Without working software you won't be able to read a DVD. So I won't suggest using your recovery CD to reinstall the OS, but this may need to be...
What are your system specs? With an upper limit of 768, that suggests to me that you may not have a lightning fast CPU. If that's the case you may...
Also try uninstalling the writer from the device manager, and reboot for it to be detected and reinstalled.
I had a similar problem with my Maxtor One Touch USB2 drive on one XP PC. I had to assign a drive letter in disk management for it to show up in...
Along with Garys suggestion, if you can uninstall the DVD software (such as WINDVD or whatever Sony use?) and reinstall it, that may help the...
FYI Gary, This is my case, except mine is blue. The side fan (fancy LED one :cool: ) is the intake and throws it right at the processor fan to...
Make sure your graphics card has the latest XP drivers installed. Don't just stick with the default (generic) one's that XP has in its driver...
A little bit more info on the recycler......
...or side in, top out as for my case.
Suggest a 15.4" widescreen version. I have a Toshiba running a Centrino 1.6GHz with 512 MB RAM. Apart from a lousy CD/DVD burning programme that...
I just installed XP Pro SP2 on an old (early 1999) Gateway Celeron 433 with 192MB RAM using the original BIOS and stock hardware. No problems at...
With DK 8.x it is worth setting the boot-time fragmentation so it runs before windows runs and also set it to defrag the MFT. Normal mode...
Probably in your case given the CPU speed and what you use it for, there wouldn't be much advantage in increasing the RAM above 256. I found with...
I had similar problems a while back on XP. Was frustrating and I can't remember why it eventually corrected. Maybe something was deleted with the...
Might be the case. Still don't know why the socket design for the CPU would mean that the board couldn't be designed fro dual channel memory. Must...
After hitting F8 (or F5) during the BIOS boot have you tried "last known good configuration "?
So MANY possibilities with these intermittent faults. Will be interested to hear any results.
These temps are within spec. But I would advise putting an 80mm fan in front of the HD's blowing air across them towards the rear of the case, and...
Not necessarily. The more expensive ones can be fairly quiet. But I would be carefull about forking out a lot of dosh and assuming that the fan...
I don't believe it's a socket design problem, more a feature or not of the motherboard and how it uses memory.
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