Hardware

How to force a delayed write to an eSATA drive?
Hi, My drive became completely inaccessible for a long time after your suggestion so I couldn't try it. I just tried it and there is no Optimize for Performance (I'm running XP SP2) but there is a check box saying Enable Write Caching -- but it's already unchecked. The drive seems to work now, I moved it fr... 31 May 2010 21:52

hardware failure
hi, I have PC with P4 and win xp during regular operation it suddenly shut down; I replaced my power supply - I tested 3 different power suply - no reaction from my PC; what else can be the reason for this type of behavior? any suggestions? thank you lesio ... 6 Jun 2010 14:57

There is no disk in the drive. Pleas insert a disk into drive. ERROR!!
I was having the same problem but changing the drive letter worked like a charm!!! -- b_solid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b_solid's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/226944.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/xp-hardware/691633.htm http://forums.t... 31 May 2010 13:05

External USB sharing
I have a printer that uses USB as it's input (like most current printers do). I have more than one computer, and would like to share the printer. Thus, I need something like an "external USB multi-port auto-sharing switch". Is there such an "animal" that I could appropriately use to share my USB printer ? Pl... 28 Jun 2010 12:51

please receive me latest drivers
please receive me latest drivers Jerry wrote: Download the latest motherboard chipset drivers. 15-Aug-07 Download the latest motherboard chipset drivers. Previous Posts In This Thread: On Tuesday, August 14, 2007 9:10 PM chole779 wrote: Intel Pentium 4 driver Windows xp sp 2 My processor is gi... 1 Jun 2010 13:06

Kingston Data Traveller readonly in user account
Win XP Home SP3 I have a Kingston Data Traveller USB Flash drive, which is read only in a user account, and behaves normally in an Admin Account I have tried the Attrib command attrib -r X:*.* which works fine in Admin but two files are blocked from having the attrib changed in a user account - a program sh... 29 May 2010 19:02

DVD drive struggles with DVDs
This might be a double post. I killed the original screen too quickly and couldn't find the post anywhere. Recently I reinstalled my OS to fix a registry error. Now my DVD drive won't read DVDs. It can read data and audio CDs just fine. I tried using DVD Decryptor to move a movie onto my computer so I coul... 1 Jun 2010 03:16

D-Link disabled my welcome screen and fast user switching option
I installed a D-Link Xtreme N desktop PCI adaptor with their software. It disabled my welcome screen and fast user switching. XP is telling me I need to uninstall the D-Link software to be able to change this setting. Help? -- dewbru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dewbru's ... 27 May 2010 21:29

Camera not recognized?
I have a Canon PowerShot SD750, it does not need drivers for XP, but on one particular computer, a Dell Precision 390, when you plug it into the USB, it goes into the "new hardware found" routine, looks for drivers, says none found, hardware not installed, and the camera does not show up in My Computer. I've t... 27 May 2010 18:12

BSOD-Unmountable & others
(cross-posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware) antioch wrote: Win XP SP3 - currently updated. Win Live Mail, IE8. No recently ADDED HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE - seems important. Sorry re the length of this thread - it could have been longer. But I have tried to keep it short and with the latest sit... 6 Jun 2010 08:21