Hi, hope you can help.  We have a USB Microsoft laser (wheel free) mouse -
just the basic one.  About every day the mouse deactivates, the light goes
off, and it is lost from the computer device manager.
At first this could always be recreated by docking a USB Smartphone with

We need help transferring a WinXPpro installation.
We changed a PCI bus motherboard (Intel 845 chipset) to a PCI-E (Intel 945G)
motherboard, all else remained the same (the hd is an eide).  There were no
problems with P.O.S.T, etc., but even after trying numerous things, the

i recently put in a new usb 2.0 card and all is working well. i then tried to
put in a belkin usb 2.0 4 hub but keep getting the message not installed
properly device might not work which it doesn't going into the device problem
it comes up code 10 and then say need to change ...

I upgraded from XP home to XP Pro.
My display resolution is 800 x 600
By going thru the advanced settings tabs I determine that the monitor is
"default monitor" and there is no way to change it.

OK, this isn't a MS related question, but I thought this would be a good
place to attract smart people to answer my hardware questions!! :)
I need a replacement HD for my I8200.  It seems Dell and their website is
very poor at finding the "right one" to go into it.  This computer ...

Hi, I have a brand new Hewlett Packard 8219 laptop that runs XP as the OS and
is loaded solely with Office XP and antivirus software (PCGuard).
Intermittently and at random (say once every few hours of working ) it seems
as if the Control key is triggered to come on and stays on. ...

My CD/DVD Multiburner drive (IBM Multiburner Plus?) will no longer recognize
any type of disk I put in.  I had a DVD in the drive for a few days and when
I went to start it again today- it worked for a few seconds then froze up.  
After I restarted my computer it would not read ...

I have the following PC:
Operating System:    Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
CPU:    Intel Pentium 4, 1700 MHz (17 x 100)
Motherboard:    MSI 845E Max2 (MS-6398E)  (6 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 3 DIMM, Audio)

Help Please, Got a code 37  on both  cd/dvd roms on my laptop. Have
uninstalled drivers,  and reinstalled with no luck several times. What else
can I do ? Both devices work  as  I can  load  xp off  the disk  as if I was
loading windows originally. They will not work once the OS ...

I have an old Gateway PC (sold in the UK) and need to replace the harddrive.
How do I find the largest size hard drive the Motherboard will support?
The specs of the machine are (from Belarc Advisor):
1000 megahertz Intel Pentium III

I'm replacing an older HDD in computer with a newer one. Can somehow suggest
how can I copy all the data from an old HDD? I have Windows 2000 installed on
it. I'm mostly curious about any hardware devices to do that.
Thank you in advance.

I have a desktop system that I built myself a few years ago.  Ran a
little loud, but it was fast and stable until a week ago.
In the middle of doing something the box shut down on me with no
warning.  When I turned it back on it failed to boot, so since it was

My computer has been freezing and it is steadily getting more and more
frequent i.e it rarely manages to complete a boot any more before just
freezing. A lot of people say that this could be due to the power
supply but there are also many other possible causes. Is there any way

I'll be short;
I want to make a network connection over firewire between 2 machines;
iMac Core Duo (Windows XP SP2 installed via BootCamp) and P4 1.8
Windows XP/SP2

I have a cheap wireless mouse, that works ok on usb or ps2 connectors.
when i plug a external drive into a usb port, after a while the mouse
freezes, i can get it back by unplugging the mouse (if its in usb) &
plugging it back, this makes it work again for a little while before