I believe this has happened twice now, both before (3 months ago) and after
the death of my last hard drive. Is there a diagnostic or troubleshooting
routine I can run for the following symptoms?
1. Computer is turned on or restarted.

I have a Maxtor ATA-100 card with four additional drives connected (total of
6 drives including C and D ) which are seen during the boot sequence but are
only two are listed ( G and H )when using windows explorer. The device
manager sees the drives and tells me they are working ...

HI, kind of a long story, but here it goes.  Had an e-machines computer
running Windows XP Pro, mother board crashed. There was some important data
in a folder for one of the User Accounts I had set up.  Took out the hard
drive and put in another e-machines box I had.

1. I understand the concept of jumpering connections on a hard drive or
other device, but I have never seen these little jumper things. Where do we
buy these, or did they come with my hard drive, and the installer person
just threw them out?

I've got a friend who's NOT computer savvy, and really needs that little
pop-up that prompts you with your options when it discovers a new device.
The problem is that when he plugs his Nikon D70S digital camera into any of
his USB ports, it's immediately recognized, but that ...

I have an HP Pavilion zd7010us.  It is a P-IV with 1.25 GB, 60 GB HD, 17"
wide screen.  I have had the unit for about 2.5 years but in the past 6-12
months I have been having overheating and shutdown problems.  I have
narrowed it down to it happening when I am on battery power or ...

After installing SP2 my device manager is now empty and my sound doesn't
work.  I've searched for possible resolutions but have been unable to find
anything that has worked.

I understand that you can convert USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 using a PCI slot i
a desktop, but is there anyway to make my USB 1.1 behave like a 2.0 o
my Laptop?
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I have two hard drives in my computer and one is contected to the CD
cable and the other one is conected to the regular hard drive cable one
is full but I cant donlowd stuf on to the other one why is that?

My 200GB Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 (Model: 6Y200P0) is recentely dead after
an electrical break out.  It clicks when it is powered on and the BIOS
of my desktop cannot detect its corrected information (model etc.).
The clicking is very similar to the "clicking" in the link of

For some reason I no longer have access to the volume controls.  Is there
something I can download?
Bob

howdy, im shopping for a new mouse for my laptop and was looking at
microsofts line of notebook mice. i dont really have anywhere to try
them before i buy them so i was wondering if anyone here has any
experience with them? from what i can tell there's the 3000 which is

I just re-installed my Windows XP OS and the Apps and Drivers CD after
replacing the internal 80GB hard drive. The problems is  when I plug in my
Maxtor One Touch II external 200GB hard drive to my Gateway Notebook, I get
a blue screen error with the message "Plug and Play error ...

I don't know if this is an XP OS question or a motherboard thing, but does
someone know how/where I find my computer's MAC ID #? Thanks.

I happen to have XP, with two possible printers - one home, one elsewhere.  
Now, my home 815C cannot maintain its default status - what a hassle!  I am
constantly having to go in and re-default it, since it keeps going over to
the HP 3720 installed recently with a download ...