Hardware - December 2006

If I can't use windex what can I use to clean it? Anything special I should do? Thanks for answers in advance!

2006-12-31 18:41:42 · 12 answers · asked by Nickey b 2 in Monitors

I'm going crazy. I just spent $125 to get a Video Card for my computer that I bought from Walmart 2 years ago. I play the Sims 2 and once I got to Open for Business expantion pack the walls on my houses and create a family started to blink red. I went to Best Buy today and had the Geeks check it out. He said I had no Video card and told me that was all I needed to get it to work right. I went to Walmart and got ATI Radeon Viscon Tek 9250 PCI for $75. My brother installed it and I had something happen to where I had to buy a new CDRom Drive which cost me another $45. So I get home and install my Sims 2 games and expect no problem. WRONG I still have the blasted red flashing walls. What could be causing this problem. I really don't want to spend another day at Best Buy for this. Before I bought the sound card I had Direct X 9.0 which came with the computer. I'm stumped. Please IM me if your serious about helping out.

2006-12-31 18:21:39 · 3 answers · asked by slytherin_95 4 in Add-ons

I have been working with windows a lot and I just realized it sucks and I am switching to mac. The only problem is they are a bit over priced. Any website where I can buy a black mac book that costs little money?

2006-12-31 18:15:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

i have a kingston U3 1 GB data traveller USB but in win 98 not showing up. i removed generic usb driver in device manager and restarted. and put for windows update but says no driver. please tell me exact site name and exact link to download the driver. please dont ask me to google it bcz i have already tried and not found it.

thanks

2006-12-31 18:03:00 · 7 answers · asked by lakshmi r 4 in Other - Hardware

Today I went to bestbuy and I saw my card (7800 GS OC) was priced 350$ or so and the 7950 was like 200$. Shouldn't the 7950 be more expensive and better....please explain to me why the 7800 is better or why its a higher price then the 7950....Thx

2006-12-31 17:36:23 · 2 answers · asked by Mozes123 1 in Other - Hardware

Which dual core processor give the best performance?

2006-12-31 17:34:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Help comp died on me?
I had 512 mb of ram, so today I bought 1 gig of ram(its compatible) anyways when I was putting both of them in, I accidently put them in backwards. After I turned it on I heard kinda like a snap and then the comp turned off. I also smelled a lil bit of smoke. Anyways I found out I had it backwards, and put it in right. Now though, my keyboard,joystick,mouse, and display is not working. My video card fan is still working, and it still has colors coming out of it, but the display doesn't work. Also I have another video output (have no vid card plugged into it) and when I plugged in my monitor to it, the display still doesn't work (usually if i do this, the display shows but they're horrible graphics) any ideas on whats going on and how do I fix it? Also, could my vid card be fryed? The fan still works but it is plugged into the mobo so I dunno. afterwards, I plugged in the ram the correct way and there were no more beeping noises and no burn marks on the ram...

2006-12-31 17:31:44 · 5 answers · asked by Mozes123 1 in Other - Hardware

Is it a loose connection somewhere? How can I fix it? Will it be expensive?

2006-12-31 17:26:36 · 2 answers · asked by D.A. S 5 in Laptops & Notebooks

a kid was using my computer to update her ipod and after she finished my d drive with all my photos and backups is empty. when i view the drive in the disk management console it said the drive is unallocated, what should I do? I would like to try to save the files, i know there are some programs to do that, any recommendations of one that is good.

2006-12-31 17:24:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I bought a new TV tuner card made by Sabrent. I installed it on my PC and I can hear and see the TV signal from my cable TV. When I record the video records correctly but there is no sound. When I click the record button I get the error message "Cannot render audio capture stream". Can you tell me how to fix this?

The tuner card is a PCI card I inserted into my PC. It comes with a junction cable that I connected from the audio out of the TV tuner card to the audio in of the computer's sound card. I also tried connecting from the audio in of the TV tuner card to the audio out of the computer's sound card but that didn't work either.

I've sent a message to Sabrent for help but I probably won't hear from them for 36 hours. Does anyone have any ideas?

2006-12-31 17:23:55 · 3 answers · asked by blue_prince_of_dallas 2 in Add-ons

It seems everything is ok, but when i record a program from cable its just the video with no sound

A few days ago it was ok...

