Hardware - April 2007

This will sound like a silly question to a lot of hardware experts, but a friend just changed out his video card, from a 64mb to a 7000 series, 7300 I think it is, and you actually cant tell a difference on the monitor, ... I've obviously missed the point somewhere along the way.... somebody that knows help here... and thanks...

2007-04-23 08:06:39 · 2 answers · asked by Knowledge 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-04-23 07:55:31 · 1 answers · asked by Matthew T 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

i bought a miniture gateway tower p3 w/980mhz 512 ram is it any good and if i install a combo cd/dvd writer will i experience any problems. also your oppinion on this system? it actually runs faster than some p4s that i have.thanks for your input

2007-04-23 07:53:46 · 3 answers · asked by Fly Low 3 in Desktops

I am upgrading RAM. I did a scan on crucial.com and it told me I have 2 slots able to support 1 Gb each but i have been told the pc cannot support 1 GB total by a person who has worked on the pc? Is crucial wrong?

2007-04-23 07:47:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I have started playing pc on,ine games such as PES 6.

Thing is, I still only have 256mb of RAM. I was going to upgrade another 1gb, but apprarenlty this PC can only take 768mb so I will have to go to that. My question is will this be sufficient for playing games and will the 512mb difference be very noticeable surfing net, using hard drive etc?

2007-04-23 07:34:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I just bought a brand new compaq presario PC. it has a sata master hard drive on it , i wanted to use my old sata drive as the slave , i plugged it into the secondary ata chanel on the motherboard. i booted it up , in the bios it shows that it is a secondary drive , senses it great and everything , but then it loads windows and it crashes to black , it will not load windows at all with the secondary drive plugged in , once i unplug the secondary drive windows starts up fine , please help me , i reallly reallly need the data on this secondary drive. like really bad.

2007-04-23 07:21:02 · 2 answers · asked by Michael P 1 in Desktops

2007-04-23 07:09:37 · 6 answers · asked by fat85crxzc 2 in Desktops

2007-04-23 07:05:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

What does this mean? Where can I find the battery? please explain step by step. I don't know anything about computers so please help me.

2007-04-23 06:54:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

It has a 3 1/2" floppy, but to use a printer it needs a CD rom.

2007-04-23 06:41:19 · 2 answers · asked by Joe S 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

i want a intel core 2 duo e6600(2.4 ghz ) core 2 duo processor. i want a motherboard that is good(i dont need the best) and that can be overclocked(the cpu i mean) and maybe even ram

2007-04-23 06:17:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

i just got a new laptop its amd triton 64 and its a compaq it has 958 mb of ram and i want to upgrade it to 2 gigs. is it posible? and if it is how much would it cost?

2007-04-23 05:51:17 · 7 answers · asked by yeh yeh 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have two laptops one has broken and i would like to retrieve my files from the harddrive ,how can i do it and what leads would i need?

2007-04-23 05:48:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm trying to clean up my sister's computer and figured the first thing to do would be delete all her old programs.

Thing is, when I go to Add/Remove programs, everything on there totals to less than a gig.

Is there a way to find out where the 9.5 GB of other files is, without manually hunting around?

2007-04-23 05:37:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I bought a new battery and AC adapter, but the battery can't be recharged if it dies. What couple possibly be the problem. I'm going to take it to a shop, but I wanted a general idea before I go to prevent being ripped off.

2007-04-23 05:36:15 · 7 answers · asked by finewine 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I was wondering, i want one which loads up instantly, and can handle loads of programs running at the same time. I first thought it was Ghz, but i'm not too sure, if it is Ghz can you tell me what number Ghz is the best.

Cheers!

2007-04-23 05:31:25 · 12 answers · asked by Doogal 2 in Desktops

We're a couple of old'ns,pretty new at computers,who just do a bit of surfing the net,or buying the odd c.d,yet our laptop seems to be getting slower and slower.Is there something we should be doing or not doing?
Anyone who kindly answers please be gentle, rattling on about j.pegs and microbytes just leaves us with a blank stare.

2007-04-23 05:15:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I sold the dell xps because it was small, bulky, and everytime i played WoW it would get really hot. I have scars on my legs from the laptop's heat.

I'm looking for a laptop thats bigger, has a nice video card to play today's games and doesn't heat up too much.

I was thinking of the Sony Vaio sz220. Core duo 1.83 ghz/ 1 gb ram/ 120 gb hd/ NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 TurboCache supporting 128MB / Intel GMA 950.

