I have developed a problem with my USB 2 devices. PC will recognise devices
as
USB 1.1 but as soon as I load USB 2 drivers (from m/board CD) they're not
recognised. I have even reformatted Hard drive and checked BIOS settings

XP home SP2. I've recently upgraded to a 64bit processor. When I enter my
password at the logon screen, sometimes my screen will go blank and slowly
drain of all colour leaving a milky white appearance. Aprat from this the
machine runs fine and the affect is very ad-hoc.

I need some help. I have Windows XP and a Lacie external DVD RW burner. Was
working fine until a couple of days ago - now its not.
When trying to burn a home movie I got a first error:
'disc burnt but with errors'.

Hi
I'm sorta new to this but i have been having similar problems with my USB
devices i have tried the fore mentioned remedy to no avail. The symptoms of
my problem are similar but not the same, When ever i connect my ipod or

Is there some way I can see what Brand & Model my PC's motherboard is.
The shop who did the installation of the new board, didn't supply the
drivers.
Regards,

Is there any way to turn off my usb so when people put a usb stick in
the computer it won't recognize it and won' t show a usb stick on
my computer. I still want windows to recognize my printer etc though.
Ideas/suggestions?

Okay so I got this external hard drive which worked when I first
plugged it in to this Laptop. Then out of nowhere it gets disconnected.
I unplug and plug it back in.. now it recognizes it as an " Unknown
Device ".

MS 6738 m/b
Athlon XP 2000 CPU
256MB PC133 RAM
GeForce MX440 graphics

I have a drx-810ul from sony running XP. Anytime I put a disk in the drive
the drive changes from dvd rw to cd drive in my computer.  Obviously dvd's
dont work. any help!!!

I have a Sony DVD+-RW drive. I can record and watch DVD's on a DVD-R
with no problem. I can also record and play CD's with no problem with a
CD-R or CD-RW. If I put a DVD into the drive it shows DVD next to the
drive letter. If I put in a DVD-RW explorer shows CD next to the drive

OK I will try yo be a detailed as possible.  I built a new system AMD 4400,
4gb ram, with new Maxtor 6V300FO Sata HD.  Running XP Home SP2, on a Gigabyte
K8 Triton GA-K8NSC-939 MoBo, Latest Bios loaded, and LBA 48.  My first HD
wasn't being recognized and after running Maxtor ...

A friend of mine has an XP Home machine that until now has been used
for dial-up internet access. However now he has cable but can't get the
onboard NIC on his VIA kt266a motherboard working. The reason is
another network card is being detected, a Broadcom 4211 iLine10. He

My hard drive is continually active even when I'm not doing anything on the
computer. It's like it's contantly indexing. Is there any setting I can click
to turn this off in XP SP2. Even as I'm writing this message, the hard drive
is constantly churping like an annoying budgie. ...

XP HomeSP2 512MB ram
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)
128MB  onboard supporting 256MB
can I decide if I want 128 or 256 or does it adjust that by itself? I don't

I have a Brother 1650N network laser printer connected physically to my
"local PC" via the Ethernet port to my Linksys WRT54G router.   My IP
address for the LAN is 192.168.0.30 for the "local PC".   For the Brother
printer, its on 192.168.0.11.