There is a little PC embedded in an instrument.  The instrument needs
to know if the PC is turned on/powered up so that when the power to the
instrument is turned off, it can handle the internal PC correctly.
Cracking the case on the PC is not an option.  The PC has the following

Suddenly the Volume Icon has disappeared from the System Tray..
In the Taskbar Properties, "Hide inactive icons" is UNCHECKED
In the Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices, " Place volume
  icon" IS CHECKED

i have 10 computer with giga 915 mother board and use zemense modem to
connect to internet
after these computes connect to internet an go to 1 web site when i want go
to other web sites computes are reset or crash

I have a problem with my HP cd-writer 9350i.  When I open up "My Computer" it
sometime  and sometimes not shows  drive "E" but not all the time. When its
there, it works fine the cd-writer.  Long time ago I found a file which
solved this problem I  have now on you newsgroups I do ...

I've replaced my mainboard, to a board with another chipset. Unfortunately
the old board is defect.
Is there a way to change the ide drivers to default Ide drivers without
booting XP?

I changed my old motherboard with a new one (AsRock SATA2 ) that has a
different chip set. Unfortunately the windows XP doesn't reboot . Do anyone
know if is possible and how to update windows XP to recognize the new
mother-board without the complete reinstallation of the OS ?

Haven't gotten anywhere with HP.
So, I am wondering if this may be a OS/kernel level thing in XP.
IE.   those "QuickLaunch" type buttons often found on laptops - ones
that control sound, monitor switching, and (the most unfortunately of

I had a hard drive fail with an error message and I could not get it to
reboot without an error message.  I got a new hard drive and it's up and
running.  Is there a way to slave my old drive to recover my files?

I have a IBM T42 thinkpad. This is the 2nd time I have purchased an
internal notebook HDD and it hasn't been detected by my *bios*.
I have a toshiba 4026GAX 40GB one that came with the laptop. It works
just fine. I need to upgrade to a larger one. I just tried a *toshiba*

The computer I am working with had the partician cleaned (I hope I said that
correctly). Well after this the speakers are not working. It is showing to
have no audio system installed. I attempted to install new hardware with the
existing speakers and this did not work. So, I took ...

This is a wireless connection project I want to do between 2 houses that are
of close proximity to each other.
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What kind of hardware would I need to do this? cables, antenna, routers?

I have very poor signal strength on my linksys wireless network.  The
connection for one workstation that is located one floor above and several
rooms away will only work intermittantly.
I am using Windows XP SP2 on the workstations with a Linksys Wireless G

Hi I asked a simalar question recently about AGP cards of differnet speeds
but now I would like to know about a specific card.
I notice that the geForce FX 5200 128MB AGP card will work in a 2,4 or 8
speed slot. Will the Aopen FX 5500 also work in the whole range of slots?

I have a Western Digital HDD (WD800JB) that works fine in one PC but when I
try to make it a slave on another pc it simply keeps rebooting.  It has two
partitions - one with Wndows XP and the other just with data.  I want to wipe
the windows partition but keep the data (mainly ...

When I turn on my computer, after loading to the desktop, a error message
comes up and says in the bar on top "mm_tray.exe - unable to locate
component" and in the window it says "This aplication has failed to start
because coreDLL.dll was not found. Re-installing the aplication ...