Hardware - January 2007

when you purchase a copier,scanner fax machine, what exactly does a scanner do?...

2007-01-31 00:24:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Scanners

Intel Pentium M Processor 740 1.73Ghz
I'm planning on upgrading to Vista but there's a 32 bit and 64 bit version, so I'm a bit confused which version I should be installing.
Thanks

2007-01-30 23:58:32 · 5 answers · asked by w1002429 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to take out my own hard disk put in hers then reformat it and install windows xp. Will the hard disk work ok when i put it back in her older pc after it is formatted?

2007-01-30 23:53:38 · 8 answers · asked by grassmonkeys 4 in Other - Hardware

2007-01-30 23:47:56 · 5 answers · asked by shaun s 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-30 23:47:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I have a laptop running on P3 1,1 GHz CPU. I use it for 5 years, now problem comes. After running it for about 3-8 hours with main supply, it shuts down automatically. I bought a laptop cooler for it. It seems to improve a bit but problem still remains. I also opened it up and cleaned the CPU fan but still cannot get rid of the problem. Have also scanned it with different antivirus programs and defragmented the HDD. What else can I try?

I have already bought another laptop and will sell the old one out through the local auction site. But I do not want to receive complains from the buyer.

2007-01-30 23:39:38 · 9 answers · asked by piggy 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-30 23:33:32 · 5 answers · asked by vk 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I can read from my USB pendrive... copy files from it but I can copy files to it. Then I got my external removable drive, and the problem was just the same. Is there a way out?

2007-01-30 23:18:45 · 2 answers · asked by McNeal 3 in Add-ons

When destroying a hard drive by means of a hammer is it necessary to open the hard drive up completely with the silver discs exposed or can I leave it inside the casing then smash it and have the same results?

2007-01-30 23:10:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-01-30 22:59:06 · 7 answers · asked by Darrenj 2 in Desktops

I have a Maxtor 3.5 hard drive running Win XP. This is running fine, but I need to format the original WD400 drive that came with my PC ( HP Pavillion a219.uk ). I have the 6 reset discs but they won't work on the WD400, when only that is connected. I've set my CD drive as the first bootable device, no luck. Do I need an 'fdisk' floppy? I don't know much about that. Is there a downloadable program that could help me and if so what web-site? Thanks for any help :-)

2007-01-30 22:52:43 · 2 answers · asked by a l 1 in Desktops

Will the standard apple imac intel core duo.(the one with the 20inch screen and costs £999) be sufficient to run apple motion 2.1

I need some1 who knows more about the technical aspect of these computers to let me know if i was to buy this computer if the standard graphics card and processor would be sufficient to run this Apple Motion program smoothly.

Thanks in advance

2007-01-30 22:43:44 · 3 answers · asked by chembeh 2 in Desktops

My hard drive isn't full full full, I add to and delete from it on a regular basis, I defrag and run disc cleanup. It just seems my machine doesn't keep up the way it used to.

Am I competing with more powerful machines, presumably bought since mine?

To give you some examples, it takes my computer about 10 minutes to go from OFF to ready for use, including starting Windows and putting everything on my desktop, configuring my printer, and all that startup stuff.

It takes about 1 minute to load a webpage I have never visited before. Presumably the cookies help me find it faster after that.

I can't play some video games, and these are not massive role player games, just simple online games (java, flash, or shockwave) or downloads that I got from RealArcade. It seems if I stay within the smaller files, under 50MB I do okay. But it stalls during graphic intensive parts like a battle or loading screen to screen.

I don't run a lot at once, either.

2007-01-30 22:34:38 · 9 answers · asked by musicimprovedme 7 in Desktops

I have a laptop with a 64 bit dual core processor and an Gforce 7800 gtx video card. Is windows vista going to work with all of this? Are drivers going to be compatable?

2007-01-30 22:20:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-01-30 21:43:21 · 5 answers · asked by highness_obri 1 in Desktops

Is It ok to clean the circuit board looking thing on the printer ink tank with alcohol ? my printer wont bring up the ink its a new cartridge its a canon color bjc 4400

2007-01-30 21:42:19 · 4 answers · asked by jrhodtex 2 in Printers

Earlier this evening, I attempted to run disk defragmenter since my computer appeared to be running slow. My computer couldn't run diskdefragmenter, however, due to a problem with QTfont.qfn. In order to take care of the problem, I went ahead to delete QTfont.qfn. I also had to try to get rid of QTF.for and a prefetch file. However, even after deleting all of these disk defragmenter won't work because the files won't properly delete. They are still stuck in the Recycle bin. It still shows completely empty even after I put on show hidden files and everything, but I repeatedly click on empty recycle bin. It asks me whether I want to remove the files and I click okay, but my recycle bin still has those three items but I can't find them and can't seem to delete them. Any ideas or solutions if anybody has encountered a problem like this before or know somebody who has?

