I am using PowerDVD 7. DVD/CD player is a Lite-On.
For instance, my wife gave me a NY Giants DVD from the NFL Network for
Christmas.  The first DVD just spins on my PC, the second plays.  The
first will play downstairs on our cheapie Panasonic DVD player.  Same

I just reversed two case fans to see if that would make a HD (Maxtor
w/temp monitor) run cooler and it didn't - it runs hotter. The fans are
in the front of the case, so I had to pull the front cover off which,
as anyone knows who works on puters, can be a hassle. The leads are

I have an older aoc monitor 7vlr.  I can`t get win xp to identify the
drivers for it. I put the drivers on my computer and went thru the add new
hardware wizard but win xp can`t find them.

I have an IBM Inellistation Pro M. It came with 2 drives installed.
Currently, they are ID'd as 1 & 2. Apparently, 0 was left open. I tried to
install a new drive. I have it installed on 4. However, it does not show up
in My Computer or in Windwos Explorer. It does appear in Disk ...

I have a new ATA drive I've mounted - but the damn thing mounts as a D:
drive - skipping the C: entirely... from what i've read in forums, you
can't just change the drive letter since the D: lettering gets
hard-wired into the registry after XP's installation.  I don't mind

On a XP SP2 machine Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 only works after installing
the software/driver. After a reboot, the software does not find the cam
anymore.
A re-install gives again a working cam, until the machine is rebooted again.

I have two hard drives, using a Dell Dimension 1100 with 512 of RAM. I can
not seem to play music or watch videos from the other hard drive. The sound
is wrong and the video drags. I have tried to enable DMA from the Device
Manager but can't. How to I enable it?

The display on my monitor isnt working but the monitor itself is as
have tired it on another PC.
The manual that came with the PC said it could be the VGA card and
have replaced it with a brand new one and the monitor still doesn

I'm tying to understand U3.
Read the text at Internet sites, but
I'm not sure I understand what I read.
Is the following true:

my son had laptop for xmas and he opened it one day to find the scree
looked cracked behind and the colours have all run together into
blob. wot is this? and can it be fixed
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For some reason when I plug in USB drives (jump drive, camera, etc. )
they are not recognized in "My Computer"
It shows up in Disk Management (E:) and I can access it just fine by
typing in the address (E:) but it does not show up as a drive in My

Ok, so I installed a Dynex soundcard, but no sound comes out of it, sound
still comes out of my built in soundcard which is broken and sounds
distorted. How do i bypass the built in sound card?

I have some computer systems that have quite a few people that use them
during the day and they make changes to the systems. I am looking for
something that would allow any changes to a computer to be undone after
a reboot. In other words, after rebooting, the system would be ...

I posted a similar problem months ago with no solution, I will try to
describe the problem again...
We run a domain with about 400 PC's
The problem is this...

Please excuse me if this has already been answered, but my search
through old topics didn't uncover anything.
Here's the situation:
A friend of mine bought a Dell laptop with an internal wireless card