Hardware - May 2007

2007-05-29 08:27:39 · 10 answers · asked by ladyrana 1 in Other - Hardware

I am looking to build a pc. In your opinion what is the best gaming motherboard available?

My preference is to have a motherboard that is very very fast... i am going with 8800 Ultras and would like to use a Ageia PhysX™ processor as well.

Any suggestions would definately be helpful.

I was looking at:

ASUS P5N32-E SLI or the Striker Extreme however if you have any better suggestions... let me know

2007-05-29 08:27:05 · 5 answers · asked by Eric 1 in Other - Hardware

If so could i just take ram from my dell pc and put it in my laptop?

2007-05-29 08:25:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Will the DX 10 support DX 9.0c too?

2007-05-29 08:19:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

The whole story is I installed office 2003, computer running slow so I bought more memory, I have two bays only one filled with 512mb, ddr sdram PC2700. I tried to put in the 1 GB in the other bay, not ever previously used, and the computer kept beeping at me and would not boot. I took it out and replaced the old 512mb with the 1 gb in the working bay and everything runs fine, also when I tried to put the old working 512mb in the "bad" bay the computer again would not start. My question is do I have a "Bad" bay, or is there something in CMOS I have to do. I run XP and the computer motherboard is a ABIT SG72 Pentium 4 2.26ghz maximum memory 2048MB.

2007-05-29 08:14:44 · 6 answers · asked by Hawk 2 in Desktops

won't bring you to the desktop...it just keeps restarting, and restarting, and restarting. I am sure it's infected but I want to know if all my pictures and music are as good as gone? Does anyone know?

2007-05-29 08:13:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I have searched every where

2007-05-29 08:10:28 · 1 answers · asked by john 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

ok, so i want to buy a 250 GB external hard drive... i have a hp that has enough space for me to do anything on really, i just dont want it all on my computer... for example, all my music, pictures, i have a few Sims 2 games... and software like my webcam, my digital camera software, my mp3 player software... would i be able to put that kind of stuff onto an exteral hard drive, or are those only for files and stuff??

2007-05-29 08:04:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

Under the computer description it says:
Generic
Generic
Mobile Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.70 GHz, 480 MB of RAM

I did a system restore because i thought it was running too slow and my 30 day trial was up for norton and everything, i did the system restore and none of my old programs were there nothing? What did i do wrong

2007-05-29 07:58:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

for some reason my ram is always running at 50 %.i have 382 mb of ram,(and i dont think i need more),and for some reason its always running at 150 mb or less.i dont have many proccesses.only about 35 which is good,and i dont have any big programs running bu yet my ram is so low! and im running xp.if that helps.

2007-05-29 07:46:05 · 8 answers · asked by dbsantos77 4 in Other - Hardware

My parents bought me a brand new Sony VAIO (don't know the model number) laptop on Valentine's Day (February 14th) of this year. On May 5th I got in a wreck, I flipped my car two-three times; the computer was in a bag but it broke anyway. (I guess because of the impact.) The casing is cracked on one side right below the keyboard...the computer still works but since the computer has a warranty I would like to send it back. I am almost sure I have hard drive damage, since the computer has bad little tweaks since I got in the wreck. My father paid an extra $200 for insurance through WAL*MART (which is where he purchased the computer). What I want to know is who I do I call?

2007-05-29 07:41:52 · 5 answers · asked by korniegirl1 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

hi
i was watching a movie that suddenly my computer freezed.
then i restarted my compuer but it did't boot at all.
usually when i boot my computer, it beeps and then my windows starts. but at now it starts but it doesn't beep and doesn't show boot screen at all.(i.e monitor doesn't show anything) then i checked my monitor but it was working on other computer.
the power is there in the case and fans of cpu and Mainboard and Graphic card are working properly.

what can i do?

2007-05-29 07:37:01 · 9 answers · asked by unknown1 u 1 in Other - Hardware

I was wondering which is more important, memory or memory type, would 512 mb ddr2 be better than a 256 gddr3?

I'd appreciate some insight on the whole topic, what is the significance of ddr2 and ddr3 and what does G mean when added to either.
Also, how do i know if my motherboard is compatible with gddr3 or ddr2?
Thanks

2007-05-29 07:33:49 · 3 answers · asked by Robert G 2 in Desktops

My computer got wet! It will not start up! Help!!!!

