I have recently upgraded to XP from ME. Worked fine prior to installing all Windows Updates outstanding. Now, both optical drives no longer work. When I insert ANY CD (programs, data or music), same...

Hi, I need to update my bios to fix an annoying fan problem on my computer. I dont understand what I should do once I have downloaded the Winflash file. here is the problem I...

This thing is making me go crazy... I have a DVD (data disk) that I wrote about 9 months ago and I verified the recording... the DVD had original books and stories that we wrote. Now when we place...

External Hard drive I had a 200 gig external hard drive and used it as a backup for both of my systems (Xp home W/sp2 and XP pro W/sp2) for about one year. Just recently the hard drive does not show...

http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=319299 This is the one I want but I am a little confused. I have the HP 895cxi printer (an old one!). It has a parallel cable running from the back of...

I just bougth Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for bluetooth and it works great with bluetooth stack of my laptop (HP compaq NC6000) without the provided USB microsoft bluetooth key. My problem is...

Hola. Estoy tratando de conectarme a una red, cuento con tres numeros de telefono para dicha conexion, pero en los tres me da el mismo error: Suena el modem como si estuviera conectandose y al...

My presario refuses to fully boot. Just hangs midway. Invariably I reload XP Home and everything is ok for at least a month,then the problem reoccurs. Any ideas if its likely to be ram related or a...

I've been trying to install my webcam for sometime now. It is a Crayton Electronics QCam 350ml. I have installed the drivers, when I plug in the device windows cannot recognise it or install it - it...

Hi. Sorry if this is a silly question. But here goes. Can anyone tell me if it will be possible to bring a computer from United States to UK, and hook up a standard (bought in the UK) CRT or TFT...

I have two computers. One has Xp Home and the other has XP Pro OS. I would like to share my printer (Lexmark 6170) with my XP Home and XP Pro computers. My printer is connected to my xp home...

All of a suddent my CD and DVD drives stopped showing. When I boot, the lightsd on both drives blink so there is powere. It, of course. will not read any CDs. I replaced the ribbon cable and...

I have the problem of not being able to use the modem. when i check the device manger, there is nothing listed. I have made sure that the plug and play service is running. This started on three of...

I've been having driver problems with my matshita dvd-rom and benq cd-rw drives. The Found new hardware wiz always detects them at startup but can't find any drivers for them. They don't need any...

Have a front panel USB, 2 ports. Changed motherboard and switched to a taller/bigger full tower case. The USB cable is not the typical external type, rather a ribbon type cable. Its too short now...

We have a somewhat older computer - it's not archaic but it's not "new". We currently have a - newer than other bits - AOpen Ax34 Pentium III FCPGA 133MHz 4xAGP ATX *stops to take a breath*...

Hello, I am attempting to update my iPod via iTunes on my IBM T41 running Windows XP. The icon box flashes red for one second but does not update any of the songs in the iTunes library. Any...

with a bluetooth dongle and a bluetooth ear set, is it possible to connect via my laptop?

I have just installed a new HDD on my XP desktop. I have it set to primary slave in bios, with XP booting from my old HDD. The problem is, although its detected in Bios and visible in device manager,...

Anyone know what could cause my wireless connection on my laptop to drop from 100mbps to 54mbps? I reformatted the main drive on my other computer, which was a desktop, but I never unplugged the dsl...