David Peters wrote: Sometimes I see a message when XP boots up which says: "Windows has finished installing new hardware". How...

Hi to all. I have just purchased a 40 GB External hard drive, it has been formatted in NTSF I want to format it in Fat32, I have instructions from the...

My problem has been solved. I unplug the AGP and PCI cards one by one to check the problem. I find the problem is in the sound card - sound blaster vibra 128....

My problem has been solved. I unplug the AGP and PCI cards one by one to check the problem. I find the problem is in the sound card - sound blaster vibra 128....

My computer has suddenly refused to boot up. (Athlon 1.2Gh, XP Pro) The power lights and fans go on but thats it. No beeps or anything. Nothing on the monitor...

Anyone know where I can download a good free DVD decoder that will play all popular formats?

im not sure what i did, maybe when i was scheduling updats for xp, but now when i turn on my computer and it does a drive clean, and takes like 40 mins untill...

Case Scenario: System upgrade - fresh clean install, from Win 98 to Win XP Pro. Installed Win XP sp2. XP automatically detects all system hardware and applies...

Win XP Home on a Compaq Persario setup with 2 partions as it came from the Factory C: Drive & D: Drive Windows XP Home Edition, Tried to install SP2, Did...

My computer has suddenly refused to boot up. (Athlon 1.2Gh, XP Pro) The power lights and fans go on but thats it. No beeps or anything. Nothing on the monitor...

Hi to all. I have just purchased a 40 GB External hard drive, it has been formatted in NTSF I want to format it in Fat32, I have instructions from the...

I recently had trouble with my broadband connection and had to reformat my harddrive and re install Windows XP Pro Sp2 and all my hardware and software, all...

Hello All, My friend gave me his old Windows 95 computer and there wasn't anything I thought I could use (or even looked salvageable) except for this Nex...

I just put together a brand new computer, it's a 3.2GHz P4 with Socket 775 Prescott. The motherboard is an intel D915GAVL which I was told my microsoft is...

I cannot access my Yamaha CDRW Drive in Windows XP with a normal start-up. When I enter Safe Mode - I can read CDs with the drive with no problems. I updated...

I installed a new sound card. Used the CD-Rom to install. after installation the sound card worked but the CD_ROM stoped reading any cd's. I put my old...

I got a virus/malware on my Dell D600 laptop running XP SP1 so I decided to recover from an Acronis True Image 8 backup from 2 weeks ago. The drive only has 1...

am having issues where the machine suddenly switchs off (not shut down... really switch off) Thought it could be something related to the cooling...

Hi All, I've been using PCs back since the days when they had dual floppies, A and B. 20 mb HDs.and 8MB of RAM were BIG! Anyway, I built my new PC without a...

I have been in the business for 16 years, and have not seen anything like this. It appears I have fried two power supplies on two computers. What is strange is...