Are there any tweaks that can be made to either Windows XP or router configuration to improve the performance of a broadband connection? There are plenty of utils that change things like MTU and TTL...

I have a Sony Vaio PCG-V505 laptop.(Celeron 1.8 *NOT* M, so small cache) It has a 40gb internal harddrive with a dirty windowsxp (school projects). I bought a external usb2.0 & firewire enclosure and...

hi im in serious truble my pc cannot find the hardware device and i cant rolled back because i got password in admin account. actually im using on screen board ;[ i tried with another keyboard and...

I just purchased one of the sony slim line dvd/cdr(w) drives. Unfortunately, though, it was too slim. are there any adapters/enclusures that can convert a slim line drive to one of the bigger...

After start up the audio device is on but then at some point it shuts down. I get no sound. The device manager says the device is "working properly" and won't let me start it up per se. Any advice?...

Hi All, Where is the setting to manually tell XP that a drive is removable? Many thanks, --Todd

I just bought a Dell which came with a SATA hard-drive. I want to put my old IDE hard drive into it as a secondary drive, but the connections don't match. Do I need to get a simple IDE-SATA converter...

I have an HP Pavilion, AMD 2600 with a 120 gig drive. I have another 80 gig I would like to install just for our art stuff which has filled the main drive. The tower has the ribbon and space for a...

This seems to be the only group to ask this question in. Do laptops and desktops use the same, physical size, RAM? If a desktop and laptop both require SDRAM, PC-133, non-parity, 133 mHz, 3.3v,...

This question pops up time and again. The KB shows that original versions of XP didn't have LBA enabled and once you enable LBA all is well. However, I'm using a XP-SP1 install CD and I'm only...

i am trying to install winxp home edition OEM onto an asus p2-ae2 pundit machine sing a maxtor diamondmax 10 sata drive. the cd is a sp2 slipstream from my original home edition cd. windows (and the...

My old 40 GB IEEE hard drive is failing. I installed a new 200 GB SATA drive into my computer and labeled it D:\ and used quick format to set the drive up as NTFS. I’m using a ASUS P4P-800E mother...

I have a Zoom bluetooth PCMIA Card. When I install it, I get an error in the hardware profile. The error is: This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12) If you want to...

Hi, I just mounted a spared HDD and found it's under "GPT partition" for unknown reasons. Is there a way that I can repartition and/or format the drive because all options for doing so from within...

I got a new Audigy 2 from Creative, I tried the original driver from the disc first and it worked fine. Then I messed with all the settings and I REALLY feel they need to do a redux so it functions...

I had no sound coming from speakers a few days back (just all the sudden stopped working) so checked in Device Manager and it showed my SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 as working correctly at that time, no...

I'm using a Gateway desktop, 1 gig AMD processor, 512 ram, Geforce2 GTS Pro video. This error will not let me run the software (QuickCam 9.5). It wants to send error (HVideoS Com Server error) to...

i really need help.. i go in to my mulitmedia propreties and i click on my audio tab and i try to get my play back to what im using for a sound card i cant do it its like its blocked or something...

I have overclocked my Mobile AMD Sempron form 1.8 to 2.0 GHz using ClockGen because there was no option in the BIOS, however, whenever I reboot or the computer goes on stand by, the clock is reset...

I installed a Zebra TLP2844 printer using a USB connection. When I connected the printer, I cancelled the Hardward Installation Wizard and added the printer with the Add Printer wizard. After...