The sound on my Laptop is not working I tried the Help and support. They tols
me to reinstall the hardware I tries and the following error message
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Is there a historical/technical reason why the Hard Drive called "C" by
default? Why is it not called "A" (since it is the primary mass storage
device on many computer configurations)? What about the "B" drive? Just
curious about this.....

I have a problem with my CD/DVD rom working.  my cd drive no longer appears
and when I look in device manager their is a question mark next to is.  The
error message I am getting is:
Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot

I had an emachine (i know you get what you pay for but it did last for a few
years) and the power supply failed and took out the mother board with it. I
have written it off as a loss as i don't have the time or resources to try to
get a new mobo installed. So my question is:

my os which is windows xp upgrade to service pack 2 cannot detect my audio
player which does not require any drivers. i tried using on my other pc and
it works.. anybody can help??? juz FYI i m a novice computer user..

I have an IBM ThinkPad with Intel 855PM chipset. I recently formatted my hard
dosk and reinstalled Win XP SP2.
After installation, I installed the Intel Chipset dirvers supplied by IBM
(Ver 4.0.29). I then noticed an exclamation mark against the entry "ISAPNP

USB 2.0 devices have hit the wall big time.
Somewhere along the line recently, Microsoft has released a bugfix (more
likely a bug) that stops any USB 2.0 devices (or USB 1.1 devices on a USB 2.0
controller) from working correctly.

Please could someone advise. I want to change my current processor for a new
P4.
Currently i have an evesham machine with a P2, ModelNumber 8 installed. I
have an old Intel P4 chip from a Dell machine which i would like installed on

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has seen a way of limiting the
size of a USB storage device, ie up to a 1 Gig device, or a way of
stopping USB attached external hard drives while still allowing USB
key/drive/thumb drives etc to be used? Thanks.

I have recently installed a USB disk and want to refer to it as E: which is
currently used by my CD drive. I have gone into disk manager and changed the
drive letters so that my CD is now on F: leaving E: free and changed the new
disc to E:

my new Dell Dimension 9150 seems to only burn cd's at 4x instead of max
speed, can anybody  help

WinXP Pro on laptop, no USB devices work any more.
At startup Win finds new hardware, says it can't find driver and device is
not installed, appears in "Unknown devices" list.
Looks like all available connections/addresses are allocated, and are not

I've got a Dynabook from Toshiba here that crashed and lost the hard drive.
I re-installed XP and got everything like drivers except for the Intel
ethernet  and network controller drivers.
It's a Dynabook TX/2513CMSW and the Dynabook website is in Japanese so I can