Hardware - April 2007

2007-04-18 17:03:21 · 8 answers · asked by Alma G 1 in Add-ons

My laptop crashed a few months ago (a Dell Inspiron, don't get one!) and I need a new one. I'm a poor college student so I have a limited budget. Any brand will do except Dell b/c their computers and customer service suck. Can anyone suggest decent computers between $1000-1200 (and preferably with a payment plan)?

2007-04-18 16:46:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

purchase an entire new one, can someone do this? Where would i go to have this done and could they also put in another cdrom drive so ic ould burn cds? would this be expensive?

2007-04-18 16:42:04 · 9 answers · asked by Vanillabean 2 in Desktops

EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor

ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard

2GB DDR2 PC6400 800MHz Memory (Kingston HyperX )

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular
Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model SH-S182D/BEBE

LITE-ON CD Burner

RAIDMAX RX-630A ATX12V / EPS12V 630W Power Supply

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case


Thanks Again

2007-04-18 16:33:39 · 3 answers · asked by Vitali 1 in Desktops

I've got a Linksys wireless print-server. Right now, it's run to a single printer, but I have a second printer that I have to plug into the computer. Can put a USB splitter on there so that it will run two printers?

[Printer 1]------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [USB Splitter]--------[Wireless Print-Server]
[Printer 2]------------|

I'm fairly certain that it will send the signal to both printers and my guess is the signal will contain an identifyier that will indicate which printer to send to, but I'm not sure it will work and I don't want to risk messing up my system to find out.

Thanks!

2007-04-18 16:19:41 · 2 answers · asked by USC MissingLink 3 in Printers

I have a gaming pc (i built it about a month ago) It has a Intel Core 2 duo e6600 running at like 2.45 or somthing GHZ. I am new to the computer modding and building world. So i would like to knowa good speed and how to do it when i enter BIOS. I want to overclock because i can. Does it void Warennty? also i have a Zalmen 9770 heatsink (it is all made out of copper, it was about $100) What do u suggest? Thanks!

2007-04-18 16:12:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I've got a pair of Pentium II PCs - a 233mhz/256meg ram running win95 and a 333mhz/128meg ram running win98, each with a 4gb hd. Before I take them to the local Goodwill for recycling, I want to know if there are any fun stunts I can pull with them, like turning them into a media center, RAID backup for my real PC, Linux box, etc. Any tricks you can recommend to a low-level computer geek?

2007-04-18 15:42:58 · 13 answers · asked by edthespartan 6 in Desktops

How does Processor Speed work is it faster the higher number you go or the lower?

2007-04-18 15:35:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I know everyone keeps telling me to switch to PCI express but I do not want to pay to upgrade my entire system, so in the meantime I want a nice AGP card....whats a good one to get to replace by g force fx5200?

2007-04-18 15:19:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

i know you cant take out and upgrade the video card itself because it's intigrated but could i put a video card in a PCI slot and it uses that or something, i despretliy need a video card upgrade and need to know if i can upgrade it with an intigrated video card

Thanks...

2007-04-18 15:02:21 · 5 answers · asked by chaos_elite_001 1 in Other - Hardware

Sometimes when I have 3 or 4 windows open on my computer my screen will freeze for a couple seconds and then black out for a second and turn back on. Could my Memory be malfunctioning or is there another cause?

2007-04-18 14:21:18 · 2 answers · asked by fulltimeballer 1 in Other - Hardware

how do I know which graphic card are good. Is it the memory on the graphic card like 512mb or 256mb or the refresh rate. Right now I'm looking at this graphic card, can someone tell me if it is good.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/VisionTek-Radeon-X1300-512MB-PCI-E-Video-Card-900101/sem/rpsm/oid/168469/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do#tabs

Also does a graphic card speed up things like video editing, video recording, internet speed, etc...

2007-04-18 14:02:16 · 7 answers · asked by xborn2xlr8x 1 in Add-ons

Anyone know where I could find a manual for the following motherboard? PSPLP-LE

BTW: this mobo is a HP part

I need to replace the old one with a new but I need a few pointers from the manual.. such as where each I/O plug is located on the broad.

2007-04-18 13:54:16 · 2 answers · asked by Tech Doctor 3 in Desktops

I know its possible because that's how it's set up at work and in library's. I want to be able to print to my computer when I'm in a different room and I don't know how. Thanks in advance.

2007-04-18 13:53:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

I have a year 2001 Compaq deskpron EN 1GHz Pentium III Desktop computer with 384MB of RAM. It's Max RAM is 512MB. Would the extra 128MB of RAM offer a noticable performance increase? The peak usage of memory for today is 704MB. That is with the Virtual memory being used as well as the 384MB Physical memory. Page file is 1 GB.

