Hardware - August 2006

I thought that when buying a wireless router all i had to do is get a wireless router, ethernet cord, and wireless adapter

When buying a wireless router, what do i need to get.

My nephew said i would have to get a card to which i would be able to use the wireless router for his computer. If so, is it easy to install, do i still need to get an adapter, and how much does the card cost.

Another thing, if i get a wireless router that states 35% faster, does that mean it will increase the speed of my modem, or just the receiving speed of the secondary computer.

One more thing, if a friend of mine, got a notebook, could he get connected to my wireless router if the card is installed. Also would he have to also by an adapter.

To see what i mean, you can probably find it at walmart.com which is where i will be buying the items.

2006-08-24 16:04:07 · 8 answers · asked by Sherman81 6 in Desktops

2006-08-24 15:44:46 · 5 answers · asked by confused 6 in Laptops & Notebooks

I blew my power supply.

it is for a P4.

it has the normal power plug thing in to the mother board.

it doesnt have the extra 4 (2*2) slot power plug into the .

it does have another a plug that goes into the mother board. it looks like the power cord that goes into a 3.5 FDD but bigger and with 5 holes/ 5 pins on the mother board.


understand?

so can I take my spare power supply (which doesnt have the extra 5 power cable) and slice existing power cords (to CD, HDD, whatever) and connect them to the 5 power plug cable thing from the original power supply?

make sense?

2006-08-24 15:31:56 · 11 answers · asked by altomic2001 1 in Desktops

What exactly IS that? I have McAfee VirusScan and it has dected a Trojan that cannot be deleted. Is my computer in danger? What can't the file be deleted? What should I do?

2006-08-24 15:30:16 · 10 answers · asked by ♀♥♂☮Trippy Hippie☮♂♥♀ 6 in Desktops

i have an old laptop (NEC versa premium) the battery is dead and i want to mod it in anyway...

2006-08-24 15:18:15 · 3 answers · asked by matiaz 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

nowadays there r all in one printers, and some says that it has pc faxing, and other ones say that it has pc faxing AND faxing, so what's the difference?

2006-08-24 15:16:20 · 5 answers · asked by why me? 4 in Printers

I'm looking to upgrade my motherboard, cpu. most motherboards now take ddr2 memory, but I just bought some good ddr RAM. to I have to upgrade? What are the ramifications?

2006-08-24 15:14:06 · 8 answers · asked by Josh K 1 in Desktops

I accidentally hit the screen on my laptop too hard and it cracked. I have a 2 year warrenty on it. If they don't, how much would it cost to repair or replace it?

2006-08-24 14:49:53 · 9 answers · asked by jfm7491 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

It doesn't play anything. No iTunes, no Google video, no Windows Media Player. It acts like it is going to play but, it never does. This just happened today on a 3 year old computer. 10 points for the best answer. HELP!

2006-08-24 14:49:27 · 7 answers · asked by cjh6793 3 in Desktops

The only color that does this is the blue. All the other colors print correctly. Is there anything that we can do without spending money on cartridges.

2006-08-24 14:41:46 · 5 answers · asked by Beca 1 in Printers

I have a geforce 6600 video card with s-video out, and I connected it to my t.v. a zenith 32" with a s-video in. so I have time warner t.v. cable box. I have to turn it off at the box, and use the t.v. menu to sorce and set the option to s-video 1 to view the computer on screen. The problem is that I got the desk top to view
on my t.v., after the picture rolled up and down for a whail, and the picture was not very clear. and the thing is I used a s-video
and red and white rc plug in one cable, I also pluged the red rc plug into my sound card to try and get sound and al I got was a
load humming sound so I just shut off the pc by pressing and holding the start button. then went to reconnect the pc to the lcd
monitor fired it up and not a darn thing!,no video. will not boot up
to windows. I tried to use a boot-up cd, after I reset the cmos dos
to reset my boot-up order. ms-dos prompt comes up but all of
the commands that I inter dont work. I NEED HELP!!.

2006-08-24 14:35:56 · 3 answers · asked by grogzillastein 1 in Desktops

I dont no wat to do either restore my computer on how it was in the beginnig or Rebot it

2006-08-24 14:20:39 · 9 answers · asked by vkumar219 2 in Desktops

Averatec 5500 (AV5500EA1) PC Notebook
$107.00 - $107.00

you can find it here.


http://www.shoplocal.com/default.aspx?action=sdcitemdetail&PID=23160636&specs=y

2006-08-24 14:15:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

i have a compaq presario 1200 notebook with windows mellenium edition. i recently formatted both hard disks and went to reload the OS and nothing happened. It will load the recovery disk but windows will not apper. insted, it will be a command prompt with the drive letter A:/>. what should i do to bring windows back?

