E-Machines are notorious for PSU failures which take down the
mothernoard.
I have one here where the PSU crashed and rendered the MoBo dead.
Inside the PSU there was a capacitor that completely desoldered

Audio is not coming out of my computer speakers. When I click on the volume
control it says "no active mixer devices."  How do I get this up and running?

A dual booting machine, both OSs are XP sp1 + fdisk update.
It has a front-of-case hdd loading drive rack.
Into this I load my Samsung HD300LD (300Gb, ata133) hdds (several) for offline storage.
One fine day the ide wasn't in right and hdd connection quit in the middle of things.

I have an occassional problem during the boot sequence where I receive a bsod
(I don't have the codes to hand).
It's a very infrequent occurance so not of general concern but when it
occurs it always does so at the point where my speakers 'pop' - I assume as

I have a WD My Book Essential connected via USB to my computer (Dell
4500s running XPHome).  When I connect my wife's Ipod to another usb
connection, it takes the My Book off line.  I've already given them
different drive letters, Z for My Book, T for Ipod.

I just have never got this to work right, I have Creative Inspire 5.1
5200 speakers with the SoundBlaster 24 bit EAX. The only speakers that
I can get to work is the center speaker and the subwoofer. I have had
my pc for 2.5 years. Every other month I try again. I dont know how to

my keyboard backspace button has stopped working. when i try and backspace
all that happens is that a sign appears like this [ and i cannot delete it
any more. also my return key once pressed goes down a line and enters this
symbol #. also if i try and enter the at symbol in an ...

If anyone has ideas/past experiences with this problem, please let me
know and thanks in advance!
I recently turned on my computer and left the room while it was booting
up.  When I returned the computer was off and it smelled like burning.

'Help! Bluetooth i wish to connect my phone to the computer to download data
from my mobile phone to the computer
I have installed the software and hardware and it appeared to install
properly but i still cannot access the software. Right clicking the system

What is better to use as Graphic card, Intel Media Accelerator 900, or
separate  graphic cards, like ATI Radeon Xpress  1100
GeForce Go7300TC ?

P-IV and Celeron, home networked, with a HP CSe895 printer on the
Celeron, but also serving the P-IV, etc. I have always been
disappointed with the "Black" color really being a very Dark Gray and
finally turning a Dark Blue when my color cartridge ran out of Yellow,

I've bought a verbatim pen drive 4gb. I've plugged into my notebook and
is ok. Also into my home pc. When i plug into my work pc driver was
found, but in MyComputer when i try to access to it I see no files and
if I try to move a file a get a permission problem. Unable to write ...

I know this is windowsxp newsgroup, but i need some help. please read
Error message:
microsoft office has not been installed for the current user. please run
setup to install the application. I've tried every microsft fix you can look

Does anyone have a good quality screen capture of a complicated boot.ini
file they can share with me? I'm looking for one that has several boot
options, if possible, which can be used to show students what's out there.
You can send to my email directly (remove the spamcatcher) or ...

Panasonic Camcorder (PV-GS39)
Erase tape.
MiniDV: The MiniDV format records high-quality digital video onto small
tapes.