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How to diagnose a STOP: 0x0000008E?
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 8 Comments

How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263 -- Rey "Bruce." wrote:

Overwhelming noise when using microphone
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hi I am running XP and Office 2000 Professional and after considerable effort have just got my microphone to work. However, when my son uses it on his gaming site their is a lot of loud disturbance...

Hard disk / page file
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments

I bought a new 500 gig Seagate SATA drive to replace my aging 200 gig drive. I used the DiscWizard to clone the drive (I thought). The original drive had two partitions, one containing the HP...

dynamic disk is not accessible after replacing a motherboard
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 11 Comments

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More USB ports required.
Posted on July 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments

I have WinXP pro. I have used up all the USB sockets on my computer, and all the motherboard slots as well. I have tried a USB extension plugins but these don't seem as powerful as the native ones,...

IRQ less Than or equal to Error
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Background information on Stop Error message http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms793589.aspx 0x0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Typically due to a bad driver, or faulty or incompatible...

chkdsk log
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 9 Comments

Laurie My earlier post was not correct. Try what follows. Select Start, All Programmes, Accessories, Command Prompt. Type chkdsk and hit ENTER. That will give you the report I was suggesting. It...

PC Sounds
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments

I have an application that may generate sound alarms and I can turn the external speaker sound to nothing for sleeping, but there seems to be another speaker inside the PC. How do I shut this...

USB 1.0 or 2.0?
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Use 'Device Manager' to check your USB devices, if the word 'Enhanced' is present then you have USB 2.0 JS "John" <jREMOVEcmcf@rocketmail.com> wrote in...

About XP Software
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 20 Comments

On 2008-07-07, Bob I hit the keyboard and wrote: The last reason for me to use a MS-OS went out the window was when my old flat-bed scanner died on me, it's replacement works fine...

What has happened to Gurney?
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 23 Comments

Bill Sharpe wrote: The "time has come", he is posting as "Edric" now. ;-)

hard drive issues
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 6 Comments

You can use the tool usually freely available on the hd manufacturers site to clone the old drive to the new drive. Or you can use a third party tool such as Acronis. Whether the installation taken...

Why does my USB 2.0 ports not perform at 2.0 speeds?
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 6 Comments

On 2008-07-07, Stephan hit the keyboard and wrote: Maybe you need to jumper the USB ports correctly. I've got a situation that when I want to use all 4 ports, I need to set a jumper. Didn't do as...

CD/DVD Drive not responding
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 1 Comments

When you open MyComputer do you see the cd drive icon? If not, try Doug Knox's fix. http://www.dougknox.com/xp/xp_fixes.html Right Column 10 down. Restore Dvd/Cd drives to Explorer. "Mrs C"...

xp won't recognise third SATA drive
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 4 Comments

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:38:07 -0400, Paul wrote: Paul, Just to let you know I eventually fixed this by simply uninstalling the 2 controllers and then rebooting XP. Worked a treat. Thanks for your...

video card
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Either defective card, or insufficient power supply. Contact the manufacturer tech support for problem resolution. bhangra wrote:

CD or DVD for Backing up and Copying data, pictures, etc...
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 4 Comments

"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:72ABFF42-4A87-45E0-BD44-908FD1C824DD@microsoft.com... Hi Dan, The other guys have given some nicely detailed and technical replies. ...

SATA host adapter or PATA-to-SATA converter?
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 8 Comments

I am taking for granted that you purchased the SATA DVD drive for a reason, and not a mistake. In that case you should purchase a SATA PCI card. And yes, SATA and PATA get along fine. Many...

DVD / DVD+R /DVD-R / DVDRW. Are they all really distinct media formats?
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 6 Comments

Rahul wrote: That may depend on the particular drive you have. DVD-R's tend to be more compatible (esp. with older models), since it's been around a lot longer. I've had some problems with DVD+Rs...

BIOS Setup
Posted on July 7th, 2008 | 9 Comments

"Dragomir Kollaric" <Dragomir@DK.org.invalid> wrote in message news:20080706200319.237@DK-Slivowitz.org.invalid... Betting he has a PC with a dual bios chips. If so, he can always recover from the...