What u guys think?

2007-04-23 04:51:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-04-23 04:36:48 · 19 answers · asked by Andres 6 in Laptops & Notebooks

system: winXP
problem: transferred 1.5GB of files from my e: drive (partioned drive) to external storage drive. However, system still detects the same free disk space as before.
attempts: disk cleanup, virus scan, defrag (but fail coz % space too low)

2007-04-23 04:19:10 · 3 answers · asked by tim_s_email 1 in Other - Hardware

hi my pc is a dell dimension 2400 but has been upgraded the spec are as followes:
2.4ghz celeron d processor
630mb ram
40 gb hard drive
nvidia 6200
software included:
microsoft office 2007
windows xp home edition

2007-04-23 04:12:01 · 7 answers · asked by im_a_sub_woofer 1 in Desktops

2007-04-23 03:50:08 · 6 answers · asked by neil.anderson10@btinternet.com 1 in Add-ons

hi
i think there is some sort of problem with my laptop's battery.
my laptop turned off as the power outlet went out.....i mean isn't it supposed to run on battery even though the power outlet cuts off.......then i thought may be the battery has drained off but windows reports that the battery is 100% charged and it doesn't report any sort of problems connected with the battery,,,,,and one more thing, i cannot start the laptop from battery, ie., powerin up the laptop when it is not connected to power outlet.
the laptop is like just 3 months old......so i guess i am lucky enough to get it replaced, but still what went wrong whith the battery?

2007-04-23 03:49:11 · 3 answers · asked by pHatman 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

i have another computer but i have one that is a touchscreen monitor that has windows xp embedded i need the touch screen to run off my tower

2007-04-23 03:42:28 · 1 answers · asked by unknown 1 in Monitors

My friend's parents gave him a Windows 98 Compaq Presario 5WV250 that they used before they got a better PC.

I've had Windows 98 before and It's not all that bad... but his is just jammed full of crap, over the course of 7 years, and he wants to refresh it for himself. Big problem is, he doesn't have the Recovery CD Set that is required to do a recovery of any sort. All he has is the drivers, which are pretty much without purpose, because his dad got the 98 hardrive installed by a buddy of his who conveniently forgot to give them the Recovery CD Set.

*HUFF!* I need to either:
-Find where to buy a Recovery CD Set for Windows 98, Compaq Presario 5WV250 (United Kingdom).
-Learn how to do a destructive recovery for Windows 98, Compaq Presario 5WV250 (United Kingdom) without utalizing a Recovery CD Set.

Can anyone help?

2007-04-23 03:19:55 · 5 answers · asked by Panda 1 in Other - Hardware

800 mhz 256memory 64 video card and my nice got p4 2.66 ghz 192memory and build in video card. i want to put my 256 memory and my 64 video card to my nice pc which is p4 is this posible to do or no..can any body help me..or straight answer my question if it is posible to put my 256 memory and 64 video card my nice computer..thanks...

2007-04-23 03:19:13 · 3 answers · asked by JHOSH 2 in Other - Hardware

I need to spend under $500.00 and I want a kick butt laptop.

I will be buying it in the states, but I'm not there right now...

It doesn't need to be Dell or some big name, just reliable and a great value for the money..

Thanks for the suggestions!

2007-04-23 03:00:53 · 9 answers · asked by Lobo Mike 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Hello,
I need to scan and attach certificates to visa application. How do do this, they are currently to big.

Must be something I can do myself. eg with my scanner or using pdf or something similar.

Thanks

2007-04-23 02:57:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Scanners

Ok. So I just bought a new Windows Vista-based notebook PC. It has two seperate hard drives (160GB each) and a dual processor. Here are my questions:

1) Would it be possible to install Windows Vista on the primary hard drive, and then install a release version of MacOS X on the other hard drive?

2) If this is possible, how would I go about doing it. I have seen a few tutorials on dual-booting, but I don't exactly know what all they are talking about. I figure if I have two seperate hard drives, each with their own OS, I should simply be able to select which one to boot from each time that I start-up my computer.

Is this logical? If so, I just need someone to tell me how to go about doing it. But I don't know what version of MacOS X to get, and I don't know exactly how to go about doing this. If you could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

~Tom

2007-04-23 02:04:54 · 4 answers · asked by tom59593 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-04-23 01:57:50 · 4 answers · asked by blahgo1 1 in Laptops & Notebooks