Hardware - February 2007

crashed, reloaded everything, drive G may have been F,windows explorer, says, drive not formatted ,format now? i backed up with onecare, and it dont reconize it! windows xp pro media, 2002, gateway. i will dump onecare after i get my files back, or not.

2007-02-14 15:00:50 · 1 answers · asked by roscoe2rosc 1 in Add-ons

Is a nvidia mx 4000 128mb better than a radeon 9250 128mb video card??

2007-02-14 14:55:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

MY BIRTHDAY IS COMING UP AND I WANT A BRAND NEW DELL MONITOR 20 SOMETHING INCHES. DO YOU THINK ITS A GOOD PRODUCT..WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT NE WIDESCREEN APPLE MONITORS..

2007-02-14 14:54:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

what is a cpu what does it stand for and why does it get stuck on 100% sometimes

2007-02-14 14:53:49 · 11 answers · asked by jaws 2 in Other - Hardware

I haven't had any problems with the things I need to save and I bypass the process each time.

2007-02-14 14:31:30 · 6 answers · asked by mulderlx 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-02-14 14:24:27 · 3 answers · asked by ashley r 1 in Printers

I Picked out a

HP Pavilion a1719n Desktop PC

Had EVGA e-GeForce 7600 GS AGP Graphics Card Installed

Got a 17' flat screen monitor.


With Windows Vista.


rate 1-10. and add reasoning please.

2007-02-14 14:19:23 · 8 answers · asked by Shadowman 2 in Desktops

Please teach me how to use it. I asked a teacher and she didn't know.

2007-02-14 14:17:11 · 4 answers · asked by Brian 2 in Other - Hardware

WELL I WANT TO BUY ONE BUT I DONT KNOW WICH ONE IS FOR ME THE UPGRADE THAT ONLY COST LIKE 170 OR 160 AND THE OTHER ONE COST WAY MORE WHY IS THAT

2007-02-14 14:14:12 · 9 answers · asked by ernestin.gomez@sbcglobal.net 1 in Desktops

and if u could can u use it lik it was new?

2007-02-14 14:10:08 · 10 answers · asked by soul_rebel4o8 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-02-14 14:03:49 · 1 answers · asked by bcummings_2 1 in Monitors

I do not like change! I think I like my computer just the way it is with my original windows xp home edition. Are there alot of you who feel the same? Wonder what we are really missing out on by not getting the newest ideas out there?

2007-02-14 14:01:38 · 12 answers · asked by ladylou 3 in Other - Hardware

I have a Gateway 700SE. It currently has 256mb pc800 rdram. I'd like to add more, but I remember the tech guy saying it has to be installed in pairs. I'm thinking there's like four 64mb cards in there right now, so I'd have to pull out 128mb to add any more.

How do I know what memory to buy? Will anything with pc800 rdram work? Can I just get two 256mb cards, and add to two of the 64mb cards that will be remaining?

Also, I need to replace my hard drive. It's currently an 80gb 7M Ultra ATA hard drive. How do I know what will work as a replacement? I'd like to go with larger than an 80gb if possible.

Thanks for all your help! I hate feeling ignorant! :)

2007-02-14 13:57:14 · 4 answers · asked by misty75r 1 in Desktops

I've been saving up for a macbook pro and they're just too expensive and a friend of mine suggested building my own computer and installing os x for much cheaper.... so HOW DO I ACCOMPLISH THIS!!?!?!?

2007-02-14 13:54:49 · 7 answers · asked by empty_calm 1 in Desktops

2007-02-14 13:41:26 · 8 answers · asked by Kazaskater 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Everytime I put in a CD in my drive, I get an error message saying "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows."

HELP??

2007-02-14 13:33:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-02-14 13:20:08 · 8 answers · asked by salil747 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Will the Mogo mouse work on my hp Pavillion dv5130 laptop. I don't have bluetooth so for now I had to instal a usb bluetooth device to use with my Logitech bluetooth mouse.

