Good luck with this laptop. I have had to have the dvdrw drive replaced 3 times! I am waiting for spare time to go in for the 3rd time and get a 3rd drive! These drives from my experience are pure...

Recently build ASUS system using AMD Dual Core Processor. System has been working fine for a month. I weekly exchange an IDE drive with another for backup purposes (this is a cage IDE drive in a...

Had a MB crash and put in one. The chipset was the same so XP Pro SP2 booted okay But I should reinstall XP. I was wondering what settings can I save. Documents and Settings,? etc.

i want to upgrade my memory. i have two slots, one with 256 Mb DDR at 333 Mhz and the other is vacant. i searched the internet for prices of new memory sticks and found out there is another component...

Hi. My D drive has disappeared. I have had problems with hackers. Don't know if this is the root of the problem, but any help in how to get the D drive back is much appreiciated. Thank you.

Hi, I've seen alot of articles in this newsgroup that were similar but none seem to address my exact problem. I've applied the info I've garnered but to no avail... I'm working w/ a Toshiba...

I got a Geforce 4 mx 440 video card with 64mb ddr. Nevertheless, when I look at the properties of the system it says it has only 32mb and games that require 64mb would not run. I belive this is a...

Hi, My machine ran with 2000 previously and I installed XP SP2 yesterday. After that, the hard disk starts to noise loudly and frequently. My Win2000 was on G: and I formated C: from FAT32 to NTFS to...

Does anyone know if any games on the PC support two force feedback wheels. I have someone that asked me the question, and I did not have an answer, because I had never really thought about...

hello, i am done w/ trying to figure this out. i have an asus p5nd2 motherboard w/ PD 830 processor. other components include: xfx geforce 7800 GTX video card, 2 g OCZ RAM, 2x 100gig Maxtor SATA...

I'm at the end of my rope here. I've been building systems and working on computers as a hobby for many years but I cannot figure out this problem. Please excuse me if I'm not clear. I am self taught...

hi guys Since I reformatted my hard drive the other day, I have been unable to reinstall windows on it. The drive is showing up in the BIOS and in the windows installer, however it can not be...

Please help I am pulling my hair out. I have Gigabyte 7L400 MB 1024mb RAM Windows XP Home SP2. A few months ago I noticed that on occasion if I unplugged a USB cable (printer, scanner etc) and then...

I am going to buy a Media Centre PC and build it myself. I know what to get TV tuners wise, but I was wondering if It was possible to use my NTL CABLE via the PC. I am basically using MCE to get rid...

OS Windows XP home edition. DVD drive (drive D) is registering as a CD drive in "My computer" window. When I place DVD disc in the drive it wont work. In Device Manager it is recogonised as DVD drive...

Hi, I have a 128Mb mp3 which I use. Whenever I connect it to the computer it makes a sound but nothing shows up in My computer. I have tried going to device manager and when I look there is has a...

I have a 4 slot type card reader reads SD MS CF & SM cards when i acceses my computor these normally show as drives they have gone? power light on front of device is showing green Any ideas how to...

I have a Dell Dim 4400 W/Pentium 1.8 GH processor and Win XP SP2. I have been using a flash drive with no problems, drive G. I purchased a 2nd flash drive and installed both. The new one was...

Hi, Just a month every thing work on my computer for the past 1 year. But for some time I noticed that my CD is not reading the the CDs. I run the windows updates but I don't konw exactly when...

sons computer running xp home .does not show cd drive if you go to my computer it does not show cd rom. It plays music disk Okay.Help