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Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 XP 64bit drivers won't install
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Trying to install Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Trying to install with downloaded drivers from Microsoft via Intellitype 6.1 for XP 64bit (ITP64ENG.exe). Installed, then tried to update...

Mouse not responding
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I have a new MS wireless USB optical laptop mouse. I have two desktop computers, both running Windows XP Pro. On one computer, the new mouse works just fine; no problems at all. On the other...

external Drive
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

Kidsy wrote: It definitely sounds as though you broke the hard drive. The "whining sound" indicates a physical problem. You can bring it to a competent local computer shop (not a...

USB hard drive does not show full size????
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

flyboysmb wrote: You put the jumper on the wrong pins. You put the jumper in the "clip" position. That limits the size of the disk, as declared to the BIOS. Recheck your jumpers. That is where a...

dvd drive won't read any dvd
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 1 Comments

If you just installed this & another cdrom is running,or another hd was installed,chk in my computer to see what letter it has,by default it should be D:.If its other,& its installed properly (jumper...

pc will not shut down
Posted on December 29th, 2007 | 3 Comments

the card works fine. its a xp machine and i used the cd that came with the card and i have used the same card on different laptops and it worked fine useing the same drivers from the cd. "Paul"...

pc will not shut down
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments

My laitiude d600 laptop will just sit at the screen that says windows is shutting down if i have my pcmcia card in there. If i take it out before shutting down it shuts down fine. None of the other...

USB Device Drivers for removable drives
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments

wk2292@hotmail.com wrote: The BIOS influences the lowest layers of operation. But other parts are covered by the OS. The following is not intended to cure your problem (as there aren't a lot of...

Bizarre sound failure after installing .net framework 2.0
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I needed to update Radeon X850 video drivers for a game. This installed ATI CCC and gave me a mom.exe error. So I installed Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package. Then...

RE: hard drive not showing full size
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I Dont know if someone has already explained this, but the companys that make HDs, DIMMs, and Flash Media think of 1KB=1000Bytes, 1MB=1000KB... so on. In reality, 1024KB=1MB, 1024MB=GB, so on. It...

memory upgraded or not
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 3 Comments

thanks everyone for the helpful insight. rod. "rodchar" wrote:

XP not compatible with Cable & Wireless Notebook Card
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 1 Comments

"AOSD24" <AOSD24@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A1EF0D75-E36E-485B-AECB-A799F9635B37@microsoft.com... If the drivers were written for XP but provided by the manufacturer of...

iPod shuffle XP explorer trouble
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 1 Comments

Rock wrote: In terms of electrical properties, the USB ports on the back of the computer are the best ones. Some devices have the odd issue with hubs. And some front USB ports have poor signal...

Re: XP won't recognise Canon PowerShot A570 IS digital camera
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Phillip: Thanks for the advice. I used DM and saw nothing listed as a warning. Evething was "working". This led me to consider the time honored solution to MS overload: "Re-install the OS". I have a...

Why do I need 25 minutes to read content of a 4.5 GB DVD+RW ?
Posted on December 28th, 2007 | 1 Comments

enable disk caching as per http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324805 You will need to configure the system for a perfmon log to verify if the actual disk subsystem is slow or where the bottlenecks...

Blue Screens & ACPI.sys
Posted on December 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Most BSODs are caused by driver issues - I assume you allready tried starting safe mode? "Gerry" wrote:

Mouse movement causes reboot
Posted on December 27th, 2007 | 6 Comments

Thank you, I'll try that! For now, I could finally boot with the mouse working. So the experiments are postponed for a couple of weeks. "Gerry" wrote:

sata hard drive 3Gbit/s or 1.5
Posted on December 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments

I ran in to that very problem with a customers machine, finally tracked to that, moved the jumper to 1.5, problems solved. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost...

Problem with zip files and new flash drive
Posted on December 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments

thx1138xxix@yahoo.com wrote: you following the "safe to remove hardware" instructions provided by Paul before you unplug the flash drive? I have an mp3 player and two flash drives and have not had...

New Wireless Mouse NOT SCROLLING! Help!
Posted on December 27th, 2007 | 3 Comments

On Dec 26, 2:05*pm, Jay <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: What are "they" going to do? They should replace your kit.