My apologies for not replying sooner. The A31 Thinkpad is history. I sold it on craigslist. Thanks very much for your inputs. Happy Holidays.
Pete, you're the greatest! It works. Strangely, I typed in "regedit.*" under search, thinking I might find that regedit.com, so I could delete...
This is a ThinkPad A31, running Win XP pro with SP2. It doesn't have internet access, so I imagine whatever fix I try will involve either...
You are right, Steve. I uninstalled the drive from within the hardware manager, rebooted the laptop, and windows found it as the Sony drive-this...
I bought a Dell XPS laptop, used. The drive appears to be functioning normally, but under device manager, there is a yellow ball with the black...
Hey, thanks for the tip. Bad news:I couldn't find a separate entry for address book under win xp. I suspect there was one under Win Me to which...
I think it's OE version 6. It came with Win XP home edition. Installation date was october 2006. My computer is up to date wrt Microsoft updates....
I took a look at NVIDIA's download option, and under platform/nforce drivers, I don't see anything for nforce4 Ultra. I still have the owner's...
Disabling the midi and gameport addresses got rid of one of the two unknown devices. The one that is identified as PCI BUS 5, Device 6, Function 1...
Under my Vista installation, in the device manager, I have two sub-entries under the category of Other Devices. Both are labeled Unknown Device,...
Thanks Steve. I went to Office Depot and they were sold out of the drives. I have two gigs of low CAS latency ram, so I too am a little skeptical...
My apologies for the double post, PeteC. Thank you, and Charlesvar, for the response and the information.
I posted this question under HARDWARE also. I hope it is ok to post it here as well. I wonder if anyone has any experience with using this USB...
Does anyone know if the performance is really enhanced? I have a fairly fast computer: ASUS AN8e MB with an AMD Opteron 170, 2 gigs of ram, a...
I installed Vista on my G drive. I have an ASUS A8N-e board that accepts SATA as well as EIDE drives. My SATA is my primary, a 74Raptor that has...
I started the installation by entering the boot menu (F8) during post. I directed the installation from my first DVD drive to the second EIDE...
Thanks for your replies. I made this a potential problem purely out of ignorance, but more out of the short memory that accompanies someone my...
I have e a computer that has an AMD Opteron170 with 2gigs of ram, a GeForce 7900GS with 256megs, an Audigy2ZS sound card, and two DVD burners, a...
I set up a very rudimentary chart in Excel that gives me the total value of my "portfolio" such as it is. I have a column of stocks and mutual...
I spoke with my friend yesterday evening, and he has decided to just get the old computer fixed. We are both assuming/hoping that all that went...
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