I am missing the IDE ATAPI heading from my device manager
My primary IDE is listed under "unknown"
My secondary IDE is missing

I've just done a reinstall on a laptop. How can I assign the function keys
for Brightness etc ? Do I need the drivers ? It's a Tiny N18and I might
struggle to get the correct drivers.
Any advice.

I am considering investing in an external harddisk 160 Gb with an IDE
interface. My only worry is the power supply. Can my desktop handle the
extra power requirement? How do I find our before I spend the money? I
intend to connect the harddisk to a USB hub which has a seperate ...

What is a low profile PC? Does a PCI expansion card that fits a low profile
PC also fit motherboard of form factor ATX?

I have noticed that this question has been asked a few times, but I can't
find a solution that works.  I had two hard drives in my computer that
functioned properly before my master drive (C:) became corrupted and I needed
to format and reinstall the OS (Win XP Home).  I saved ...

First of all, if you think this post belongs in another group then please
let me know, I really need help with this!
We will have 10 XP Home PCs and a network printer at work. Currently, we
just have a 6 port switch where 5 PCs connect to one that acts as the gateway

Is an external  2,5 " drive with USB  2.0  interface compatible with USB 1.1
on the desktop?

I have XP Home Evesham Laptop and i believe a Sony cd drive ( i can no longer
find any reference to it in my laptop). This drive is not being recognised
and thus cannot use any cd/dvd. I used the fix for cd drive when cd burning
is removed as I had recently uninstalled Itunes and ...

Hope this is the right place for help with this problem.
I have a Dell 620 Latitude laptop.  It came with Vista Ultimate.  Several
work related programs weren't Vista compatible so I pulled the original hard
drive with the Vista install intact and I replaced it with a new hard ...

I've reformatted my system and all is fine.
After installing XP Home, applications and drivers I installed Xpress
Recovery 2 from the gigabyte chipset disk.  I then tried to back-up my
system using XR2 which notified me of insufficient HD space.

I want to get to the BIOS  on my HP Pavillion Desktop a1610n with Athlon
64X2 4200+, socket AM2, chipset GEForce 6150LE with ASUS MB name:A8M2N-LA,
HP Motherboard name: NodusM3-GL8E.
Hitting F1 during startup gets me to a number of things, but not the CMOS /

I have a new Laser Keyboard and mouse 6000 on which the extended keys do not
work.
I notice I have in the Device Manage two HID Non-User Input Data Filters
that have a Yellow ! on the icon.

Vista Home Premium, 1.8g processor with 1g RAM, Packard Bell machine in
England.
If I go 'Computer' I get the usual list of 'C drive', 'DVD drive' etc. If I
right click the C drive, properties, it tells me that I have 75gig used.

My Sata DVD drive suddenly stopped responding. The control light is
permanently on but the drive can't be opened (neither on the drive itself nor
via driveletter rightclick - eject). No DVD is in the drive.
Before this problem started I noticed that during boot my Sata HDD is only ...

Scenario:
From Add/Remove Programs, IBM Director is uninstalled.  Computer
reboots and *KABOOM* no local mouse or keyboard.  If you remote into
the machine via RDP, keyboard mouse work fine. (I would also test the