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just wait for the blue laser dvd writers - much faster and have an upper limit of 27gb/dvd plus they are two-sided. they should be out by mid 2004.

the three best dvd burners are the plextor 708a, tdk 440n and the sony 510a - the plextor is around $200 with the tdk and the sony around $145-160. they are the fastest and come with the best software bundles. the plextor is an 8x dvd-r and will do that on some 4x media.

sounds like an overheating problem, possibly in the power supply because you are putting more demand on it when you ramp up the graphics card to play a game. defrag and adaware put more load on the cpu causing that to heat up. either problem will trigger a shutdown as a safety measure. if...

try holding the delete key down - that is an alternative way of opening the bios.

most likely problem is bad power supply-had same trouble you at=re having and that is what it was. Gavi

do you have or can you get the drivers for the mobo of the laptop? they need to be reinstalled and the best thing to do is to get to the mfgr's web site, download the latest version of the mobo's drivers and install them-should get all mobo functions back to normal. gavi

grez is on the right track-hd works in another pc but not recognized in first one means that there are bent pins on the motherboard ide socket or the motherboard's ide controller is dead. bottom line-probably will need a new motherboard. gavi

it looks like the system is searching for a scsi drive, not an ide drive. did you ever have a scsi drive installed - hdd or optical? look in device manager for a scsi device and remove it - it might solve the problem.

if you are using that many printers at the same time, you should set up a print server or limit the number of printers allowed to no more than 20 at a time. you are overloading the print spooler and forcing the system to allocate all its resources to the print spooler.

go to another pc, put in a floppy disk, go to command prompt, type 'copy sys a:' then hit enter. also copy format and fdisk to the floppy. on the laptop make sure that it is set in the bios to boot from floppy first, put the floppy in the a: drive, boot and type 'format c:'. that will format...

run a diagnostic software on the hd - even tho it is new the errors you are getting could be caused by bad sectors on the hd. maxtor has a good set of diagnostic tools that you can download from their web site

thanks for the tips - decided just to bite the bullet and reformat her pc, do a fresh install and image it. have posted this on several different forums and nobody seems to have a real solution but the tips i got here were among the best. Gavi

definitely get a firewall because that will prevent just this from happening. also you can have your pc scanned for viruses at symantec.com and housecalls.com for free

i had to do a repair install on my system after it got hosed by a program i installed and am now getting that error in my nic properties. i have tried different cards, installed the latest drivers, had windows search for the hardware after reboot and uninstalled/reinstalled it w/o a reboot but...