Recently, I bought a DVD drive that was SATA oriented. However, m
system's motherboard is PATA oriented, and the PATA connectors can'
connect to the SATA slots on the back of my new DVD drive.
I need help deciding if I should buy a SATA host adapter for one of m

Ok, I have everything installed and I'm about to fire up the system. I'm
going to have to go into BIOS and choose SATA, right? The operating system is
Windows XP Pro, bought from a PC vendor 2 years ago.
Ok, I'm on a section from BIOS setup. It's talking about advanced features

Can someone suggest why my dvd/cd will not recognize any type of disc since I
upgraded to the sp3 service pack? The driver and hardware say they are
running fine but the player will not read any type of disc.

I recently installed a dual booting system with ubuntu and xp sp2....   but
after I installed Rising Antivirus xp give me a stop 0x7F (0x0D)  error...  
I don't know why....safe mode works for me and i installed the latest video
card driver...  Ubuntu seems to work fine with my ...

I know there are a lot of Google postings regarding PC's
starting and shutting down on their own, but I have not
been able to find one that has a conclusive result.
Here is my "hair pulling" dilemma.

I'm new to this group but old to computers - 30 years of experience in hardware
repair. I've been on the Internet since '93 and Usenet since '95 or so, but just
never came across this group. After lurking here for about a week, I like what I see
and think I'll stay awhile. Hope you ...

I was looking to buy a Belkin surge protector. There are two models out
there and one seems to be rated in Joules
(http://www.buy.com/prod/Belkin_Travel_Surge_Protector_with_Hidden_Swivel_P
lug_F9H220_TVL/q/loc/273/10389590.html) and the other in Amps of surge

    I have lots of left handed customers running their
mice as left handers.  They have no problem with it.
    One particular customer with XP-Pro-SP2 can not
seem to keep it in left handed operation.  He is

hi friends,
Some few months before i got an error message "A DISK READ ERROR
OCCURRED " press any key to restart. I thought my hard disk gone so i
bought an new Seagate 250 GB SATA hard disk and installed Windows XP SP2

I'm ready to move to broadband (RoadRunner) but I need suggestions on which
router to get.
There will be one PC and one internet game system on the network.
The PC is not setup for wireless so I would like a router that is both wired

I have a hard drive that shows files there, but when I try to copy them to
another location I get the message, file not found.   Can fixing the file
table fix this problem, or is the drive fried?  There was a spike to my
computer before this problem started happening.

I've got a Sony laptop with an external CD/DVD drive.  It's Firewire.  I hooked it up and it powers up and whirs, but the
laptop won't recognize it.  What should I do?
Lady Dungeness
Out of Danger until September

First of all English is not my mother tongue so I hope you understand my
further explanations.
2 weeks ago I bought a DELL Latitude D830 with Win XP Pro SP2 installed.
Everything works fine in the original state it was delivered by DELL. Except!!

I've got a Sony laptop with an external CD/DVD drive.  It's Firewire.  I hooked it up and it powers up and whirs, but the
laptop won't recognize it.  What should I do?
Lady Dungeness
Out of Danger until September

Hello! I need to post this problem because i found out that many users out
there like me have this problem that says "THE DATA IS INVALID" after
installing or reinstalling driver. This topic refers to add-on cards such as
video card, sound card, capture card, usb card, etc. ...