Ok heres whats going on, I have my computer, and its recentally been
giving me problems, starting about 2 weeks ago, when I would boot it up
it would mysteriously restart, it didnt do it often, but when windows
would start booting up, once the loading thing goes though about twice,

I recently re-installed windows on my computer. Went great.
Then when I started up again my desktop was only half there, like I was
using two monitors, but I am only usng one!! I didnt make any settings fthis
to happen...it just started doing it.

Hi I posted this message on a differnt board about the similar thing but i
thort this was more acurate considering it an xp problem I hope to get an
awnser to my worries
I have tried installing a video card on my pc again because I had one

I feel like there's something very basic that I completely missed.  My hard
drive recently conked, so I have reformatted and reinstalled Windows on a
brand-new drive.  No problems - except for the monitor.  Windows has the
monitor as a 'default monitor,' at the moment.  I ...

I have a Dell Windows XP systems.
It has a S3 Trio 32/64 PCI display adapter and it works fine alone.
When I replace with another S3 Virage DX/GX PCI display adapter. It works
fine.

Over the last couple years I've had to deal with hard drive problems....one
due to static electricity and one due to chkdsk deleting partitions or
something. Any way I thought it would be a good idea to have two identical
hard drives....then if one had a problem I would simply ...

When I access two IDE devices on a same channel, performance is low. I have
four devices and only two slots, so two of the devices are slave.
Primary master and secondary master are two new hard-disks, same type,
dynamic disks with software STRIPE partitions. Primary Slave is ...

I recently lost my sound.I have a SiS 7012 audio driver . I went into device
manager and into properties for audio driver and the status says : driver is
enabled but has not been started.  Else where it tells me that the device is
working properly.  When I go into sounds and ...

I posted this in comp.os.ms-windows.misc but got redirected here.
I am using a new chassi for my computer. On the front I have connections
for usb2.0.
Then when I looked at the motherboard I find two types of usb 2.0

I want install additional DVD writer. Motherboard is P4i45GV  ASRock. Not
clear, can the second DVD to be installed without various problems: since
primary IDE Connector and secondary  IDE Connector are already used by
hardrive and CD-ROM.

i am having a problem using certain keys on my keyboard.the keys
are"123;'#".for example when i press @ with shift " comes up and this happens
for the other keys.i have had this keyboard working OK before and have
installed the CD drivers.thank you

I'm thinking about purchasing an external hard drive but I can't seem
to find a low cost model or brand that has good reviews. I really don't
want to pay more than $110 for it since I will rarely use it. The
brands I've been looking at are Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, and

I have a Maxtor 250 GB SATA hard drive ...I want to use it as my
external hard drive with USB hookup to my computer.  So i bought an
enclosure for SATA hard drives.  I made hooked up everythng and it was
supposed to be a plug and play but my computer does not read the device

I am running windows xp home.  I have a USB external Hard drive.  The "found
new hardware wizard" pops up with this error message everytime I reboot or
start up.  The hard drive WORKS FINE.  All of the computers on the network
can access it.   Recently I installed a USB flash ...

I am using two computers with just two meters between them. Both computers
have connected two microsoft wireless optical mouses.
I am having seriuos dificulties when trying to use both computers at the
same time. All the time I am getting messages saying that there is a poor