Hardware - September 2007

2007-09-04 09:21:06 · 12 answers · asked by veronicamars911 1 in Desktops

I have recently purchased a 160GB IDE Hard Disk that has XP pre-installed.

My problem seems to be be that after finding the hard disk as 'IDE hard Disk' on the first screen it leads to the O/S Choice screen' (Safe Mode, SM with CMD Prompt, Last Known Good Config, Start Win Normally), and when I choose Last Known good config it leads to a black screen, and if I choose start windows normally it completely freezes!

Any ideas?

2007-09-04 09:20:28 · 6 answers · asked by militaryaircontrol 1 in Other - Hardware

I have a Dell Dimension from 2001. Windows XP.

2007-09-04 08:30:28 · 4 answers · asked by Totem 3 in Other - Hardware

I've got an AMD Turion 64, but it's only running 32-bit. How to convert it into 64-bit?

2007-09-04 08:10:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

My computer automatically changes the date back to Jan. 01, 2000, everytime I shut it down. Please help, thank you.

2007-09-04 08:04:28 · 2 answers · asked by Shawn J 3 in Desktops

I have an acer 3050 and will not play any sounds, when I go through the control panel it says I have bluetooth audio and it is working, but yet no sounds. Help how do I get sound on my new laptop.

2007-09-04 07:43:38 · 1 answers · asked by Cheryl P 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-09-04 07:42:55 · 4 answers · asked by mytucsonhome 1 in Add-ons

I am using Aspire 5634 for more than 6 months, but this last two months I noticed that the system date is not updating while the unit is off and also the time looses about 5 minutes in an hour or two of running the unit.

2007-09-04 07:38:23 · 3 answers · asked by Sir Raulo 4 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have a new Pavilion desktop from HP running Vista Home Premium, and I want to reformat the entire drive. (I'm just quirky and don't trust that HP installed all my drivers and stuff right, and I just want a fresh start). I've made my recovery discs, and they seem like they work. So when I go to reformat, can I just delete the recovery partition and work with one full partition? Thanks in advance.

2007-09-04 07:32:00 · 3 answers · asked by sunny-d alright! 5 in Desktops

just finished building another computer, and pressed the power button, to find that nothing even makes a sound, except a faint click of the PSU when i press the power button, what does this mean? is the input/output voltage incorrect? too much/too little current? anyone with any ideas, muchly appriciated!! Thanks!

2007-09-04 07:31:03 · 11 answers · asked by furrycow159 1 in Desktops

I have a 1GB SanDisk jump drive. After deleting a bunch of files, the capacity did not change. I am now only using 525MB (added size of the 3 folders), but says that I have only 31MB left. I tried emptying my trash, ejecting the drive and reinserting, but still says 31MB. What gives?

2007-09-04 07:27:50 · 2 answers · asked by climberchic 2 in Other - Hardware

I have seen several questions address tracing a stolen laptop by the MAC address. Can someone explain EXACTLY how to do that? Mine was stolen and I'd love to get it back.

2007-09-04 07:25:31 · 5 answers · asked by grace07 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I am in Europe, using a high quality voltage converter rated for computer use. I have a 3-year old Sony Vaio desktop running Windows XP. Everything has worked fine for the last 10 months. However, recently, I would come back after the monitor went into energy saving mode, and pressing the Enter key would not bring it back to life.

I have tried checking all the connections to see if anything is loose. When I switch on the computer, the monitor only comes on about 1/3 of the time, even though I can see the green light, indicating it has power.

Otherwise, the monitor works perfectly. Previously, it only required a little bit off fiddling to get the monitor to spring back to life, but now it doesn't respond. I have gotten in the habit of leaving the computer on most of the day (since the monitor goes into sleep mode to save power). I wonder if this is contributing to the problem.

2007-09-04 07:16:53 · 7 answers · asked by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 in Monitors

I reformated my computer and my plug-and-play hard drive doesn't appear in the list of hard drives in "My Computer." Why can't I access the information inside, even though the computer realizes that there is a drive connected to it. Even though I formatted, I downloaded all the updates I could from microsoft. Thanks for the help!

2007-09-04 07:16:00 · 6 answers · asked by rienos 2 in Add-ons

a normal CD when full cannot be used again...i've heard that there are softwares which allow us to rewrite normal CDs. Is this true? which softwares do this? where will i get them from?

