When I use a USB thumb drive in one machine, a laptop, running WinXP I don't
get the icon to Safely Remove Hardware.  It doesn't matter which thumb drive
I use, and I get the message for these thumb drives on other machines.  I am
not hiding inactive icons.  The thumb drive ...

I am looking at a motherboard that says it has an:
     (x8) PCI-Express (using x16 slot)
What is this?  Can I install a PCIe 16x video
card in it?  Will it only run at half speed?

Before we start... Technical Data Sheet for i945-based chipsets -->
http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/309219.htm.  Specifically
reference section 1.1.2 System Memory support for i945GM chipsets (the
i945PM supports all i945GM features but without the integrated ...

Power Supply of one of PCs is now dead, as seeing nothing happened even
numerous tries by asking questions on other MS Group.  
Then, I'm thinking of replace 'Power Supply.'  The PC with XP is about
5 years old with XP Home Edition made by HP.

Windows XP SP2 with 6 USB2 ports (2 ports already connected for other devices)
I have WD My Book and trying to install with my desktop computer.
When I connect this HD device as instructed, Found New Hardware Wizard
pops up (Hardware found: My Book) and I select "Install the ...

I believe that I may already know the answer to my question, but for a long
time my sound would play fine for a while (during games, music etc.) then
randomly start making unusual noises, which required me to close the game or
media player. Now I cannot get any sound, and my ...

Friend of mine has a Dell laptop, running XP, which has an external USB -
CD-Rom
Always worked ok, hasn't used it for a few weeks, went to plug it in and
it's not working. Well it works coz you can hear it, and the light comes on

just conected new dvd +/- rewriter to my computer , it did'nt detect new
hardware and when i tried to add hardware it could not find it. also my dvd
rom went missing aswell

I Have a Biostar K8M800 MB with an AMD Athlon processor that I just built.  
XP boots up perfectly and runs just fine, however, if I have my Microsoft
Webcam plugged into my USB port when I boot up the computer, The boot up
sequence gets as far as showing the  Windows start up ...

My DVD drive has disappeared several times. The first time I resolved it by
deleting Upper and LowerFilter registry keys (per Microsoft support article
314060 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314060).
This time the Upper and LowerFilter registry keys are no longer ...

My floppy drive is giving me an error when I put a disk in it says
"floppy disk controller reported error not reconizing floppy disk driver"
It seems to be a driver problem I uninstalled and rebooted both driver and
controller.

Trying to load P Drivers..
keep getting blue screen then restart over and over...
SAmsung clp-300 on XP
????

Since upgrading from iTunes 4.9 to iTunes 7.6, I have been unable to
seach for or delete songs in my Music folder, or in any Playlist,
that
uses a custom genre.

i know that it's really repettitive,but i didn't found my answer!
this is my system information:
athlon 64 X2 5200+  -   nvidia 7950 GT   -  4GB DDRII FSB800
in system bios it shows that i have 4GB of RAM , but in windows XP when i

I recently upgraded my HW to an Asus Dual core chip and run XP SP2
Since doing so, my DVD burner seems to become a CD burner as soon as I put
in a blank DVD of any kind.
I have now upgraded the DVD burner to a new burner and the same thing happens.