i've got an hp pavilion dv4000 notebook that the dvd/cdrw drive went
"missing."  it doesn't show in my computer or device manager (no
unknown hardware, either).  the bios is no help, because it doesn't
show a list of devices detected at all.  flashed the bios to latest

Hello, my wireless keyboard doesn't work. What may resolve my problem?

Hey all,
(HP) Compaq nc6120 running F.14 BIOS
This laptop was flaking out, rebooting at random and then sitting at a
black screen with a single flashing white cursor instead of displaying

Howdy!
I have a 80 GB Western Digital Hard Drive running Windows XP Home
Edition. It recently crashed (possibly physical crash) and will not
load into windows.

When I am using my computer running windows it will randomly restart
with no BSOD or any type of warning. When it starts up again there are
a bunch of corrupted files, generally whatever I was working with
before it crashed. This is a custom built computer about 5 years old.

I think I probably know the outcome of the bottom line of what I'm asking,
but what the heck...I'll try anyway.  Had something "really" strange happen,
at least to my personal understanding.  It all started about a week
ago....some things weren't going right on my system, so I ...

I have had an ink printer of EPSON. But it has a permanent problem that can
not be recovered with the printer head. and it would cost as much as a whole
new printer to subsitute with a new printer head. It is so disappointing
that I bought it just three years ago....

I wish I had one of these to boot my Windows XP to:
http://www.meritline.com/super-talent-2-5-inch-ide-flash-micro-drive-16gb.html
Super Talent 2.5 inch 16GB IDE Flash Drive, Micro Drive, Model
Access Time: less than 0.1 ms

Can someone suggest some (not very expensive) hand scanner?  I need to do
some searches in libraries and would like to be able to scan some materials
and transfer to system for OCR/further processing.
Thanks in advance.

I have a hard disk I pulled from one of my old machines, a 200gig WD, the old
machine was running xp pro, and this disk was set up as dynamic.  I have put
this disk into an external case and no matter which machine I hook it up to I
cannot access the contents of the drive.

I posted this message earlier, using the links provided by the 'Help and
support' link from my OS, but the message obviously ended up in the wrong
place and seems to have been simply deleted.
Windows XP 64 will not let me install ANY hardware, at all.

Hi, all. I wonder wether a higher cached of 8M other than 2M hard disk can
enable faster data downloading/uploading speed from internet.

No joke! Since the letest school shootings in Germany, the local
politicians have found the main scapegoat to deflect fromsocial
problems of this overaged society: Computer Games. The press even
createted herefore the neologism "Killerspiele" and started the biggst

I have a computer where
the Primary boot partion is IDE and connected to the main board.
I also have a PCI Sata card with two HD.
I want to get rid of the IDE HD and use only the SATA hds.

I have installed a 200 MB hard drive into my pc.  The BIOS only
recognizes it as 137 MB.
When I used the maxtor software booted from the CD, it only saw 137 MB.
I then booted into XP SP2 and it recognized the drive at 200MB.  I ran