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I have a Plextor PX-708A ATAPI DVD. When I boot up it shows in "My Computer" and in the Device Manager. I can use it to read a DVD but as soon as I stop reading the DVD it stops showing in "My Computer" and the Device Manager and it will not eject the DVD. When I reboot it will show up again...

I am having problems using my CDR and DVD drives. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Even when they indicate that they are working. My DVD often just drops from "My Computer". I have to reboot to get it available. My CDR will show on "My computer" but if I put a CD into the CDR to...

My PC has an ASUS A7N8X-E main board that has an onboard sound card. This has been sufficient because my hearing is bad. All at once I lose my sound capability. I have checked every thing including accidental muting. I installed new drivers. Still no sound. I know that the speaker system is...

My PC uses a wireless internet provider 100Mbps. In line from the wireless antenna, I have a LinkSys 2.4 GHz Wireless Broadband Router WRT 54G V8 that services my wife's laptop. I would like to take advantage of this wireless router for my PC. My fairly old PC has an ASUS main board that has...

How do you get Direct TV if you don't have a land line? We use all Cell Phones in our house.

Would some one explain to me the details of unlocking a cell phone. I can buy a new cell phone from my current provider (the contract ran out long ago), however I have to buy one of theirs that has a SIM lock. My understanding is that cellular phone unlocking is now legal. I can buy the same...

I believe that my AMD Athlon XP2800+ is failing. I use my system mostly for Flight Sim. I do not want to do a full system upgrade till mid summer. I need a review of this plan: I plan to upgrade now with a Athlon 64 3800+ and use a ASUS A8N5X MB since this board will allow me to upgrade to a...

Sorry about that. Here is my present thinking. I will get an ASUS A8N5X MB and an AMD Athlon 64 3800+. This MB will allow me to eventually upgrade to an Athlon duel core. I hope that I can re-install my present Corsair TwinX 1 GB DDR400 XMS3200, Radeon 9800np 128 DDR and my WD 120 GB...

Veno(V) Obviously you have not tried to get information from the ASUS web site.

I have a AMD Athlon XP2800 running at 2.08 GHz on an ASUS A7N8 X-E deluxe MB. I think that my CPU is trying to fail. I run mostly flight sim, and want to upgrade my system in about six months. For right now, in case of CPU failure, I would just upgrade my CPU to the fastest that this board...

I hope that I have done this correctly. Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:08:01 AM, on 3/24/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe...

I don't have enough experience to deal with this problem. In my Computer Management\System Tools\Application I have several warnings on the Source Userenv. What is this, and how do I take care of this probelm? I have run Jv16 Registry Cleaner and it doesn't show this. My bootup is real slow...

I have a Plextor PX-708A. I use it mostly for playing DVDs (gaming) and writing backup DVDs for data. I don't do any copying or editing. Just Data. This PX-708A came with the basic Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6. I don't like it as it can give problems. For instance if you inadvertantly...