Hardware - September 2007

I'm converting my old machine into a HTPC. It's an AMD 3000+ machine with 1gb of memory, and I'm looking to add a video card that will support high def viewing on my plasma. Currently, when connected with a vga cable, high def videos I download stutter and freeze.

I'm looking for a video card that will have an HDMI output and will support flawless HD viewing, so that HD videos that I download and record using my OTA HD tuner card will look great. In the future (1-2 years), I plan on purchasing an HD-DVD/Bluray drive and put that in the machine, so hopefully the card will support that as well.

Any ideas or thoughts? PCI Express interface, and hopefully passive cooling. Price isn't a problem.

Thanks!

2007-09-08 22:47:18 · 2 answers · asked by Jonathan S 1 in Add-ons

box cameup saying the file asms on windows is needed i cant put disc 2 in until this is done what is asms please.
thanks malcolm.

2007-09-08 22:40:52 · 2 answers · asked by clint8ball 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

my rig amd opteron 2.2ghz 148
3 harddrives 500gig
550wpsu
asus ati x1950pro pcie
nforce 4 ultra mobo......question is bioshock requires a 2.6ghz processor.....and my machine runs it fine..im not complaining
why do thay say 2.6ghz

2007-09-08 22:27:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Plzzz... help me..

2007-09-08 22:10:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

currently i have 512 ram i have a asus p5p800 motherboard
3Ghz processor and 120 gb hard drive

what would be the max i could do could i get 2 gb of ram?
how much would that be?

2007-09-08 21:31:22 · 6 answers · asked by jas_slo 1 in Add-ons

2007-09-08 21:09:48 · 2 answers · asked by goalzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 2 in Add-ons

I bought a Dane-Elec USB Flash drive my computer would accept or something and it said this:
This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
So I went out and exchanged it and it does the same thing.
So I go out and buy another different brand USB Flash driver which is a Lexar. It still says:
This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.
I go to there web sites and try to install their drivers but it won't let me because I have Windows XP and it says that my computer doesn't need it.
Does anyone have ANY ideas of how to fix this ******* ****?
It is really pissing me off!

2007-09-08 21:01:57 · 2 answers · asked by nnj101005 1 in Add-ons

I have an Intel Desktop Board DP965LT motherboard and I want to know if an NVidia GeForce 8600 GT 512MB (PCI Express x 16) , from Albatron , will work properly.

2007-09-08 20:20:56 · 3 answers · asked by Buzz - Darwindidit 6 in Add-ons

the ink light is flashing and it gives error that it cannot print the document

2007-09-08 19:40:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

1. NVIDIA GeForce 6100

2. ATI RADEON X550 256MB DDR PCI Express Video Card

3. ATI RADEON X300SE 256MB PCI Express Video Card

The price differance is 20 bucks from 2 and 3 # 1 is the current card i have

2007-09-08 19:34:12 · 2 answers · asked by Gregger 2 in Add-ons

When i try to format the hard disk it wont work. When i try to install windows xp it says i need to format it. When i do halfway though the format it says the hard disk may be damaged. Does anyone know what i could possibly do without spending large amounts of money or is the hard disk just stuffed?

2007-09-08 19:29:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

Whenever I scroll using IE or firefox my pages are lagging. Also, when I move a window (such as a file window), the window lags as well. It seems that my whole computer is lagging and it makes surfing the internet frustraiting. What is the problem?

I'm using windows XP pro and I *just* installed it. This is the first time that this has happened. Please help.

2007-09-08 19:20:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

My young daughter got ahold of my mac powerbook and has does something to the color of my display. Everything is coming up in black and white and pictures are showing in negative. I cannot figure out what display setting she has messed with or if she has just broken the screen.

Does anyone know where to go to change my diplay back to normal? Thx in advance.

2007-09-08 19:09:37 · 2 answers · asked by oly 2 in Monitors

1. ASUS P5K Deluxe
2. ASUS P5N32-E SLI

No SLI, no Crossfire, single GPU config only. Which is faster and stable of these two motherboards?

2007-09-08 19:00:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

anyone know of an additional battery for an hp pavilion dv 2410 notebook?

2007-09-08 18:52:04 · 2 answers · asked by ? 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Which is long lasting and which gets hotter easily.

2007-09-08 18:47:13 · 4 answers · asked by Vishnu Vijai 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-09-08 18:41:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

can you help me by step by step?
Im using SoundMax

2007-09-08 18:30:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

what does it mean , 2 or 3 or 4
12 volt rails on a computer power supply
and how do they look like
and whats thier use?

2007-09-08 18:30:12 · 2 answers · asked by rabea 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-09-08 18:24:42 · 3 answers · asked by Duke 1 in Add-ons

any suggestions...

2007-09-08 18:24:29 · 6 answers · asked by prettygirl415 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

If not, how can I get internet on my laptop?

2007-09-08 18:18:38 · 12 answers · asked by wickedstyle101 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-09-08 18:16:19 · 1 answers · asked by compusitive 1 in Monitors

I have a Compaq Presario C500 that came with Vista. However, I have been having a lot of problems with Vista so I want to change to XP. I talked to the tech support guy and he said that my laptop was not compatible with XP and that people that have done it have experienced problems with the screen being unclear, etc. I wanted to know if anyone has tried to install XP on this model and if it works and then also how to go about doing it.

2007-09-08 18:12:22 · 4 answers · asked by MER2000 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have a HP pavillion 9410us with a geforce 6150 video card. I upgraded to 2gb of ram and it says it has up to 287mb of shared video memory but it will only let me share 128mb. Is there a way to increase the memory to anything more then 128mb. I want to go up to at least 256mb or 512mb.

2007-09-08 17:43:02 · 3 answers · asked by bj51182 2 in Add-ons

Thanks!

2007-09-08 17:39:48 · 1 answers · asked by Aquabug222 1 in Printers

i have a problem with my printer. i bought a new cartridge for my HP inkjet 4255 printer, and it will not print anything as an error shows up saying "insert right cartridge". any solution?

2007-09-08 17:38:13 · 7 answers · asked by ampo 1 in Printers

Right now when I push it down it will stay down but it will not type zeros until it was down further more. I can get it back up, only if I grab it from the sides. But it doesn't unjam it. So how can I unjam the zero button without paying for something?

2007-09-08 17:20:16 · 4 answers · asked by Thlump 2 in Other - Hardware

My computer won't boot and I was thinking of taken the HD from it and extract some of my saved files. I want to know is this possible.

2007-09-08 17:18:26 · 6 answers · asked by dorg526 1 in Desktops

Please help, if you can.

I've never run into a problem like this before and everyone I've talked to has no clue what the heck is going on. Whenever I try to watch ANY video media on my computer OTHER THAN flash, (like what is found on sites like youtube.com), my computer slows down to a snail's pace, the screen turns completely black for a slow second, flashes back to "normal" and everything remains painfully slow until the computer basically needs to be emergency rebooted.

This means that I cannot watch dvds, windows media files, anything at all, (other than the stuff on youtube, of course, and other flash format videos), or edit home-made video clips, of course, without a repeat of what I've mentioned.

I should mention, also, that we just had a new hard-drive installed and we hoped that the old system had something to do with what was was happening. No such luck. We had the same problem with viewing videos/dvds before the new hard drive AND now, after.

Thank you!

~Ami

2007-09-08 17:00:23 · 1 answers · asked by Skayda 2 in Desktops