After working normally for a few months...my PC won't recognize the
existence of either of my two optical drives. The BIOS detects both drives
just fine...but the OS does not see them...I dont even get a red icon under
device manager to give me the option of uninstalling the ...

I have a four year old PC (Athlon 1500 processor) running windows XP Home.
Since buying this PCI have added a PCI card with four more USB ports and a
second hard drive.  Up to this point no problem.
Many months later, I threw out my old 64 mb MX400 graphics card and replaced

I have a 2.5" drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure that I can not get recognized on
the machine it worked on for about a week and then for now reason (except
probably a Windows Update that automatically ran!) is unrecognized by the
system.

I have a spanned volume up and running perfectly until I needed to add
yet another disk to it.
However, this time I mistakenly added an unformatted disk to the
volume.  The additional space from the latest drive is not reflected in

I keep getting "windows script host access is disabled" and I cna't see my
CD-ROM icons in "My Computer" I purchased Registry Mechanic to hopefully fix
registry and other errors, but I still get tghe same error, with no CD-Rom
icon. How do I "enable" windows script host?

Windows won't recognize the DVD RW drive on my computer when I insert a blank
DVD.  It does recognize blank CD's though.  I can, however, write to the DVD
drive using a 3rd party DVD/CD burning program and Windows will then
recognize the DVD.  The drive will read DVD drives with ...

I'm upgrading my MBoard & CPU. I'd like to keep my existing WinXP Home  
installation. Is this possible?
Thanks,
/dave

The trackball on my MS Trackball Explorer has all of a sudden become really
sticky. Is there any way to get it to flow more smoothly, as before? Or, is
my mouse on its way to the grave? Please advise. --Laura

I'm using two dvd burners in my XP Pro computer, burning with NERO.  
Recently, my drives have stopped acknowledging blank DVD-R's - I try to burn,
it ejects the drive, telling me it needs a +/- R or +/-RW;  I put the disc in
again and it doesn't read it.  I've tried uninstalling ...

 I have a Logitech Pro4000 webcam that has worked on my Dell 8250 running
XP Home for the last year with no problem.  Two weeks ago, the microphone
stopped working.  Video still worked fine.  I could send and receive webcam
via MSN Messenger no problem.  Did all the normal ...

Hardware is all OEM., WinXP Homeon 80G hard drive, 210 W power supply, only
add-in card is a Linksys Wireless-G PCI card. It was running with a 2GHz
Celeron@400MHz FSB w/a SiS 651 Chipset. Chipset supports 533MHz FSB.
Everything was functioning fine b4 I swapped the 2GHz Celeron ...

 I have installed XP on an ATA drive and am looking to install XP 64 on a
SATA drive. The problem is that it boots correctly from the XP 64 CD setup,
copies all the files, reboots, but it fails to continue the setup.
  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

windows xp will not shut down because of a message displaying END
PROGRAM-SAMPLE. tried deleting all sample files, and system restore. no
effect. will only shut down by pressing END NOW.

hello there!!
please help.
my dvd player does not read data cd and music cd it reads only
dvd-movies.

I have this problem while trying to remove my flash drive using the "Safely
Remove Hardware" button. After clicking it, the "Safe to remove hardware"
message was displayed and then the computer restarts suddenly.
During boot up, the system asks to scan the drives.