Can anyone help as I'm mystified!!
I have 3 HD's in my Intel based XP system with the boot drive installed in a
caddy. (I have a spare caddy with another drive for a backup and I use Ghost
to copy the drive image to the spare drive when I backup)

After a reformat and clean reinstall of XP, is there an EXACT correct
sequence to install the following please?
Service Pack 2
Windows Updates

Just installed an ASUS TV FM 7135 card & drivers/software without problem.
Made sure it was seated firmly in PCI slot and audio was connected to
Creative's Audigy 4 audio-in.  Since then my system hangs for a seemingly
interminable 3-4 minutes at the Intel BIOS boot screen, then ...

I just installed XP Pro in my HP Pavilion.
I did a full install after formatting my hard drive.
Now 1 out of every 3 or 4 times when I boot up, the mouse doesn't work.  If
I reboot once or twice, it works fine.  I tried switching mice but made no

I always have system reboot when i remove my memory card reader from the USB
connection, i only got this problem after re-installing windows.

I have installed a pci ide raid contoller (PCI Ultra ATA 100/133 IDE Card,
Supports ULtra ATA 133/100/66/33, EIDE/Fast ATA 2 IDE & ATAPI Devices) and a
Hitachi Dekstar 320gb hdd (purchased from a UK distributor).  I used pci as I
have already used all available slots on the ...

Greetings all.
I am running XP MCE with latest updates.
I have a BENQ Read/Write DVD drive.
Until last week I was able to succesfully back up data on this drive.

Have just bought new 'Neovo' monitor.  All games extend beyond screen and
cannot be played.  Sign in, exit icons are off screen.  Auto adjust button
does nothing.
Any ideas gratefully received.

I recently replaced my daughters power supply.  Before I replaced the
power supply everthing was working fine (except for the noise of the
fan bearings starting to go!!!).  I have replaced many power supplies
previously with no issues.

My USB 2.0 drive will show up in the device manager as a disk drive.  It will
not however show up in the disk management console.  The computer correctly
recognizes it as a mass storage device, but not as a physical drive.

I updated Windows XP home edition on a Compaq Presario 2292 that previously
used Windows 98.  It uses a SuprEx Pro 56k modem.  It is not picking up the
modem.  At installation Windows told me that it did not recognise this modem.
The modem is manufacturer installed. The Data and ...

I have a COMSTAR 74 Gb 3,5" usb external HD with 44 Gb of free space.
Strangely, when trying to copy a 6 Gb file from my computer to my external
disk, I get a Disk Full error telling me to delete some files and clean up
the disk.

I keep seeing links stating that XP Home doesnt support
multiprocessors, but XP Pro does.
I am running Xp Home with an AMD X2 4200 dual cpu and I seem to get the
benefit of both processors a(ie: I can go to task manager and set

firstly, i am not high tech savvy. I am trying to laod a cd rom and cannot.
Dont know if this is relevant, but i (we) tried to speed up the compuor, but
was sent a wireless system, which i cant use. went back to reg system and now
cannot load cds or floppy discs.  any advise how ...

First I am using a gateway laptop running on Windows XP.
I have an old piece of hardware/device which reads a data card.  (Both
the device and cards are very outdated and I cannot really describe
them more but they are used in the wind power industry to gather