Whenever I try to use an external USB/Firewire device I get these 2 errors
1st is Restricting Warning
Administrator has prohibited access to CDLDVD Rom Drives
2nd is Warning

I am trying to install XP on a IDE drive attached to a IDE Controller card.
I have a native SATA motherboard with a SATA hard drive attached.  I have
second IDE drive attached to a IDE Controller card.  The BIOS can see the IDE
drive and Vista can see it.

Looking for 8 ports sata controller that has a basic raid capability. I need
to create a mirror of the c drive for my new desktop computer.
Any recommendations is highly appreciated.
Thanks,

I've got a SQL server that uses an external HDD to do backup/transactio
logs. The drive specifically has to be the "I" drive in order for th
scripts to run.
All was working fine untill I replaced the 5 external drives with ne

Can DDR2 be used on a motherboard that has the X38 Chipset and made for
DDR3?  I'm interested in the Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard.
Thank you;
David

I am on a PC with Pentium 4 3GHz with HT technology, 512MB of Kingston
PC3200 (400MHz). When I look at the Front Side Bus (FSB), Memory bus
properties and the chipset bus properties, I notice that they are not
operating at its effective clock. May I know how to get them running ...

I recently installed a new SATA dvd/RX drive on my PC. The system recognizes
the SATA drive as an IDE drive, and does not recognize the two optical drives
I have on the IDE cable. I'm running AWARD BIOS on a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
mobo and WINDOWS XP /SP2.

For unknown reasons, just found out there is this yellow exclamation mark in
the device manager for Microsoft Tun Miniport Adaptor #2.
Have searched the net but no solution and seems many people got similar
problem.

Can anybody suggest, how to format the hard drives in Windows XPSP2
and the syntax, if any?
Thank you, everybody, in advance.
J C

First let me say that I could see and access this 2nd drive in Windows
Explorer just fine [as drive D:] before I did a complete reinstall of Windows
XP yesterday, by complete I mean wiping the hard drive C: and reinstalling.
Now I can see just the main drive C, the floppy drive A ...

I plug in a 120GB USB drive and it goes through the new hardware wizard and
says its ready to use but doesnt appear in my computer but shows as a drive
and as a USB mass storage device in device manager. I tried it on another
system and it shows up just fine, how can I get it to ...

I'm running MCE 2005 in a Gateway micro-btx box.  Recently got a deal
on a motherboard which will allow use of a Core 2 Duo chip.  I'm
replacing the board and chip primarily as a "quiet-pc enthusiast" who
wants to lose his fire-breathing P4.  However, any performance gains

Have an Advent 7096 laptop with integrated ATI Radeon Express 200M graphics,
XP Media Center with all updates.
Installed these newer drivers:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/integrated-xp

So I've been having trouble with my hard drives and I think I've tracked
down the issue to this little guy here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329075
Now since I don't use the /3GB switch in my boot.ini the only method open to
me is method 1: Editting ye olde Registry.

I'm not able to adjust bass/treble with volume control. I go into
volume control > advanced, and the bass/treble controls are grayed
out! It's probably due to the sound driver, which is SoundMAX
Integrated Digital HD Audio, which came with the Thinkpad T61.