2006-12-31 17:23:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I have to earn it all by myself.
I already get 5 dollar allowance and my parents won't raise it.
I can't babysit
What can I do?
We're allowed a tablet pc to school, and cellphones and stuff.
I'm in fifth grade.
I'm always loosing my notes and then not being able to study for tests because my friends won't tell me what the notes are.
Even my teacher suggested for my parents to get me one!
How do I get the money?
Where can I get one?
Please help me!

2006-12-31 17:22:06 · 8 answers · asked by Aliza 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-12-31 17:17:42 · 3 answers · asked by philmors 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Can any one explain the diff. between laptop & notebook.

2006-12-31 17:14:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-12-31 17:13:05 · 6 answers · asked by bmrockhill 1 in Desktops

2006-12-31 17:10:53 · 8 answers · asked by bmrockhill 1 in Desktops

I forgot where to go to. My printer will not work until I can get into there and restart it.

2006-12-31 17:09:21 · 6 answers · asked by Karen K 1 in Printers

Can you run antivirus/anti spyware scans? Can you defragment it and use the other system tools? Is it safe to do these things?

2006-12-31 17:07:18 · 3 answers · asked by LSN 2 in Add-ons

Usually on the 154 to 156 mhz band.

2006-12-31 17:07:08 · 8 answers · asked by Joel G 1 in Scanners

I have taken it to several local places but they say things like bring the disk for the motherboard. It is a second hand computer my brother brought to me and I don't have discs.

2006-12-31 17:00:06 · 6 answers · asked by Rudolph'sGrandma 3 in Desktops

i tried saving it to the c drive and then trying to burn it to my cd but it does not work ineed help its due in 2 days

2006-12-31 16:57:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/facts/sysreq.mspx

Why are stores keep on selling Pentium Machines that do not run 64 bit XPs? ALL AMD CPU WORKS..
Check Microsoft:
Only Intel with Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support WORKS?

2006-12-31 16:48:22 · 14 answers · asked by 64bit upgrader 2 in Desktops

My computer is being loud and getting hot it seems. I've had it for about 2 years, I've tried to clean it but I just don't know how and I can't take things apart on it. It seems to be loud mainly when I play World of Warcraft or EQ2

2006-12-31 16:44:38 · 7 answers · asked by Fanuilos 2 in Desktops

I accidently spilled a bit of Jack Daniels and Coke and my boyfriends laptop. We stupidly tried to turn it back on and it worked fine for hours and now it boots up but freezes when we try to get on the internet. Did I screw it up completely? Should we let it sit for a few days?

2006-12-31 16:29:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2006-12-31 16:26:30 · 9 answers · asked by Lisa S 1 in Add-ons

Im considering doing so.

2006-12-31 16:24:40 · 11 answers · asked by Me! 2 in Desktops

It's a wireless HP keyboard and mouse set. It came with my HP Media Center Computer (the one I'm using right now). The wireless receiver is connected to the computer via USB. The problem is, All of a sudden, out of nowhere BF2142 stops. Not the whole game, but just stops moving forwards. I was turning to the right to land, but the accelleration stops, and I crash. I thought it was just lag, but It kept happening on different server and even offline. It's not just the "W" key either. Every time I move the mouse left and right, like I usually do, while pressing a button (any button, not just directional keys), the typing/signal just stops. I don't know if this is supposed to happen, but I don't think so, or else how would I play a lot of the games I usualy do. The keyboard has never had anything spilled on it, I just replaced the battery, it's within point blank range, nothing is in the way, and the USB is fully plugged in. This has never happened before. There are no drivers for the set

2006-12-31 16:18:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I want to share processing power, RAM, etc. between 2 computers; more specifically, motherboards with one mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Is this possible, and if it is, how can I set it up?

2006-12-31 16:11:03 · 4 answers · asked by schnauzer 4 in Other - Hardware

I want to buy an apple laptop but i dont want to spend a billion bucks for it. i need an alternative to ebay.

2006-12-31 15:57:16 · 3 answers · asked by ballerboy 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to buy a laptop

purpose : home use , business use

i dont need any graphics card ( no gaming ) or high end system.

i want to use this laptop for daily activities.

but laptop must carry * irda,bluetooth * along with other normal features.


BUDGET : 50,000 Rs


please suggest me couple of popular models which would satisfy my above criteria.

2006-12-31 15:54:07 · 8 answers · asked by sanko 1 in Laptops & Notebooks