"
Any help would be appreciated
thanx

I have a device which comes with an IR receiver for it to be interogated by a
PC. I am trying to use a different make IR receiver but it appears that
somehow this device has been setup to only allow a certain IR adapter to be
usd with it. How can I get around this and use a ...

The "Epson Scan" twain driver cannot connect to scanner.  The printer of this
all-in-one device works fine.  I can manually scan a document and then print
it. The Epson scanner item in the Device Manager always shows a yellow
exclamation point next to it.  I worked with a great ...

        Could someone advise me on the best 60 gb abs disk setup to allow
me to backup my entire hard disk on my desktop 55.84gb disk on a dell
dimension 2350 with 1gb of memory running msn windows xp sp2 to allow me to
restore to a new disk replacement if the hard disk were to ...

I find out something interesting.
I cannot see if my Viewsonic is flickering or not with my bare eyes.
So, I point my digital camera to the screen.  My camera can indeed see
flickering from my monitor.  Light-dark-light-dark... etc... just like

Hello I hope someone can help... this is the deal:
I have an old Compaq Presario 4110LA.
I had it running Windows XP Home SP2 with 128MB RAM... needless to
say... very slow

Hope some kind soul can advise?
I have a new PC;  Pentium 4-3ghz - 512mb RAM and PCI express slot.
It appears to be running some form of onboard graphics....Intel
Integrated(?)..and I would like to install a seperate and more powerful card.

I copied some DOC files to my iPOD last night at home.
This morning I came to work, but when I connect iPOD to my work PC, nothing
appears on the iPOD screen (such as  "Entry Not Allowed" sign) and I can't
see IPOS in the Explorer Window.

I really don't understand why the computer came with C and C partitions, but I have a ton of space on D, and the C partition is full and I dont know how to go about changing it