I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is
failing.
I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A.
My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home.

I did a Windows Update (ie. WU) on a PC today and it hosed the audio.
Actually, I tried this back in December of 2005, it hosed the audio, and I
just did a “Rollback” on the “C-Media AC97” driver. Today I decided to see if
I could get to the bottom of this.

cwaters 8/22/2006 3:18 AM PST  
 Question
Windows XP home edition
 I have a removable hard drive which is plug and play and was working fine,

Is there a utility that will allow me to check the status of the CMOS
battery from Windows XP?
Thank you.

that will allow me to connect three computers to the same usb device.
They won't all be using it at the same time but it would save me
plugging and unplugging.  The device is a digital audio to analog
converter.  So i don't think i can use a hub because the hub would need

I have a WD 80 Gig ATA HD, that is recognized by BIOS, but when windows
loads up it will stop at "Loading Windows XP" screen. When I remove the
drive booting process is normal.
I have this HD setup as slave. I need to get in it, since it contains

I'm running XP Home Edition on an Asus P4C800-E deluxe board. The bios is
default for the board. I have USB 2.0 support and no issues with USB
controllers that I'm aware of.
Right now in the CMOS settings, my USB Legacy setting is on (auto). I take

I installed an older game, Sonic R, on my system. Ever since I had that game
the autorun with all my CD's and DVD's has stopped working. The DVD drive
works fine except for the whole not running autorun thing.

I friend of mine asked me to look at her machine which crashes on start up,
sometimes up to 20 times before it finally starts up and becomes stable. All
sorts of things have been tried without success and eventually i took the
machine away and reformatted and reinstalled windows. ...

A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I
just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting
blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary
hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in

Win XP Home - 1Gb memory, Sempron 3000+ CPU
Foxconn 760GXK8MC Mobo with On board SiS AC97 audio - powered speakers
plugged into rear audio sockets. Nothing plugged into front sockets.
Default sound device - SoundMAX Digital Audio

I just got a new notebook with an 80 Gig HD.  It's all one partition.
I like to keep my OS and documents separate.  Is there a way I can
partition the drive now?  The OS & apps were pre-installed.  
Awaiting your responses with baited breath, I remain, yours truly,

in my devices, i have two cd/dvd roms, one is the rom the other is a phillips
dvd=rw dvd8631. when i check the properties of the latter it says device is
working properly, the problem is, the drive wont even so much as open, i
tried to update drivers, it says there are no updates ...

I am seeking recommendations for external USB DVD dual layer burners.
I am looking for recommendations as to specific brands/models.
Thank you for your time and expertise.

In the last several days, my HP Pavilion 061 computer, running an Inte
Celeron 3.06GHz processor has been running with the CPU pegged out a
100%. I've tried doing a safe boot and systematically turning of
processes to see what operation is consuming all of the processo