My computer does not recognize my DVD drive. It was originally device F. I
can not open the device and when booting the device does not light.

I have two Lite-on DVD read all write all drves and I have updated the
firmware.
I can't write to DVD-R disks can anyone please help me figure this out. I
can write to CD-R and they read no problem. I have tried checking and

Hey, my laptop's internal modem died recently and I've got this old external
modem that I want to install on my win xp laptop using a serial connection.
When I try to install it using the "Add Hardware" tool in the control panel,
I was doing ok until itthen asked me to select ...

when I insert a disc it acts like it is reading but when I click on my
computer and click on cd-r/dvd-rom it brings up the window for writing files
to a cd. any advice would be greatly apreciated.

I'm using Windows XP SP2 (fully patched) in combiantion of a Asus P5AD2
Premium mainboard. Recently I've installed a US Robotics PCI Modem and this
went without troubles, it installed perfectly on com 3. In the device manager
everything looks fine but when I click on the ...

Recently, i was having trouble with a program i was trying to run in XP
Stupidly , i turned the Graphics Card off. Windows asked me to confir
which i stupidly did and then the machine rebooted.
When the machine restarted, it goes as far as when the Windows XP star

I have just about exhausted every possiblility I can
think of to solve this problem.  I have a Buslink Disk-On-
The-Go USB 2.0 20GB Hard Drive, that up until yesterday,
worked perfectly.  It seems it stopped working after I

I have 2 500GB Maxtors in RAID 0 on a cheap Rosewill PCI SATA RAID
card. The drives are new and I just formatted them. I'm in the process
of transferring several hundred GB worth of photos (~20MB each) and in
the process, I can hear and feel the heads jumping all over the place.

I changed the motherboard and reinstalled windows xp home. I noticed that the
cpu usage was very high . . .60 to 80%, never down at 2% as it used to be.
I removed lots of programs and some cards I did not need . . .the cpu usage
returned to normal.

I just got an ipod last night, and i keep getting something popping up saying
that windows installer my not be proberly installed, and that my computer may
also be in safe mode. Now that is with using the disc that I got with my
ipod. And then i tried downloading it from apple ...

Can a CPU fan stalling for a split second cause a system power down.
Running XP home SP1

Hi Guys & Gals
Hope someone can shed some lite on this for me.
I installed a new DVD drive , model HPDVD writer-840d. (litescribe model)
In My Computer and  windows explorer it is listed as a DVD-Ram drive .

I have two disk, one is a 80GB Samsung, and second is 250GB Seagate.
The second is a dynamic disk with two partions, 100GB and 132 GB.
I just formatted the first disk, restructured the partions and
installed a fresh copy of windows. Now I can not see the second disk.

i have just fitted a new dvd drive sony dvd rw aw-g170 ,when i play a dvd the
drive fires up but keeps going all through the disc making a noise as it
spins round making it impossible to hear the dvd , however if i burn a new
disc on nero and play it back it works fine without ...

i was wondering if someone can help us out please ......
i recently bought an audio interface for my PC , i might have installed
its drivers incorrectly .... since then i have had nothing but trouble i
cannot restore my PC to an earlier time using system restore, but every