I had an HD experience a controller failure, and it's not that old of a
drive, less than a year.
I was able to recover the drive, but am seeing some wierd issues with it.
Windows sees it just fine, Partition Magic however says it's bad, and won't

I went to the Microsoft website.  On the "Download Mouse and Keyboard
Software" page I selected Product type: Keyboard, Product: Natural Keyboard
Pro, Operating system: Windows XP (32-bit only), Operating system language:
English (US).  Then I downloaded IntelliType Pro version 6 ...

Good Morning,
when I insert 3Com wireless PCMCIA connect card in my notebook, Windows XP
SP2 blocks up. I can't use neither mouse not keyboard.
Now, if I remove the connect card, Windows reboots itself.

My Dell Dimension 9150 computer gets half way through booting up and then
dies- the hard disc stops spinning and the monitor goes to power down mode.
If I disable the GEFORCE video driver it boots up O.K. XP tells me that a
Stop error has occurred.

I am tryng to connect a wireless USB keyboard and mouse to my computer.  It
is a Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard 4000.  The mouse works fine but we
have been unable to get the keyboard to work.  We have tried the trouble
shooters, internet searches, and anything else we might ...

is there a newsgroup that specializes in mobile racks ? I have bought an IDE
and SATA rack and cannot get them to work as hotswap racks on my new MOB
Asus MV2______
With kind regards From WillofAustralia

I had a MS Keyboard Elite for Bluetooth & an Intellimouse Explorer for
Bluetooth (bought as a set) set up on a conference room computer, that
worked quite well, until some idiot broke the bluetooth adapter!
I tried calling MS & they told me that the only way I could replace

Hallo, PLEASE HELP!!!
I actually have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200.
I used to be on a domain with my laptop, but the domain is now removed. Now
it seems like it does not display the same as it used to. Eg my fonts are not

My PC starts up automatically at random times.  I shutdown the system
normally at night and when I go to startup in the morning, it's already
running and at a login prompt.  The last two days, the system has started at
approximately 0403 and 0627 respectively by event log ...

I upgraded my machine from XP Home Edition 2002 to XP MCE 2005 (OEM), and am now attempting to install Rollup 2 so I can install Zune software for my new toy.  Unfortunately, any time I try to update to RU1 (since RU2 doesn't recognize my OS as compatible), it fails prereqs.
I've ...

I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.
When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website
(WDM_R180.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:
Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !!

I have an external hard drive, and I am using the DOS "convert" command to
convert the drive from FAT32 to NTFS so that I can copy files to the hard
drive that are greater than 4GB.
I'm getting a message asking if I want to "dismount the volume".  I don't

I am trying to gain a better understanding of all the practical options
available to me and the inter-relation ship between O/S and Applications.
I would appreciate suggestion regarding the practical advantages /
disadvantages of any configuration of the hard drives that would be ...

The HDD light blinks every 1 to 2 seconds while idle on the new box I just
built and installed XP Pro SP2 on.  The motherboard has the NVIDIA 570
chipset (SATA and PATA controllers) and 2GB of RAM.  This is what I've
learned about the situation:

Ok, I built a new computer last week, using a Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H
motherboard with a Realtek ALC889A HD Audio integrated sound card, and
running Win XP. To my great dismay I found out that there is simply no
bass. Or, I guess it -is- there, but it is so thin that it's just