I look after an office with 16 Dell Optiplex GX280 desktop PCs.
Recently, there have been problems with fan speed control and NIC issues all
pointing to failing motherboards.
Does anyone know of a cheap(ish) reliable source for replacements,

I can't get the PCIe video card (BFG Tech GeForce 8400 GS) to be recognized.  
I've updated the mobo to the latest BIOS, disabled the onboard video chip in
the device manager, and toggled PCIe in the BIOS.  Nothing but a blank screen
and no recognition of card in device manager or ...

I'm new here and I'm looking for help :-)
I have upgraded my graphic card(sapphire radeon hd4670 512) and psu (generic
550w)
5 weeks ago.

My Gateway XP desktop got hit by lighting and fried the motherboard and
power supply. Tech wanted $500 to fix, so I just had them copy the hard
drive to a portable so I would have the data available on my laptop.  I
found a new motherboard and ps for $200. Debating if it's worth ...

When I start XP, I get the blue screen and it scans.
It gets to 90% then says there is an error, but it then goes into
Windows and it is okay.
I tried to defrag and get much the same error.

I'm trying to install the drivers for my LG phone but Windows XP won't
let me.  Following a suggestion in an earlier post I looked for
C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log & opened it in notepad.  It shows the
installation attempt but says "Error 0xe000022f: The third-party INF

Windows Updates said there was a problem with a driver, so I checked the
item to install the new driver.
The update failed, as shown here:
Failed Updates

Please help folks,
I remember a while back there was a way to modify the registry to make
windows recognize your CD-RW as a CD-RW and not a plain CD drive. I cant
remember how, does anyone know how to do this? (Or can they suggest another

I have an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with NVIDIA nForce 430 Chipset SATA RAID
controller on.
I am using the controller to connect to 4 disks:
2x160GB in mirror configuration and

I replaced my Asus motherboard with a faster Asus setup. I did an in place reinstall of XP Professional and did the Asus drivers from the CD and then an SP3 reinstall.
I can't get rid of a system driver ATK0110 ACPI that comes up each time it reboots....after I delete it from ...

Hi, I hope someone can help with this confusing problem.
I have a Dell Pentium 4 machine running Windows XP Media Centre Edition.  I
run McAfee AV/firewall etc. with online update and I think my machine is
clean.  I have a hardware problem that started after I got into the IE8 ...

I have been experiencing an issue with both optical drives on the PC as
described below. The drives are a Sony DVD-ROM DDU1615 and an HL-DT-ST DVD+ -
RW GWA4164B. The driver for both optical drives is
C:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys(5.12600.5512).

winxp home sp3 vs winxp pro sp3 -Which is more stable and uses less
resources?
Greg
sp=service pack

My Hardware configuration is:
Gigabyte X38-DS5 Mainboard
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 Ghz 6 MB L2 Cache
Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT

My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?