I would like to know if there is a way to turn on/off my Western
Digital MyBook USB external hard drive automatically (scheduled)
without shutting down the PC it's plugged into?  It has a button for
manually turning on and off, and it automatically turns on and off with

I have a Epox 9NDA3 motherboard which has a Cicada CIS8201 Onboard Gigabit
LAN, I can`t get it to install or detect through windows xp I have the
driver cd that came with the motherboard but the Cicada don`t seem to be
on it, also windows is not detecting it as an unknowen device ...

I have not done anything new to my computer but for some reason it is not
recognizing my d drive.  I look in my control panel and it is not there.  I
am sorry if this is a redundant question, but I am new.  My d drive has
always worked until recently. I would appreciate any help. ...

I recently purchased a 2gb flash drive formy home use.  The first time I
plugged it into my study machine, it was recognised, no problems.  I wanted
to add a program to my laptop, so I copied the file to the drive and removed
it properly via the icon in the tray. Plugged the ...

I have bought a new tv card, i have installed eveything confirm the manual.
But when i reboot my pc, i get the following error: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005,
0xf6730530, 0xf78fd644, 0x0f78fd340)
I'm running:

I have dell 5.1 speakers, and i noticed that even though the volume is turned
up, sound only comes out of the right speakers.  Any idea how to fix this?

OK - I goofed up.  I didn't read this group first.  I should have, but it's
too late now, the motherboard is installed, and I'm hesitant to re-install
the old one again just to back up the data.
All is not lost - I installed XP on a 2nd HD.  I can access the data but

This is unbelievable
We had a severe rain storm earlier during which my pc got rebooted after
lightning.
The bootup process reached until after the Windows XP logo with the green

I have a Dell Latitude D600 Laptop.
I have installed a Linksys wireless-G WPC54G -
It works sometime but in the lst 2 days it has been giving me
trouble... when i go into Device Manager it says

I want to upgrade the firmware for my CD burner and to do so it says to
disable auto insert notfication and DMA.  I know exactly what these things
are, but how do I disable them?

Someone has asked me to upgrade their hard drive and want to know what the
biggest size available is.
I'm a bit out of touch at present and need some help
1) What is the biggest available drive on the older IDE?

Whats a good video card to buy, i have and a6600td and im looking to buy a
new motherboard and videocard, not spending over $600 aud

Im no wizz kid at all with computers, so i need a little help if
anybody can.
When i place a disc into the drive it reads the disc and then the pc
restarts. I thought that my old disc drives were faulty but have the

i have been serching around for motherboards and i am wondering which ones
to chose..... and i dont have a big budget, and living in australia plz help

I installed a IDE HDD to my pc which has 2 scsi HDDs already, on of the
SCSI HDD installed windows sever 2003 OS, and I installed winXP pro to
new IDE HDD. After that, I want to configure Boot.ini file in IDE HDD
so that I can boot PC with a selective menu, but I didn't succeful