Hardware - January 2007

My laptop has a 4000maH battery at 10.8 volts. This translates roughly to 44wH, yet I somehow manage to get 4.5 hours of battery life out of it.

That means my laptop consumes roughly 10wH. How is this possible? Here are the stats for the laptop:

15.4" wide-screen
1.66ghz Core Duo
1gb RAM
100gb HHD
DVD+/-RW/RAM drive

The Core Duo should be alone consuming more than 10wH...

How's this possible?

2007-01-30 01:20:19 · 4 answers · asked by substance_of_desire 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-30 01:18:42 · 2 answers · asked by jack d 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-30 01:15:37 · 2 answers · asked by William H 1 in Monitors

my monitor is black and my pc is working. but my screen doesnt show any thing. what is the prob.

2007-01-30 01:12:56 · 5 answers · asked by karthik r 1 in Monitors

i recently acquired a processor without the pads. can use pads from another prosser but that's distructive. does anyone know the thickness it should be or where i may purchase some?

2007-01-30 01:02:54 · 2 answers · asked by lowrider6204 3 in Other - Hardware

What maintenance can I do for an HP 4100N that is asking me to perform maintenance. I am having no problems, the printer is working great and I really don't need the maintenance at this point.

2007-01-30 01:00:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

I think my lcd screen is gone on my computer (it's black all the time) next step is how do i change it? It's a gateway 200. I would like to try and save it if i can.
Thank you so very much!!
ps I have checked the brightness and contrast and this has done no good. I also contacted gateway, and they didnt help at all.

2007-01-30 00:58:09 · 2 answers · asked by My3kin 3 in Monitors

Stops after last autoexeoc instruction completed - (Set tvdumpflags=10) leaving dos codes showing. Soft boot does not generally help it through. Holding start button down then starting via a disk scan occasionally gets it through. Any help would be great.

2007-01-30 00:54:35 · 3 answers · asked by j j 1 in Other - Hardware

I knicked one of the choke coils on the motherboard with a screwdriver and chipped the coating. Help!!

2007-01-30 00:38:35 · 1 answers · asked by billsdude14 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-01-30 00:38:12 · 9 answers · asked by Charles R 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Like is it best to go for GHz, MHz or what? (Im not very computer savvy), most i wanna spend is around £550

2007-01-30 00:24:48 · 8 answers · asked by Matt B 2 in Desktops

I have a Compaq Presario, maybe that helps. Here's what I wanna do: replace the cd-rewriter with a dvd-rewriter. Do I also have to uninstall the cd-rewriter first or is it not necessary?

2007-01-30 00:16:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

i have a primary partition and an unallocated partition. i tried in different ways to add that free space to the primary partition, but the win xp partitioner just made a seperate partition with a drive letter. i just want to add that space the primary and have one partition. anyone know what i need to do with the windows xp partitioner?

2007-01-30 00:15:41 · 5 answers · asked by _ 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I use SDRAM, i put 128 MB in 2 slot,so the total is 256MB,But I see only 224MB.Where go more 32MB

2007-01-30 00:05:29 · 6 answers · asked by dani_syahfitri 1 in Desktops

I m using Packard Bell Desktop Mod. No. IXTREME 6052 & S/N : 030993520271 and have motherboard

Columbia V (GA-8SIML-NF5) Ver 2.0
Type: µATX motherboard
Manufacturer: Gigabyte
and the following is written at PackardBell Web site

CPU Support
Socket mPGA 478B

-Supports Intel P4 FC-PGA2 (Flip-Chip Pin Grid Array), 1400 MHz to 2800 MHz.

-Warning: not all the above processors have been qualified.

-100 MHz (x4 = 400 MHz) data bus support (Quad-Bumped technology).

-133 MHz (x4 = 533 MHz) data bus support (Quad-Bumped technology).
I want to upgrade the processor to P4 2.8 with at least 512kb cashe.(at present it is celeron 2.6 with128kb Cashe)
I visited all the related sites of Gigabite(no exact mod. found, Intel, packard bell but totally confused .
Please help me to find the right processor.
does this mother board supports both 400 & 533 bus speed?
can i use
SL7K9 Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz Socket 478 533 FSB Processor with 1MB L2 Cache?

2007-01-29 23:54:58 · 5 answers · asked by auzair19 2 in Desktops

2007-01-29 23:54:35 · 4 answers · asked by nikhil_knk 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Can I install it on a MacBook? Or would I better with a PC laptop, like an Acer or Toshiba?

http://gifts.freepay.com/?r=35017707

2007-01-29 23:51:37 · 4 answers · asked by serenabeliever 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Dell Precision 620 , 2 SCSI HDDs. Disconnected the SCSI drives installed an IDE drive, the computer works ok with the IDE drive.

2007-01-29 23:44:39 · 2 answers · asked by wizer45 1 in Desktops

yesterday my teacher ask me, when insert RAM card into it slot,why cannot touch the gold place

2007-01-29 23:44:02 · 5 answers · asked by dani_syahfitri 1 in Desktops

2007-01-29 23:38:50 · 2 answers · asked by csaba p 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-29 23:31:52 · 3 answers · asked by tafferooney 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I need help finding how to reset my computer to all defaults including screen resolution.

2007-01-29 22:52:57 · 5 answers · asked by R S 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-01-29 22:46:23 · 3 answers · asked by roudo 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-01-29 22:44:54 · 9 answers · asked by karthik s 1 in Other - Hardware

i have bought a power supply with a 24 pin connector to my motherboard but i need a 20 pin connector for my motherboard is their anything i can do about this thank you

2007-01-29 22:38:02 · 3 answers · asked by blueracingred 2 in Other - Hardware

The option (icon) is there but I get "Windows cannot find any Bluetooth devices. ". I used to have a BT icon in the system tray. The device manager says the radio is present (as are a bunch of BT ports) and the radio works perfectly with its own softfware.
(This is rewrite of an earlier question)

2007-01-29 22:26:23 · 2 answers · asked by Roy M 2 in Add-ons

2007-01-29 22:21:07 · 9 answers · asked by black prince 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-01-29 22:16:20 · 6 answers · asked by Bernard M 1 in Add-ons

I dont want to purchase at an online store & im having a lot of trouble finding AN ACTUAL STORE that carries them. anyplace within 30 miles of 91345.

2007-01-29 22:15:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I cancelled my Windows media player while it was still playing and i saw a small pop up warning saying "program aborted".Since then my CD ROM Drive cant read data/movies/music and i'm not able to buy a new one now,how can i troubleshoot it?

2007-01-29 22:11:29 · 2 answers · asked by black prince 1 in Other - Hardware