PC101-Personal Computer 101

What do I do if my hardware does not work?!

This problem is very similar to the HW troubleshooting question, so I will make some comments and then provide the link to that answer.

First question is, what HW are you talking about.   If you go into the Device Manager you can look at all the HW devices on your system, and if the system thinks there is a problem it will indicate that with a warning icon for the device entry.

Device Mamager path:  Start / Settings / Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager

If you are talking about having problems installing a device, then you need to refer to the installation manual, website help of the vendor, and any email or phone support the vendor gives, as the information on this site is very general in nature.

If you are talking about a writeable CD/DVD drive, then it could be that the device has not been enabled for writing: 
Open My Computer and then right click on the drive and select Properties.  Select the Recording tab and see if the box: 
"Enable CD recording on this drive" is checked (This same page controls the write speed and whether your drive ejects
the media when its done).
Sometimes when you have multiple applications for managing your CD/DVD drive (e.g. MS & Roxi), they can conflict and you
may have to turn the MS program off (unclick the above) to prevent problems.

For more information use this link:

HW/SW Troubleshooting Procedures

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