I was trying to help someone with a cd rom problem.  The Bios said the cd rom
is not installed and it doesn't show up in windows.  MSINFO doesn't recognize
any cd rom.
It has been there and worked fine in the past.  You can open the cd rom and

How do I find out what are the specifications of my ATX power supply? There
is nothing about that in the (MS-6330 ATX) manual. I am beginning to wonder
if it is adequate enough for all my periferals.
OR

Hi,
I have c and e drive.  c is my system startup drive,  I have ran out of room
on c.   I would like to make e my default drive for start up and downloads
ect...is this possible.  I do have a copy of xp home.

Has anyone sucessfully used a Belkin 2 port KVM switch with audio support
and built in cabling between Win XP and Vista Home premium 32 bit using a
USB/PS2 adaptor for a wireless mouse and keyboard.  If so how did you get it
to work?  Belkin don't seem able to give a staright ...

What do you use to clean off the old arctic silver from the CPU and heatsink
fan assembly? Does it matter to clean off the old arctic silver when using it
again, before applying the new arctic silver?
                                                    Thanks, attilahthehun1

I have Samsung 26" monitor cum TV and I get a continuous Humming sound
from its speakers (and it was not there previously). When I minimize the
window the sound gets reduced. Tried to lower the volume nothing
happens. Even tried to keep 'No Sounds' in the sound scheme in the

When i shut down my desktop, the system does not power off.  I only get the
display Its now safe to power off your computer (as in AT PCs),  Are there
any settings in XP or the BIOS that i need to check to rectify this
situation?  My PC has ATX power supply and AMD Athlon ...

   I know that I am posting this in the wrong section (Because there is no
NT section), but here is my problem...
   I just installed Windows NT on a NEC Ready 9701SE PC, fresh from the
disk, however, there is no sound. I tried to add the driver in Multimeda in

Have a dual-boot PC with Vista 64bit and XP Pro 32 bit.  
I have enabled the memory remap in the BIOS so I now can see the 4GB (just
added another 2 GB on PC with already 2GB).  In XP I only see 2GB (instead of
2.93GB when Memory remap was *disabled* - then Vista was just showing ...

hi, would you mind telling me how you 'optimised your bios settings' to get the sound working.
I have the same problem, had a look in bios settings but there is nothing there about audio or something that can optimise the bios. did you used a special bios program?
Help would be ...

I just got a new laptop and everything seems normal. However, when I open
the C: drive nothing appears for the CD/DVD drive that should be there. How
can I get Windows XP Pro SP-3 to recognize the CD?DVD drive? Thanks.

Hardware is Dell Inspiron 9300, Windows XP MCE + SP2.  I installed a
250GB WD hard drive in January 2008, and removed the existing 80GB
drive.  The new drive is IDE, as this seems to have been the last
Inspiron made without SATA.  The following story has happened three

I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard/mouse using these:
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth 2.0.
Can a Widcomm based wireless headset run ok with this bluetooth

Device mgr recognizes it as sony cd-rw crx 230ee.   Cannot copy files to cd.
tends to hang up computer. uninstalled Nero.  Had sme problem with original
,assumed drive bad and replaced it with I/O magic. Still cannot copy to disk
where is problem?

Intel Quad at 2.4 GHz is priced the same as a Dual at 3.0 GHz.  I will be
using Windows XP.  Which CPU should I get?