2007-04-18 13:47:33 · 5 answers · asked by theonerm3 1 in Desktops

I have a laptop and xp i want to erase everything and re install xp is this possible

2007-04-18 13:32:53 · 6 answers · asked by Scott M 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I set my timings as follows:
[CODE]DRAM CAS Latency: 3
DRAM Bank Interleave: 4-way
Precharge to Active: 3
Active to Precharge: 9
Active to CMD: 3
REF to ACT/REF to REF: 21
ACT (0) to ACT (1): 2
Read to Precharge: 3
Write to Read CMD: 4
Write Recovery Time[/CODE]

I wanted to set my DRAM Frequency to 200MHZ how it should be, but what's weird is that when I run tests with Everest using the DRAM Frequency: 200MHZ setting it shows me that I'm running at
[CODE]Memory Bus 120.0 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 3:5[/CODE]

When I go back into the BIOS and set DRAM Frequency to 333MHZ I get what it should be...
[CODE]Memory Bus 200.0 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 1:1[/CODE]

Here is the whole Everest test
[CODE]Field Value
CPU Properties
CPU Type DualCore Intel Pentium D 930
CPU Alias Presler
CPU Stepping C1
Engineering Sample No
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz
CPUID Revision 00000F64h

CPU Speed
CPU Clock 2999.8 MHz (original: 3000 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 15.0x
CPU FSB 200.0 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
Memory Bus 200.0 MHz
DRAM:FSB Ratio 1:1

CPU Cache
L1 Trace Cache 12K Instructions per core
L1 Data Cache 16 KB per core
L2 Cache 2 MB per core (On-Die, ECC, ATC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID 63-0100-001131-00101111-011507-P4M800+$P23G_RELEASE 01/15/2007
Motherboard Name PCChips P23G (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 CNR, 2 DDR DIMM, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)

Chipset Properties
Motherboard Chipset VIA P4M800 Pro
Memory Timings 3-3-3-9 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR) 2T

SPD Memory Modules
DIMM2: Kingston 1 GB DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM (5-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (4-4-4-12 @ 266 MHz) (3-3-3-9 @ 200 MHz)

BIOS Properties
System BIOS Date 01/15/07
Video BIOS Date 11/25/06
DMI BIOS Version 080012

Graphics Processor Properties
Video Adapter ATI Radeon X1650 Pro (RV530)
GPU Code Name RV530 (AGP 8x 1002 / 71C6, Rev 00)
GPU Clock 594 MHz (original: 600 MHz)
Memory Clock 396 MHz (original: 400 MHz)
[/CODE]

My main concern here is over-clocking. I REALLY don't want to over-clock because I hardly ever turn off my computer and I would like to keep all my hardware running well for a while to come. Is there ANY way for me to REALLY test to see what I'm running at? I mean, do you guys think I'm safe anyway?

2007-04-18 13:29:33 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My dads computer was working fine until he installed a dvd burner and some extra memory but now he can't read the data on the hardrive at all, infact it seems to be blank, yet there was a ton of stuff on there before hand. The only way we could evn get the computer to boot up was by having another harddisc with windows preinstalled on it.

Could this be a compatibility issue between the 2 diffrent sets of memory chips or could it be because the drive is not connected correctlly. We really need to solve this as we have many family photos on the disc and also many of my mums manuscripts.

We thought about taking it to pc world but don't know if that would help at all. As i say we can access the disc its just it appears to be blank.

Please help.

2007-04-18 13:27:46 · 11 answers · asked by Jason C 1 in Other - Hardware

Not including the Intel Quad core.

2007-04-18 13:04:39 · 4 answers · asked by joshua s 2 in Other - Hardware

No software is working, and i can't find anything to do with the processor on the bios. where can i change my processor settings to speed up my computer?

I have a 366 celeron processor, running on windows 98 se.

2007-04-18 12:48:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

i got a lap top yes2day and it dident come with a vista reinstall disc? what do i do if i need to reinstall it. and should it have come with one?

2007-04-18 12:31:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-04-18 12:28:37 · 3 answers · asked by tenisha a 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Hi! i resently resently re-installed my windows, and my computer is not seeing any sound device..

some specs..

*Yellow Question Mark by Multimedia Audio Controller in hardware

Computer :
Amd Sempron(tm) Processor
3300+
2.01 GHz, 1.21 GB of Ram
Physical Address Extension

System:
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

2007-04-18 12:27:30 · 5 answers · asked by starjerry505 1 in Desktops

New laptop... HP with vista operating system pre-installed... cant get the flash drive to load... all that comes up is the little icon in the load tray that says safely remove hardware

2007-04-18 12:26:08 · 4 answers · asked by cbrien08 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-04-18 12:21:29 · 7 answers · asked by j_ocampo05 1 in Other - Hardware

Earlier I posted the specs of a computer that I will be building( Including an asus m2n32-sli deluxe with wifi motherboard) but some of the comments said that asus are having problems and that I should consider a different one.

2007-04-18 12:18:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I just upgraded my pc to vista a few days ago. For sum reason, everytime that i check my computers memory, its keeps on changing from 162GB, to 131, 142 ,154, etc. I want it to stop doing that and stay on 162GB. Please tell me what I should do!

2007-04-18 12:11:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-04-18 11:48:58 · 3 answers · asked by lewishamburg@verizon.net 1 in Desktops

I want to unlock it for overclocking. I have an emachenes etower 566 ir

2007-04-18 11:46:11 · 5 answers · asked by Angel 4 in Desktops

Is there a web sight I can go to get a down load?

2007-04-18 11:43:16 · 1 answers · asked by margeri58 1 in Printers