Hardware - March 2007

I accidently took a sniff on printer ink. It was the paper that recently came out of the printer that I smell.

2007-03-03 07:59:08 · 10 answers · asked by Fiirion G 1 in Printers

My specs:
AMD 64 X2 3800+ 2.0Ghz Skt 939
RADEON 1300 PRO 256MB
1GB (2x 512MB) DDR RAM
200MB SATA HD
1 CD-RW DRIVE

So what's the minimal power supply i should need, and why?

2007-03-03 07:39:40 · 5 answers · asked by AMoDon 2 in Other - Hardware

Is the Bus speed important? Is memory speed important? Are you better of going for an expensive machine or do you think you are wiser to get cheaper parts?

2007-03-03 07:36:54 · 3 answers · asked by Siu02rk 3 in Other - Hardware

I only have 16 colors listed in my computer under settings. I believe I had a lot more. All my pictures on my compter have dots and lines in them. Everytime I type a letter, the computer screen blinks. I've tried rebooting and doing the whole F8 thing and it didn't work. I also downloaded Driver Genius with no help from that either. I'm having problems with the internet also. Is it a virus or something with my drives? My boyfriend recently deleted some things and I don't know if he accidentaly deleted something for the colors and graphics. Help!

2007-03-03 07:32:18 · 4 answers · asked by flower child 3 in Other - Hardware

I try to move it across the screen and the pointer just flies back, or even further from where I want it to go. As soon as I let go of the pad, the pointer flicks back across the screen. It also jumps as soon as I touch the pad, without even moving it anywhere. Why does my laptop disagree with me!? Any tips to stop this from happening?

2007-03-03 07:30:34 · 3 answers · asked by elysionVAR 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

is the size different? if i got a USB hub, would a 1.1 plug into a 2.0 or 2.0 into 1.1?

2007-03-03 07:25:53 · 7 answers · asked by [(I.L.W.S.M)] 2 in Add-ons

Can anyone tell me the best place to sell my Centrino laptop? It is a very high quality laptop (1.6GHz centrino, 512MB, 60GB, DVD+CDRW, widescreen, wireless), and worked perfectly till the video card overheated. Apparently the easiest way to replace the video card is to replace the entire motherboard.

The computer is too good to just throw away. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do, or where I can sell it?

2007-03-03 07:14:18 · 5 answers · asked by diffusemenow 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

i gotta virus that complely disabled my cd drive, dont tell me anything about checking the connections or going to device manager and all that other junk, my cd drive wont come up on my pc, if i go to my computer it jsut shows the local disk and the floppy drive, hope someone can help me, i used tons of virus scanners and none are finding the virus, should i format my hd?

thanks

2007-03-03 07:12:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My computer's CD drive is a DVD/CD-RW combo drive. Can I use this drive to burn a CD? Or would I have to buy a seperate CD burning drive and install it to the computer. If so, what exactly am I buying so I know what to look for in stores.

2007-03-03 07:10:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

My computer is an Emachine digital medial manager T6532 Desktop PC with 200 GB Hard Drive
1024 MB DDR SDRAM Dual Channel
My printer/scanner is a brother Model DCP-120c.

The problem is that since I have changed my ink cartridges it has slowed down considerably. It literaly takes 10 minutes or more to print off just half a page of words only. It was fine before. I have defraged my computer and cleaned up disk space and also have looked and have Plenty of disk space for my pritner. What could be the problem? I have searched for problems on the website for the brother website and they are not open until Monday and I have to wait until they email me for answers. I was hopeing for some good answers from some computer/printer engineers wizards from here. Thank you in advance for your kind answers.

2007-03-03 07:07:47 · 2 answers · asked by Stephanie F 7 in Printers

Ok, so I need to transport the card, and I was wondering where it is located and how to do this. They are both old laptops: one a Vaio and one a really old Versabay 2. I have no idea where the card is located, how to tranport it, or if this will even work. Also, what is the difference between internet and ethernet?

