Hardware - April 2007

My Dell Latitude 620 arrived today. I can't decide what to name it! My old Dell Latitude's name is HAL. I'd like to give my new computer a good sci-fi name. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!

2007-04-30 13:57:09 · 15 answers · asked by Shibi 6 in Laptops & Notebooks

my custom built pc turns itself on at midnight. a few weeks ago i got woke up by my ordinarly booting desktop pc i switched it off at the mains and all was well until i forgot to unplug it and it did the same again i have checked the bios, power settings, scheduled tasks, done a scan with a boot and the conventional way and yet the thing still turns itself on
it's spec is
gigbyte m'board
pentium 4 3GHZ
512mb RAM 64mb used by shared graphics
and i connect to the web via a netgear usb adapter 'elp plz

2007-04-30 13:18:36 · 10 answers · asked by JKL 1 in Desktops

I recently bought a new GPU for my computer. It runs great, but it runs too hot. I have a Gateway GT5238E desktop. I wanted to know if there was some fan I could buy that would be very large. I use a large window fan, open my case up to do some emergency cooling work. Are there large fans available (bigger than 120 mm)? any suggestions, comments or website links?

2007-04-30 13:16:46 · 5 answers · asked by Hello Im Fred. 1 in Add-ons

I'm not sure about this video cards. Please tell me which do u think one of these video card is better.
Thanks.

2007-04-30 13:07:21 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

If I have a mostly stock computer, the only change is that i upgraded to a 7600 gt video card. I don't know my current power supplies wattage but the guy at best buy said that the video card can run at it's best with 300 watts of power. Do I need to upgrade my power supply for this to be better.

Honestly I can't see how my computer could run any better but I am asking if anyone has changed their power supply and gotten better performance out of your video card

2007-04-30 13:06:26 · 5 answers · asked by Wastedmilkman61 3 in Other - Hardware

HELP!!!

2007-04-30 12:59:11 · 5 answers · asked by penguinmaster4 1 in Add-ons

everything below the google logo is large and i dont want it to be. I have NOT changed any settings in the control panel and changing text size did not affect anything. why does this happen? anyone?? please dont tell me to go to control panel and change my settings because I have already tried it-I cannot get the screen area bar to move at ANY color setting.
I dont know whats making me crazier-the fact that this has happened or I have to seek outside help

2007-04-30 12:47:59 · 2 answers · asked by molly 6 in Monitors

Please I really need This answerd

2007-04-30 12:46:53 · 4 answers · asked by Drose 1 in Add-ons

the internet. The proplem is that the school laptop is worth 2000, but i had the privilige of being the only one to rent it for 200 a year. The tech people do not want to tell me yet wat is going to happen. Does anyone know wat can the possible scenario be? Would i have to pay $2000?

thanks in advance !

2007-04-30 12:38:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to play Age of Empires 3 but I need a 64MB video card and I only have a 32 MB video card. I looked online to buy a new video card for it but I only see video cards for PC. Is it possible to install one myself, and if so how much would a 64MB card run me? Thanks!!

2007-04-30 12:36:36 · 2 answers · asked by ATunaGuy212 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

hi i have a bilt in video card a nivida and it is a on board chip set will it fight my new ati radeon x700 512mb ram

2007-04-30 12:21:10 · 4 answers · asked by gatepc13_rivived_hacker 1 in Other - Hardware

reason i,m asking is because iv,e had my eye on this ASus Motherboard that i think will be great, and it is Nvidea Sli But at the moment i have an ATI x1950xtx card, which is a nice card, and i would like to use it for a while at least. until the cards all settle a while.

2007-04-30 11:35:34 · 2 answers · asked by MARK H 1 in Other - Hardware

I have an older laptop that I have been using for my Ipod. I recently bought a new laptop and I am wanting to move everything over from Itunes. I read several instructions, but I do not have a CD writer or a network. Is there a way to move using a USB thumb drive or with my Ipod itself?

2007-04-30 11:09:23 · 7 answers · asked by Stephen P 2 in Add-ons

Is there a way to make a book-type or pamplet of something that you type? Such as a word document or something without doing the math of half pages, 1st page on one side, last page on the other etc. What is the easy way?

2007-04-30 11:05:24 · 2 answers · asked by Pop T 2 in Printers

2007-04-30 10:30:05 · 3 answers · asked by Tony Oflattyre 1 in Other - Hardware

I have been told that when using a laptop the battery should be in the laptop even when using mains power. Is this true? If so why?

