Hardware - May 2007

I am a cad draftsmen and looking at buying a number of monitors to run on one computer. What i am am actualy doing is building a cad work station in the center of the station will be a steel modleing station that is stand alone. Then i want to build a cad application station. With the ability to run 4 monitors. 2 to the right and 2 to the left of the main system screen.
So my question is this when running a dual or quad system monitor. Do you have the ability to run different applications on each monitor. And let say i am viewing 3 different PDF files can i open all three at once. And be running autocad on the other monitor. You get the idea. Thanks for you input.

2007-05-11 03:47:04 · 6 answers · asked by the light exposes the darkenss 3 in Monitors

I'm considering getting a DVI cable to hook my monitor up to my computer, rather than the old VGA cable I'm currently using. Will using a DVI cable have any effect on picture quality? Will movies look better on my monitor?

2007-05-11 03:44:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

Do I need a HDCP video card to use a HDCP lcd monitor??
I have a PCI-E Radeon X700 pro, and I want to buy a samsung 940BW LCD monitor. The monitor is HDCP, and I was wondering If I have to get a new video card If I want to use DVI. Any help is appreciated.

2007-05-11 03:28:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

or is there any other way round it.

2007-05-11 02:56:29 · 16 answers · asked by LittleJohn 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Is there a particular button I can push without turning the computer off?

2007-05-11 02:48:25 · 1 answers · asked by Leepal 5 in Laptops & Notebooks

Details: Some wires like the power switch have only 2 wires: an orange one(others have blue, red, etc) and a white one. what is white? + or -?

2007-05-11 01:36:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I know nothing about computers and I need some help on what I should be looking for in a laptop.

2007-05-11 01:22:11 · 9 answers · asked by arnie 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-05-11 00:58:27 · 6 answers · asked by imskiace 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Is there any games that i can play in my laptop = system (2.66Ghz,256 mb of ram, 32 mb of video memory) no games yet

2007-05-11 00:55:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-05-11 00:33:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-05-10 23:57:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I just can't seem to find it anywhere!

2007-05-10 23:52:26 · 9 answers · asked by reallyamused 1 in Desktops

Hi there,, whenever i m trying to adjust the volume of my HP laptop with the help of buttons given on key board my system freezes and i need to restart it to work again.. i installed the latest drivers from HP website but still the problem persist.. somebody help me??!!

2007-05-10 23:00:05 · 3 answers · asked by Rumsman 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I installed WIN XP SP2 . It is 1.5 year old.

2007-05-10 22:53:49 · 3 answers · asked by redghostasd 2 in Add-ons

in my house there is one hp laptop with internet and four people who uses it minimum 3 hours a day and sometime 4 hours!
my turn to use it comes at night as tht time im finished with all my studying and works! tht time the laptop is so hot tht i feel if i break egg on it, i'l get omellette! its not possible for me always to switch it off till it cools down! i try to make other people understand but they say nothing will happen!

2007-05-10 22:51:35 · 7 answers · asked by angelic 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

my computer just hangs during startup when it gets to the "detecting ide drive" option and would not proceed after then.how do i solve this problem.

2007-05-10 21:58:15 · 5 answers · asked by bingo 1 in Other - Hardware

Well, it's time to finally upgrade my slow-azz 1.3 mhz motherboard to a faster one. Does anyone have any good suggestions, comments, tips before I blindly pick and have one installed? Anything I need to watch for? Anything I need to know before I do it? The good products? FYI: I'm doing this mostly to help with my online gaming. =)

2007-05-10 21:44:53 · 2 answers · asked by Mean-Streak 2 in Other - Hardware

Can anybody tell me the difference (in easy-talk or I won't get it) beween DDRI and DDRII ram please? Are they mutually compatible? Is DDRII much better? Can I put DDRII in a motherboard that previously had DDRI fitted? Why would I want to?

2007-05-10 21:39:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Difference of those two?

2007-05-10 21:29:06 · 3 answers · asked by mercedes_renovatio 3 in Other - Hardware

I want to enter spanish letters that require the alt key held down plus 3 numbers, but that won't work without the numbers pad on my laptop.

2007-05-10 21:11:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

My pc hangs at times but when i run AVG i find nothing, spyware finds medium risk objects and clears them out. I need a really good anti-virus. thanks

2007-05-10 20:54:53 · 10 answers · asked by symbollowercase 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-05-10 20:45:20 · 3 answers · asked by subramani 1 in Other - Hardware

86 refers to instructions but what is 80 in 8086

2007-05-10 20:00:53 · 3 answers · asked by the don 1 in Other - Hardware

I think I got water in it.
When I press the power button, the fans just spin and die kinda like short circuiting. Everything's connected right (graphics card, power sw, leds, memory, fans, cpu, power supply > motherboard, pluged in, switched on, blah) and i blow-dryed it to make sure there was no water/stuff. I know the motherboard is not touching the case and is mounted correctly...
It magically turned on when my brother pressed the switch and there was a disk check. Vista crashed later and gave me some blue screens and now its just dead.
Help?

2007-05-10 18:45:32 · 7 answers · asked by 'K~Man' 2 in Desktops

please help me with this... and just tell me if you are 100% sure

2007-05-10 18:23:35 · 8 answers · asked by Marko Latinovic 1 in Add-ons

like compatible cases, cpu fans,rams,

2007-05-10 17:46:32 · 4 answers · asked by mikru w 1 in Desktops

Hello all.

I was wandering, I just put in an e6300 and the heatsink/fan. On this particular model, is the fan controlled with the motherbaord?

At times it seems as if it's not working; so basically, it turns on and off. Is this when the cpu get's hot only? Or is it suppose to constantly be on. Thanks.

2007-05-10 17:39:12 · 3 answers · asked by anonymous 2 in Other - Hardware

I noticed my lap top´s monitor heating up a bit too much but it´s not all of it , just the part where the windows task bar is, i wonder why this happens and if it is normal. It´s so hot that it burns when you touch it. What do I do, could it be dangerous or get damaged?.

2007-05-10 17:31:44 · 6 answers · asked by nobodysfool 4 in Monitors

I surf the Internet a lot and open a lot of new windows all the time. After opening up so many new windows, my computer seems to "run out of memory" and will not allow any more new windows to open.

Even if I try to right click, the little right click menu won't open. Sometimes it won't even open the shut down menu. Why does it do this?

This is a brand new computer and it has lots of hard drive space. It has 960 MB of Ram and a 177 GB hard drive. There is 161 GB of available hard drive space on my computer. So why would it say a message like "not enough memory to do this action, try closing out some programs and try again."

Please help! It's so aggravating to have to reboot every hour!

Thanks in advance!

2007-05-10 17:27:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

Can someone please tell me what the maximum thickness that paper / cardboard will go through my printer (HP Deskjet F380)

Thanks

2007-05-10 17:18:49 · 4 answers · asked by MissMads 1 in Printers