I used Norton Save & Restore to clone my 80GB HD to a new Samsung 300GB
drive.  All went OK until I tried to swap the drives.  The system booted from
the old C-drive instead of the new one.  So I powered down and removed the
old one.  When I powered up, it hangs on the XP splash ...

After recieving my laptop back from a major repair, (replaced motherboard)
I'm unable to add new hardware to the system. All of the proper drivers for
the devices: USB Keyboard, USB Optical Mouse, are installed and respond
properly, but do not interact with windows. (Mouse lights ...

How to get serial number and firmware revision of a graphics
controllers like nVidia, ATI Radeon.
Is there any Win32 API call or WMI stuff ?
Please help me.

ok i'm having a problem with my usb hub. it's a 4-port with both the
Bus power and Self power options. it works fine on Bus but it doesn't
work on Self. i'm even using the power adapter that came with the hub.
can someone please tell me what might be wrong? also i believe it is a

What's the best way of identifying the type of memory installed on a Windows
XP computer?  A colleague who is to nervous to take a screwdriver to their
machine wants me to install some new memory, and it's a fairly long journey
over there, so I'd rather direct them to some ...

    thought i was being clever, putting all my stuff on an external hard drive,
then if anything goes wrong with the computer you can always transfer your
important files to another computer right? wrong!
i'll try and give all the info i can, my problem began when for some reason

I have a message on booting up "Hard disk failure imminent.  Please back up
your hard disk and have it replaced".
On what basis does the BIOS determine this please?
Regards.

How can I remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from hard drive, if it had not been upgraded from older versions and if I don't want to format the partition on which it has been installed?
Thank you.
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My powersupply self-destructed. One of the capacitors fried and de-
soldered itself.
I replaced it with a known good supply which didn't have the ATX12V 1
connector. I spliced the old connector in the yellow and black wires

I bought a new usb mouse for my laptop, but it happens something very
strange when I plug it:
on my laptop I have 4 usb ports but the mouse will work only when
plugged on two of them. (the ones on the left side, I am right handed

How can I remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from hard drive, if it had not been upgraded from older versions and if I don't want to format the partition on which it has been installed?
Thank you.
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How much video memory do I need to drive *two* monitors running at a
resolution of 1680 x 1050?
Thanks!

My computer is very ill at the moment and after running all spy ware and anti
virus   software I can think of its got worse. At this point its time to get
out the back up copy I was given when I bought it from the shop. I tried to
restore the computer to how it was when it was ...

Does anybody have an idea why my screensaver won't activate if I use my
wireless mouse. I just sold my Sony VIAO in which I had no problems with the
screensaver/ wireless mouse. Right now I'm using a Dell Dimension E520 and
have tried just about  everything, including downloading ...

My powersupply self-destructed. One of the capacitors fried and de-
soldered itself.
I replaced it with a known good power supply which didn't have the
ATX12V- 4pin connector.