I have called my ISP and they say it is the computer. now I have changed the
cables, nic card but i still get a cable is unplugged message and no
internet. I have also done the ipconfig release and renew??

I recently began using the MS Standard Optical Wireless Mouse. Although I'm
pleased with the non-corded freedom it gives me, I have begun to notice that
it seems to "jump around" (the pointer, of course) randomly. Not large
movements, just small jerky "hops" that are really ...

I presently run XP Pro on a Pentium 111 @999MHZ with 512 meg of ram. It runs
fine, however I have been offered a Celeron 2.66 MHZ 478 pin CPU and MB and
1 GIG of memory.  The board is an AGP board which is fine as I wish to use
my present video card and hard drives etc.  Is such ...

I just built a new computer, but took the hard drive with Windows XP
installed on it from the old computer and installed it in the new one.
Now, when I try to boot up, it sits at the Windos XP loading screen for
a minute or two, then reboots.  I was told that this is a security

Only bought a new laptop two days ago. I found no problems on the first day,
but now whenever i put in a disk (whether it be a game, cd etc) the computer
doesn't recognise it's there, or even recognise the dvd drive at all!
any ideas of what i can do?

Trying a new MB and not sure of sequence. Pulling an ECS k7s5a and installing
a PC Chips M810L (which is sitting here and known good). Computer keeps
freezing and have tried every thing else. Do I need to format my existing
hard drive or can I leave it and add new drivers? If i ...

Everytime I startup my computer I get a new harware message, prompting me to
install new hardware.  There is nothing new to my computer.  It began after I
did a windows update.  I tried going back to a point prior to update, that
did not work.  It also takes forever to start up ...

Hi, I have a VGN FS675P/H laptop that came with DDR333 (PC2700) ram (none
onboard).  However, I was wondering if I coud upgrade to PC3200 (DDR 400) or
maybe even DDR2 so that my computer speed would be improved.  I know my FSB
is 533Mhz, way above the ram operation speed and my ...

I have a program that I am using on XP Pro that can not run on more than
256mb of ram.  The computer has 512 which is what I need for other programs.  
Is there any way to make a specific program use only 256 but leave the rest
with 512?  I know you can modify the boot.ini but I ...

Somebody (who i really don't know) was just lecturing me that using
RAID 0 on XP Pro is a bad idea because it is not "industry standard"
and said something with the HAL in XP pro (that there isn't with 2003)

thanks for the reply...I think I will try the slave hard drive idea.
Much appreciated

I seem to have had a series hard drive malfunction(desktop) and cannot
get windows to load.
I was considering buying an external hard drive as it was, but I was
wondering if i could by an external hard drive, install xp(using a

question is have a 30gb (fat32) as a master, installed a WD 40gb as slave
(NTFS) are they capatible or will I have to reformatt the slave to fat32?

After installing Norton AntiVirus, my Maxtor 300gb external drive (I am using
XP) gives me an error msg after a long hourglass, like "H not accessable,
parameter is incorrect."
I can hear the drive spinning.

I have a Win XP MCE 2005 computer. Recently I was clearing unwante
programs from the add/remove screen and the next day i noticed tha
none of my CD drives accessable.  I have two physical cd drives and tw
virtual drives.  I could not see them in My Computer or Alcohol 120.