Hardware - May 2007

2007-05-19 09:56:11 · 5 answers · asked by Icemanizaki 2 in Desktops

2007-05-19 09:50:47 · 1 answers · asked by cutiepie291404 2 in Add-ons

If so how do I install it? That is if the mother board can even handle it, because im only looking to spend 250 at max...

2007-05-19 09:46:02 · 2 answers · asked by G.P. 2 in Desktops

I have an Acer Aspire T180 that I want to put a larger hard drive in. It's my first name brand computer, I generally build my own. I was wondering if any HD will work in it or if I have to usually a special like licensed one or something, kina of like how you have to use certain brand of RAM. If you got anything else I should know about them let me know also please. Thank you for your time.

2007-05-19 09:41:12 · 3 answers · asked by ericbrog 3 in Desktops

2007-05-19 09:37:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I am looking for a small screen (smaller than a notebook), to use to view things from a SD chip or other external drives. Including pages of information especially text or possibly pictures. I want it to be portable so i can read a paper or book without carrying them with me, kind of like the new Sony Reader but way cheaper. It should also include a battery, and clickers or something to change the views from page to page. If you could find anything even close it would be soooooo helpful.

2007-05-19 09:36:21 · 1 answers · asked by Lauren N 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

In January I managed to spill a glass of water onto the keyboard of my laptop. It's a Gateway and has no warranty. At first I shut it off and turned it back on. It was fine except a few keys weren't working and neither was the right mouse button. I turned it off again, and it would start up but all I had was a black screen. I gave it a while and went back to it later and then when you hit the power button it wouldn't turn on. The light on the monitor would turn on showing power but was still black, and for any power to be going to the laptop you had to hold down the power button... and even then, it wouldn't start up like before. All I could hear was the fan start up and then just keep doing the same thing over and over... like when you start up a car and it won't turn over. I've been computer-less for almost 5 months now. Could someone tell me what's wrong or where I should take it to have it repaired?? FYI... I live NOWHERE near a Best Buy or anything, haha.

2007-05-19 09:26:14 · 3 answers · asked by taraisthescenexx 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

i want to securely delete (like 'eraser') everything on the hard drive and then format it for an OS reinstall. must be a free solution, no floppy drive available, only cd and usb.

2007-05-19 09:19:07 · 9 answers · asked by Bobby 3 in Desktops

2007-05-19 09:13:23 · 12 answers · asked by myers lanskey 1 in Desktops

I have 1 gig of RAM. Is this enough to atleast have the game on high settings? Not ultra high just high. And I dont turn on shadows in any game so this should clear some stuff up. I can't afford a RAM upgrade so I'm just wondering if my game will still look good and play well at the same time. Thanks in advance!

2007-05-19 09:11:45 · 4 answers · asked by Q2 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

it won't go past the windows startup screen

2007-05-19 09:11:15 · 3 answers · asked by James S 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have an ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 graphics card, and I could not upgrade this because it is built in the laptop and shares the RAM of the laptop, so upgrading RAM would make no difference either. Please help me as this is causing much anger when I am playing cs;s. FPS could at least be 60 I think. Thanks in advance.

2007-05-19 09:09:10 · 2 answers · asked by Electric Feel 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-05-19 09:08:09 · 5 answers · asked by ivan_c 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

right now i have a curved red glowing arrow and i want to change it back to a standard arrow

2007-05-19 09:01:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

My laptop's right side speaker wont work. How do i fix it?

2007-05-19 08:38:41 · 1 answers · asked by Popo 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-05-19 08:38:30 · 3 answers · asked by Hi 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-05-19 08:36:58 · 2 answers · asked by ­ 5 in Laptops & Notebooks

I just went to Best Buy and got an external hard drive enclosure to put in a (laptop) hard-drive so that I can get the data off of it. The problem is, the hard drive does not connect to the enclosure. Can someone tell me if I got the wrong type, or if there's a cable missing or something?

Here's the product:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10066463&catid=20240
In the instructions, it says to just connect the hard drive to the IDE connector on the circuit board, without cables.

