Hi, i have a NS7-S rev.1.5 with the last bios update.
I am trying to install a new hard drive (my first sata hd) Samsung HD501LJ
500GB, the hd works fine when i made the partitions (the first is of 126
Gb) and the format (i made it with my master ide hd and i can use the hd

I have a PC running Windows XP SP2 with all patches updated. Every now and
then one or more of my secondary drives just disappear. They disappear
suddenly while I am using the PC and I find out when I try to access one of
the folders on a drive which is now missing. I check.

I recently had a blue screen warning on my PC (AMD Athlon XP 1800+, Shuttle
AK32A mainboard, WXP) indicating a kernel stack error.  The PC rebooted and
after the bios loaded, I got an error message - error loading OS.  The master
drive is a WD 20G, slave Maxtor 80G.  Both drives ...

This is strictly a hardware question.  Wondering if anyone has seen this
before?
Have a Radeon 9200 SE graphic card in an AGP slot running at 4X.  This card
has both an analog and DVI outputs.  My monitor is a Viewsonic Optiquest

I needed a custom paper size in word, I could set the size in word but not
for the printer so; I tried to add a custom paper size to my printer(s) by
going to the printer properties and preferences found the stock sizes but
could not add a new custom size.

has anyone had experience with winxp auto shutdown after around
30mins?
I checked power settings, there is nothing wrong , all set to NEVER,
and there is no GPO settings for shutting down computer. It looks like

My Computer is not seeing my CD-Rom and when I got to the Properties for the
CD-Rom it says
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be
currupted or missing. (Code 39)"

Can XP Home see and use all the cores in a quad core cpu?
later......

On July 30 the network card of my laptop suddenly did not function anymore.
Reinstalling the drivers did not help. The supplier of my laptop gave me a
new motherboard, with built in network card, but that didn't fix it. They
said it was a software problem and that I needed to ...

I noticed most of the HDD controller errors occur during shutdown on my
dad's old Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. A few of these
errors even came up during the boot up. The computer only has one HDD, a
D: DVD burner drive, and sometimes an external USB flash ...

I cloned my C: drive to a new (larger) drive using HDClone, then without
going into windows turned off the computer and physically replaced the old
boot drive with the clone.  Everything works fine, new C: drive acting just
like old C: (and I created an extra partition from the ...

I hope that someone can help. The hardware install wizard does not seem to be
working properly (only found out when I went to add something - not sure when
it went pearshaped). It detects new hardware but can't find the drivers to
install - both ones which should be included in ...

I have a internal combo drive that is dvd read it is a SM-HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD
GCC-4243N from LG. I also have a external LITE-ON DVD BURNER SOHW-832S. I
have been to both of the manufactures sites and to several other site to
check if the drivers and firmware are up to date and they ...

When I press the button to turn on the pc, after the initial screens
(those before bios), the screen goes black and  only a
white bar appears at the bottom of the screen.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6569/4545qs2.jpg

I installed the GNU GRUB boot loader when I was experimenting with Ubuntu,
but I didn't make any recovery disks.  Now, I've grown tired of Ubuntu
sitting uselessly on my HDD (Windows is more useful for what I do), but I
can't wipe its partition without upsetting GRUB.  The deal ...