I was playing songs with windows media player when all of a sudden the computer froze and i heard a strange repeating sound from the speakers. I already have tried system restore and last good...

I am having problems with my cd drive - Everytime I put a disk in, my whole computer freezes, and I can't eject the disk unless i turn the computer off and back on. I have checked in properties, and...

Is there an utility to check and re-enable DMA mode on my dvd drive? Is there a way to tell windowsxp not to switch to PIO mode?

Hi I have a Dual Core 3.0Ghz LGA775 CPU with a stock heatsink and fan. What is the "accepted" operating temperature ? Mine fluctuates from the mid 40degrees celsius to 60degrees celsius when...

I have XP sp1 and an integrated sound system(Realtek AC97 Audio) in the mother board (msi) . From time to time there is a high noise from my speakers. the noise is not unified and If I reboot, it is...

lite-on shw16h5s,fitted new,device manager says it is working properly,will not load powerdvd5,spins a bit then stops,noticedthis in regions,current region not selected,if i try to select it will not...

I just built a new computer with xpsp2. One of my drives is marked as a DVD drive. I am not interested in DVD movies or movie making or music ripping. All I want to do ir to install games that came...

Hi there, I followed the Microsoft support article that tells you how to upgrade your motherboard on a XP system. I now have major problems with my PC. All of my internet connections have...

Grateful for any help you experts can offer. I've searched this and other groups for a previous thread but couldn't find one (probably cos I used the wrong terminology in my search). Anyway, I needed...

I recently bought a newer version of Nero "Nero 7 Ultra Edition" since then I keep getting an error message saying the process failed. I also get a pop up message saying NMIndexStore Svr.exe has...

I have a perfectly good SATA drive, and want to use it as an external drive with USB 2.0 and/or FireWire. But I can't find an enclosure that accepts SATA drives. They all want IDE/PATA drives. ...

Hi Guys I just got my DSL hooked up and the modem only has one network port and my PC only has one. I want to hook up another PC in a different room in my house to the internet to. If i did a...

I am building a new 930 Presler using Arctic Silver 5. Anyone know of any good links where I can see a video on how to apply this stuff? Thanks.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3182262#Item+Description This dvd recorder has a 194 connection, which I assume is an In for some video camera. Is there anyway to use this...

Hi, I hope you know cause if you don't you're the only ones. The newest ATI WDM drivers keep dropping from WindowsXP Pro SP2. this is not an isolated case, we are reseller and are having between 10...

i have a problem searching for my sound driver. i formatted my disk and installed a new windows into my system. but i could not get my sound driver. i dont have a motherboard cd neither do i know the...

Hello. Ok. I have the job of fixing an ibm thinkpad 600e model 5A0 and have a weird problem. I was running xp quite successfully albeit slowly without any issues until I turned it on and now I am...

All, I am going to set up my PC with two 80GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drives in RAID 0 configuration. I should get some good speed with this setup. My question concerns the size of the backup. I will...

not sure what or how 2 do it. i think i need 2 change my settings but dont no how. plz plz help or is there somewhere else that can help.

XP Pro sp2 with an external LG Super Multi DVD/CD burner. Is the Microsoft CD burning procedure supposed to recognize external (in this case Firewire) drives? When I try to move files or folders to...