I formatted and reinstalled Windows XP Pro recently, now my PC will not
switch off unless I use the power button. When i click on Start, turn off the
computer, turn off the pc goes through the motions but then starts up again.
Any ideas?

I formatted and reinstalled Windows XP Pro recently, now my PC will not
switch off unless I use the power button. When i click on Start, turn off the
computer, turn off the pc goes through the motions but then starts up again.
Any ideas?

I'm slowly considering a new system with Duo Core (Intel).  One advantage -
a temperature (much lower).  But, my concern is how this new processor speed
(& effectiveness) compares to P4s?  What I see those "2s" have nominal speed
around 1.6 MHz.  Does someone tried to compare it ...

I have recently lost access to my DVD-RW drive on my Gateway Pentium D PC.  
Gateway chat support wants me to either do a destructive Windows re-install
(losing everything) OR install Windows to a new HD which would save data, but
still lose all applications - trying to avoid this ...

seems like i'm going to have to get a new HD, I want to know from those who
have a sata, can you tell the difference or is it about the same? is it
worth buying

I came across with your group discussion on 1394b driver at "Firewire
1394b (800 Mbps) - where is the driver?, May2004". Does anyone has any
updates on this? Should I bought a 1394b application, could I get the
800M speed?

My 5-year old Sony PC running XP Home, turned up the other day with
"oprerating system not found." I first tried my True Image rescue disk and
got this message. Next I tried Sony's System Recovery disk - same result.
Next I tried booting from my XP CD; this caused "Inspecting ...

Im trying to make an old pII 350 mhz into a torrent downloader server...
but I would like to turn it on remotley, by using WOL.
The motherboard supports this, and I have set the bios to ON for this
option,

guys, i'm really confused right now. I have a brand new board i bought on
9/11, it's less than a month old and yesterday all of a sudden when i turn
my pc on it just stays at the splash screen, it's not going into the bios or
anything. i took it apart and here's what's freaking ...

I'm running Xp pro and I've got 2 wireless network adapters in my
machine. One is a linksys wireless-n pi card and the other is a linksys
usb wireless-g adapter. Both are connected and both has static IP's
assigned to them. Is there a way to somehow use both of these together

When I turn the mouse wheel, the response is erratic. Help!

I built my PC using a MSI K9N Neo motherboard, NVidia nForce 550 chipset and
AMD Athlon Dual Core 4200 processor, with 2gb RAM.   The motherboard has a
built in sound card but as the quality was so-so, I installed a Creative
Audigy Value card.  Then I went to Windows XP's Control ...

I want to use an old S3 card in my XP system: a Trio64 or Trio Virge/DX.
Until now, I was not able to find a driver for XP for these cards. However,
I remember I had one of them working before in an XP or W2003 system. Why
doesn't it work anymore? And can anyone tell me where I ...

PPL i need help, when i try to turn onb my pc it reboot, i try to put on the
winjdows cd to re install , but it dont load, I have tried everything bt
nothing works, it happened coz i turned off the pc by clicking the off button
, can you help me soling this prob , plz

I built a new computer, and I wanted to transfer the old hd to the new box
and have win xp work.  Obviously, it did not.  I had to reload the operating
system, and when I did the machine became a dual-boot (both the old hd and
the new hd).  I want to remove the old hd and put it ...