I'm getting Delayed Write Failure errors when trying to access an old
internal Zip drive.  What does it mean?  
I also get occasional I/O errors.  What does that mean?
I want to remove the Zip drive when I'm done, and reuse the IDE cable

Is there a way to replace a SCSI controller card with one that is a
different model without reinstalling XP? I currently have an Adaptec 19160
controller card and attempted to replace it with an Adaptec 2100S RAID
controller card but have been unable to boot XP successfully. It ...

I'm getting ready to build another system and the motherboard (Intel 945GPM)
I bought supports boths of these.  I was wondering which is better and
faster?
Thanks,

Hi,
i hawe problem with network. The tree in device list, with network devices
is invisible. Network dosnt work, ipconfig dosnt work, ping on localhost is
ok.

When I had a Gigabyte motherboard and running WIN ME, I could an alarm for
the CPU temperature in BIOS.
I now have an Asrock MB with XP home but cannot find nothing in the BIOS or
anywhere else for setting an upper temp limit for the CPU.

I am using XP Pro,
I have two Hard Drives, and both have been replaced because
the repair people said first that the second was gone, then when
the PC failed to boot when I got it home I was told the problem was

I've got a WD My Book external drive.  I used it for about a month.
Now suddenly it will not show up.  I have two boot systems, each one
on a separate itnernal HD.  the External USB drive will not show up on
either of them.  I'm using XP Home SP2 + patches.  

I bought a Maxtor One Touch III Mini Edition external hard drive.
I used it to back up my important data on my desktop computer which
runs Windows XP.
Can I use this same hard drive to back up my laptop, also running

I have Windows XP sp2.
I have a problem here. My DVD reader used to work fine, I could read DVD and
insert blank DVD-R and it would recognise them as DVD-R.
But now, it recognise them as CD-ROM. I have not done anything to change the

i have a 2gb file would like to have analyzed but can't figure out how to
submit it.

I have purchased a STLab NetMOS 2-Port Serial PCI Card Moschip 9835 PCI bus
32 bit card to run a cashdraw kickswitch which does not work, it works ok
connected to the serial port on the motherboard COM1, I am using the EFT-POS
machine on COM1 for point of sale.

Running system with 512M. Runs of until I am running 10 or so Mozilla
screens. However seems to get slow after that. Will almost die when
loading a Adobe file. Brings the system close to a slow halt.
Would adding 1G memory stick help. Would it speed the system in any way.

I have an EEPROM reader that connects through a serial port, of which
(according to device manager) I have only one on my xp pro sp2 system.
This is supposedly COM1.
I had to remove this reader for a few minutes (to test on another

Simple question. Through a batch file or a VBScript, I need to send an
ATI1 command to a modem on COM4, then capture the output to a text
file. Can't figure it out for the life of me. Appreciate the help.
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Is there a way to replace a SCSI controller card with one that is a
different model without reinstalling XP? I currently have an Adaptec 19160
controller card and attempted to replace it with an Adaptec 2100S RAID
controller card but have been unable to boot XP successfully. It ...