2007-05-29 07:27:42 · 6 answers · asked by I love dell 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

My A1730N HP computer has an intergrated video chipset and i was thinking of updating the video card to a EVGA 7950GT PCI express x16. how do i go about doing this

2007-05-29 07:22:54 · 3 answers · asked by solaris0000 1 in Other - Hardware

Now before you are too quick to reply with the obvious, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND that the internet is literally millions of networked computers and there isn't one computer that is some kind of internet master computer.....REALLY, I get that. A few years ago, I happened to catch 20/20 or Dateline where they showed the viewers these enormous supercomputers underground and they told us that this is where the internet is located and even made reference to monitoring content and viruses and stuff. Where are these huge supercomputers? Is there really a main internet gateway of these supercomputers? Offer a link if you can.

2007-05-29 07:20:07 · 6 answers · asked by Joey 4 in Desktops

I like to save all the video files in a separate drive. I think a command from C:/ drive can create a separate drive. I like to know it.

2007-05-29 07:18:56 · 8 answers · asked by Raja 7 in Desktops

what is wan
can i wan configure within a building

2007-05-29 07:04:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Problem in installing XP in p-4 2.4 Ghz , 845 gl motherboard, 128 RAM, when i am installing xp in my pc in processing of installation the system files are transfered but when it is restarted it is going hange

2007-05-29 06:47:29 · 4 answers · asked by inderjitsingh2005 1 in Other - Hardware

I have Intel P III 800 MGhz
Zebronics Chipset Mother Board
Sound Card
256 MB RAM SD RAM
( C - Gate ) 80 GB Hard Disk
CD Writer
USB
Ethernetport

2007-05-29 06:42:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

how i check hdd is damaged and how i check bad sector
how i remove bad sector

2007-05-29 06:41:28 · 5 answers · asked by Vinay V 1 in Add-ons

This is a question from another. (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Akm6pnvd4xYEAXtyFinjrXzsy6IX?qid=20070529095804AAJ0Fc8)
I want to know how cheap I can find 1GB - 512MB RAM.

2007-05-29 06:39:38 · 9 answers · asked by JR3 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

internet and e-mail?

2007-05-29 06:36:06 · 15 answers · asked by snowboy 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

when I turn it on it goes to the windows start up screen but then a blue screen comes up and it says: Stop c000026c
\SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\i8042prt.sys device driver could not be loaded, error status was 0xc0000221. I have tried to start it in every mode possible and it still wont start. I bought a windows xp operating system disk and it wont even read the disk. So basically I am wondering if this computer is even worth trying to fix and if so what can I do to fix it. Help Me PLEASE!

2007-05-29 06:09:08 · 6 answers · asked by li69sis 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm a PC tech, but my knowledge of multimedia needs work. What are the main concepts of sound and video that a tech needs to understand to support PC multimedia? I'm thinking TV tuner cards, why audio is so quiet sometimes when watching internet videos,....things like that.

2007-05-29 05:46:00 · 2 answers · asked by homer742 3 in Other - Hardware

HIS Hightech H165XTQT512GDDAN-R Radeon X1650XT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X IceQ Turbo HDCP Video Card

OR

HIS Hightech H195PRQT512DDAN-R-V2 Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 8X IceQ 3 Turbo HDCP Video Card

which one's better? why??

2007-05-29 05:29:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

need better grahics to play Second Life
i currently have a NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 card
on a Dell Dimension 8200 512MB RAM
1.80 ghz Pent 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz

2007-05-29 04:55:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

i have d101ggc board , 256 MB ddr memory and p4 3.06 ghz .now what do u think i can do to upgrade my system? shall i buy another "256MB ram" or a brand new " ATI video card". i dont have any AGP slots but i have pci- express !

2007-05-29 04:00:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

What are the specifications of each and what is availble and can be done on each. What are the hardware specifications provided for both and their v'extras'.My friend is planning to use this notebook for school and will require the following programs:
Word processing
Budgeting software
Calculator
Internet access.
Please help. Thanx a lot.

2007-05-29 03:25:12 · 7 answers · asked by Bégué T 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Monitor screen turns black from get go. light turns green then instantly yellow when power is pressed? The problem is not with my computer because i tested to see if it was working with a different monitor and it was just fine. Everything was plugged in perfectly. So does this mean that I need a new monitor or is there something i can do to fix it?

2007-05-29 03:20:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops