Hello group
Recently I  was dismayed why my USB drive was not recognized anymore
by window explorer. Therefore if I  plug it on the USB slot it does
nothing. I searched the web for some ideas and came from this fellow

I tried to use an old computer today and it was
diving drive errors, I had not used the comp for
over a year, it is possible the drives have seized up?
Neither drives work, I tried them on this computer

Please don't knock me for asking such a simplistic question, but I've
just had my eyes opened as to what a soundcard does, and I feel an
utter buffoon! This is what I, rightly or wrongly, used to think:-
1. A soundcard is needed to produce all those beep and pings etc. that

My computer will not boot when I have my Maxtor OneTouch 4 plugged
in the USB. If I connect the hardrive after the computer have started
up,
it works just fine. What is the problem ?

I have a 120 GB hard drive that my RAID controller encountered an
error with, so I am trying to wipe it and return it to the
manufacturer.  But when I use Copywipe to wipe it, Copywipe encounters
an error at 52%.  It asks me if I want to continue, and I enter Y, but

Is there any drawback in using a sata controller in the form of a pci card?
The plan is to disable the onboard IDE and keep the onboard sata plus the
sata card.

I'm looking for the most reliable floppy disc media. (1440KB)
Does anybody know of a site that has actually tested various brands of
floppy media?  Or a research report perhaps?
Thank you in advance for your help.

PC Mag tip: ". . . if your PC has four memory slots, for best
performance you should avoid filling all of them. Usually filling of
just two slots is best."
It doesn't meet the test of reason. In order for this statement to be

Hey, all,
I'm back with a problem that I hope is curable, but I fear the worst.  I was
given a Satellite A45-S250 by a family member.  It intermittently booted up
but didn't run for long. It had the problem of BSD after memory dump on a

I am doing some experiments on cooling my CPU.  History and specs can
be found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware/browse_thread/thread/71b92b4369
ffc9cb/9ec27c0b723ad430?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#9ec27c0b723ad430
I replaced the Zalman cooler with the stock Intel cooler, and ...

I have a strange situation (to me anyway).
I have three hard drives plus a dvd burner.
Normally they are connected as:
Primary Master = hard drive # 1. (Vista)

I need to buy a power supply for the PC I am building.  Thermaltake, OCZ,
Corsair, and Rosewill, have very good ratings and Newegg.  Which one should
I get?
Thanks,

Hey there, had a problem that's got me stuck, thought I'd shoot it
out
and see if anyone could help.
My girlfriend has a homebuilt PC, which she keeps in the 'comp cubby'

I have a 7 year old computer with XP pro Sp2. Pentium 4, 1.5 GB, 512 Ram. It
is running fine. My motherboard is an old MSI 845 pro. Everything is running
great, except I am running out of storage.
The MainBoard has 4 IDE connections which are taken up by ATA C Drive

I tried one of the bad drives again (as a Primary Master boot drive),
and now I see that I have an error message:
WINDOWS COULD NOT START BECAUSE OF A COMPUTER DISK HARDWARE
CONFIGURATION PROBLEM.