Lately, when I switch on my desktop, it takes between one and even 10 minutes before it
powers up.
Any ideas as to why this happens ?
Thanks in advance,

My CD-ROM has stopped working. Tried different things to no avail. Noticed
that it will read a DVD, but a CD or blank CD it ask's to please insert a
disk. Any ideas. OH, thanks ahead of time!! DdY

I have a laptop with 100 gb SATA drive and a new 250gb SATA drive.  I want
to upgrade the drive and would like to use Acronis TI to clone the 100->250
without using the USB method.
How can I connect both drives to the laptop at the same time so I can clone

This is off topic but would like to know if anyone knows any good free
newsserver that enable message posting?

I have a friend who is legally blind and uses a super large keyboard and a
32" screen to see anything at all.
Whenever I am at his location and want to help and it asks for a F- key,
they are not on his keyboard and I have not found any combination yet, that

Just bought a PCI-Express Dual ESATA / Dual Internal SATA Port card to
connect an eSATA Dual Drive Docking Station.  The idea is to have two
separate backups, but I've noticed the card has RAID.
Have I bought the wrong type of card or can I disable RAID some how.

I have a Dell Dimension 4600 runing XP Pro SP3. When I shutdown and
choose Standby the system shutsdown and one to two seconds later
restarts. Any idea why it does not go into standby and stay there would
be appreciated.

I have been very stupid.  I am trying to get my NVIDIA card working in my
pc.  However the card will not install properly and so it is using the
default adapter.  I thought I had solved it and consequently disabled the
default adapter...

I have 1 tb fw800+esata wd external hdd.
Xp sp2
When I connect fw or usb cable to pc, Windows explorer resets.
But I tried another same properties pc, hdd working...

Once I had to turn down my freezed XP in a brutal way simply by taking
battery out (notebook).
Then on startup CHKDSK checked the disks (C and E) and XP was up again
alright.

I hope that this is the correct forum for my question.
I have a Toshiba Libretto DVD Dock Supermulti recorder & RW, Model no.
PA3433U-1DV2.
This does not play and it is not displayed in explorer.  I have tried a few

My Asus motherboard Sound card stop working, Realtek AC'97.  Device Manger
Audio Property device driver shows that it works fine but under the DirectX
Diagnostic sound device the driver is not listed.  If I boot to linux the
sound card works fine.  The sound card has worked fine ...

I am trying to transfer data on the above USB stick. The USB stick shows up
as installed in the "Hardware", however it does not show up in "My Computer"
with its allocated "L". All other USB devices show up as A,C,D,E,F,G,J and K
and work correctly. What shall I do to get the ...

I have a AS Rock P4VM800 Mother Board which has a C Media AC'97 Audi
Device built in. I am running windows xp home SP3.  My problem is tha
I can't get a microphone to work with the PC.  I have tried to upgrad
the drivers, but when I do the new driver doesn't work and I get a Cod

When I install the above card in XP it finds the '1394 Adapter' driver .
The driver works OK but I am unable to shut down my computer because it
hangs when closing down, going into standby or hibernation.
I found this link