I have had bad luck with power supplies, the
first a 350W unit must have been undersized
and it failed taking the HDD control board
with it.

My Wife formatted her C drive bymistake and inturn lost all our
movies.pic.music and who knows what else. I now have a C drive with part of
windows she loaded. Thankfully she stopped at product key (She was confused)
No I need to now how to get all or most of the data back. ...

Yesterday, my wife's 5 year-old HP desktop began to re-boot at random
intervals. Sometimes the re-boot occurred after loading the desktop,
other times when attempting to run an application from the desktop,
other times while acquiring the desktop, etc. Sometimes it even re-

My pc does not boot from a CD even though I have gone into the BIOS setup and
made the appropriate changes (CD #1, HD #2) and saved them.
I start the pc with the cd in the drive, the drive then makes a whirring
sound, but then the Windows XP screen appears.

management hardware appears a device unknown:
PCI Bus 2, device 6, function 2.
PCI\VEN_1217&DEV_7110&SUBSYS_0890103C&REV_00\4&16793A72&0&32F0
You know if it is possible to find what kind of device is.

My cd drive doesn't work. I tried right clicking on D: drive and clicking
open. Deleting hardware from device manager. Nothing works. Does this mean I
have a bad cd drive? .
gizmo

Hello.  Im hoping that someone can help me.  I was given a computer that has
a copy of XP on it that will not register so I have a legiminate copy of 98SE
to put on it.  How do I go about this?  When inserting the disk it doesnt ask
me to boot from the disc drive! Im not sure how ...

Hello. This may be a bit of an urban legend, but lately i've heard/read from
an increasing number of seminars and hardware vendors about hard drives
losing their magnetic signal over time. The fix that they suggested was to
conduct a 'hard drive scan', where in doing so, any ...

Hi.
My pc has a Asus K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard with an AGP slot. I currently
have a Nvidia Geforce FX5200 graphics card. I recently upgraded ram to 2Gb
but it's not made much didfference to graphics running smoothly so was

When a pcmcia device is inserted into the slot it is recognized as a mtd-0002
device. The new device found launches but is un able to load drivers. SP2 was
just loaded from a disk I just got from microsoft. Laptop is a Gateway
400sd4. I reloaded the mother board drivers from ...

I have an XP SP2 box with 3 HD trays and and I was wondering what is the
accepted way to use them
Can I turn them off and take them out whilst everything is going or do I
have to turn everything off first.

I recently had an old Compaq that the motherboard was rebuilt so many times
that it just wasn't worth paying another 150 euros to be done again.  I got a
refurbished unit from a friend and am unable to hear any sound.  Originally
had a RealtecAC'97, thought it might be defective ...

On a new dual Opteron system Windows 2003 starts giving this message every
few minutes. The first few times were during the setup already.
System: Tyan S2895, 2x AMD Opteron 246, 4x 512MB RAM (2 per CPU).
Main question is how does the information in the Data map to the MCE/MCA

Hi i hav been here all day in front of this computer tryin to get this sorted
for the sound on this computer pretty much now got it......
But i need a little help i cant find my multimedia audio controller driver
and i hav no idea where the original disks are for this computer as ...

I  recently switched from a Lite-On PATA DVD Burner to a Lite-On SATA DVD
Burner and now the HDD LED is quickly flashing every second or so. Disable
the drive in Device Manager and the LED stops flashing, Enable it and it
flashes once a second again. Is there a setting on the ...