XP Xperts,
   I have an HP Pavilion ze4100 laptop running Windows XP with 640 MB
memory, and plenty of disk space. When the machine comes up, the CPU
arbitrarily jumps up to 100% usage, and the mouse pointer disappears.

Present system uses Gigabyte GA7VT 600 mobo with built-in SATA VIA 8237 RAID
controller.
Currently the BIOS is not set up for RAID, and the VIA drivers are not
installed in XPPro.

I transfered a slave hard drive from one computer to another but now when I
try to access it, I'm told I have to format it. There is a large amount of
information in this hard drive and I would really like to get at it. I was
told that this is probably due to the old computer ...

Hello and thanks in advance.
I recently upgraded to WinXP Pro from Win2000.  My SCSI controller worked
fine with my scanner in win2k.  But now, WinXP does not even see the
Controller.  I tried to manaully add it but it still cannot recognize it

I have a Dell dimension with 250GB SATA drive that failed to boot up
into Windows.  The machine still under warranty, Dell replaced hard
drive and have left the old one with me for a week to try and recover
the data.

I have a brother HL1050 printer which I want to connect to my new computer
but it doesn't have a conventional printer socket. Is it just a matter of
buying a special usb cable?

OK. I admit it. I messed up and hopefully someone can help me get this back
to the way it was. I was fortunate enough to come across a PC that a buddy of
mine was getting rid of for parts. I thought I would add a 2nd hard drive to
my system but the drive was WAY too small ( only ...

Though the asus A7N8X deluxe mb states it has 6 usb 2.0 ports, they all seem
to be running at 1.1 speed.  I can tell this because the Maxtor One Touch II
external drive will not exceed ~ 1mb/sec on any port.  Maxtor states this
means it is not on a 2.0 port.

I have an older Dell computer, Pentium 4 , 1.8 gHz. It has a CD burner and a
Memorex 8X DVD burner; both internal. I seem to be having an issue with drive
specifications. The CD burner is now only being seen as an 8X burner. How can
I get it to be seen correctly.

I am assembling a new system which will have dual VGA outlets. I would
like to leave my existing system as is but be able to occasionally use
that monitor from the new system. Would I be able to connect only the
VGA portion of a KVM switch (no power supply needed, button control, ...

I've heard that write speeds are not improved all that much by either sata
or raid.  Hoping from some improvement, I've just moved a Raid 0 (striped)
partition from 2 maxtor drives to 2 new WD ones.
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I have a new Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive and when I click on it to save
something the computer says "you do not have access to the folder 'O:\' see
your administrator for access to this folder.", which I don't understand
because I own the computer.  When I check the device ...

Is it possible to put a Windows XP system into simple Stand By and then have
it be awoken via a network ping? We have two systems that don't need to be
accessed more than about 30 minutes per week and would love to put them into
a lower power state. But when we need them, it's a ...

Why does my optical mouse light stay on even when my new Eclipse Matrix
computer is shut down? This is the first time that I have noticed this on
any computer that I have ever owned.
Foxconn P9657AA in a Asus TA250 ATX case.

After reinstall of XP Pro service pack 2, I can no longer access my non
system hard drives. These are Western Digital drives, One is a WD800BB-00CAA1
Connected to IDE 2 on the mother board. The other is a WD 16 00JB-00FUA0
connected through the Ultra100 TX2 card. Device Manager ...