i just bought a compaq deskpro EN that had no os, so i installed windows me, and it worked fine, then i tried to install a new TEAC cd burner, and now neither of my cd drives will work, and in hardware profiles there are exclaimation points next to the primary and secondary IDE controllers. i tried...

I installed a new hard drive on my computer and ive found that the display settings have changed from the previous settings I had on my old hard drive and they are very basic. For example I can only have '16 colours' insted of 'True colour (32 bit) and the screen area can only be set to 640 by 480...

hello,i had to get a new cpu. the one i had was a 800 and the new one is a 850. well after installing i have no sound.. not sure what happened. please help

All, Friend of mine has purchased a Naxtor DiamondMax 120gig ata133 hdd, and he is running Windows ME 4.9.3000 Now the HDD is recognised in the bios, but Windows just won't see it. Is this size HDD not compatible with Windows ME? Any help, would be greatly appreciated.

Anyone- I have installed a new internal Pioneer DVD / CD Writer (Model A08XL) that reads and writes to a wide variety of different media. I installed it in a Dell Dimension 8100 running Windows ME at 1.4 megahertz with approximately 384 MB of RAM and 20 GB free disk space. The problem I am having...

Hi, well I`ve got a little problem, i`ve a IBM pc, i dont know the serie exactly, and somehow some drivers have desappeared, i`ve repared the others, but the cursor dont appear, in the Managment appears a little "?" on the mouse... like if the driver were missing, i installed a standard...

Hi Folks, This is a weird one. I had to reinstall WinME on a Gateway system for a friend. Problem is the mouse has stopped working. The System: Gateway Pentium III 633 Mhz Its one of those computers that only has USB ports, so the keyboard plugs

Running ME on a Compaq Presario. Everything's fine. Shut it down one night and the next day when I start it up there is no mouse pointer to be seen on the desktop. Also, the display changed to 16 colors and the lowest resolution. I can TAB through to the controls settings and change the display...

Is there a way to upgrade USB 1 to USB 2? Any software that can do that?

your help would greatly be appreciated, I don't have my original disk to my PC

I want to run defrag. Something is running and will not allow drfrag to finish. Wgen I try to start Windows (Me) in safe mode I get the "keyboard error" message and cannot get into safe mode.

I am reinstalling ME on a machine that continued to freeze after a couple of minutes even with a clean install. I am replacing the operating system, but it stops at the screen setting up the hardware and any plug and play devices you may have. It took more than 15 minutes for it to set up...

I have a happily working WinME system, with a 20GB hard drive. When I add a second drive (in this case 160GB, but the same was true of 80GB), the BIOS happily finds it, but WinME doesn't seem to realise it exists. Has anyone got a fix for this?

Guys, I've tried and tried on this sound card thing, but I'm getting nowhere fast. Can you tell me why windows wants to keep installing a WDM driver automatically when it's installed? How can I stop this? I've tried the solution of turning off the pnp.drv option in system.ini as described in the...

My microphone is not working, although I can get the sound from speakers just fine. But the microphone is not recording anything. The driver for the microphone appears as Creative Soundblaster. Any solution?

After attempting to install an Epson R300 printer which is a USB stand-alone or with PC type, I received a General Protection Fault related to one of it's drivers. After rebooting, when I looked in system tools, system information, components, problem devices, the printer turned up an error code 11...

hello folks....i hope someone here can help me....my laptop keeps shutting down when i connect to the internet...it behaves just fine as long as i dont connect to the internet...i could work for hours on it but as sson as i connect to the internet the screen freezes and it shuts down ....could it...

I frequently receive the error message "Iphlpapi.dll file cannot start" when I start up my computer. I have checked and the three dll files on my pc say they are installed and working correctly. Comcast is my ISP. Any suggestions? I have contacted Dell; but they were not too helpful as my...

My computer has stopped detecting the CD Drive. What should I do to fix?

A friend of mine had recently removed Roxio's Easy Cd Creator from her PC and now it doesn't recognize the CD Recorder. I remember this problem occurring in Windows 2000, but don't recall how to resolve it and I hadn't heard of it happening on other Windows OS's. I tried doing a search on the...