I have an internal cd\dvd burner that has suddenly developed an odd problem.
When I try to burn anything onto a dvd\r or dvd\rw disk everything is fine
but when I try to do the same thing with a cd\r or cd\rw nothing ever gets
recorded. I would appreciate any help in resolving ...

WXP SP2 uptodate.
Mboard AMD1700; DVDR/R Pioneer; DVDR/CDR Samsung. Printer HP5550. Camera
Logitech MSN; UPS Trust; Promise Ultra 133.
Since a while now, my PC would not start immediately.  The MB turns on (led

I need buy new HDD, my MB is old enough and supports two IDE ports up to 4
ATAPI devices.
Should I use only HDD that have EIDE interface? Can I use Samsung HD040GJ
internal 3.5 SATAII 7200rpm 8MB cache model?

attempted to replace the slave hard drive on my primary IDE with another
drive that proved to be unformatted (perhaps corrupted by VCOM Copy
Commander).  When this failed, I formatted the slave hard drive using Windows
XP, which then allowed me to add the drive to my system.  I ...

I have a 3 year old ECS 661fx MB which was running W2k with an ASUS
v9400 AGP card. Yesterday I did a clean install of XP pro. The install
hung at the first reboot. I was able to replicate this and it always
hung at the same point. I later found out that the install was OK but

hi i have a LG1028C UPS 1400VA and the software that came with it is power
manger UI it is conncted to the computer via a serial port com1 i plug the
ups into the computer and installed the software and the program does not see
the UPS even when you test the prot to see the UPS ...

Hey, brand new to the forum, how you guys doing? Anyways, I have
laptop, Dell 600C with Windows XP professional. When I start up th
laptop, it goes through the Dell loading screen, then says
"EDO Memory was detected in Socket 1, nearest the audio jacks.

the cds aren't read by my computer.when i put the disk in it makes a couple
of sounds. this happenes wit any cd.

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I tried copying some files to my new SATA HDD, but after a few minutes I got
an error saying "Delayed Write Failed", and now the ...

I have a working PC with Gigabyte MB/AMD CPU built from scratch. I swap with
a new Intel chipset ASUS MB/Intel CPU. There are also a new Video card. The
rest are old. When I switch ON. It boot to a screen with "Safe mode", "Safe
mode with networking", "safe mode with command ...

I have a computer which, on boot up, consistently shows the error message
"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot
device and press a key" - and doesn't go any further.
I have checked all connections.  The hard disk is seen OK in CMOS.  I

I don't have any sound since installing windows xp. Went to device manager
found out PCI Modem, Direct Memory Access Controller, Numeric Data Processor,
Programmable Interrupt Controller,System CMOS/real time clock, System,
speaker, System borad, System Timers no drivers are ...

I'm running XP Home. Last days I got several times error 7 in Event Log
Messages:
" \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block".
I'm afraid that it can be begginning of BIG CRASH or maybe be not! I think  

I have an app that is using a scanner via TWAIN.  If I am logged in as
Admin, the device shows up in the list, but if not it doesn't.
This is with Win XP.
Any thoughts on what to do for the user to allow the access without making