2007-09-04 07:14:17 · 8 answers · asked by Akki . 1 in Add-ons

when it goes on and off i dont just mean the display but the power too
i cant be the power outlet because all the components i.e. processor and the speakers work fine
i cant be the drivers because i downloaded them form their website and they are fine



please help

2007-09-04 07:10:13 · 2 answers · asked by slfdkj 1 in Monitors

Nvidia GTX ..not ultra is that ture ..and is better than other ATi card ..whats the diffrent in Asus Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB card ?
well i am looking for card to hard core gaming .////>

2007-09-04 07:10:04 · 4 answers · asked by randike2007 1 in Other - Hardware

the other day i restarted my comp and a blue page came up saying, the windows logon process system process terminated unexpectedly W/ a status of C000021A 0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000). now when i turn on my comp the power light comes on as normal, and can open my cd drive, but nothing happens with the comp screen. what can i do without spending alot of money to get this problem fixed?

2007-09-04 07:08:49 · 2 answers · asked by damagedone4u2fix 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I bought a boosting sound device from my local Wal-Mart and it does not work. I followed instructions to the letter.

2007-09-04 07:08:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I would like to get a laptop for college. The only thing I'll be doing with it is writing papers, using the internet and downloading music (itunes). What else could I do with a laptop like this?
Thanks.


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8297014&st=Laptops&lp=7&type=product&cp=1&id=1172881381600

2007-09-04 07:06:50 · 3 answers · asked by You Betcha! 6 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want good graphics and I'm not sure if I need a new one of if this one will give great graphics.

2007-09-04 07:02:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-09-04 06:54:29 · 1 answers · asked by YaToya M 1 in Add-ons

2007-09-04 06:33:55 · 7 answers · asked by love angel 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-09-04 06:29:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-09-04 05:59:04 · 3 answers · asked by raja r 1 in Desktops

vista is a hog and has way to many bugs for me, I believe I would prefer good old XP Pro SP2

2007-09-04 05:44:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

i read that it demagnetizes it.... but what does it mean? and what happens if i press it often? or am i not supposed to?? please explain

2007-09-04 05:42:19 · 4 answers · asked by Asile 4 in Monitors

I just bought a new "hp LaserJet 1018" printer. It's connected properly to the computer and the ink is new and inserted correctly. However, it won't print. I type a text, and select print and absolutley nothing happens. It doesn't even take up the papers I put in. Why is that? Can anyone please help me and tell me what I can do to print? I'd really appreciate it, thanks!

2007-09-04 05:33:26 · 3 answers · asked by angel 2 in Printers

Ok it's not my pc so I have limited info here as I am being told all this over the phone from someone who knows near nothing about computer's...Ok so they turn the computer on and boot's then goes to error mess. windowsroot/system32/ntoskrni.exe. and also says something about keyboard failure, I tried to get them to go into safe mode with command prompt to try to correct problem but after selecting safe mode computer goes back to error messages, they have a recovery disk and that does nothing either when installed, like I said this is going over the phone and I can not see their screen so any ideas anyone cause I really do not want to take a drive all the way out there maybe you have had this problem and can help...remember the pc goes no where does not go to windows but I can get them to get into options for safe mode or what not but no further than there...need more details ask and I will repost I will check back every 5 minutes to see and thank you to anyone who can help...

2007-09-04 05:32:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

Hey Amigos.

Ok, I admit, Iam very Crap at reading Computer stuff or even knowing what they are.
Iam buying a Pc for my birthday which costs around £750.
Its designed for gaming aswell.t

So, Does these Requirements for a Pc game i want, Go with this Computer?

Computer Info :

# Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6320
# 1.86GHz, 1GHz FSB, 4MB Cache
# Genuine Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
# 256MB NVidia GeForce 8500GT Graphics
# 2048MB RAM Memory
# 320GB Hard Drive
# Dual Layer DVD ReWriter Drive
# 8-In-1 Media Card Reader
# 6 USB Connections
# 20" Widescreen Viewsonic TFT Monitor

The game I want Requirements:

English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Celeron 1.8GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent AMD® processor.
512MB RAM
8x Speed DVD-ROM drive
(1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers
11.0 Gigs of uncompressed free hard disk space
100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest drivers

Thank you, FULL SCORE FOR BEST ANSWER!

2007-09-04 05:31:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops