i am not sure when exactly this problem occured but i noticed the other day
when i went to burn a cd that media player said that no cd or dvd drive was
detected. I then realized it doesnt show up under explorer either. I checked
under device manager to see about the driver but ...

Random lockups led me to download and run a RAM test utility that showed
errors. I bought expensive new RAM chips and reran the RAM test for peace of
mind. I still have similar memory errors...only late in the "extended" tests
on the ERAND test in what look to me like high memory ...

I want to change my motherboard & cpu to a better one. I currently have a
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor x86 Family 6 Model 4 Stepping 2. speed. 1101 MHz.
1.10 GHz, 128 Mb.  
Motherboard:MSI K9N Platinum

My computer has 2 hard drivesC/D. I re-installed Windows XP on the "C" drive
leaving (as I thought) the "D" intact. The installation was successfull.
However the "D" drive is not recognised. How do I retrieve it?

I'm using a Seagate SATA HD for my Windows XP all the time. Yesterday I
brought a new one with the same model for backup. After I installed it
physically and then turned on the computer, it showed me that the two HD are
detected(It only occurred when a jumper was set. The new one ...

I would like to know what a MTP Device is.
It has appeared underneath my list of Drives in My Computer. It has not been
assigned a 'letter' and when I try to open to get info I'm told "You do not
have permission to use this programme", so how did it get there and whats the

My cdr/rw drive is not being reconised now. Have tried unstall & reinstall +
update driver to no avail . All was ok last week when i burnt off a data cd  
& loaded some photos 5 days ago. The only software i added was media player
11 so reverted back to 10. No hardware was added. ...

I recently installed a firmware update for my DVD drive and Windows keeps
alerting me that new hardware has been installed.  When I click to install
the drivers, it says it can't find them.  It s a Sony DW-U50A.  The firmware
I installed was version 1.5g.

Can anybody please help me with this weird problem?
I have a friend who has a very basic PC as she is a complete newbie.
It has XP SP2 and I installed an old Canon BJ265SP printer to get her by
until she gets used to computing.

I just built a new computer and had a bad video card. When my tech
removed the defective card she found that she had to re-install the
operating system. After the re-installation none of my usb ports will
work, not even the one in the back that goes directly to the

I have just bought a new computer and want to install my old computers hard
drive into it. The problem that I have is that the new computer has SATA and
the old one PATA. The MB has plenty of space for extra SATA connections but
nothing for an old ATA drive. Can I get a cable ...

I have a computer that says press tab to enter post or del to enter setup on
start-up, this happens on a regular basis, where do I start troubleshooting,
it does eventually boot into windows.
Motherboard is a ASUS P5VDC-MX

I get the following error when I try to connect with remote desktop
also the way one restarts and logins has changed
see screenshot
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/5138/errer6dx.jpg

Could changing the priority class of a background process from high to
real-time damage a video card?

I have been using my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP x8 video card for over 2 years
now to play games such as Everquest and Battlefield Vietnam without any
problems. I have recently detected some video warping on everquest and when I
launch into Battlefield Vietnam my system either ...