Hi. Need some help and don't know where to start.
I grabbed my husband's old XP laptop and am trying to use it in my
office or anywhere else in the house with a wireless adapter. There's a
cable modem in his office, about 50 feet away from my office. His laptop

I installed a new CD writer in an XP system and whilst it will read and play
a CD, I cannot get XP to recognise it to write to.
Can anyone advise what the jumper settings should be. (It is a SONY CD
writer).

I bought a USB to PS/2 converter.  I am running Windows XP SP2.  If I plug
the Keyboard (PS/2 connector) and mouse (also PS/2 connector) into the
converter and plug the conveter into a USB port, the system does not
recoginze the keyboard or mouse on boot up.  Any ideas?

My laptop with Windows XP Home SP2 and Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz stops working
after a while (about one hour) of working. No response, the only thing which
helps is to demount the battery and mount it again and then restart.
Is this any known issue for Celeron processors or a ...

I can't get the sound card to work, or even be recognized, in a Compaq
desktop of a friends. I checked the BIOS and the on-board audio was enabled.
I even put in another sound card I had hanging around in case the on-board
audio stopped working. Still, no audio device is found. ...

So I understand both the PCI Memory Hole, the 4GB limitation for physical
memory within Windows itself, and the 4GB of total Virtual Memory Address
available to each process, etc. etc.  However, I have run across a situation
that I find very odd.

The other day my daughter plugged her Dell Inspiron 6000 into a wall outlet
(while it was running - the battery was low) and the screen instantly went
black.  We tried to power it back on but it would freeze either at the BIOS
loading screen or on occasion it would make it to the ...

Hey Guys, I have a Strange Problem, Basically since about a week ago my
computer has Issues with playing Audio CD's DVD's or Copying CD's via WMP11
and Real Player. Example whilst running a DVD in play mode with Cyberlink
Power DVD it will use 99%/100% of the CPU and it also does ...

Hello. On our base WinXP SP2 image, USB devices (e.g. printers and
floppy-disk-drives) are been detected as New Hardware when plugged into
different USB ports (hubs?) on the motherboard. Sometimes this is
re-prompting for drivers, causing users to return Laptops.

I've been trying to narrow down a problem with recurrent file corruption,
which keeps occurring on my system drive. I clean installed windows this
last time around, and I restored data folders and files I had in my old
installation from a backup file on another drive.

I bought a new 500gb drive and added it to my PC. No problems at all here.
During the process, I noticed that I could attach the drive to an empty
folder. Since this machine is the focal point of the family network, I want
the addition to be transparent to the users. So here's ...

I have an 850W PS.  Thinking of this like a typical house circuit with a 100
amp main and 30 amp circuits where you can overload a circuit but not blow
the main...... would there be any problem it attaching 10 120mm fans to one
of the connectors as opposed to spreading them out ...

Is there a way to check which of my 2 DVD drives are Master or Slave without
opening the computer and taking them out?

I have Asus M2N8-VMX Motherboard.
I have installed Windows XP Professional in
my system. And I installed the chipset,
audio, video ,lan etc drivers properly. And the device

Recently, I went through a lot of trouble installing a new SATA II drive on
my computer.
BIOS changed the boot order, and I lost all the informaiton on the original
boot drive (SATA).