I have an Acer Travelmate 6460-series laptop. When I put it into standby and
later (when it's cold) resume from standby, the fan runs at a high speed
instead of varying with CPU temperature. If I place a great deal of load on
the processor, it eventually gets hot enough to reach ...

I observed an error sign on "microcode update device" in the device manager
window under system devices. I first tried to disable/enable the device to
fix the problem, but it didn't work. I then uninstalled the device thinking I
can reinstall it to fix the problem. After ...

The CD drive on my Pacard Bell Laptop is not reading CDs but it does read and
play DVDs. When I put in a CD and click on the D: drive it comes up like the
disk is blank, this is the same with all audio, installation and games disks
I've tried.

In addition to the standard A & C drives, I have an additional HD
partitioned into drives D & E, plus 2  additional removable disc
drives F & G.  Occasionally, I add an external HD (USB) temporarily for
backup purposes.

I recently installed XP Pro onto a Compaq PC and have since been unable to
boot to Windows. I get a blue screen with the following stop code :
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF8A80528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
And some information about running chkdsk/f and hard drive ...

I have a toshiba laptop (Satellite Pro A120).  It has a SD card slot.  I have
used this in the past to copy images from my camera's SD card.  Recently, I
inserted a SD card and while the icon that says 'Safely remove hardware' in
the system tray pops up when I insert a card, I ...

I would like to know if it is normal for an USB drive to lose its sharing
properties when the USB drive is connected to a running PC (this means that
the USB drive does not boot with the PC). However when the USB drive is
connected and boots with the PC to which it is attached ...

Help...
I recently had to replace my motherboard...I did have an Intel P4 845 2.4
GHz, and it was replaced with an ASUS A7V8X-X with an AMD XP 3000 processor.  
Since reinstalling XP, my sound is not working.  I have tried various

I have a hp deskjet540 b/w inkjet printer. Although this printer only has a
parallel port, I have purchased a parallel to usb cable so that I can
connect it to my new computer which doesn't have a parallel port.
The trouble is that every time I plug the printer usb cable in and ...

I am trying to do the following information from File/Open save dialog of Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007
1.Retrieve the currently displayed/selected folder path and also the file name that is selected if any.
2. Retrieve the selected file path, when the user clicks the open or ...

My built-in modem quit working this morning. Running XP Home. It was
raining, my UPS came on for a few moments and I heard a sharp bang
outside. The internal modem then went off line. When I tried to get back
on-line I got a message saying the port (Com 1) was in use. Several ...

My cd rom driver..CDRW..32x10x40..keeps opening and closing on its own,
without any prompts or commands, i even went in and disabled it, but alas
continues to do so..Help!!is it haunted....

I have a wireless optical desktop set bought a few years ago.
Recently, I set it up again on my new computer.
I found that the middle button of my mouse does not work.
When I press, it does not even give a signal output.

Time to time my mouse cursor jumps on a screen corner. I changed the mouse,
but this outrage go on as before. My system is WinXP, my mouse is optical
IntelliMouse.
How can I get rid of this?

The screen that shows up after a bad shut down comes up and asks me to
select an option.  I have selected all the options (start windows
normally, start windows in safemode, start with command prompt, etc)
and after each one my computer restarts and does the same thing.  Ive