My cord for my little ION iogear 60gb usb drive is a little to short so i
hooked up an usb extention and when i hook the hard drive to it the computer
does nothing its like i never hooked it up. But on the hard drive the little
power light comes on so i know that it is getting ...

I have added an external drive to my PC. However, this drive has been
formatted under Linux and I cannot see it from Windows Explorer in order to
format it for Windows. How do I "see" this drive and what do I need to format
it? I am running Windows XP SP2.

Hello! Acquired a used Presario PC. Had drive failed in test. Would like to
intstall a new drive, but unsure of procedure. Will I have to reinstall the
XP operating system also? Previous owner doesn't want the PC back. I thought
I would teach myself. Would like to know what steps ...

I started doing multi track recording on my PC.  In order to improve
performance, i was considering buying a second pc and having nothing
but windows and my 3 programs installed.
I don't really have the room for another desktop setup, and I was

I just bought a very nice new computer with a Core 2 Duo Processor and a
nice dual NVIDIA 7100 GS Video Card for my two 17" LCDs (1280 x 1024). I do
have a problem, however.
Since the computer sounds like a 747 (even though I payed for the "good"

All of the sudden my printer will not print and I am getting "Code 10"
errors. The device manager shows both COM1 and COM2 are having issues
and it appears they are having IRQ conflicts but I manually changed
them and I still have errors. ANY IDEAS???

Hi folks.  My laptop CD-ROM crashed and Windows went down as well.  Since I
cannot boot to the Windows CD from the laptop, I have removed its hard drive
and connected it to my desktop system via a USB adapter and I have
reformatted it.  My question now is how can I install boot ...

added new hardware but where is the icon that allows me to use it
{scanner}test on the scanner said it's ready but how do I get it to work

My No2 PC has a MB that is antequated and needs replacing. It is running
XPHome SP2. It seems many of  the newer MB's have SATA capability.
This PC has 2 EIDE HDs and a CD/DVD player and CD Burner connected to EIDE1
and 2 and an AGP graphics card.

I'm building a new PC to put Vista on.  It's Intel core duo 6300 with
ECS P965A-T mobo.  To check it out I put XP Home on it just so I could
make sure it's working.  It installed XP fine  and I have done all the
upgrades thru SP 2 and a zillion others from the MS update web page.

I have recently reintalled xp on a new hard drive. Since then the HP dvd840b
dvd drive wont recognise any dvd media. The drive has the latest firmware.
The device manager has the driver installed as CDRom drive version 5.1.2535.0.
Update doesnt find a newer version. If I uninstall ...

I have a new notebook computer w/ Windows MCE on it.  I repartitioned and
reinstalled MCE when I got it.   I have all of the Windows Updates.  I'm not
sure when it happened, but at some point after the install, Windows decided
it knows nothing of the CD/DVD drive.   It doesn't ...

When ever I try to copy a file to a CD I get a message that the DMA is turned
off.
I checked the devise manager on the CD and there is no Resources tab.  
How do I turn it on?

One of the automatic Windows updates clobbered my buildin Audio SoundMax
device.
When I try to run any audio from Media Player 11 (updated from 10 thinking
that might help, didn't) I get a message that either the card is not

First of all, a friend of mine has just got a game called The Sims. I've got
no idea what it is but it seems that her existing graphics card isn't up to
the job. According to the Sims info, the *minimum* requirements are:
*** 32MB or greater Transform & Lighting capable video card ...