Her: a senior citizen with a failing 5-year-old Dell, needs a new PC
(would prefer to stay with XP and not move to Vista).
She wants to replace it and is wondering what "name-brand" PCs are known
for their good quality?  (she doesn't want to pay to have one assembled,

My computer hardware is:
AMD x2 3800+
Epox MF570SLI (nvidia 570SLI chipset)
nvidia 7300GT

I am adding a new 400GB IDE drive as a slave to my XP system (running Windows
XP Home SP2).  My Master Drive is 120GB.  I upgraded my BIOS to support LBA
48 to support the increased capacity of the new drive.  However, using
Seagate's DiskWizard or Partition Magic 8.0, it appears ...

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Just intalled a new internal DVD RW (PHILIPS|SPD2413BM/17) in my Dell 400SC
with Windows XP SP2 with Media Center.
Edition. The power to the DVD drive works,  as I can open and shut the drive

I am having difficulty using the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader. Can
anyone help?
Using XP Media Center edition, when I attempt to use the new reader
(Model 1033) with the furnished CD installation disk (MPPM ver 1.0) it

I've  installed a creative sb X-Fi xtreme gamer.
As result i've got a "code 12" error on my geforce 7800 GS. I get only
4-K colors.
Tried different PCI-slots, flashed my bios, re-installed my Xp -->

Running Windows XP on Dell hardware. I have lines of dashes on the screen in
Welcome, Desktop and Internet Explorer. How can I remove these, please?

I have a 12 in 1 Card Reader plugged into a USB port in my computer that
I've had for probably a year and a half.  It has worked fine up until about
5 months ago.  Sometimes when I boot up the computer, the device will be
recognized, be listed as available in Windows Explorer and ...

I have an IBM ;hard disk 40GB with C: visible and D: (invisible) as
the recovery software partition.
As my HDD was full, I cloned it to a 120GB disk .
I grew the partition D using Seagate Discwizard to include all the

yesterday i took new computer with below configuration
Hardware is:
Intel dg 33 fbMotherboard
p4 core2 deo 2.66 ghzprocessor

plz help
pan drive didn't detected
what to do?
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ocassionally my computer restarts alone or does not boot at all. in event
viewer i noticed that the below event is recorded with every restart:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: a54mwksn

Laptop took a fall.XP no longer tries to boot but Fedora still does.Ran
chkdsk and it says unrecoverable errors.Also looked at repair install
but it needs to format as file system on main partition is"unknown".3 years
univercity work I need to access.Do I have any options other ...

Hello, l am having trouble How to disable onboard graphic card on asus
a7v8x-mx motherboard. l am tring to install a agp graphic card.
waiting advices. thanks..

I have a choice of 2 notebooks with Windows XP Professional and was
wondering which would be faster
Memory and HDD are the same but the difference between the 2 are the CPU's
Intel Dual Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz