Yep, it was a motherboard issue. My trusted local repair workshop told me it was not worth repairing, and I've now got a new box to build and...
Come to think of it, I'd pretty much forgotten, but a DVD drive also "disappeared" several months back. Didn't care because I didn't use it much....
(And should this thread be moved to the "PC Hardware" forum with a new headline, maybe something like Some devices suddenly "disappear "?)
I had a similar problem with an HP all-in-one which suddenly stopped scanning. After a couple of horrible weeks of disinstalling and reinstalling...
Matters have now gone steeply downhill, and this has become a hardware issue. Following Arie's and Doc's advice, I started looking at the Device...
Thanks, Arie. Yes, in fact this morning I wanted to use Google Earth for the first time in many moons and it also stumbled across a graphics card...
Hi, Doc, and thanks for the tip, but no - it didn't fix it. In fact, the video became very shaky, jerky, and the audio came only occasionally as...
Hi. Very often (almost always) when I watch a streaming video, some 3 or 4 minutes into the video the whole PC freezes (not just IE). No keyb,...
So presumably it's just a case of being sure all the data have been totally written|read to|from the external drive and that nothing is left...
Many thanks, Arie. If a Microsoft MVP never uses it, that's good enough for me! And for the same reason, I won't bother to bring it back either,...
Hi. I have often read that it's dangerous to unplug a USB drive without using the "disconnect safely" routine from the icon in the system tray...
Nope. Just the one group, "All Accounts ", set to 15 minutes. Still, as I said, it's not an extra cost, but it's bugging me that I can't solve...
Aha - that certainly changes things! Sorry, Arie: my (false) assumption from the various threads I had found on other boards was that a corrupted...
Hi Steve and thanks for that. Your link didn't work for me, but I found the file anyway by googling "Personal Folders Backup site:microsoft.com"...
Thanks Arie - I did that and scanpst.exe found and repaired an error in the pst file. But - unless I'm mistaken - that doesn't address the cause...
Hi. Running Office Standard 2007, I have the following problem: The send/receive sequence sometimes hangs on "Receiving message [n] of [n], [x]...
OK - resolved! Thanks very much everybody for your time and patience and helpful input. I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled from the...
Thanks Neil - yes, BIOS no problem. One of the first things I checked out! Had to go there anyway to set boot order to (1) CD-ROM, (2) HDD, and...
wildfire: Yes; sorry I didn't explain that well. The repair install appeared to succeed, no warning messages, no flags raised. Except that, when...
OK, now I'm really stuck. I've successfully created a bootable, slipstreamed SP3 CD; had to download and install an updated version of Nero to do...
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