Threads Replies Last Post 47 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>   USB Ports Can a USB port be updated to USB 2.0 by simply downloading and installing some kind of drivers to make that happen? I just bought a wireless networking adapter, and it seems like it is not working on my laptops because they are older and don't have the newer USB ports. It worked fine on our newer desktop. When I contacted the maker, they said it worked on the desktop because it has US... 3 12/28/2008 10:12:30 AM 1 Core vs. Duel Core Probably an off-topic question so please be free to opt out on any answer if you rather. I've been window shopping for a new CPU and have a basic (I hope) question to ask. Which would be better... a single core Pentium 4 HT CPU @ 4.0GHz or a duel core Pentium CPU @ 2.0GHz Both would serve to run the OS + 1 user application with same memory/chipset configuration. I understand th... 22 12/28/2008 8:17:03 AM power control Our comany designing UMPC, for some reseans, our hardware platform does not support the power control interface, so, when we power off the XP("start"->"turn off computer"->"turn off"), there will be a final screen indicating the power can be cut off now, but we want the UMPC cut off itself automatically, so, I want to ask some questions: 1) If we add an MCU(e.g. 8051) to cut off the... 8 12/28/2008 12:13:01 AM DVD drive not recognized outside of Safe Mode Admin Hi y'all. I've just installed a new motherboard, graphics card and hard drive, keeping my old DVD RW drive. I installed XP on the new drive, also installing the Chipset and graphic card drivers as well as all other XP drivers that came with the mobo and graphics card installation CDs. Everything seems to be working to spec; I also upgraded to SP3. Unfortunately, the DVD drive doesn... 1 12/27/2008 9:58:01 PM :: USB hubs busted I've got two different USB hub devices -- the kind that you plug into the computer, and with a cord that plugs into the electricity, and then you plug the various usb peripherals into the hub, which sits on the top of the desk. Neither hub will work on my desktop computer. The lights come on, then the lights go on and off and on and off and the USB-default sound from Windows XP go clung c... 2 12/27/2008 2:24:18 AM PC no longer recognizing CD burner, DVD burner and floppy drive My internal CD burner and floppy drive as well as an after market external CD/DVD burner have all stopped functioning at the same time. The floppy still shows up under my computer but the CD and DVD drives don't even show. Since they have all stopped at the same time, I was assuming this was more than just a worn out burner or drive that needed to be replaced. Im wondering if I have lost a p... 7 12/26/2008 11:43:05 PM Complete uninstall hardware driver from XP and driver cache I want to do a video tutorial on how to install and configure a program that uses a hardware USB lock for licensing. I want the video to process as if the computer never had the USB key or program installed. All the machines that I have the video program on already have this application and hardware key installed. I have uninstalled the program and usb key driver but it maintains ... 5 12/26/2008 9:06:03 PM Unable to Access files on Ext. HD - PLS HELP!! All of a sudden and without warning, my PC does not "see" an External HD that I was using to back up important files. The hardware case (USB interface) works fine with any other drive that gets plugged in. When I try to boot up with the original drive connected, the PC will not boot. When I try to connect the drive after boot up, the PC hangs until it is disconnected. Other drives were t... 3 12/26/2008 5:59:54 PM External HDD not seen by Windows Greetings. I am using WinXP Pro and connected is a USB2.0 Maxtor 750GB One Touch drive. I wish to securely delete all information on the ext. drive so I used Acronis True Image Home 11 disk tools to wipe using US algorythm 4 pass and format. After running it for about 4 mins, it showed that it will take 2 days to process. Thinking I can use a shredder program instead, I cancelled th... 8 12/26/2008 4:30:05 PM mobo bios ROM PCI/ISA (2A6LGSNJ) In this XP machine,I have been using cdrw but when I change to dvdrw, it would not detect eith in "my computer" or in the bios/POST. In the bios boot sequence, it only have the cdrom/c/floppy or other sequence.. There it does not have dvd/dvdrw option. Does that means for this pc I cannot install the dvdrw? Is there any other way out to use dvdrw other than to throw the pc out the windo... 3 12/26/2008 3:47:38 PM why post taken down? Hella Santa, earlier I posted a problem titled "mobo rom pci/isa..." may I know what is/are the reason(s) for it to be taken off. This is my first posting here and I dont know if what I have written offended anyone or this is the wrong forum for me to seek the answer/opinion here to my problem. Would appreciate if you can please let me know, thanks a lot Santa. ... 4 12/26/2008 3:36:02 PM OT: motherboard expert please :-) I've been trawling through boards with an e-SATA port on the back panel, rather than a e-SATA pin header that goes to a 'blank' backplate - if you see what I mean, and I've been ogling :- http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=2268&l1=3&l2=149&l3=643&l4=0 ....which specifies :- Chipset 1 xUltraDMA 133/100 5 x SATA 3Gb/s ports (Use SATA1-3 for IDE mode.) NVIDIA® MediaShie... 