I'm trying to diagnose a friends computer. His machine has been behaving erratic and now no longer boots. It started a few days ago when his computer would not boot up. When I went to investigate it...

When opening a folder in Documents, and want to copy it to floppy, I scroll down to "send to". It won't open the choices, including floppy. I get an hourglass, and have to close the window. The...

I have a user that has *intermittent* problems printing to a Brother HL-1440 which is connected via LPT1...I`m starting to think that maybe she has too many printers installed...which she wants...

i have xp home in dell insp 1300, can i installl media center in it ?

Well I tried my home work and have the lions share of post read however I didn't find an answer to my problem. I have a collection of floppies with a varity of files on them. When I try to read them...

I have had ulead photo impact on mt computer before.I had to do a system recovery.Now my computer will not read the disc.It just sits in there,then my computer freezes up.My computer will read all...

Acrobat 7.0.5 and 7.0.7 won't print giving error message "...first install a printer..". Word and other apps print OK, but Main window of Outlook also gives message ".. install default printer.." ...

My p.c no longer recognises my Canon IXUS 50 camera, before i could just plug and play. It's not the camera, usb port or usb cable as i've tried these with different devices, or on a friends...

Hi All, I just bought 2 Vantec NST-360SU-BK esata hd enclosures. The enclosure comes with a header bracket that adds an esata port to the back of your computer. Internally it just plugs directly...

We have 3 JNC 20gb MP3 players. They have a Toshiba 20GB harddisk. One player has developed a fault where Windows XP does not allocate it a volume. The player is detected by Windows XP, shown in...

I formatted my HD and when it reloaded it could not find my D:/ drive. Not the driver, it sais it cannot detect hardware (CD-DVD ROM). I opened up the PC and every thing seems to be connected. Is...

Updated circa year 2000 board with a more current 2005 board and cpu/RAM, replaced hard drive. Installed XP SP2 on one partition. Copied 98SE from original hard drive to new one. Installed system...

Get lost. We don't need any hate groups in this forum. So unless you have a contribution regarding computer hardware, you are not wanted.

I cannot get a program cd to read in my cdrom.It works in my sisters just fine.All others cds work fine in mine.I go into cd-rw drive properties and it says: File system unknown (no name) i do not...

Check exactly which RAM you need at one of the good online sites like www.kingston.com www.crucial.com They will tell you what you can have and what is compatible. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing &...

Hi all - I've got a question. I have a couple of external IDE drive enclosures I use for backups. One is USB and then other has USB and Firewire. I noticed that when I attach to computers running...

Hi I heve IRDA mounted to motherboard port, i use Windows XP Pro SP2. And i have problem with actiwation/instalation this device on this system, on Windows with SP! or older it works fine. I heve ...

I have a 120 Gigabyte Hard Drive and Windows XP Home is reporting it as about 96% full, 106 Gb used and 7.5 Gb free. The pie chart shows almost no free space. I know there is nowhere near this much...

Hi can anyone shed any light? My brother has windows XP pro, and recently after a period of use, when you go to switch off, click the "start" button the egg timer comes up (can move around) but the...

i'm having problem with my Creative Audigy sound card everytime i go to the internet this blue screen always apear it is a serious error.My sound card is the last hardware i installed on my...