We got our son a machine that didn't have a floppy drive installed and
he still has the one of the old Sony Mavica digital cameras, so I
found a Sony USB floppy drive and had it sent to him.  His second
machine that had a floppy drive went down and that was why he needed a

When I try to uninstall a driver (any driver), it hangs, and I get the
"program not responding" issue.  Any suggestions? I'm using XP Home.

My USB controller  is not recognizing my external devices, but it will
recognize my printer and portable device. I uninstalled the external hard
drive and plugged it back in to the USB port. The message states "No drivers
are installed for this device." The hard drive has been ...

My Device Manager lists 3 Primary IDE Channels and 3 Secondary IDE
Channels. Each has two devices, which makes 12 devices in all.
I thought there were only 4 devices, Primary Master, Primary Slave,
Secondary Master and Secondary Slave. Can someone please explain?

First of all this drive works fine with my laptop - WinXP recognizes it,
assigns it a drive letter and there it is.
However, when I plug the drive into my desktop (Dell Dimension 8300) WinXP
recognizes the device then asks for a driver ("Found New Hardware" screen

I am using a workstation running WinXP Pro x64, and I am wondering if there is a workaround to be able to have the HP Design Jet 755CM allow the user to be able to make "user defined" page setups like it is able to do in a 32 environment.
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My desktop computer crashed and was unable to boot up windows because of some
file missing, I belive it said. Anyhow, I removed the hard drive and placed
it into an enclosure...When I plugged it into my laptop, nothing happened, so
a tech at my mother's workplace said he would ...

One of our users has a laptop where the letter "I"  no longer works.  It is
under warranty so will be fixed within a day, but is there a keyboard
shortcut like "Ctrl", "Alt", "Shift" and some combination of numbers (or
something else that will work on a laptop) that he can use ...

I just noticed that the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers section is missing
in Device Manager. Instead, I have the following down below the USB
Controllers section:
Unknown

I recently added 2 hard drives to my system and took an old one out.  I have
a total of 5 hard drives (hdds).  4 of which go to an IDE/RAID controller and
1 to the mobo.  The C drive is partioned to 2 logical drives, the rest are
single partitions.  All are formatted NTFS.

Hey guys -
I would like to know your opinions about these systems.  I'm getting ready
to build another computer but wanted to know your thoughts.  I'm aware that
these don't come with an O/S and in some cases a CPU cooling fan and hard

I have a 3 year old Dell running Win XP SP2 which had Samsung SM-348b
CDRW/DVD combo drive.
I have been running Battlefield2 game and had periodic shut-downs.  I ran
Dell Crash Analysis Tool which told me that the problem was with Application

I am attempting to get a new widescreen monitor (1440x900 native) to work on
an old graphics card that only has default settings for 4x3 based monitors.
Some tinkering in the graphics cards driver settings has enabled me to
select a 1376x800 widescreen mode using a "standard ...

microsoft wireless 700.
keyboard works great, mouse is dead... ARGH!
it's plugged into 1 USB port on my Lenovo X60 labtop.
any help would be great!

Hello, I have just bought a secondhand Seagate Baracuda external HD. I have
setup the device correctly but when I try to plug and play it there is no
sign of the disk in My Computer. I have checked with the seller and he
assures me that the device was working. I have Windows XP ...