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hi
can somebody please help me, i keep having the same re occuring problem, i have windows xp and every few days when i switch my pc on , the hard drive beeps , sometimes i hear 2 or 3 beeps at a time and sometimes as many as 9 or 10 in a row, not only that but i have no control with my scroll bars they move about eratically so i cannot veiw pages properly, sometimes i cant move scroll bars at all which led me to believe it was a mouse problem, i have the ps2 type mouse, i cleaned it and also uninstalled the mouse drivvers and restarted the pc - it all worked fine for a few days then same problems what is wrong with the damn thing? id be grateful for any help

Windows XP automatically loads the Drivers for the Mouse and Keyboard so it's a good chance that's NOT the prob.

If you goto START
Right click MyComputer and choose Properties
Click the HARDWARE Tab then Device Manager
Are there any YELLOW Exclamation marks in there?
If so what Device has them?

Have you taken the case of and vacuumed out all the Dust?
Clean the Fans and blow all the dust out.

Cactus

hey cactus i have YELLOW Exclamation marks next to my dvd player and dvd-rw wot they mean help!!

It means the drivers for those items are not properly installed, Try right clicking on the item and click "Update Drivers"

ok but last time i did that the pc wouldnt pick up the two drives and i had to restore the pc is it safe to try again?