I have a motherboard from Intel, I installed PCI controler SATA RAID from
Adaptec (1210SA),  I set up RAID 1.  Reboot to boot from installation CD
XPSP1 Pro, F6 to install RAID driver, select  newest drivers from Adaptec and
get Error message "File aaa....sys unexpected error ...

Hello.  I shall briefly explain my system spec.  I am running a Dell
Dimension 2400 with a Celeron 2.6 ghz processor.  It has 1GB RAM, and an 80
GB Primary HDD. I am running Windows XP Home SP2.  I also have a BT Voyager
Wirelss Network Card Installed, and an IDE Raid Card.  I do ...

......i installed Power DVD in my cpu and have the hardware installed in the
PC but i still don't see it shown up in "My Computer".  the dvd drive opens
and closes and the green light flashes but i still don't see it anywhere in
"My Computer" so therefore the dvd's don't work.

its an 16x burner and an 8x ritek dvd-r but its burning at 4x, its part
of my hp pavillion
8013cl notebook. i was using nero and it would say burning at 8x time
remaining 8 minutes except that when the time ran out the dvd was only

Any suggestions on correcting this?

Have just installed Windows XP Pro and all seems to work properly except no
sound is heard from any source. Computer is IBM 2140 L31.  The sound recorder
is apparently recording OK.  CDs do not play and video online is silent.  No
inputs are muted and vol is set to max.

I bought a second SATA HD for my computer, but the computer does not see its
full capacity. Although it is 200GB, the BIOS reports it is only 136GB, and
hence so does Windows?!?! It awfully sounds like the old big hard drive
problem, whereby older hardware/OS could not see the ...

From device manager, it says "The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39)"
Please help, Thanks

USB mouse and other USB devices no longer work on Tosiba laptop. Am
getting message that no driver is installed.

... and not the older usb ports?
I'm running an up-to-date winxppro system.

How do I install a new set of speakers on the computer.  I know how to
connect them, but how do I actually install them on the system?  I have
Windows XP Home.

I have a small home network. I usually turn it all on at 7am and off at
12pm.
On one workstation, I can visit it several times throughout the day and
everything is OK for most of the morning and afternoon, then at one

On XP Pro , has anyone installed the NVIDIA beta driver (specifically in my
case for the NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7900 GS with 256MB GDDR3 discrete graphics
memory ) ?
ForceWare Release 90

I'm trying to repair a Gateway desktop machine (model MFATXPNT NMZ
500S).
The power-supply WAS faulty (I plugged in my 'tester' and got a RED
[BAD]

I think I screwed up the jumper settings.
Now the C: is primary slave and D: is primary master. Windows still boots up
fine.
I wanted to ask will this affect windows in the long run or is it fine to