I believe I have a motherboard w/ a damaged video chipset. The system
is a Dell OptiPlex GX270. Starting about a week ago, despite the fact
that no new software or hardware was added, it started to randomly
crash. The behavior of the crash is odd, in that the video signal

I'm trying to create a bootable CD using Bart's PE Builder and
everything seems fine except that it reports that viasraid.sys is
missing. Trying to add this driver, I can find the files viasraid.cat,
viasraid.inf, viasraid.pnf and viasraid.sys on my hard disk but not the

it will just act like its lookin at them forever but nothing will ever pop up
i tryed to install a game i just bought but it wont even let the autoplay
start its actin like its not even in there if u know any way to help pleas
tell me

Sorry about the english. I´m poor writer so we will se how bad it will be....
I´m working with a computer that crached. The harddisk crach and replaced.
So a new installd and work with fdisk and made so windows could find it.
Windows installed and worked good. So I left my neibory ...

I am trying to find a way to enable and disable a device automatically
depending on if a program is running.  For example, I would like to
disable the network card while the calculator is running.  I would
hope to find an API call or similar to do this.

I have a Acer Travelmate 4601WMLi. I use Windows XP Professesional Service
Pack 2 with all updates until June 6, 2006.
When I want to save data to the hard disk I get from time to time a Blue
Screen Error STOP: 0x0000007F (0x0000000D, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)

Our users are leaving USB drives in their machines then logging out and in
again. When their logon script runs they should get a network share mapped to
say G: however XP has already assigned the drive letter to the removable
drive so they can't see the share. To avoid conflicts ...

I made a very pragmatic, albeit ignorant, decision to speed up one of
my computers by removing 512mb of RAM from another computer that had 2
sticks of 512mb RAM, and the operation was a 50% success.
The computer that received the new RAM is now running with 256mb in one

I have a wireless mouse and key board.  Both work very well except tha
the mouse pointer keeps moving upwards of its own violition. How can
stop this please. I am using Widows XP Home
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I recently posted to the group that I was trying to get a 56K modem to work
and some people responded that I examine some bios settings.  I got into the
bios, made a few changes and now, my other computer does not work at all!  I
get nothing but a black screen at all times.  From ...

I have a Medion computer with a Pioneer DVR-106D DVD-RW. In Windows
Explorer it shows up as "DVD-RW Drive" as it should... until I put a
DVD-R in the drive. Then it switches to "CD Drive" in Windows Explorer,
and I am unable to burn anything to it.

Could anyone tell help me?
I finally ordered this model:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=32&language=en
I know the web page has directions on how to install, but still not

I receive 2 error msgs when running recovery..
CANNOT FIND LOG FILE RESTORE.LOG &
ERROR 2: C:\MININT\SYSTEM32\RESTORE.LOG MISSING
How do I recover the file?

Help!!!
I think there's an error on my unit, when use my HP Deskjet 5160. Is there
an Windows Update that causes error on my printing.

I am running XP PRO with all latest MS updates.  My 1 Gb flash drive works in
other systems but not this one.  When inserted it will show up in Device
Manager, but not in Explorer or Disk Manager.  I have tested the USB ports
with other devices and all works fine.  What can I do ...