I'm struggling with a problem I have seen online elsewhere, but no
solutions.... I have this wonderful keyboard and mouse, mouse works,
kbd doesn't. I have already tried:
Changing channel on receiver

I have tried several times to install a mouse on my laptop xp system, and the
installer always gives the some message, can not install this hardware?
does any body know whats ging on? this would be the same with a laser
wireless or optical?

I have a Dell Latitude D610 with a built in bluetooth adapter.  When I
do a fresh OS install on other similar machines, I am able to see the
Bluetooth icon in the control panel.  I believe this machine used to
have the Toshiba Bluetooth stack on it.  However it has since been

Is there any way to force a delete of a printer port?  I currently have 3
Virtual Printer Ports for USB and a printer that refuses to work.  When I
first hooked it up a few months ago,  there were 2 VPPs for USB and the
printer would take 5-10 minutes to print.  Now there are ...

I have a IDE\CDROM TSST CORP CD/DVDW TS-H552L 0614 OEM HP that will not
recognize 16X media.  Samsung says that TS-H552L does not exist. Any help
would be appreciated.
Than you

The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)
I'm trying to attach a McLelland USB Preamp to my desktop PC.  The desktop
PC is running fully patched Windows XP Pro SP2.  This device is supposed to
come up as "USB Sound Device" which it does in Add Hardware Wizard.   It ...

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Win XP/SP2, HP Deskjet 840C, newest drivers.
When I print say a picture there are thin horizontal white lines about 1/4"
apart the whole way down.
This is even after changing the colour cartridge to an original HP and

I have a NEC ND-3550A DVD driver that has recently being "on strike" for
certain DVDs I tried to play on it. The DVDs were actually created using the
driver itself, which worries me a bit as I have quite a few...
You pop the DVD into the driver, it tries to read it for a while and ...

For some reason my digital camera - a simple cannon one, won't work with
Microsoft scanner and Camera wizard.
It seems to take forever to do anything. - just says it's reading and
getting picture information... it can do thsi for 10 minutes, even if there

Is there any simple test to eliminate one of those possibilities?
I have read that it is possible to check the power supply by temporarily
shorting two pins together, but I don't know which two pins, and I don't
know if that will work without any load on the power supply.    I do ...

HD is a Seagate 40GB ATA internal drive (model # ST340014A). I'm replacing a
failed Seagate (same model).  Put it in a working PC, saw it in Disk Manager
and formatted it in NTFS.  Once that was complete, the word "Healthy" was
seen in DM.

Whenever I boot XP Home SP2 I receive this message:
Windows - Drive Not Ready - in message box header.
Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 4
75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c - message line

HD is a Seagate 40GB ATA internal drive (model # ST340014A). I'm replacing a
failed Seagate (same model).  Put it in a working PC, saw it in Disk Manager
and formatted it in NTFS.  Once that was complete, the word "Healthy" was
seen in DM.

Recently I bought a new computer. It doesn't have a gameport, so I installed
my old sound card (Creative SB) in it. Windows (XP Professional) identified
the card and gameport, and installed their drivers. The soundcard really
works now (although I have an audio device included in ...