After recently installing Two new LiteOn IDE drives (1 DVDrom & 1 20x DVDrw
+/-) usb/plug play has been quirky to say the least. My external Burner gets
recognized when I power it on. One of my digital cameras is recognized as
well as a usb flash drive. However, my cyberhome ...

well i haven't had my computer for very long and im already starting to have
serious problems with it. first off, whenever i try to use windows media
player [i have the latest version], it locks up my computer when i play
music/videos. the only sounds that work on my computer are ...

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When i inserted the pen drive to my system, it was unable to detect.
Itried in many ways.
Then when i checked the device manager , the usb controller was not in

I have a HP laptop - I'm unable to use the two external USB drive. And I keep
receiving the follow bubble "Power Surge on Hub Port". It instructs me to
click on the message and follow the direction. I do - and it tells me to
disconnect the devices from the USB port and depress ...

I recently purchased a Kingston 2GB SD card.  However, when I insert
it into my laptop, the computer doesn't do anything.  I believe the
proper effect would be to bring up a new drive, like when a USB memory
stick is inserted.  However, this does not happen, and even the "found

I have intel d915PBL board. So far I have been using IDE HDD and have
installed win XP. Now I have decided to use SATA instead (because by
IDE has so many bad clusters even on track 0) . So I brought SATA 80GB
(Seagate).

I have this problem that although the internal speakers on my laptop work
fine when I play a CD or an ipod tune I cannot get any sound when I visit
any website and attempt to play a video. I see the picture but there is no
sound.

Not sure if this is where I should post.
I recently re-installed winxp sp2 and cannot make an Acer ScanPrisa 124OUT
model 6682-A3A scanner work again. I have downloaded the recommended driver
and software in mirascanv403u10.zip from BenQ and reinstalled a couple of

i went to defrag my pc today as i would normally do but when i went to defrag
disk i got this message up (disk defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is
scheduled to run on the volume: (c:). please run chkdsk /f.) so i do the
chkdsk an i restart like it says an when i have done ...

Help!
Last week my PC was rendering some video - when I entered the study halfway
through the process, there was a smell of burning dust - as if I'd turned a
little-used electric heater on.

What is the best Power Supply unit on the market that is good for all new
hardware of today?
Thank you;
David

It is said that a router is safer than an ordinary modem against spyware,
viruses and the like.  Is there any truth in this and, if so why please?
Regards.
Bill Ridgeway

Assume my video card, monitor, ram, psu, and cpu all works. My comp won't
post.  I've unpluuged
all fans and disconnected every other hardware to hear my cpu buzz when I
turn on comp and the green power light on the mobo comes on. I see no burns

I am struggling to get a SATA drive as a boot HD on a new system.  Is
there a name for it in the BIOS?  IS it under RAID drivers or
something?

Installed a 2nd hd 160GB *internal* on usb, external enclosure, it gets
recognized by xp disk management, my computer, etc., I formatted it and
tried to load xp-pro, but after it formats and loads the OS and restarts
it gives me a BSOD saying it can not proceed, something is ...