Hardware - November 2006

HELP! my printer is jammed 3 sheets of paper are stuck

2006-11-28 20:42:27 · 2 answers · asked by arial 2 in Printers

Hi there, I have a desktop 2.8Ghz P4, 1Gb RAM running WinXP pro SP2. I was working on my pc yesterday, shut it down fine - when I booted this morning it did not recognise ANY usb ports! Luckily I had ps2 converters so I changed my usb keyboard and mouse to PS2, and they worked fine - but all other peripherals are dead. My PC has a ton of usb ports...

I have 4 at the front of my case via a PCI card attachment.
4 connecting directly to motherboard at the back.

None of these work...can anyone offer advice?

Before you all say it, I have gone and checked device manager, and there are no yellow exclamation marks. I am contemplating deleting all the usb devices from there and letting windows refind them on reboot? Any better ideas?

I am concerned it is a motherboard problem...because why would all the USB ports just suddenly stop functioning? It's a bit bizarre. I recently reinstalled WinXP SP2 about 6 months ago.

2006-11-28 20:40:25 · 4 answers · asked by Rhythm * 2 in Add-ons

2006-11-28 20:36:21 · 4 answers · asked by asiva_3385 1 in Other - Hardware

Can you tell me where I can buy the cheapest lexmark ink cartlidges?

2006-11-28 20:22:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

Everything else is up to date on my computer. Problem is with the intel Graphic card it has now. I only have a PCI slot nothing else. So my choices are limited. I need the graphic card to play some games that I cannot do right now. If I knew the Intel card was like this I would have updated it when I got the Computer. Any help, comments and pointers as to what to get that will work with my system, with out having to buy a new one, would be very useful. I do not have AGP or PCI-express. So you see the problem here. Thanks.

2006-11-28 20:13:08 · 2 answers · asked by sweetcheeks_ringgold 1 in Add-ons

2006-11-28 20:10:26 · 8 answers · asked by anneanne 1 in Add-ons

Hi i am dial Up and My Bro keeps downloading Mp3's on my laptop for his Ipod can u suggest an external memory so i can store the music and play it else where if i want to like one of them media things.

2006-11-28 19:29:27 · 8 answers · asked by Batman 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

My husband is trying to do a disk cleanup and it wont actually start, what could be causing this

2006-11-28 19:24:35 · 6 answers · asked by rachel 2 in Desktops

2006-11-28 18:44:33 · 7 answers · asked by P-//\\-Y-//\\-M 2 in Other - Hardware

2006-11-28 18:36:02 · 5 answers · asked by jamie_jak 1 in Desktops

what would be a good game that i can play?

2006-11-28 18:28:29 · 8 answers · asked by jamie_jak 1 in Desktops

2006-11-28 18:27:13 · 3 answers · asked by jas@yahoo.com.sg 1 in Other - Hardware

monitor is working properly and the lights on the cpu are also glowing...do it seems any problem in the mother boad...if so is there anyway that i can do to make it work...
here befor this problem i hav downloaded virtual cd software...and after downloading i am loading some content into that...then due to some power failure my pc was shutdown at that time....after this process its not working ...

2006-11-28 18:06:43 · 9 answers · asked by mani 1 in Desktops

I want to buy The Sims 2 Pets but Im not sure if I have to buy The Sims 2 first..

2006-11-28 18:00:49 · 3 answers · asked by me.kinkie.biatch.too 1 in Other - Hardware

pls let me know the procedures for the license if any and cost for it.what are the procedures and what all documents i want to submit for the license and all.Is there any excemption for importing used photo copier machines. pls let me know all the things. Thanks in advance.

2006-11-28 17:57:45 · 5 answers · asked by vijayaraj v 1 in Other - Hardware

2006-11-28 17:56:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I have Celeron 477 mhz, 64*2 RAM, 10 GH HDD 5 yrs old computer.

When I start a PC. It's working fine. But after a few minute, it freezed. When I restart again working well for few minute and hanged.
Sometime, long beep comes out. Sometimes no beep sound and monitor's LED start blink which is like after shutdown.
I have to switch on-swith off for 3-5 times. Then again working and hanged after few minute.