2007-05-19 08:34:40 · 4 answers · asked by Chris_Knows 5 in Laptops & Notebooks

the view looks weird because as soon as i tried to set the resolution for the video card (screen desktop) it got messed up and now it looks like some persons painting and i don't know how to fix it i mean,everything's gray and green and the windows i have open looks like the classic view of the old computers (windows 2000 or 98')! it's hard to fix this dumb video card! and the computer isn't even mine! it's my friends! cause im letting him borrow mine to use until i fix his video card problem! can anyone help me out? P.S. the screen+video card view on my monitor w./his cpu keeps messing up and becomes all blurry like how you rewind a vhs tape! thats how it always look when i start my computer!

2007-05-19 08:32:31 · 2 answers · asked by gund28 1 in Monitors

256MB RAM, 16MB AGP Card & 20GB HDD pentium 111 processor? thanks for your advice

2007-05-19 08:01:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Is It Just Me, Or Can You never Have Enough 4-Pin Molex Connectors In Your Computer?

Is There Such A Thing As A 4-Pin Molex Extender Or Something Like That.

IE: Something That Fits In A Molex And Has Another 2 Comeing Off it... Kinda Like An Extention Lead, For Your PC

2007-05-19 07:50:11 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I recorded a film from my camcorder to a DVD on my DVD player, I am now trying to save it to my computer, it saves but I need it to be in the right format so I can import it onto Windows Movie Maker and I want to save it with the Windows Media Player format (Windows Movie Maker recognises it) but how?!?!? It really important so I would really appreciate anyone help...

PS. I would like to save per chapter....not the whole thing as one...but if someone knows how to save the whole thing as one (the right format for Windows Movie Maker)....that would be great too....
Thanks

2007-05-19 07:44:19 · 3 answers · asked by Me 3 in Add-ons

I HATE all the wires and connectors inside my computer. I am an experienced aircraft instrument electrician. Everything i worked on was a lot smaller, and I just repaired it never modified anything. I can cut, splice, solder just fine, but is it really a good idea?

2007-05-19 07:38:58 · 12 answers · asked by Jed 1 in Desktops

My computer printer will not work. I have tried to print but the power light and the paper feed light just keep blinking. Even when there is paper in there. I tried to rerun the disk that came with the printer but that still didn't work. Any solutions?

2007-05-19 07:23:01 · 5 answers · asked by jenna24b 1 in Printers

hi, i just installed a new dvd-rom drive unto my old computer because my old one was broken and my windows will not start and the only way to fix it is through reinstalling the OS with my xp discs. But when i put a bootable disc in, it wont read the drive. I know floppy gets read automatically, but dont you need to install the drivers for an optical drive before the computer recognizes it? If not, then its just a bad boot disc, if so then how can i fix this. This drive is oem and came with no cd or anything.

2007-05-19 07:21:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I have replaced the drive and reinstalled everything so I have a healthy system. Now I want to recover my email, photos and other stuff from the failed drive.
I only have one SATA port (Dell Optiplex 170L) so I was thinking of getting an enclosure SATA to USB, making my bad drive an external USB drive... and try to recover the data.
My question is, will the bad blocks prevent me from reading the data on the drive? Will I need special recovery software?
Has anybody out there tried to do this? My googles have produced less than satisfying results... lack of details.

2007-05-19 07:20:33 · 1 answers · asked by ideapathic 2 in Add-ons

I already have tried opening it in My Computer and pressing eject. I also cleaned the inside of the tower with air and it won't do anything. I am sure there is a simple answer but it is not coming to me and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It's a Dell and I already went to the website and found no answers as of yet.

2007-05-19 07:15:52 · 6 answers · asked by chris99 3 in Desktops

As part of an attempt to find out what was causing my desktop PC's processor to overheat, I noticed that under CPU tab in Apllications in Task Manager, a particular item referred to as System Idle Process was showing 98 to 99 while other processes showed either 00 or 02 of CPU.

Could this be a reason why the processor is overheating ? If yes, then how to stop this particular process that is overloading the Processor ?

2007-05-19 07:12:48 · 3 answers · asked by venomous smile 1 in Desktops

i want 2 add this printer but ive alrdy tried connectin the usb cord to the computer n tried pritnin somthing but no luck oh yea i bought it without a cd rom thing to add it is there any other way i can add it? if so plz help thanx

2007-05-19 07:10:48 · 5 answers · asked by dark and mysterious 2 in Printers

2007-05-19 06:57:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers