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I realised that msconfig was set to boot selectively for some reason. enabled normal startup and it was fine.

Plug and Play is running.

I see..7zip didnt want to unrar the file so i thought...

Hi, ok all my devices are back now. Thanks NooNoo!
My BIOS does not have the PnP setting unfortunately.

I tried resetting the BIOS - no difference!

I'm having some difficulty locating the...

There's nothing in device manager! and i mean NOTHING. no devices at all!

But will that work for the BIOS? trying it now...

Hmmm... no that doesn't seem to work either....

@ NooNoo

connected a number of ways? How do you mean?

And the battery was out, then when I had finished and everything was back together I plugged it in, (without battery) and started it up....

The service manual doesn't offer any help... Any more ideas?

Trying to install a new optical drive in an old laptop. Windows recognises it, but the BIOS does not!

The laptop is a Mitac 7321 aka Time Evesham Novatech Pico Packard Bell & many more...

I'm...

I have just bought a new computer with Windows Vista Home Premium on it, and recently (after a day or so of having it) I keep getting a BSOD, usually within a few minutes of logging on.
The BSOD...

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Yes, i have fooloishly lost my Win XP Home CD. I know a friend with one. I'm just wondering, can I use the product key stuck on the side of my case with his CD and it still a) work (with...

Dear all

Yes, i have fooloishly lost my Win XP Home CD. I know a friend with one. I'm just wondering, can I use the product key stuck on the side of my case with his CD and it still a) work (with...

Hello everyone

A few months ago I turned on my PC and found that it was being very erratic, locking up every other second. I restarted and it was fine, but I found my two optical drives in My...

Well my hard drive is now working, after a fashion...
I took the advice of trying a new cable, and now it works, weirdly.
Thanks everyone!

I have another problem tho. Windows seems to recognise...

im dealing with ntfs partitions in windows xp.

i do apologise, i was mistaken about the MBR.

anyway, I originally had two drives in the PC. When i replaced one with the one with all my music, i had the problem with the partition not showing...

sorry everyone...think i kinda confused everyone.

basically, the hard drive i am trying to add is not bootable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but therefore it does not have a MBR. Also, the same...

thanks for your reply...

however, i dont think this is the problem, as this message comes up for both hard drives, and while i will try this, (when i can find my xp CD) could others please keep...

Recently one of my comps stopped working, on which I had all my music.

I decided to put one of the drives in another computer so I could listen to all my tracks while I sort the other comp.
...

well nothing untoward seems to be happening in the processes, and no, i'd rather not delete them.
I could post one of them on the forum for investigation, what is the copyright issue with this?

I have recently been using musicbrainz to tag my mp3s, but a strange problem has appeared.

Some files, there seems to be little logic as to which, stop working. That is, they have no attributes...

so it could be both. or just mobo.


Sigh.

It seems pointless to replace parts just to have them blow up a coupla months later.

thanks ross.v, in answer to your questions - the monitor works fine, but nothing happens at all when i press the power button. No fans, lights - nothing. I only know the PSU works because I tried it...

Hello everyone. Need some help with troubleshooting.



First, a bit of background.. Twice, when plugging in power-hungry USB devices (i.e. a DVD-RW drive) other USB devices stopped working,...

Hi all I recently rebuilt my PC, (installed new motherboard and PSU in a new case)

Anyway, since then there is a weird problem I've been having. I turned on the fan warning thingies in BIOs to...

wow thanks - I'll try that white paper and let you know.

Thanks guys and merry Christmas!