Hardware - July 2006

Some contractors shorted out the power @ my friends house, now his computer will not turn on. (monitor, speakers, everything else is fine).... was it caused by that? what could have happened...

or was it just a strange coiencedence?

2006-07-10 10:32:59 · 9 answers · asked by Brian D 2 in Desktops

We want to make sure none of our personal stuff can be recovered.

2006-07-10 10:24:18 · 7 answers · asked by Crisernanda 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

My key board on my laptop got messed up will a wireless keyboard work?
Thanks Much

2006-07-10 10:12:53 · 4 answers · asked by Cristina A 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm basically referring to an Intellistation-M Pro (workstation) 68686AU).

2006-07-10 10:11:47 · 6 answers · asked by Road Trip 3 in Other - Hardware

And any details you may have on what you think the best processor for the money is. I'm thinking a Pentium 4 with at least 1 mb cache and 2.8Ghz.

2006-07-10 10:08:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I keep resetting it, but it keeps slowing.

2006-07-10 09:54:05 · 9 answers · asked by some_beetch_somewhere 4 in Desktops

I have a 1ghz system which currently has a 20gb hard drive and I am planning on installing a seagate 80gb ATA hard drive on it. Just wondering if the motherboard restricts how much is installed (i remember reading something like this somewhere). I have checked and yes there is an extra connection wire and power wire available in the system to connect the hard drive. Thanx for the help.

2006-07-10 09:45:04 · 9 answers · asked by Pav S 1 in Add-ons

Ok my ATI Crossfire setup says it needs 2 cards, one of them being a graphics card (in this case a Radeon X1900XTX) and the other a being a X1900 Crossfire edition. Do these cards both work together to provide better graphics or do the two cards just help one another with the load?

2006-07-10 09:41:23 · 4 answers · asked by Chocobo_Ninja 3 in Add-ons

Looking to upgrade the Video Card on my Gateway Desktop for gaming but can only afford so much..

2006-07-10 09:33:33 · 5 answers · asked by bhemdky 2 in Desktops

I know that most of you will say : format from zero.But I don´t wanna go through the tedious task of 1.42mb per diskette saving hell....

I have a PI 133mhz machine with 12x cd drive. I know, quite old.

The thing is that it doens´t want to open the CD door and if it does by the mechanical option, it won´t acces it through win95a OS. I know I have a virus. I deleted the CD drive, restored it, put the drivers on....everything goes fine after reebooting.
When I shut it down, and turn it on after exactly 15 minutes, the CD is gone, and cannot acess it anymore. And then we start mayhem again. I went down to Norton, got chat with a technician, didn´t find anything. I know this virus has messed up the reg files system and it´s somewhere located at autoexect.bat becuase I can see the boot sequence, and how it modifies it...
I just don´t know HOW TO PROCEED. I only got 24mb ram for this machine. I cannot upload more than 2 gb because the entire machine has 5gb limit. No good antivirus

2006-07-10 09:00:45 · 10 answers · asked by David_RiveraH 2 in Desktops

2006-07-10 08:58:11 · 6 answers · asked by O N 1 in Desktops

I have a USB cable plugged in and have installed the drivers (I think) from the CD. However, it's not apparent how I upload the images in Windows ME (or XP). How do I do it?

2006-07-10 08:56:14 · 4 answers · asked by Darrell 4 in Scanners

my son's stuff on his desktop keeps on being deleted when he logs off but no one else has this problem with there desktop on the same computer. He was deleting music off his desktop and I dont know if he deleted any thing he needed to keep his desktop from not saving all of his desktop icons. And then we look for the stuff on his desktop and we cant find it then we put some of his stuff that he needs for school and when he logs off he loses it again but we dont?

2006-07-10 08:50:58 · 12 answers · asked by Debbie G 1 in Desktops

2006-07-10 08:42:47 · 1 answers · asked by PHIL D. 1 in Desktops

2006-07-10 08:36:39 · 6 answers · asked by bullblue 1 in Other - Hardware

2006-07-10 08:30:19 · 5 answers · asked by Ricky Meezy 1 in Monitors

Is their a way to daisy chain Mother Boards and or processors together to creat a frankinstine computer .
I have a desk top recording Studio ( Firepod ) multi track
anf it need speed and memory ?

2006-07-10 08:28:39 · 6 answers · asked by antho2820 2 in Add-ons

My Computer is running Windows XP and when I turn it back on it runs a disk check. I have cable internet and a Pentium III. Is their some software that I could download to fix it ir something? Help!

2006-07-10 08:28:35 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-07-10 08:23:41 · 19 answers · asked by oceantwins 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Whenever my laptop starts it says that the operating system cannot be found. I just formated the hard drive and reinstalled windows the other day. It worked fine for a couple of days then started saying that it cant find the OS. I checked the BIOS settings and everything was fine. I checked the connection and it was fine. Can I hook up the HD to my PC to recover data, or what do I do to recover data? Thanks

2006-07-10 08:18:35 · 5 answers · asked by Ryan A 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

A pop-up balloon appears when I try to synchronize and when I click it, there is a message about an unknown device in the USB Root Hub. I can get the Treo to synchronize via the infrared port on my laptop but the synchronization cable will not work.

2006-07-10 08:10:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I have a Compaq,and the mouse cursor is messing HOW DO I FIX IT??

2006-07-10 08:07:27 · 4 answers · asked by Brandon 2 in Desktops

2006-07-10 07:55:03 · 5 answers · asked by longhorndude_19 1 in Monitors

Just set up my PC and thought that I could get Freeview on it but it only tunes terrestrial channels as I just have a coax aerial not going through digibox or anything. Do I have to invest in a digital TV card for my PC to get Freeview? If so any recommendations.
Cheers.

2006-07-10 07:43:33 · 6 answers · asked by Jimbo 2 in Add-ons

i asked b4 about the difference between the wireless b & g

2006-07-10 07:40:06 · 2 answers · asked by STEPHnJAYnJAYLENnAHMIR 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have a Dell 4400 (bought in 2002). It's been a piece of junk from the day we bought it. Several problems with it and I don't want to call their tech support since I can't understand them anyway (they send you over to someone in India). 1. The monitor will work for awhile then it will slowly get fuzzy. If I shut it off and wait a minuet or two then it will work..but not long so I keep doing this. 2. I stuck a disk into the ROM drive and it doesn't do anything. It wont open any of my disks I put in it. I ran a Check It diagnostics test and is said it can find it.

Like I said it's been junk since I bought it so any ideas will be appreciated. Should I give up on it and buy a new one or try to get this one fixed?

2006-07-10 07:29:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2006-07-10 07:28:40 · 6 answers · asked by STEPHnJAYnJAYLENnAHMIR 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have a computer I wish to set up and it runs extremely slow. It's will run WinXp and has 1GB of RAM and an 80gb hard drive. I am installing WinXP and it has taken 4 hours to do 20 mins of installing. My guess is my Pentium 3 chip or the WD Caviar 80gb Hard drive is damaged. Is there a test I can run to see is that or something else?

2006-07-10 07:20:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2006-07-10 07:17:18 · 2 answers · asked by Ryan A 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I just formated a hard drive and reinstalled XP on a laptop of mine. It worked fine for a couple of days, but yesterday I turned on my laptop and it read Operating system not found. I tried again a few minutes later and windows loaded. Then later on in the evening it began the same problem and is continuing to do so today. I just asked yahoo and it said to check the Bios settings, I did and it said there was no hard drive on the computer. Does this mean I've lost what I have on the hard drive? Is there anything I can do?

2006-07-10 07:03:31 · 2 answers · asked by Ryan A 1 in Laptops & Notebooks