Hardware - November 2006

Dell diminsion 2400, will crash and turn power off.
I have installed new anti-virus protection, new modem, all i have available for now is dial up where I live. had 256 ram installed another 512 have windows defender,spy bot S/D. I have windows XP home. Most crashes occur when trying to connect with internet but not always. Cleaned out cobwebs and dust bunnies, hooked up a fan blowing directly on inside of puter. Basicly done all I have been told to do. When I do connect I can be surfing and sometimes it will randomly shut down. Would love to resolve this myself if possible. My recovery disk has been lost or I would try to wipe hard drive and reinstall win.XP Please can anyone give me a helping hand with this. If I can find someone I would spend my dime on a call for the help.
THANKS in advance for all input.

Also along with these problems there are times when the CD-ROM will open and close ALL BY ITSELF. This is driving me nuts. Thanx for any help

2006-11-15 23:39:46 · 9 answers · asked by phillip b 2 in Desktops

I don't have much idea capacity or speed of the pc's, and I want a wireless one !!

2006-11-15 23:34:26 · 17 answers · asked by rachid b 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

i have a sata hdd already in my pc.
can i do the above and how?

thanking you in advance.

2006-11-15 23:31:47 · 2 answers · asked by scot 1 in Desktops

Tks. It is horrible to bear such~!!

2006-11-15 23:27:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

If I have a 1.6 GHz Dual Core CPU, does it mean that there are two CPUs of frequency 800MHz?

2006-11-15 23:25:45 · 7 answers · asked by Sprinter 5 in Other - Hardware

my mom wants a new monitor and someone is giving away a dell 16". will it work with her mac?
Thanks in advance

2006-11-15 23:23:24 · 4 answers · asked by meteor 1 in Monitors

i had already installed the sound using the motherboard cd yet still i did not heard any sound from my speaker..

2006-11-15 23:22:19 · 12 answers · asked by blurry 1 in Other - Hardware

I was wondering if anyone has rented there computers from Rent A Center? If so, did you know that, they can fix anything. . . . . . A few weeks ago, i deleted my recovery partition on my computer, and i had no way of getting it back. Well, i took it to RAC, and they sent it to the shop, and they put the partition back on there. . It's unbelievable. Alot of people told me that it couldn't be done, cuz once i deleted it, it was GONE.. . . BUT, here's the thing. Instead of puting Windows XP SP2, the recovery partition is SP 1. . . . Is there any way to upgrade that to SP 2?

2006-11-15 23:14:06 · 4 answers · asked by Jeremy Medlock 5 in Desktops

I have a dell xps. with 63 GB of data and 169 GB free. when i try to play videos or look at pictures it will often lock up and when i hit cntl + alt+ del it shows my CPU usage at 100% and i have to re-boot. thanks

2006-11-15 23:12:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2006-11-15 23:08:09 · 4 answers · asked by ? 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-11-15 23:05:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2006-11-15 22:51:57 · 6 answers · asked by tanja 1 in Scanners

for days I have been unable to access the Dell website. Is anyone else having the same problem?

2006-11-15 22:48:06 · 1 answers · asked by Arthur E 1 in Desktops

i have a A series laptop A400xt
does anyone no the part no for a replacement sreen and ribbon cable
i have tried a A series A366xt but it will not work
alan

2006-11-15 22:25:37 · 4 answers · asked by alan g 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Can I put DDR2 RAM in this system, Is the speed of RAM referred by the Processor speed? Pls help.....

2006-11-15 22:24:19 · 4 answers · asked by jac825in 1 in Other - Hardware

2006-11-15 22:16:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

i have to unplug it and plug it in several times to get it to work i changed the power lead do when it starts it will work perfectly do you think its a faulty power suply its only 1 month old or some kind of overheat protection

2006-11-15 22:04:47 · 6 answers · asked by daredevil 1 in Desktops

is there any warranty, guarantee or service related problems?

2006-11-15 21:31:45 · 5 answers · asked by hiren 1 in Other - Hardware

What's the best, quickest and cheapest way to upgrade memory from 64mb to 128mb? This is for a broadband connection.

2006-11-15 21:25:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

will it be better to buy a pc of any brand like IBM, LENOVO or anything like that

2006-11-15 21:17:13 · 12 answers · asked by hiren 1 in Add-ons

can anyone help me? where do i look to find out how much black & color ink,...

2006-11-15 21:13:51 · 6 answers · asked by chelsღ 3 in Printers

it is on my sound card

2006-11-15 21:13:41 · 1 answers · asked by Snot Me 6 in Other - Hardware

VERY NEW TO THIS COPYING FILMS GAME BUT CAN'T FIND ANY INFORMATION TO LEARN ABOUT IT ALL.

2006-11-15 21:13:18 · 13 answers · asked by DOMINIC J 1 in Add-ons

i have a bad sector on my hard drive. How can i remove these bad sectors from my hard drive to secure my computer or data?

2006-11-15 21:06:48 · 9 answers · asked by lala 1 in Other - Hardware

I want to play games in it, the Sims for example, and I also need it for work in school. I've been wondering about apple macbook, or something from apple. Are those good? What do you think about laptops from apple? I am willing to spend some money,it doesn't have to be cheap, I just want a really good computer. So.. what do you recommend?

2006-11-15 20:47:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-11-15 20:41:03 · 6 answers · asked by dynamo 2 in Desktops

Recycle cartridges via envelopes that charities send out.

2006-11-15 20:40:37 · 6 answers · asked by L C 1 in Printers

I have loads (around 5000) old 35 mm slides i would like to scan. Scanning them 1-by-1 sounds like a lot of work. They are all in so called standard cassettes (holding 36 each that go direct to slide projector).

Has any company developed a loading machine that would take the whole tray at a time and scan tehm one by one (like projector shows them), if you know of such machine, let me know. If not I have to wait, my father has the same problem with 15000 slides.

2006-11-15 20:18:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Scanners

hey man plz help me yaar , i had an intel D915GVWB motherboard it doesnt have agp slot,and i think it has pci slot not the pci-e slot , so plz tell me can i add a pci-e card to it if not then tell me any pci graphic cards come or i have to buy new motherboard and graphic card if so then plz tell me which r the best motherboard and card which can play all the latest games ,my budget is upto 7000.also tell the prices of those motherboard and graphic cards

2006-11-15 19:16:20 · 5 answers · asked by ? 1 in Add-ons

USING SOME WEBSITE FOR EXAMPLE CROSSNET IN SHARE TRADING

2006-11-15 19:15:54 · 2 answers · asked by Arul D 1 in Scanners