Running WinXP SP2 on a Gigabyte K8NS Pro, AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Rebuilt machine to add SATA Raid 1 as the C drive.
After loading everything, the Maxtor 6B100P0 (Location 0 on the Primary ATA
Channel) which had been my data drive shows up in the Device Manager, but

When I try and open a printer I get the error message "operation could not be
completed, print spooler service is not running."
I've looked round forums and tried some things. I can get the spooler
service to start by starting it under admin tools>services, and also by

I have just bought a new 250 gig Western Digital sata drive to replace
my current secondary sata. My primaey drive is a sata 10K WD raptor.
When i replace the 100 with the 250 neither of the drive can be seen
and the comp wont go past bios. I have used all the same connections,

my mobo is a asus a7v8
with a geforcefx 5200 128 mb ddr pci video card, i have been told
good upgrade would be a geforce 6-6600gt gpu agpx,
is this card compatable to the mobo ? regards A.

I am trying to reinstall Windows on my computer.  I had XP, I formatted
my hard drive, now my computer won't boot from the XP CD.  I know my CD
is ok because I installed from it in the past.  I know my CD drive is
ok because I used it right before formatting the hard drive.  But ...

It seems that my laptop crashes every month.  First I paid to have it fixed
and all they did was re-format it back to the original settings.  Second time
I did it my self with the original disc.  Now after just a few weeks it has
done it again.  I have Norton and I always keep ...

I have Easy CD Creator 5 installed with Direct CD on Windows XP
Professional.  I was going to disable the built in Windows Burner, but I
would like to know if I later uninstall the Roxio product, will I be able to
re-enable the Windows built in burner without having to reinstall XP ...

Here's the story.
About 6 months ago my PC started making an odd noise, which I decided was
the fan, but it turns out it was most likely the hardrive bearings grinding,
oops, mistake number 1.

My inbuilt network card got broke by lightening. I took the machine to the
pc store to check that the rest of the motherboard was ok and if so to put a
new network card. Picked it up, they said a new network card was fitted and
all was well. Got it home and nothing. Doesn't ...

I'm about to change my recently purchased Logitech Internet PRO keyboard to
a Microsoft Digital Media PRO or (last resort) a G15 (I'm short on space real
estate, the Digital Media PRO takes less space and has all the functionality
I need except perhaps the key combos explained ...

When I put a CD into the disc drive, nothing happens.
When I go ro run, and type, it still says insert CD
Is there something I have to configure to make the Pc recognize there is a
disc in the drive, or is my CD drive effed? And if it is, are they easy to

Hi can anyone help i used to have quicktime player so i could watch trailers
etc but now they wont play and when i try and install quicktime  halfway
through i get a error message 1603 Consult windows installer help- (Msi.chm)
or MSDN for info? i have tried everything i can think ...

My computer and all the software show my 2 DVD drives in the reverse order to
their physical positions in my computer. Is there a way in windows xp Home
that i can change this without taking the side off the thing?

First I apologize if this is a dumb question. I am a relative novice. I
went to the local Office Depot to buy a one-touch back-up my 100GB
drive, which they did not have. The sales assistant recommended the
200GB Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200, which was on sale. But this