2007-01-30 21:36:53 · 4 answers · asked by iamathundercat7 1 in Desktops

Ok, i was going to go all out and build a gaming pc with a nvidia geforce 7950 graphics card. but with that and everything else i was looking at it was going to be like $1300 without a monitor. i went to dell and can pretty much get all i was wanting with a monitor for $1k even. with a compromise on the graphics card. im gettin 2 gigs of memory with a amd x2 dual core 4200 with Vista installed. they give 3 choices for graphics cards, from cheapest to most expensive: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE, 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE, and 256MB ATI Radeon X1300 Pro. im kinda partial to nvida. but price and quality is much more important. i probably will upgrade in a year or when the price goes down on the high end cards. but what is a good card for now, from the above 3 for a mid level gamer? playin games like FEAR, flight sim X etc, and have no problem. even games that are coming out over the corse of the year, and still will run good? like i said i plan to upgrade so only need for 8 to 12 months.

2007-01-30 21:17:37 · 3 answers · asked by Nick T 3 in Add-ons

I was looking to buy a Samsung Q30 plus and was wondering how much i could get it for.
Mainly RRP (reccomended retail price) not how much i could get it for on ebay.

2007-01-30 20:57:21 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Seemingly there are no software issues having run spybot and other anti-virus at this point.

I run Windows XP and have defragged and actually went as far as to reinstall Windows to no avail after trying restores.

Basically, the computer will run somewhat normally, then will freeze (without error message) for about 10-15 seconds. It will do this about 5 times, then run somewhat more normally for about 5-10 minutes.

The problem only really started this semester at school the computer has ran well for a few years, and as far as i can tell nothing is damaged visibly at least.

2007-01-30 20:44:03 · 11 answers · asked by blindog23 4 in Other - Hardware

2007-01-30 20:29:32 · 8 answers · asked by kalloggs40 3 in Other - Hardware

What is the best way I can retrieve the files from those disks?
Is anything available in the market ( Kolkata, specifically )?

This kind of disk ( from IOMEGA ) was popular once upon a time.

2007-01-30 20:27:36 · 5 answers · asked by utpal_ray 2 in Other - Hardware

the hard drive password lock has locked the sectors I have forgot the password . I would like to extract the files and wipe out the hard drive. How can I extract the data if the hard drive is locked?

2007-01-30 20:19:13 · 7 answers · asked by sqrtcker 1 in Desktops

how do i connect my hard disk to a usb port?
my hard disk is a normal harddisk not an external harddisk.
is there ne device or connector that interconnects ide and usb....
pls tell.......
my id:- akhi_s27@yahoo.co.in

2007-01-30 20:06:27 · 9 answers · asked by akhi_s27 1 in Desktops

have got and how do I update it.

2007-01-30 20:00:28 · 5 answers · asked by B i n g o 4 in Desktops

2007-01-30 19:59:29 · 12 answers · asked by Robin C 4 in Monitors

Do you have any info on a good place to purchase it?

Thank you.

2007-01-30 19:54:56 · 3 answers · asked by Vlasko 3 in Add-ons

Laptop specifications are Intel Centrino 1.73 ghz, 512 MB RAM, shared AGP, DVD-CDRW Combo, 60 GB HDD

2007-01-30 19:52:40 · 3 answers · asked by Subba Rao KV 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My computer is a Dell Latitude D510, and its original specs are:

1.6 Ghz speed, 256 RAM but over the past year I've replaced the original 256 RAM with two 512 cards to give me 1 G of RAM.

I've downloaded a fan moderator lately and it records temperatures of up to 60 * C when running one of my favorite computer games (world of warcraft). The fan stays on forever because my computer just gets so hot.

Is it possible my RAM cards are incorrect incompatible with my comptuer making it overheat? My paging file size is 1532 MB also.

That and my fan is also very noisy now, I think it's sort of going dead but it still does work.

Not sure where to start with this one..

(By the way how much does it cost to replace a laptop fan?)

2007-01-30 19:51:20 · 6 answers · asked by Dr. Arnold 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-30 19:44:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers