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I agree with the above suggestions. WinRAR is the best I've found in a long search for the most complete Archiver UnZipping Unpacking etc. application available free or otherwise. I work a lot with...

Were were we anyway??

Not too serious. It's a chronic problem I've had since my aircraft (F111) accident in 91 that every now and then requires brief (3-5 day) hospitalization.

I'm happy to hear Vista's SP1 is in the...

Been out of it for a few days in the hospital everyone. Anyway, just wanted to let those that helped me with my GigaByte Mobo problem the machine is still running smoothly,- just in case any of you...

Try the AC97 drivers for XP OS. These can be found at the RealTek website. I have this onboard sound on two of my laptops running Vista, & one of my desktops running Vista and this is how I solved...

I've been reading about your problem and Noo Noo is right. You have to point out what is going on with some degree of accuracy for us to be able to help you.

Made a slight error with my advice above in forgetting to leave this out.
Depending on which version of Vista you have (e.g. Vista Ultimate, Home premium, etc.) what your looking for to the left...

Interesting how you put that proguy. I was one of those disadvantaged kids (I say this for an important reason, I had no normal childhood!) whom had graduated at 13 (my birthday is October 31st) (no...

Does your DELL have a recovery partition you can access by pressing f10 OR 11, 12 etc., on initial startup during P.O.S.T? Also, How big is your HD?

I ask these two questions because a lot of...

"Those who live in the past are condemned to repeat it."

I had a 3rd grade teacher whom's last name was "Shorts" (she caught a lot of colorful comments due to this). I hated her because I'm left handed & she kept smacking my left hand with a ruler when I...

Then the DELL website under "support & driver downloads" is going to be most likely your best bet. By all means wait on Noo Noo & the others. They've recently helped me a lot on an issue I thought...

There might be an easier way.
Go back to device manager and right click one at a time every yellow question mark or explanation point (errors).
In the drop down menu that opens click "uninstall."
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All of the above including make/model of computer. With this type of problem it's definately a hardware issue.

Have you tried removing the upper & lower filters in RegEdit? Sometimes these will interfere with a lot concerning DVD RW drives? I had a DELL Dimension as a backup machine not too long ago that did...

Thanks archOnmycOm, I will be.

To uninstall WMP 11 in Vista go to control panel, add/remove programs, then to the left after the list populates click on add/remove windows components then follow on screen instructions.

I have...

Still up and running!!!!!!
Thanks Noo Noo and all of you whom helped me with this problem. I was away for a couple of days and felt sure when I came back and entered my room (I work from home due to...

It's not exactly 72 hours, it's between 3 to 4, on rare occasions even 5 days. I am using a surge protector with a backup battery that cost me a pretty penny. Living here in Florida one quickly...

The IDE circuit is what I meant when I stated I tested for shorts.

The bios loses it guys. I agree it's a puzzler. I've been using it like this for months. The 120 GB segate (org main drive) is new. The machine used to have an 80 GB Maxtor in it and it did the same...

The 40 GB is a new drive. I have it now as master and the 120 as slave on IDE 0. IDE 1 has a DVD as master and DVD burner as slave. The boards only other IDE ports are for the RAID which works OK but...

It's set on auto. The drive is a 120 GB Segate. I have since switched to Noo Noo's suggestion which is now a 40 GB Segate as Master, and the 120 GB Segate as slave. Both are 7200 rpm drives.
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I have replaced the cable but I haven't tried your drive configuration yet. I have a 40 Gig Segate (main drive 120 Gig Segate) I can use for the OS & such. I'll give it a shot and let you know how it...

This is a common XP problem usually associated with the removal of CD/DVD burning software such as NERO, etc., however it can happen for other reasons. This solution works in both XP & VISTA:
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