When I removed RAM. Sometimes no sound. sometime long beep.

I have two RAM module of 64 MB.

What is the problem with my PC. Is there SMPS has problem or RAM has ??

2006-11-28 17:46:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Im trying to build or buy a awesome gaming and burning Desktop. now im not an extreme gamer but am starting to like the newer and newer PC games more and more. so i dont need the top of the Alienware setup, but i would like something that would allow me to play games that come out in two years time, easlily, with few upgrades. I like NVIDIA (compared to what i seen from a friend's PC to the ATI i have) but im trying to figure out what is better overall. so in your guys opinion. what the best graphics card to you? also which one would you like the best. Make and Model

ps im not that fimiliar with "computer jargon" and stuff like that (if you cant already tell) so give it so me in some plain english. Thanks

2006-11-28 17:40:59 · 8 answers · asked by Nick T 3 in Desktops

give details of RAM memory speed etc;

2006-11-28 17:37:27 · 9 answers · asked by ravi c 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Ok the problem to begin with is spywear I went and downloaded all these so called free downloads to get rid of it didn't work they weren't free so I went out and bought the McAfee pc protection suite today and I ran it and it says that I have NOrton antivirus and I need to remove that sounds simple enough but when I went to add/remove programs it wasn't there and I can't find where else it could be on my pc is there another area I can search to find it and get rid of it please help me I am pulling out my hair than you in advance

2006-11-28 17:34:01 · 4 answers · asked by p-nut butter princess 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

I built my brother a computer, everything is running fine except I can't get it to display anything on the screen. At first I thought the GC was DOA. But then I put my card in, that I knew was good, and it was the same outcome. I'm thinking for whatever reason, the PCI-E x16 isn't working. There is two of them on the mobo, and I get the same result from both. Has anyone experienced something similar?

2006-11-28 17:24:29 · 5 answers · asked by humancandyball 3 in Other - Hardware

what is the thing that use for cleaning the soldering iron after soldering.

I saw my friends used it; the stuffs look brown. When the soldering iron touch it, it smells good.

What is that thing called?

2006-11-28 17:15:12 · 6 answers · asked by BBMak 2 in Other - Hardware

I have a monitor that has BNC female conectors on it, there are 5 total. 3 of them are G--R--B (thats how they are in the back) the other two are HD--VD. My question is if I get a Bnc Male to RCA Female Video Connector and connect a green cable to the G and a Red cable to the R and a Blue cable to the B will it work (sorry for the poor terms not to sure on the terms I should use) I am tring to hook up a dvd player to it.

Thanks

2006-11-28 17:07:57 · 2 answers · asked by rc11982 2 in Monitors

...Jessica Alba doesn't look 40 lbs heavier?

2006-11-28 17:04:32 · 3 answers · asked by Kim 4 in Monitors

Please help me...my computer all of a sudden shuts down itself and keeps on turning on and off...even without the hard drive it still goes on for a second and then resets and then goes on and then resets and one time when the hard drive was in it reset during the loading of windows and fried the hard drive...even after formatting it on a seperate computer it was too fried..
.back to the resetting computer...it isn't the power supply because i replaced it with a new one thinking it was the problem but it isn't it still resets...please help!?

2006-11-28 16:59:19 · 9 answers · asked by Andrew 2 in Desktops

2006-11-28 16:59:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I just bought a laptop...I have no idea that how could I get connected to internet?

This is the laptop and its features. If its helps

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=343223&pfp=EXTERNAL

Thanking you,
Mohammed

2006-11-28 16:50:56 · 9 answers · asked by KiNgCoBrA 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

i bought this computer from a company that didnt need it anymore. but it has a password and login name that i need to know before it wil let me to windows, it goes directly to it from boot, i cant even start up safe mode w/o it, any ways to go in the computer and get rid of it, or do i just have to buy windows again and install it over it? thanks

2006-11-28 16:48:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

what boxes / options do you put a check on?
for example temporary internet files compressed old files blablabla

thanks ;)

2006-11-28 16:44:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2006-11-28 16:26:31 · 3 answers · asked by calvinmelvin@verizon.net 1 in Add-ons