Hardware - March 2007

Please help pick a businessline computer between Thinkpad T-60 and Dell Latitude D-620. My question is with similar system settings, does the the Thinkpad T-60 deserve the premium it charges?

2007-03-02 07:56:14 · 4 answers · asked by zhanwi 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

What's more important to general laptop use. Having dedicated graphics card (ive heard if its not dedicated, it feeds off the cpu and slows ur computer down), or a 2ghz processor as opposed to a 1.87ghz processor. (I have to pick between the graphics card and the processor). I will be doing little to no gaming, and i just want whats going to make it fastest for all purpose computer use. Which one is going to have a greater effect on my computers speed?

2007-03-02 07:56:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Im planning on buying a 22 inch widescreen monitor with a resolution of 1680x1050. Is this a good resolution to play games on? Will alot of games support this? Any information on widescreens and resolution would be appreciated. Thankyou.

2007-03-02 07:55:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

i have ordered a monitor cable splitter since i have an extra monitor. Is there anything special I will need to do to use it and can you put something different on each screen since I have 2 hard drives installed?

2007-03-02 07:54:44 · 6 answers · asked by Stever 2 in Monitors

I am looking for a laptop for college but want to know the difference and which one is best.

2007-03-02 07:49:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Can I restore a Windows 98 program, to its initial state?

2007-03-02 07:44:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Is hard drive speed really important? I want a 160gb hdd, but with the laptop i want it's 4200rpm, but the 120gb hdd is 5400rpm.

2007-03-02 07:44:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Anyone have a website or some guidelines to help out. First time doing this but Im sure its pretty easy just need some help.

2007-03-02 07:38:37 · 4 answers · asked by sparkle_babi86 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

I do not run my own server -- all emails are stay on the hard disk once downloaded. Backing up to flash disks is getting a litttle scary.

2007-03-02 07:35:12 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3 in Add-ons

Can anyone plaese tell me what am I doing wrong? I can't start Ati Catalyst Control Centre. I have a video board Radeon x550. I tried to plig a TV to computer and from there I started to have problems. I can't find anywhere the TV out setup (not even if I go to dislapy, advanced, etc). So I tried to acces Ati Catalyst Control Centre but it will not start. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling, it, I tried repairing it.
Please helpppp!!
Thanks

2007-03-02 07:34:42 · 3 answers · asked by ioana 2 in Other - Hardware

It quit after i watch a DVD

2007-03-02 07:26:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

2007-03-02 07:23:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-03-02 07:20:37 · 3 answers · asked by Charlie B 1 in Desktops

I just purchased a BT Voyager Laptop Adapter 1065, to fit with my brothers Dell Inspiron 1300. However the card won't fit into his laptop card slot. I have a BT card in my Dell and assumed the newer models would be compatible. Any ideas?

2007-03-02 07:17:48 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

in terms of general office use performance, all other laptop specs will be identicale.

2007-03-02 07:12:16 · 9 answers · asked by jamesoliver 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

I just replaced my dead motherboard with an identical replacement, but I'm getting no video off of the same card I was using before. I've tried the usual, unseat and reseat the card, and reseating the RAM, and all that, but I'm getting nothing. It sounds like the computer is going through the whole boot process just from the hard drive clicking, but other than that, nothing comes on screen.

It's an Intel D945Pvs motherboard, Intel Pentium D 840 3.2 GHz processor, 1 GB DDR2 533MHz RAM, 120 GB SATA HDD, and nVidia GeForce 6200 LE graphics card, connected through DVI.

2007-03-02 07:07:52 · 3 answers · asked by Kevin 3 in Desktops

2007-03-02 07:04:52 · 8 answers · asked by blueyubs 1 in Add-ons

IF I WANTS TO CONNECT MY LAPTOP TO THE TV TO WATCH A GAME HOW SHOULD I DO IT ? WUT WOULD I NEED FOR THAT?

2007-03-02 06:58:00 · 5 answers · asked by mitcoolhai 1 in Monitors

2007-03-02 06:54:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I bought a laptop but it has windows xp in Italian installed. How can I change it into English without unloading the Italian version?