2007-03-03 07:00:25 · 2 answers · asked by Zasm 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-03-03 06:57:47 · 3 answers · asked by sarge 1 in Printers

I dont have all the slots filled

2007-03-03 06:53:54 · 4 answers · asked by How do i 1 in Desktops

i might have to reformat/ get a new comp soon, but i got alot of music i DONT wanna lose or re-download. I also dont want to make hundreds of burnt cd's lol.

I am running windows xp, if thats a factor. thanks!

2007-03-03 06:43:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

favorites are on XP and I want to transfer to a notebook with Vista

2007-03-03 06:35:13 · 3 answers · asked by Ed B 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-03-03 06:23:43 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-03-03 06:23:11 · 4 answers · asked by yera_swag 1 in Desktops

If so is it pretty straight forward to accept card payments at fairs/markets etc?

2007-03-03 06:22:06 · 20 answers · asked by steve738494 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

My motherboard in my processor died after three years of use. (1.80ghz. Intel Pentium 4, 8kb primary cache 256kb secondary memory cache. Only had 256MB memory in slot A

I took my pc to an authorized Samsung/Microsoft shop and requested update techology. Motherboard Pentium 4 and 512MB memory.

When I picked up my pc and ran Belarc Advisor to compare all the parts, I saw that I had 256MB memory slot 1 and 256MB memory slot 2 -- Was shocked to see that I had 800Mhz. IDTPentium II

(All other hardware matched upon return).

Went back to the shop the Government shut the shop down.

Now no matter what I do, I am using 100% of my CPU. I don´t have any trojans or spyware.

Please can some one help me to understand, Pentium II, 800mhz, that I have now against what I had that died Pentium 4 1.80Ghz. Is this the power that makes you pc and software run?. An I lack the power to even install my updates for my antivirus. Will Pentium 4 help.

Thanks,

Minddoctor, France

2007-03-03 06:19:04 · 2 answers · asked by MINDDOCTOR 7 in Other - Hardware

2007-03-03 05:49:53 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

i have downloaded vista transformation pack for windows xp but now my systerm is really slow how can i speed it up i am runninig a toshiba satalite laptop

2007-03-03 05:48:17 · 3 answers · asked by h w 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I can not print more than 1 copy at a time with my Lexmark X125, can anyone tell me how to print multiple copies

Thanks

Reynaldo Torres

2007-03-03 05:45:45 · 1 answers · asked by REYNALDO T 1 in Printers

Did any body try this before? how is the performance and how many meters u were able to walk away from your base?

2007-03-03 05:42:47 · 1 answers · asked by Nablus 1 in Other - Hardware

A long time ago, I saved a picture as background. But that picture I can't see it in my background, I can ONLY see that picture when I'm turning on the computer or turning off the computer.

How to get this picture off? I tried everything with properties and that picture won't go away. (It's aishwarya picture)

2007-03-03 05:38:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

I need to clean it!

2007-03-03 05:37:24 · 4 answers · asked by Chrishan D 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My hard drive sounds as if it may be on its last legs. Can the hard drive and XP operating system be copied/mirrored? I really don't want to lose the installed programs. I have a dell 4600 with windows pre-installed at the factory.

2007-03-03 05:37:09 · 6 answers · asked by john_e_29212 3 in Desktops

2007-03-03 05:32:58 · 6 answers · asked by Rajan S 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-03-03 05:18:45 · 4 answers · asked by al5645al 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-03-03 05:13:31 · 9 answers · asked by TheAllKnowingFizz 2 in Desktops

Right now I am running an entry level Dell with a Celeron D 2.53 GHz processor, no video card, and 2 gigs of RAM.

I am willing to put out a couple thousand for a high end PC, for using photoshop and 2D animation programs. I would like to know what kind of an increase in speed I am looking at, and what set up is best. I would like a graphics card that gives extremely accurate colors (I already have a great monitor, a SyncMaster 204B)

Also, it would help if I could get a computer that can use the 2x 1G DDR memory sticks I already have. Im guessing I will want to go to 4 gigs of RAM.

2007-03-03 05:12:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware