Changed CMOS battery about 2 weeks ago because of the same error message.
It worked OK for about 10 days then the same message started appearing.
Is it likely I got a duff battery, it was bought from Woolworths?
Could anything on m/b be draining the battery?

 I was told that there is a driver update for my Microsoft PS/2 Compatible
Mouse .
My current driver is a mouclass.sys  5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2108)   ,    
7-1-2001 . When I performed a PC Pitstop Driver Alert Scan , it told me

I have the following problem with _NEC ND-3650A DVD+-RW drive on my Dell
Optiplex 745 desktop with Windows XP SP3:
It does not recognize DVD-R disks with data, no matter whether burnt on the
same computer or on another one.

I am replacing a Pioneer DVD/CD RO drive with a Pioneer DVD/CD RW drive.
When I boot with the new drive installed, Windows hangs during the splash
screen.
I also have another CD and DVD drive in my system (total of 3).  They all

how do i know if my drive can burn data?

I have an HP pavilion desktop (XP home) that exhibits the following behavior
over and over: Push the button on the box to start - no HP splash screen-
shows black screen error: "Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert
boot media in selected boot device and press a key." ...

My DVD Drive Could play type of CD before but know recently it won't load any
CDRoms.
What I've Done so far:
* Uninstalled the Drive and Restarted Computer for computer to

Hi,
I have a Gateway 500X retail desktop that has a non-operational motherboard.
Do I have to get the exact same motherboard(model number) to replace it or
can I get another Gateway/emachine motherboard with a different model number,

We have a domain which we connect all our work pc's to it. So all work
computer names which are members of that domain are showing in that domain.
Now i have a personal laptop (winxp sp2) which i connected it to the domain
to do some automatic windows updates. After shutting down ...

I have very little experience burning, and also have a NEC 3550a.
This is my 1st learning about 800mb cd discs.  Do you know of any slightly
larger-than-normal dvd discs?  I have an application that uses several dvd
data-discs that have to be inserted depending on certain ...

I have a new computer and today when I tried to read a Memory Styck in the
Card Reader Device I notice that it was not possible.
The USB 2.0 Mass Storage Device has a "yellow exclamation point" and the
numbers of the Card Reader don´t appear in "my computer".

Greetings!!!
I had a problem with my dvd writer. I was not able to access. Then while
googling, i found a solution that deleting few registry entries upperfilters
and lowerfilters will solve the problem. but, when i delete entries and

Ik have a soundblaster CT5803 soundcard. I have installed it into a pci slot. I have tried to get it to work with and without the cable that comes from the soundcard plugged in into a fitting connector on the motherboard.
I also have a soundcard on my MSI motherboard. On my Device ...

Recently I performed the system recovery because of problems with my
computer, and since then I haven't been able to use programs that require a
video card.  Before the recovery these programs worked fine.  I have been
told that I need to install a video card but I did not have ...

I was wondering if there is a new driver that I need.  I have an NEC DVD_RW
ND-3550A disc reader/burner.  It seems to work fine, except that it doesn't
recognize my 800MB CD discs, but says they are 700MB instead.  Wondered if
there was something I could do to fix this.  It says ...