I had two 1 meg chips and had 2 meg ram.  I installed two 2 meg chips in
addition.  I put the two 2 meg chips in slots 0 and 1.  I put the two 1 meg
chips in 2 and 3.  When I checked I had 2.5 meg of ram instead of 6.  I
checked each chip in slot 0 and they all work  I tried ...

I'm having issues with XP recognizing my Creative Zen MicroPhoto player.  
When I initially installed it, I didn't have any problems whatsover...until
yesterday.  However, when I tried to sync my player with Windows Media 11 it
shows that the player is not connect, which it is ...

Ive been using my external hardrive to back up all my stuff, however i
recently dropped it and ever since then it has been making a weird
sound. My laptop will pick it up anymore and it making a whining
sounds ever 30 seconds or so.

I just put a 80GB hard drive in a USB 2.0 external enclosure & it only
indicates 31GB?????
I put another 20GB drive in a similar enclosure & it show 20GB
What's the deal

I have sony DVD +/- RW drive in my PC.It had change it's behave to not read
any video/data DVD.I have checked in device mang. everything is OK......! But
I don't know what to do?
Pl. someone help me in this.....

My laititude d600 laptop will just sit at the screen that says windows is
shutting down if i have my pcmcia card in there. If i take it out before
shutting down it shuts down fine. None of the other laptops i have do not
have this problem. whats the problem?

I am running Windows XP SP2.
When I plug in certain devices that should be recognized as "removable
drives", USB is asking for device drivers and failing to support the
devices ... since they don't distribute device drivers for them.

hey all,
i just upgraded my gateway computer's memory from 2gb to 4gb. when i look in
the bios it shows all 4gb (4 1gb chips expandable to 8gb). however, when i
look at computer properties it says 3.25gb is this correct?

When I try to install the software fot a Cable & Wireless Notebook Card a
message comes up that it is not compatible with Windows XP and may cause
problems. Does anyone know if I should just ignore this and continue or
should I buy a different Notebook Card

I have just been given an iPod Shuffle (2nd Generation) and when I attach it to
my USB Hub it is seen in the explorer drive list but then disappears.
When I check it in the USB List to Remove Safely it is shown as USB then iPod
then S-Drive, but then the S -Drive disappears which ...

Blue Screens & ACPI.sys
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After initial install I get a Blue Screen :
Configuration:

After starting XP, a mouse movement causes the computer to reboot. Very often
it's the very first touch to the mouse. Sometimes I have a couple of seconds
to do something. If I don't touch the mouse and use only keyboard,
everything's fine and the computer can be used for weeks ...

Hello. I've got a serial ATA hard drive with a jumper to lower the data
transfer rate from 3.0Gbit/s to 1.5. I don't know what speed the motherboard
is on the computer. If I leave it set to the higher speed and the board can
only cope with 1.5Gbit/s will it still work only at the ...

I was hoping someone in here could help me. I just received a new
flash drive (my first) and am having a few problems with it.
The problem I'm having is really bizarre. This is what happens..
I'll plug in the flash drive to my computer's USB port and drop a zip

Got this new Microsoft Wireless optical 2000 keyboard & mouse, but the mouse
scrolling does not function!
I tried changing the settings for the middle wheel button. When I press and
hold that button it will do the function I choose. But the regular turning