2006-08-24 14:12:56 · 3 answers · asked by aaron 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to star using a mouse for my laptop but is it different from the desktop mouse? I have the old mouse but it doesnt seem to fit anywhere. So do i need to buy a special one for my laptop?
Thanks!

2006-08-24 14:12:40 · 11 answers · asked by Steph 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

my pc is intel p4 2 g .asus p4s800 motherboard .2x512 ddr ram
80g hard drive .
do i need buy any parts to overclock my pc ??

2006-08-24 14:11:44 · 7 answers · asked by could 1 in Desktops

I have a dell printer but don't want to order them, I just want to go to a store and pick them up. It also came with "trial" cartridges; can those be refilled so they last as long as a regular or replacment cartridges?

2006-08-24 14:05:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

I want to clean my copmuter and also to do Disc Defragmenter, but its telling me that Local Disk D has only 11% available space and its need %15 in order to complete the Disk Defragmenter. What do I need to clean to make some space? and what information restored in Local Disk C and what in D?

Thanks in advance:-)

2006-08-24 14:04:51 · 5 answers · asked by Lisa 2 in Desktops

I have a GENIUS Color Page Vivid Pro II Flat bed scanner. Have lost the Driver and Text Editing software. Is there any place from where I can get or down load FREE of cost the above?

2006-08-24 13:25:07 · 1 answers · asked by Balug 1 in Scanners

2006-08-24 13:17:36 · 12 answers · asked by mp4asc 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-08-24 13:15:37 · 2 answers · asked by lex 1 in Desktops

2006-08-24 13:04:20 · 5 answers · asked by lex 1 in Desktops

Change a CD drive from a computer and put in a new one? Please help...i

2006-08-24 13:03:32 · 3 answers · asked by Japan_is__home 1 in Other - Hardware

Because I seriously don't want to have to fork up a lot of money to get another battery. It's bad enough I'll have to wait a couple of weeks for it to ship.

2006-08-24 12:54:45 · 10 answers · asked by lilkitt 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

company name was added to dell splash / I found a great little universal program that will back up and restore the pheonix bios. UniFlash 1.40, a free flash utility with source code in Pascal.
I would have simply backed replaced with standard bios bin from dell but it is not offered and tech support is lacking if not the original owner of the systems. There are apps for changing bios splash in the they're laptops, but none offered or no help availible for the optiplex series. I have one bios bin file so far with a normal splash screen from a gx150 that was not altered, but they used at least three different bios rom chips that I know of so far. #1. sst49lf004a/b/3.3 sectored 128 x 4 (512) #2. intel 82802ab/3.3v sectored 8 x 64 (512). #3. stm m50fw040/3.3v sectored 8 x 64 (512) i have a copy of the bin backup for #1 but need a copy of of the other two or any more that anyone else may know of for the gx150. thanks, Mike

2006-08-24 12:32:15 · 2 answers · asked by mikefarrey 1 in Desktops

I have a 52x24x52 CD-RW. I don't know what brand and I can't find any software for it. Device manager lists it as "CDwriter ide5224" and has a "!" against a yellow circle for it. It says "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" . However, windows is worthless in fixing that. Updating the driver via winxp does not work. Uninstalling and then reinstalling does not work. The driver is provided by Microsoft, date 7/1/2001, driver version 5.1.2535.0.

2006-08-24 12:06:44 · 5 answers · asked by Richard W 1 in Other - Hardware

I have an old Windows98 that is currently unused, and would like to backup the things we need and then wipe the hard drive and install Windows XP. Also, we would like to install a wireless card but don't know if we can or not because it is about 10 years old and started out as Windows 95. I haven't dug it out yet, so I don't know any tech specs of it. If needed, we might add more RAM and memory to it.. Anything I should think of before I go about digging it out and deleting everything?

2006-08-24 11:30:58 · 9 answers · asked by Jen H 2 in Desktops

2006-08-24 11:18:06 · 9 answers · asked by DubsPhilly 1 in Desktops

It's usually just if I have it unplugged and have it playing a video, but it just turns off. No warning or anything.

2006-08-24 11:10:49 · 5 answers · asked by dgoodnight3001 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-08-24 11:05:40 · 10 answers · asked by tunachunks199 1 in Desktops