2007-03-02 06:54:06 · 5 answers · asked by Andrew M 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

Because I have a game that I haven't played since I got it. It's"Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and what is a better video card for the game?
This one: 64 MB nVidia NV18 Graphics Card with DVI-TV-Out
or: 64 MB nVidia NV18 DVI Graphics Card with TV-Out
or if neither, what one can I get from Dell? Because you know Dell we have to buy our stuff from them. So, what do you guys recommend I use?

2007-03-02 06:50:25 · 2 answers · asked by snape_fan_2005 2 in Desktops

I have a Dell Windows XP laptop and after I unplug it from the wall, randomly, the screen just darkens. Like it does not completely go black, I can see the faint outline of everything, and everything still functions so I figure that it is the backlight. When I plug the power cord back in, it still stays black until either I put it into hibernation and bring it out, or until I reboot. I've searched the internet a little, and some things I've found are that I need windows service pack 1, or the BIOS is messed up. Well I tried to download the service pack and it said I already had it, and I have no idea how to adjust the BIOS or even how to access it.

Any ideas on what it could be?

2007-03-02 06:47:52 · 3 answers · asked by hewhoeatspie 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm customizing a dell laptop that I want to get and I don't know which of these options to choose from:
I want to be able to use my laptop anywhere and also use it at home (my desktop has DSL)

Dell Wireless 1390 Mini Card (802.11b/g, 54Mbps) [Included in Price]

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) [add $10]

Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n Dual-band Internal Wireless [add $50 or $1/month1]

Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N [add $20 or $1/month1]

2007-03-02 06:46:06 · 5 answers · asked by i heart LA 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

macbook comes preinstalled with mac os and mac apps. windows notebook comes preinstalled with windows os. aside from the difference in the os, what is the difference between the two in terms of hardware? what is preventing me from installing a mac os on a windows notebook? what would be the difference? i just don't get why i need to spend extra money on an apple notebook if i can use a normal notebook and install mac on it...

2007-03-02 06:45:21 · 4 answers · asked by spegason 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My new HP (Media Center) PC goes in to hibernation fine, but cannot come out of it.

When I reactivate my PC, it's power button lights up again, but nothing comes up on the monitor (There's nothing wrong with the monitor though, cos it works with another computer)

Can anyone help?

2007-03-02 06:31:16 · 3 answers · asked by James Lee 4 in Desktops

I'm looking to buy a 1 GB USB flash drive memory stick but why is there such a difference in the pricing? There are Kingston Data ones for $8 and ScanDisk sells their's for $50. I understand a difference in price, but this is a huge difference. Surely the product does the same thing, right? Why the big difference? Which one should I buy?

2007-03-02 06:30:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My father takes a lot of cruises and wants an inexpensive "no frills" laptop with wifi. Any suggestions and prices? I'd like to get him one pretty soon.

2007-03-02 06:28:35 · 4 answers · asked by Alchemist 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

It scratches them in a circular pattern. I had this fixed once before but the problem has started again. Also, does anyone know how I could fix up the DVDs that have been scratched

2007-03-02 06:19:46 · 2 answers · asked by Cybele 1 in Add-ons

Hi all,

I've currently got a Seagate ST380817AS 80GB SATA hard disk in one of my machines, which is starting to seem a bit noiser than it used to, so I've just bought another unit exactly the same with a view to RAID'ing them together in a mirror setup so that should the original disk fail, all will not be lost :).

My question is this: I'm assuming it's not enough to just plug both drives into my motherboard's RAID controller (my board is a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe) with one disk full of data and one empty - is there any procedure I should go through before connecting them? I have never used a RAID setup before so this is all new to me. It just seems a little high in expectation to hope that I could connect both disks and have the controller realise that one needed to be mirrored to the other. Do I have to back up the original drive, wipe them both, then connect them "fresh", or anything like that?

Any light that can be shed on this would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks for reading!

2007-03-02 06:09:41 · 4 answers · asked by biggleszx 1 in Other - Hardware

Because I have played games on a P2 400Mhz computer, and it played great... But my computer is faster (P2 500Mhz), but it plays games slower... so I'm guessing the video card is more important than the CPU?

2007-03-02 06:09:05 · 7 answers · asked by mythofzero 1 in Other - Hardware