I have (old) Polk desk top speakers on a Dimension 4100. The volume output is
very low. These speakers were fine on an HP Pavilion. Will the Dimension
drive self powered speakers or do I need to replace?
Thanks,

I accidentally connected my radio to my computer's microphone socket
(HP laptop), and now I can't record anything with any of my microphones
(I have tried 3 different microphones). Is there something I can try to
fix the problem?

I have a client with two USB touch screen monitors attached to the client
running XP pro sp2. It takes about a day but one of those touch screens stops
responding and the USB cable for the touchscreen has to be unplugged and
plugged back in. Is there a way to not have to do this ...

Can anyone help me? I have no power in my USB ports. When I boot up I have
temporary power, but as soon as the windows logo and boot up initialize the
power goes away

i am the user of a new laptop and my dvd rw component is malfunctioning. the
device status is shown as - Windows cannot start this hardware device because
its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged.
(Code 19)

" Don't Panic " I read your post to my problem but still need a little
information if you please. After reading 2 of the articals you suggested Im
still confused. Do I plug the DVD Burner into the same grey ribbon thats
hooked up to the CD player?? An if so how do I set the ...

My computer (Dell Inspiron 1150) has recently suffered a big decrease
in performance. It has a P4 2.8 GHZ processor and 512 ram.  I used to
use it for video editing, but recently it hasn't even been able to play
YouTube videos without skipping every few seconds.  When I check the

I have a Shuttle XPC, and it has USB ports on both the front and the
back. However, only those on the back are USB 2.0 for some reason. The
ports on the front won't adequately power my external hard drive and my
ATI USB 2.0 video capture device failed to work on the front, while

Before reading my long explanation below, here's the gut of my question:
Is it okay for a rubber cable to be touching the bottom circuitry of a hard
drive?
Now, here's my long explanation:

Under Windows XP, whenever I plug in one of my flash drives, XP insists
on popping up a list of options for how to open the drive .... What I
want, however, is to ALWAYS open the flash drive to view files -- none
of the options to use Real Player, view images, etc.  Does anyone know

I've installed a new RAID controller and set up a couple of 320GB
Seagate drives in a RAID 1, but I'm having trouble booting off the
RAID. I cloned the original IDE drive onto the RAID drives using Norton
Ghost, but I cannot get past the pre-login screen (the one that says

my new computer was working for one week and then all of a sudden I would
turn it on the hard drive light would stay lit for a very short period of
time and the monitor remained black.  Nothing happened.  What can I do.

My Sony PC has a partitioned HD.
The C:\ is small with the XP Home OS.
The D:\ is larger with the DATA files.
Is this good?  Bad ?  Why?

Have a new SATA drive installed on my pc, mboard is abit av8 with via
chipsets, look up the drive in device manager, properties say's device
not started, error code 10. I have downloaded and installed the latest
drivers for my board but still no good. When the hardrive is hooked up

I installed the current (today) high priority security patch on XP.  Now I
cannot get my Maxtor hard drive to get past simply being recognized when I
plug it into my USB 1.0 port.  The red write access light stays on unless I
unplug the power to the drive. After the recognition ...