For the past two weeks the screen has frozen after about 2 hours with the
only option available being a hard reboot.
If I am at the PC when this happens the mouse will get stuck at the last
point on the screen and the keyboard stops responding (i.e. I can no longer

In safe mode, I can't write to a rewritable CD as the wizard says I need to
insert a writable disk. I've tried with a few disks, and it has been the same
problem, so I'd say it was a computer fault. Is it normal for CDs not to be
recognised in safe mode?

Recently my HP Laserjet 5 (not the color lj) started printing narrow
horizontal and vertical rules as wide ones. Graphics and text print OK.  For
example, on a web page with underlined text, the underline prints as a wide
line that almost obscures the text. Another example is in ...

Would like to go to raid 1 with 2 ide drives. Like your advise on a good
controller. TIA

I have a DVD burner and it will still read DVD+RW's but no longer
DVD+R's even though I made them on this PC AND they play fine in my TV
DVD player.
any ideas?

So I have a dell laptop... And i droped it and the screen shatered. So i
brought a new screen online and hooked it up simple right? Yeah well
everything was working good then maybe a week or two later my USB ports
stoped working, then my sound went. All i get is some crazy beeps ...

When i insert a media card in the card reader nothing happens. I opened
device manager and the "USB mass controller" says Unknown device, and all my
removable disks icon in MY COMPUTER disappear.  Messages that come up are
"no drivers installed", USB root hub 2 ports  1 unknown ...

I am trying to upgrade the RAM on my PC from 512MB to 1GB.
I have 3 slots on my motherboard and after doing Crucial's memory
scan and looking at their recommendations I decided to add one 512MB
RAM module to my two existing 256MB modules. I first put it into the

Laptop #2 -
Dell 6000 (something like that)
Had problems with it charging, now it blows out the chargers.  Could it be
the battery?

I have a variation of the worn out question about how to swap hard
drives on WinXP.  I recently had a total failure of the Boot drive on
my Windows XP machine. Yes, the head actuator went south. (I even tried
swapping IDE logic card on the drive itself as a last resort). Well

Bonjour,
J'ai un probleme de clé USB en effet, lorsque je cponnecte une clé
USB mon PC gel et j'ai plus qu'a rebooter...
Je pense qu'il s'agit d'un probleme de firmware (je pense seulement) en

I have a new home-built machine, with Intel D975 BX2 Extreme motherboard,
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme processor, etc., etc., and a RAID 0 dual SATA 300
hard drive array, partitioned C:\, D:\ and E:\
I have installed two identical Pioneer DVD R/W drives as Master and Slave on

I am wanting to install two new 250gb ata133 hard drives in my computer. They
will be (eventually) replacing the currently installed 40 gb hd that operates
as the master drive in my system. I have a msi socket A mb that does not
support raid. Can some one please recomend a stream ...

im trying to connect a computer moniter to my laptop windows xp, but i cant
figure out how to do so, please help

As the topic says.
- The loading screen stays aprox 3-4 minutes on each load (was about 10
seconds when the PC was fresh). The PC gets slower over time ofc, but the
loading problem stays once WinXP Home is fully loaded aswell. - What can be