I've built quite a few desktop PCs systems, from motherboards, etc.
And, I've also repaired quite a few machines (e.g. Compaq, HP,
Gateway, etc).
It seems that power-supplies are the failure point much more often

When installing a Soundblaster Audigy in XP Home, the OS is assigning it a
virtual IRQs (17-19 depending on the PCI slot used).   The drivers are
installed and the card is working (after a couple of BSODs which I believe is
a Soundblaster thing :) - but the associated apps ...

I want to setup  a RAID 1 system on two blank 250GB HDs  on my Dell
Dimension XPSGen5. I want to install Vista on the RAID 1.  I have another
250GB HD which presently has XP Home on it.  I would like to setup a dual
boot system so that I can still use XP while I build up the ...

It worked fine for a few months then it started blue screening and
restaring my computer.  If I leave it plugged in Windows just
restarts, blue screens and restarts, blue screens, never ending loop.
Any ideas?

this is for my friend.
she has had her computer for 3 years now ,running xp 2.0 ghz 512 ram, and
today switched it on and absolutely nothing,except for a "pop" sound ..no
'Beep's no lights ..nothing , power supply problem ?

Hi;
I'm using a Macally Icekey keyboard on an XP equipped PC . I understand that
the print screen function is not available either as a default or on the F13
key for such a setup. I need to be using this specific keyboard for several

Just installed a new 160gb hard drive into an Jeantech case and windows
cannot see it at all. The drive is recognised in the BIOS and also in my
other operating system, just not in Windows? I have tried Tweakui to
make sure the next drive letters are not hidden, but all is ok. I ...

I am sure I'm not the first to ask for help with this problem.
I have an old IDE/ATA hard drive and I am running out of space.  My computer
is new with a DUO processor and 2 gig of High performance RAM and the old
hard drive is the slowest componunt on the computer so I'm ...

Hi,
I just built a system using Win XP Pro that can house's up to 16 drives.  I
installed 16/ 500gig drives and created a RAID 10 which gave me an arry of
3.69 Tera bytes.  When i went in to Disk Managment, I was only able to see

It is a Samsung model
model number SH-S182D
Thank you

I'm not sure if I have a soundcard. How do I find it? I've tried
troubleshooting and nothing has worked. When I try to open the volume
control, it says that there are no active mixer devices available. My new
speakers don't need a driver and work off the sound card. Any help ...

I have just upgraded my PC from an Athlon 64 3800+, Radeon 9600 128mb AGPx8
and an ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe Mb and 1.5gb of DDR 400 Memory
to; AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+, Radeon X1550 256-DDR2 PCI-E and an ASUS M2N4-SLI
Mb with 1gb DDR2 Memory.

So I've Windows xp professional SP2 on a P4 3.00 with 2 IDE disk's
(total=200g) plus a USB external disk (300g), yesterday i cleanup my pc
(format, etc) and when i plug in the usb disk start the normal operation "new
hardware found" and then a message that a problems occurs saying " ...

What are the relative advantages (in practical not technical terms) between
a 'quick' and a full (NTFS) format please?
Thanks.
Bill Ridgeway

cd/dvd can be player in media player, but in explorer the contents do not
show up. Explorer thinks the cd is blank, but like I said, it plays music and
video in media player. Obviously the cd/dvd is ok and the device are working.
Any solutions to getting it to work in explorer?