I recently re-formatted a Dell PC (2.8 ghz, 512 mb ram). I put a fresh copy
of Windows XP home on the machine. Everything works fine. Well, almost
everything. For some reason, XP does NOT like this sound card. The model # of
the card is CT4780. When I install the sound card and ...

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 and recently the computer just won't go into
sleep mode on it's own.
Normally, the monitor is set to go off after 10 minutes, hard drives after
15, and sleep mode after 20. Right now, the hard drives appear to be

I would like to know where I can find the list of motherboards models
that microsoft recommended?
Thanks

I have recently installed a LITE ON DVDRW SHM 16P65 and for the most part it
works well, except that when I atempt to load software from a DVD ROM I the
get the error message F:\setup.exe is not a valid win32 application. I have
downloaded the latest firmware from Lite on. It ...

I have tried installing a linksys wireless adapter to my laptop, and am
getting the message:
"This device will not work because windows could not load the drivers (Code
31)"

I know that MS doesn't market these products an longer. But, does anyone
know who made them and where I could get their "grandchildren"? I have had
excellent experience with them,specially with "Microsoft Broadband
Networking" software.

I bought two identical 320GB WD HD.
My operating system was on a separate hard drive. These 320GB HD's
were used only for storage.
Then, my OS had to be reinstalled a few months ago. After I

I've been trying to delete some files from one of my partition on an
80 GB seagate HDD.
Windows will tell me it's too large for the Recycling Bin, so I
choose to delete them permanently,   but then the resulting disk space

I have a built-in Samsung DVD-ROM SD-616F. I am using an HP Pavilion and
running on Windows XP Home Edition 2002 Service Pack 2.
My problem is that for some reason my DVD drive will read some DVDs but not
others. A few months ago it used to play all DVDs.

I have XPpro and again my "Diamond Digital"
DVD reader is sealed shut with its light on.
Why does this happen; how can I check to fix
this problem.

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO FIND OUT WHAT MY 3D ACCELERATION IS ON MY PC.
I'M RUNNING WINDOWS VISTA. I BOUGHT THIS PC 2 DAYS AGO AND NOT USE TO
IT. I NEED TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION IN ORDER TO BE HELPED WITH AN ISSUE
OF PLAYING OLDER VIDEO GAMES.

I bought an old computer. When I look at the processoir in system information
it says I have
x86 family 15 model 2 stepping 7 genuineintel 2391 mhz
What does that mean? Does it have a pentium 4? Is it even a pentium

As with most who post questions, I do not know much about these kinds of
things but have tried to include everything I know so as to speed up
questions and answers.
How can I uninstall everything relating to NERO, it seams to have caused my

What happens is the command box launches long enough for me to see it, about
1/2 sec, and then closes.
Start->run->cmd->enter, and the box flashes and closes.
Any idea about how I can fix this?

I have an IBM Thinkcentre desktop - running WIN XP Pro - it had hibernation
working.  Since installing a Radeon 1550 256MB PCI graphics card - my
hibernation option has disappeared.
Any thoughts on how I could get this back?