2007-04-30 10:22:17 · 6 answers · asked by Louise 6 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-04-30 09:48:30 · 6 answers · asked by thomas h 1 in Monitors

Im looking for a new monitor for my computer to replace my 17 massive crt monitor, im almost sure i want it to be 19" no matter what kind I just cant decide between widescreen or not, I mostly use my computer for gameing, web design, cad, messenger, and internet..

2007-04-30 08:27:09 · 9 answers · asked by brewer37 1 in Monitors

Particularly this one - http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLU-CP702-3&cat=CAS

2007-04-30 08:23:18 · 5 answers · asked by Agent Joe 2 in Other - Hardware

HI I WANT TO BUY A PC FOR GAMING
AND THE PRICE IS RS:30000-60000
IN HP OR SOME OTHER

2007-04-30 07:29:47 · 10 answers · asked by raghu v 1 in Desktops

2007-04-30 07:19:38 · 1 answers · asked by nali111 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have made some custom print forms to use with MS Word, I have set these forms to print on a 8.5" x 8.5" custom formfed sheet. When I print a few of these at a time things print OK, but when I need to print 100 copies it prints fine until I get to copy 72, then it skips several pages, but when it does start to print it is not printing on the correct location of the form. Any ideas?

2007-04-30 07:11:11 · 2 answers · asked by Shimmy 2 in Printers

I have 768 MB of RAM in my computer. But when I run system information, I found that although I have that amount of memory, the 'available physical memory' is just around 450 MB. What does that mean? Have you come across this?

2007-04-30 06:21:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My Windows XP computer just seems to take forever to do stuff. I'm fairly computer literate, so I've taken the following steps already.

1. Updated my McAfee anti-virus software and ran it. Came up clean.
2. Updated my Spybot Search & Destroy and ran it. Removed 25 Spyware.
3. Ran MSCONFIG and unchecked a couple of start up items. Most were already unchecked except for stuff like Windows and McAfee updates.
4. Ran the Defragger on my Hard drive. It said I didn't need to, and the analysis showed my drive is about 30% empty and fairly organized.

What other steps are there that I can take to do speed this sucker up? I'm not real demanding on it, using it mostly for Email and internet surfing. It's got a P4 running at 2.5Ghz and adequate RAM.

2007-04-30 05:56:36 · 10 answers · asked by Uncle Pennybags 7 in Desktops

I need to download this to make a game work

2007-04-30 05:44:53 · 2 answers · asked by mattdenise712 1 in Printers

and i cant get to the burn disc part without making the floppy part.

2007-04-30 05:22:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

In 1981, IBM came up with the first PC. It went on to become the most popular sort after computer in the world.

Yet, why didn't they copyright it? Why did they leave it as it is and let everyone copy it? Now, everyone can produce a PC motherboard without breaking the copyright law and likewise the harddisk and the CD Rom.

I am sure if they had done it, IBM would make billions today, just like Microsoft.

2007-04-30 04:49:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

mother board is Asus A7v8X
chipset VIA VT8378 KM 400/KN400 + VT8233CF/VT8235

Have tried downloading realtek ac97 drivers, but Windows say it is not compatable and crashes my pc.

2007-04-30 04:49:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I bought an external hard drive casing and placed my old Samsung Hard drive in it. Upon assembling everything, I had my computer rebooted with the external hard drive plugged. After booting, my computer was able to recognized the device as USB Mass Sotrage including the brand and model of hard drive that I'm using but it doesn't exist on the list of storage under My Computer.

2007-04-30 03:36:17 · 2 answers · asked by oedipus105 1 in Other - Hardware

i am selling my old computer to get a new one and i want to know how much it is worth in $$$$ (not how much i can sell it for). anyway the stats are:
dell dimension E310 base bought about september of 06.
3+ GHz P4 processor, 2Gb ram, 80 Gb HDD, 128Mb onboard video memory, 19" CRT monitor, slim keyboard &optical mouse, and whatever else is standard for this model. within that time i have taken the time to upgrade it with: Radeon X1300 with 128Mb onboard and 512 shared; remarkably the only pci-e X1 in existence, it also added a pci tv tuner card that costed about 45$, and a Creative X-Fi extreme music sound card to provide a great music experience which costed around 95$.

anyway, taking all this into acount, how much is this computer worth (not including any speakers)?

2007-04-30 03:24:30 · 4 answers · asked by scor2_21 3 in Other - Hardware