3 12/25/2008 6:47:49 PM Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Alpha ------- ... 1 12/25/2008 5:23:42 PM Acer Aspire 3000 in windows xp keyboard and touchpad problems Problem with Aspire 3000 using Windows XP before and after recovery from previously valid Ghost image AND also after use of recovery disks originally supplied by Acer: At welcome screen and thereafter, keystrokes processed very slowly (<1 per second) only if staying on key until recognition (leaning on key does not eventually produce multis), touchpad motion is reflected well behind ... 1 12/25/2008 3:25:40 PM Blu-Ray burners and disk capacity I have been reading a little bit about Blu-Ray disks. Are there any Blu-Ray disk burners available now on the market? What is the maximum capacity that a Blu-Ray disk currently on the market can store? I am taking a lot of pictures (and hopefully soon some Video content as well). I would like to burn them to disk, so I am exploring the Blu-Ray disk options. Thank you in advance for... 2 12/25/2008 1:28:04 PM Disabling Keyboard Keys I recently purchased a special children's keyboard that does not have many of the special keys such as the function keys, Windows key, Context Menu key, etc. However, it does still have the Ctrl and Alt keys. I would like to disable the Alt key to avoid accidental use of the MenuBar. Is there any way to do this in Windows XP Professional without purchasing any extra security or child pro... 7 12/24/2008 8:26:11 PM LifeCam VX-6000 Startup Screens--How do I make them go away? I am running LifeCam VX-6000 on Windows XP Professional. I have two accounts set up on the computer. I have no problems with the LifeCam program on one account. Whenever logging into/signing on/opening up the other account, however, two screens come up in succession. The first screen is the Microsoft LifeCam "Adjusting audio and video settings" reminder with the diagrams of the camera an... 2 12/24/2008 7:35:00 PM How to copy XP from 1 hd to another and to secure it booting there? Hello, The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied. There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a delicate operation... Could smb to detail the matter? Thank you ... 7 12/24/2008 3:27:23 PM How to Deleted Zpharaoh.exe Hello to everyone, This is my first query hope any one will solve it & I sincerely Thanks you guys in advance Problem is that I am unable to open my D,E,F Drives when i am double clicking on it, It gives an error message stating that Zpharaoh.exe file is missing. When I searched on the Google for this i got the information as this is one kind of Virus. So please help me out in this... 2 12/24/2008 10:06:12 AM How Do I Get Rid Of A Raid Controller I Do Not Have I am running the retail Windows XP Home SP2. I replaced my CPU HS/F when my original fan died. Ever since, when I boot I receive the message that windows has found a new raid controller. It is listed in yellow in device manager. I uninstall and it pops up again. I do not have a raid controller. I have never had a raid controller on my machine. I have a single EIDE drive. How do I get... 22 12/24/2008 3:20:42 AM Can You Partition External Hard Drive Hi Is it possible to partition a USB External Drive to have both a FAT32 and NTFS partition? My TV only recognized FAT32 and I want to play MP3's / show pics on the TV but use the more stable NTFS file system to store my other files. Will Windows XP recognize both drives? If its of any help I use the USB interface. Thanks... 7 12/24/2008 3:11:07 AM My system can not now take the name of the disc and does not assign a drive letter Something happened to my local hard disk. My system can not now take the name of the disc (which usualle you can set through the Properties window). The system does not assign a drive letter for the disk. But it could take and show in the properties the type and characteristics of the device. There is RAW instead of NTFS in the Disk Management window. The system offers to format the driv... 3 12/24/2008 1:00:49 AM HD sometimes not detected Hi On a 7zx MB sometimes at bootup the HDs aren't detected by the CMOS. I unplug the drive cables from the MB and from the HDs and replug and power on again and they're seen. What can be done to get rid of that pb ? Thanks... 8 12/23/2008 7:52:41 PM Changing SATA/IDE to SATA/AHCI in BIOS My computer is a MSI K9A2 CF-F ver. 1.0 m/b (BIOS F2), AMD 8650 cpu, 2*2GB memory 500GB+640GB (Samsung HD501LJ + WDC WD6400AAKS SATA-HDs) on SATA controller LiteOn SOHW-1693S DVD+/-RW DL, TDK CDRW321040B CD-RW on PATA controller OS: Windows XPhome (SP3 and all fixes When I installed XP, I set SATA mode to IDE in BIOS (options are IDE and RAID). Nowhere anything like legacy mode or AHCI ... 7 12/23/2008 11:46:29 AM XP does not recognize drive after SP3 Update Here's the deal: I updated my laptop with a Western Digital 120GB SATA Drive (WDC WD1200BEVS) to SP3 yesterday. After the install, I get a black startup screen saying something like "Drive not available, try to Repair with Windows Setup CD". I put in the Windows setup CD and it says "No Drive Available". I tested the drive with Western Digital Drive Diagnostics and the drive IS recognize... 5 12/23/2008 1:37:21 AM 47 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>