I just added a SATA HD to a system with an IDE HD.  Bios sees it, Device
Manager sees it, but it doesn't show in My Computer.  I would format it
but when I run Disk Management only the first HD and DVD drive show.
Any ideas?  They are both Western Digital Drives. #1 60GB IDE system

I have checked all my setting and still cannot get it boot directly from the
IDE HDD which is the Ch  0  master.   I can get it to boot from the HDD in a
round about way, what happens is this:  I switch my computer on it does the
POST check no errors, lists the IDE Devices, the ...

My PC will not start up Windows. I have had it for 5 years without any
problems, it is now the secondary PC for my kids to use. When powering on,
you can see the memory loading up, then the screen momentarily shows the
Intel processor page as normal, then a vibrating noise which ...

I have just added a new Graphics card a Geforce 6 6600 and some
additional memory but have started to experince problems.  I have
updated the graphics card driver to the latest version but still having
problems.  Whilst playing games like DOOM/Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and

I have two identical Acer Laptops.
One has a broken screen, but it is the more important one. I want to swap
the hard drives over as they are both the same model?
Both running Windows XP.

Windows XPSP2 fully patched running on a Dell Latitude D610. pretty
much any USB device gives me the "data is invalid" error during plug
and play. i tried altering the permissions of
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\Enum\PCI with no resolution of the

When I left click to open a icon on my desktop the icon will not open. Also I
must use the right click and open in windows explorer. I have uninstalled and
reinstalled the software with the same problem and also tried a logitech and
microsoft mouse with the same results. Any ...

Some advice please.  I have just built a new computer, having some problems,
I have windows Xp Svc Pk2. My problem,  I have one IDE HDD, and 2 Sata
HDD's.  I have installed window on the IDE Drive, everything went ok, until
I restarted windows, then it could not find the HDD and ...

I am going insane....
WindowsXP has my cd-rom drive listed in MyComputer under "Devices with
Removable Storage" which causes the drive to become inaccessible.
This is an internal cd-rom drive. A Philips CDRW4012P to be exact.

I turned an old HP Pavilion PC (500Hz, 256MB RAM, WIN XP SP2) into a
server that I keep all my music on.  It just sits in my basement
without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard.  I needed to add more storage
space, so I bought a 250GB Hitachi internal hard drive.  I  installed

PLease can anybody help me!!??
I have 2 hard rives one with C and D parts and one E with 250 GB. From one
moment to an other i lost the E drive. I remember that windows said something
like that it can't save or found E:\$mfts or something like that very shot

as after I have clicked yes to install the auto window update, then it
pointed to restart the computer, then I clicked yes again... then the
computer unsuccessful to restart and keeps repeat restart again and
again.??

The pointer for my Intellipoint USB Optical Mouse doesn't always stay in
place. It often jumps right off of the display. At other times, it climbs up
the screen when I stop moving the mouse on the pad.
Has anyone else had this problem? What's up?

I am using Abit KT7a (socket A).  I am planning to assemble a new PC with
CPU socket
AM2 (althon 64).  Can my old ATX Case be usable?  I wonder if there are
changes to the specifications for ATX for the past few years.

New member....not computer genius...please be kind.
Here's the situation.  Daughter bought new Sims game.  After about 20
minutes it shuts down and displays the following message:  VPU Recover
has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to