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 a laptop running XP Pro with SP3
Everytime when i run the system on Battery, this error shows up on the
eventlog
The device 'Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection'

XP SP2 - up to date except SP3.
Relisys 19" CRT TE988, monitor just two years old.
GPU -Inno 3D Ge Force 6800GS 256MB DDR3 PCI-E.
I know one or two will roast me for posting here, as I cannot validate any

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 ...

On a high-end games machine, XP pro. During a chkdsk on drive C I found the
following event view entries relating to drive D. I can't make any sense of
MS' 'explanation' for this kind of gobbledegook. Can anyone interpret it? And
at least, what are the chances drive D has a ...

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