I have just formated my laptop and i can't get it to recognise the dvd
drive.
the drive is a TSSTcorp CD/dvd TS-L532L
it should be a dvd-re/cd-rw combo.

All of a sudden... When I boot, the keyboard is dead. It's working - I
can poke F2 at boot and go to BIOS setup, but once Windows starts, the
Device Manager flags it with a yellow "!" and says the driver is
disabled. I tried the usual steps to re-install the driver, but nothing

unable to use dvd/cd-rom drives... in device manager there is ! symbol and in
this option is "Windows successfully loaded the device for this hardware but
cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)." the troubleshooting is not much
help to me. could this problem be to do with cd ...

I use DLink Air plus wireless card used on my toshiba laptop on XP Pro sp2
for a 2+ yrs with relatively little problems.  Just recently the new hardware
installer pops up saying there is new hardware randomly but regularly.  I
hibernate my laptop and have done so since I bought ...

I have a Sony laptop and a Draytek 2600 router. I am unable to get the
laptop which is wireless enabled to keep a constant connection to the
router. I am 100 percent sure that the router is fine. Does anybody know of
this problem with this combination. At the moment I am having ...

1.  I have within the past few days installed XP Pro on an IDE HD with a new
mb. I have NOT activated XP yet. I now think I'd really like to get a sata hd
and install XP on it instead and use my IDE hd as a "D" drive for backup.
Will I encounter any special problems with XP ...

My USB works fine for game controller and as a hookup for my digital video
camera, but is not reading the memory card when put in my HP 7760 printer nor
will it allow me to "explore" my ipod.  Says Idod drive is corrupted (not a
problem with my other computer) and tells me that ...

5 October 2006
Hi there,
I am running windows XP home edition on a Dell dimension 4500 desktop PC
with 40 GB memory, (of which only 27% or 10 GB is used and 73% is free).It

I am trying to track down a dual head video card, either pci or agp.  I
bought one from ebuyer but it didnt support two seperate monitors.  All
it could do was clone the desktop and not use a seperate desktop.
I am not too fussed about what spec the card is.  I have got a couple

I will have the drives one mim. and the next thay are gone, no where to be
found. this plug and play leaves a lot to be desired. I would think that MS
could at least get this right be for they launch a new system. This is the
another attempt to resolve this problem. Can any one ...

Hi Bob1
Got your answer regarding my problem:-
"I have an ASPIRE Laptop, with Windows XP installed on it, the proble
is

i have broadband internet, whenever i turn onthe computer and the modem isnt
on, everything works, and loads, but as soon as i turn on the modem, the
computer restarts, please help

I lost my USB ports while installing third party hardware on my Dell.  
need to do a system restore, but have no keyboard or mouse control.  I
there a way
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After installing WinXP SP2, my intellimouse 4.0 freezes periodically when I
am typing.  This happens in all programs.  I have the latest driver.  Any
thoughts on how to solve this problem?

When I use my USB device on any given computer, it comes up as a hard disk
drive instead of removable storage.  When I am on the network computers at
school I cannot write to the disk because of permissions.  How can I change
which format the device comes up as?  The USB key is a ...