A friend of mine gave to me a compaq evo n610 notebook.
i formated the system and started using it, but i came to notice
immediately that the graphics was knda slow..
Then i used dxdiag to check for the graphic card...

Hey all....have read many posts.  Seems some had this problem about 1 1/2
years ago but never a solution.  Suddenly my DVD drive will read some DVD's
okay but others it changes the descriptor in My Computer to CD Drive and then
will not open. If I double click I get Disk is not ...

After I upgraded to XP my LG CD-RW CED 8080B and LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163
stopped working properly. The DVD-ROM does not work at all. The CD-RW works
if I put the cd in before XP loads up completely.
I upgraded from Me.

Is there a way to determine which memory is installed on my pc (ddr, ddr2)
from winxp?
thanks in advance
Agostino

When you have itune installed, and you click on "Keyboard" in the Control
Panel, you can, as you all know, I am sure, make keyboard keys start
applications (among other things).  I would like to make Firefox start in a
particular monitor of mine (I have three), and to do this, I ...

In Windows XP you can set the option /onecpu in the boot.ini file, to force
Windows to run on one cpu when running on a multicore system.
Can anybody give me link to a page or document where I can get some
information about what exactly happens when booting with this option?

We have a Brother HL5250DN Network printer attached to a network hub.
I can not remember how to get it to be shared so that I do not have to
turn on my PC so my wife can print to it.  
Any ideas?

Have been given a Philips Iqon PC and told if I can fix it I can keep it.
It has an ECS m/b and Celeron D 3.06 CPU.
Boots past the POST but shuts down before Windows starts.  Watching the
hardware monitor in the BIOS CPU temp creeps up till it reaches the 85C

I would like to uninstall Microsoft Bluetooth Stack in order to be able to
use the Bluetooth Stack that comes bundled with my Bluetooth Devices
(BlueSoleil in one computer and WIDCOMM at the other).
The main issue is that Microsoft Bluetooth Stack starts to conflict in the

Anyone have experience with this board? Comments? It'll run XP Pro and get
poked and gawked at by trainees.
Considering a quantity of them for a project.
-John O

I have two DVD drives, a Piooeer Read only, and a Lite-on + or - RW.  Neither
of them recognizes DVDs, either movies, or homemade DVDs or blanks.  They
both read CDs without any problem.
I have WXP SP2, and have installed Power DVD 8, and tried to see the DVDs

Currently I have an Intel 4 2.40 GHz processor. Recently I purchased a
simulation whose recommended specs state that the processor should be
"Pentium IV 3.0Ghz ".
Is there a way of changing my processor without too much hassle?

I have a new 250G USB external hard drive which come in one partition
and pre-format in FAT32.
I want to re-partition it to two partitions 125G each and then
re-format it to FAT32 format.

My pc has recently stopped recognising devices when plugged into the usb
ports. If I plug my camera in I can access it through explorer but there is
no indication that the pc has seen it and if I highlight the "safely remove
hardware" icon, the camera is not listed for removal. I ...

We recently bought a wireless laser desktop 4000 for my wife's computer. It
installed and worked for about an hour, then...
First, windows did the "DOdun" sound when you disconnect a USB device, then
the doDUN sound for connecting, then made both sounds repeatedly. Windows