2007-02-14 13:18:12 · 1 answers · asked by robert86@snet.net 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

MEMORY HELP i have a HP Pavilion dv5000 lap top and i want to upgrade to 2 gigs of ram the problem is im not sure what type of ram to get i cant seem to find my computer model on any web site

2007-02-14 13:09:39 · 7 answers · asked by thewaterboy80 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I tried the PC speaker mute in the volume control, and that only muted the speakers. I want to turn off or turn down the built in speaker that plays the beep on startup in older PC's and the sounds in DOS games. I tried to play a DOS game on my laptop and the speaker is too damn loud. How can I turn this off?

2007-02-14 12:46:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I just got my computer less than a year ago, about 10 months to be exact and it already says VIRTUAL MEMORY LOW. My other computer said the same thing, and it was all down hill from there, so I ended up buying this one. Why is my new one doing this already? They are both Emachines.

2007-02-14 12:40:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-02-14 12:26:31 · 5 answers · asked by Ca$eman 1 in Add-ons

http://news.com.com/Low-cost+laptop+moves+closer+to+reality/2100-1044_3-5884683.html

Personally I think these babies are sweet, 150 dollars for a laptop isnt bad. So it doesn't come with much storage or windows, I would take a hand crack over them any day. Am I the only person that would actually want to buy one?

2007-02-14 12:25:16 · 2 answers · asked by D 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have a Compaq Presario 1245 Laptop, and I just recently installed a new harddrive, formatted it, and was going to reinstall a windows disk. The system boot fine, and allowed to go into the setup fine, but there was a problem with the Cdrom tray being loose and shakey and not reading the disk. It was just a missing rail, that goofy me forgot to put back in....Anyways, I took out the Cddrive, fixed the problem, so far so good. However, now it will boot into the setup, but thats about it. Otherwise I get a Boot Disk Failure message. The CD doesnt open, and when go and manually open it, and insert the disk, it doesnt even spin. Its just dead, like its not there at all. It shows up in the BIOS, and lets me select it to boot from. So, Im thinking its just a wiring problem, like its not plugged in all the way, but everything looks fine. Could this be a HD problem? Will a boot disk failure cause the cd rom to not even work at all? I tried booting from floppy too.....nothing.

2007-02-14 12:23:08 · 4 answers · asked by clone17 3 in Other - Hardware

around $800-1500

2007-02-14 12:21:36 · 5 answers · asked by Megan 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Everything is just unbelievably slow and it's really annoying.

If I minimize something, it takes a long time and has to load everything. I heard changing my theme to XP Classic speeds it up a little but XP Classic is REALLY ugly and I don't feel comfortable with my computer anymore if I use it.

I am running Windows XP Pro. I have 128MB ram, 1GHZ PROCESSOR.... uhh. yeah.

Please, I need help speeding it up.

2007-02-14 12:19:31 · 6 answers · asked by Esteban D 1 in Other - Hardware

How is it working out and what brand did you buy? Thanks.!

2007-02-14 12:16:12 · 1 answers · asked by JD 4 in Desktops

I'm looking at buying either a Western Digital, Seagate or Maxtor.
The Maxtor is an external (I want external), but the others are IDE (I think that this means it is made for inside the comp...?) Anyways, with the Seagate or WD I would get an external case and put it in myself.
To answer this question, don't worry yourself about price, I've found some pretty sweet prices, but rather, WHAT IS BETTER and WHY?

Cheers heaps!

Gman

2007-02-14 12:00:30 · 10 answers · asked by gman 2 in Other - Hardware

here the problem my scanner works and copier the only problem is that my printer knocks and that causes my printer not to print so i need help and if someone brought their recently like 06 can you give me the serial number and machine type for future references thank you

2007-02-14 11:36:51 · 3 answers · asked by trina 1 in Printers

This computer does not take the 512MB chip that I bought for it, it would only take two chips of 128 each, can anybody help me with putting the new 512MB-ROM chip to work.

2007-02-14 11:35:48 · 9 answers · asked by theking200313 2 in Other - Hardware