Hardware - June 2007

i purchased a acer laptop from comet in february the pin inside the charging hole has snapped off. i contacted comet they told me to contact acer. i did they told me i would need to send forty nine pounds before they could give me a cfollection date to repair my laptop. surley comet are responsible for the faulty goods not the manafacturer.

2007-06-15 07:18:48 · 5 answers · asked by ynotell 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I need phantom power.... can MAYA44 help me???

2007-06-15 07:15:38 · 1 answers · asked by eight 1 in Desktops

I'm planning on getting a laptop soon as I was wondering if Norton Internet Security 2007 version could be installed on this new laptop even if Norton's already installed on my main computer already or do I have to buy a whole new antivirus to install on my laptop?

2007-06-15 06:56:56 · 4 answers · asked by ssj5evilgoku 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-06-15 06:50:59 · 1 answers · asked by james F 1 in Desktops

2007-06-15 06:47:53 · 10 answers · asked by jojeman73 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

its a dell inspiron and i cant get in it at all

2007-06-15 06:47:45 · 8 answers · asked by mz.clutz 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Someone at my office just gave me some speakers for my computer. I'm guessing that this computer has never played sound before, so obviously they won't just work when you plug them in. I have Windows XP professional. Someone told me I needed to download a c-media driver or something. Is this right? If so, where would I get that? Thanks!

2007-06-15 06:46:54 · 4 answers · asked by LADIRE 2 in Add-ons

My video card was working fine a week ago, but now it seemed to crash. When I check on display properties it says : Default Monitor (On) What should i do?

2007-06-15 06:44:29 · 8 answers · asked by Brian D 1 in Desktops

2007-06-15 06:34:27 · 3 answers · asked by jd1234 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-06-15 06:30:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I got this computer at goodwill it's an e-machine 996mhz 386ram it has windows xp home edition do you need the xp cd to do a reinstall? I don't know if you do or not I would like to wipe the harddrive so it will be like new i think thats what it will do any help on this would help thanks

2007-06-15 06:22:15 · 5 answers · asked by mary g 2 in Desktops

Or 8950 like the 7950 Gx2? What would be the restraints to making one of those?

2007-06-15 06:16:59 · 2 answers · asked by Tinface 2 in Add-ons

Never did know why, just that they do. It don't make any sense to me.

2007-06-15 06:07:48 · 7 answers · asked by duron1_2 4 in Desktops

um, so I had to go buy a new power supply, and now it doesn't shut itself off....but the monitor shows nothing. before anyone says anything, it IS plugged in. everything is plugged up correctly. there's 2 red lights coming out of the video card right next to where it plugs in (it's an ati radeon x1900 btw) and I think there might be something wrong w/ it, but also what might be the problem is that according to the light on the front of the case, the hard drive is being constantly accessed while it's on (orange light is on from the time I turn it on, had this problem when it shut itself down too) I really don't know what to do and really need help. PLEASE HELP ME. if there's anything I can do w/o buying more crap please do tell 'cause I can't spend anymore money right now!!

2007-06-15 05:59:19 · 1 answers · asked by zidane7007 1 in Desktops

Does anyone know here I can find a system that is better than ALIENWARE desktop? I'm searching to purchase one soon. Thanks! If you can provide websites, that would be great too!

2007-06-15 05:37:07 · 4 answers · asked by Cerealkiller 2 in Desktops

i have a 7300gs 256 crap card in a pci express 4x (my mobo has the 16x slot, but the clock is locked at 4x)

im getting a new mobo very soon and am wondering what one to get.

i have a pentium d oc'd to 3.8 LGA775
2gb of ddr 533 ram
1 sata dvd, 3 sata hdd, 1 ide dvd and 2 ide hdd
i have a 20/24 pin and 4/8 pin on my power supply
need at least 3 pci slots, i want 2 pciex for sli also.

about the videocard. the 8k's look promising, but the 2k's from ati look like their gonna kick the crap outta the 8k's

should i wait, or get a new vid card now, and which one should i get. im not stressing the vid carde right now cause i can play oblivion on medium settings fine, and when i get the full 16x experience i can up the settings.

thanks
rob - thearcticdragon.com

2007-06-15 04:28:37 · 1 answers · asked by NoOneButMe 3 in Other - Hardware

2007-06-15 04:15:34 · 5 answers · asked by Barney 3 in Scanners

2007-06-15 04:12:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

So I have a primary HD and a secondary gaming HD. Do I install my OS on the primary (320gb) then only use my gaming to install games (37gb)? Do I play the games while logged on my first HD or are dual hardrives just like extra space that use one OS to run both?

2007-06-15 03:48:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

Screens are what makes a laptop delicate machine to handle. Do we have any laptop with projection screen, so we aim the laptop's projection lens towards a flat surface like wall etc. and work. This will make a laptop very handy machine to handle. I understand that a few rollover screens have been developed. Are these available for laptops also ? If not available already, any development taking place in this respect ?

2007-06-15 03:19:01 · 5 answers · asked by guru 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

i have two hdd installed and one has two partition(C: & D:) another one one partition only with around 300GB (E:). most of the data are movies and music files..the free space left is around 170GB. at one time it got unformatted by itself after i did a quick format on my new external hdd...i don know why it happened...

my E: which was one partittion became two parts...one part is unformatted (the used disk space part) and another part is unallocated part(free space part which is 170GB)...

any idea about this problem??????

2007-06-15 03:17:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-06-15 03:16:22 · 5 answers · asked by Rajendran 1 in Other - Hardware

I am looking for a relatively recent comparative review of color laser printers that would compare quality, price, price per print, useful life etc. (I am not looking for reviews of just one model.)

Thanks

2007-06-15 03:08:32 · 2 answers · asked by huboy 1 in Printers

I just received a USB 2.0 EP Memory Mini Flash Drive. I can't seem to get it to work. I plug it in to usb port, and the red light comes on, but theres no where to access it that I see. Nothing shows up in my computer, and nothing in system tray. It does say, This Device Can Perform Faster in a popup window, but thats it. I'm running windows xp. Please help.

2007-06-15 03:07:32 · 7 answers · asked by soul_cade 2 in Add-ons

2007-06-15 03:01:39 · 1 answers · asked by LOVED:) 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-06-15 03:01:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

It was working fine, then it turned off for no reason, then when i went to turn it back on, it is just fans running, and wont even boot up the bios, ive tried resetting bios, and changing powersupplies, what is wrong and how do i fix it

2007-06-15 02:59:20 · 4 answers · asked by unknown 2 in Desktops

USB Device not recognized. One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it.

I have been using this drive for ages (Buffalo 160 GB External hard drive) but when i turned my computer on today that message came up. Please help

Microsoft Windows XP Home (Service Pack 2)
Compaq Presario V2000
AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-34
1.79 GHz 384 MB RAM
Physical Address Extension

2007-06-15 02:52:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-06-15 02:45:52 · 11 answers · asked by mike g 1 in Desktops

I've had this DVD ROM for about a year and a half. Every time I put in a DVD it acts like it can't read it, no matter how new or pristine the disc is. It does, however, read CDs just fine. I don't understand how if the laser eye can read CDs why DVDs are such a problem. Sometime after 5-10 minutes of "working" the drive will read the DVD but sometimes it tries to read it and then just gives up. Is there something I can do other than replace it?

2007-06-15 02:38:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware