Did you check the jumpers? If they are set incorrectly, this will keep the pc from seeing the drives anywhere on the system. If you look where the IDE and power cables are plugged in you will see a...

Can you get to a command prompt and run dir command? the hdd might've been a return.

If you don't mind losing a few bucks, I use Avast!, so far it's worked great and it's free.

Just curious, are the drives seen in bios? The three partitions shouldn't be a problem. Did you assign them the drive letters, or did Windows. If it did this by itself, it's seeing the cd's as...

Many DVD roms come with the jumper set to master. If both drives are set to master, that would cause one of the drives to not be seen.

I had the same problem last week. I ended up ordering the recovery disks from HP and booted to the cd and ran a recovery. PS, I had to change the boot order so that the cdrom was first boot device...

Ouch. In my experience McAffee and Norton don't play well together. My advice isn't what you would like to hear. I suggest you back up your data anyway possible and reinstall Windows. If you have...

Is your primary 30gb hdd getting too full? That can cause slowdowns. Have you tested your hdd to see if it's possibly got some bad spots? Try running defrag. If it errors out, that's a good...

This is a HP Pavilion, 80gb hdd, 2.2 ghz (I don't recall the rest of the specs) about 2 years old. It was brought to me with the problem of sometimes booting to a black screen with a blinking...

Thanks for all the help, I'll check out the DivX also...looks like I get to reinstall a few programs.

Okay, I feel like a real moron. It never occurred to me to check the display drivers. I thought it was a little hokey that they were still plug and play. Went out and located the correct drivers...

i installed the codec software, still having the same results. Player just shows a black screen. Time is being counted, and can hear audio. No picture.

Also, found no viruses.

I guess I should also mention that all the players worked about 3 weeks ago, also upgraded to an LCD but display settings are still set to plug and play.

I recently installed a DVD-RW and a usb hdd. I tried to play a .mpeg in wmp10 and get audio, but no video. I had the same results with realplayer and quicktime. Also tried to play .avi's with the...