Hardware - October 2007

Help, HELP! Here i got a picture of a Cut VGA Cable, Tell me what wire goes where? http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/sherwind2007/P1030349.jpg

2007-10-27 20:50:54 · 0 answers · asked by Alex 1 in Monitors

I bought a laptop from a company and I want to know is it refurbished or not. my laptop is inspiron series from dell company.
Thanks

2007-10-27 19:50:36 · 2 answers · asked by Ghassem 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to connect my laptop with the monitor and i can get a wireless keyboard and use it like a desktop. More importantly, can i connect cable to it so i can also watch it as cable TV?

2007-10-27 19:39:46 · 2 answers · asked by elspringster 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

i bought a new amd athlon x2 5600+ and mobo asus m2n-e sli....i put the processor in the mobo slot properly......then the heatsink...the retention mechanism on my heatsink seems a bit different from the pictures in the manual...but i fit the fan in firmly....also made the heatsink fan connection on the mobo...also installed all other stuff like graphics card.....ram....power connections...now when i turn on the pc....a led on the mobo lights up....indicating its on.....but the cpu heatsink fan isnt rotating....another thing....my psu fan connector has 4 pin type connection and mobo pwr fan connector has 3 pins....so i dnt knw how to fit it in....could it be because of this that the power fan cant turn on and so the cpu fan doesnt work?also which thermal paste can i use now....since i've removed the heatsink from the cpu?

2007-10-27 19:27:24 · 1 answers · asked by ? 1 in Desktops

2007-10-27 19:19:17 · 3 answers · asked by Georg H 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I own a Gateway Mx7337 notebook, can anyone assure me that it isn't possible to change the sound card?

2007-10-27 18:56:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-10-27 18:44:33 · 3 answers · asked by akhil 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

MY pc mic is not working. I have a hp computer. I bought it brand new for 10 fdollars.. plugged it in and it dosent have a on off switch. Why is it not working? Does it need software??

2007-10-27 17:55:59 · 4 answers · asked by Steven 1 in Add-ons

is there any way that i can update the graphic card

2007-10-27 17:34:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

keys that dont work are

o y l / f6 f7 f8 f9

help

2007-10-27 17:28:49 · 3 answers · asked by steve 1 in Other - Hardware

I'm confused about two connectors... I have never built with an sli board or sata2 drives. Most important, I've read that sata power connectors only supply 4 wires to the 12pin sata power connector. Which leaves out a 3.3 volt effectively disabling hot swap. I probably won't be swapping anything but does this lack of wires affect the drive in any other way?

Can I hook up 4 SATA drives with only one connector from PSU?

Lastly, can I hook up two SLI cards with only one SLI power connector?

I'm trying to find a good PSU for under 100, I WAS sold on a Kingwin but their site doesn't work to check specs and I won't buy PC parts from a company that can't keep a website up. My build below:

board - Asus P5N-E sli
cpu - CORE 2 DUO E6550 2.33GHZ
ram - PATRIOT 2GB KIT (1GB x 2) PC2-6400 800MHZ
vga - (single)SAPPHIRE Radeon X1950GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express
hdd - WD Caviar SE16 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb

2 optical and 2 ide hdds in case already.
7 fan thermaltake case

2007-10-27 17:16:46 · 1 answers · asked by mike h 3 in Other - Hardware

I plugged a USB (G) in my PC and then when I checked my computer, I couldn't find G but when I was about to save a document in another USB (F), I found G in My computer! I don't get it, it showed up when I was about to save and then when I check the My Computer folder, It's not there!

2007-10-27 17:06:11 · 6 answers · asked by tanned 2 in Add-ons

2007-10-27 16:58:31 · 5 answers · asked by hoodwink 2 in Desktops

2007-10-27 16:57:55 · 3 answers · asked by Nachi 2 in Other - Hardware

2007-10-27 16:47:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

2007-10-27 16:39:28 · 6 answers · asked by dato f 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-10-27 16:37:39 · 3 answers · asked by Ida Know 1 in Printers

The speakers are on the monitor. I KNOW they used to work.

Whenever I press the caps lock key, something squeals at me (I don't know from where), but music/videos won't have sound. It's not on mute, either on the computer or the monitor, and i've checked the volume settings of which I know. What's up?

And this monitor is...HP vs15.

2007-10-27 16:13:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

it was amazing at 1st and now really slow, ive have no viruses or anything, idk whats causing it to run so slow, even when i reboot it takes forever b4 i can open anything, please help!!!

2007-10-27 16:09:19 · 6 answers · asked by slayter19 2 in Desktops

I reloaded Xp but now it comes to a menu where I need to choose between the installations. Only the new one is valid but it's annoying that I have to choose now. Before it would just boot normally. Any way I can fix this?

2007-10-27 16:04:04 · 2 answers · asked by J B 2 in Desktops

I just got a compaq proliant 1850r server which requires registered pc133 ram. all i have is non registered pc133 ram can i use this for now?

2007-10-27 15:59:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

on satellite m35

2007-10-27 15:41:04 · 3 answers · asked by @q!l---l!p@ 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

My comp. like randomly slows down and like moves slow but doesn't completely freeze. And about once a day it shuts itself down and reboots. Please help!!!

2007-10-27 15:37:42 · 8 answers · asked by T C 2 in Desktops

Hi everyone,

I've had my PC since 2003 and just yesterday when i started it up, it came up with a voice message saying "system failed cpu test". It just keeps repeating this message over and over again. Also, i do not get any video on my monitor, i don't think it could be a monitor problem as i replaced my CRT with an LCD 2 months back.

I've also noticed that when i boot up and let the computer 'warm up' for say 5 minutes then restart it quickly - it works. What could be the problem here? I've always been shutting down before bed and starting up in the morning everyday, and its been working for years, this problem just came out of the blue!

btw, my specs are:
P4 2.53Ghz
ASUS P4S8X Mobo
ASUS 128MB GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Ultra Deluxe
Kingmax 2x512mb DDR PC2700 Ram
80GB Seagate HDD

these are the main things...any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

2007-10-27 15:17:54 · 2 answers · asked by thugster17 2 in Desktops

My business is switching over to printing out our own labels for about 50 packages per day. We heard that thermal printers are the cheapest long run, but we know just about nothing about thermal printers.

Could somebody explain the economics of thermal printers for printing shipping labels with postage vs inkjets and laser?

2007-10-27 14:58:47 · 11 answers · asked by DJP 2 in Printers

I bought P5K-E of Asus because it was just the perfect motherboard (from my point of view and because of the Intel P35 chipset). I was looking forward to buy Nvidia 8600 GTS from XFX, but later I discovered this strange (for me) dual GPU techonoly (where you attach two graphic cards together) then I discovered that SLI was for nVidia and Crossfire for ATI.

Then I thought, I could upgrade later to SLI if I get interested enough. Then the big screw up, I bought the mobo, I haven't bought yet the graphic card (thankfuly), yet, but if I want to dual it, then I couldn't do it with two nVidia cards on this CrossFire mobo, I mean, after heareing so much NOs on ppl asking the same question (using one over the other).

I know this doesn't look like a question, seems like I just looking for some confort words, but here are the real questions:

Are ATI really bad graphic card?
Can I use one Nvidia card on this crossfire mobo?

2007-10-27 13:30:27 · 4 answers · asked by Leo 1 in Add-ons

2007-10-27 13:24:59 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

What is the CB and EX thing on the side of the laptop, it is on the left side closest to you and it has 4 square things in it?

2007-10-27 13:12:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Ok, It seems that many people are saying the geforce 9 series is coming out in Nov. I wanted to upgrade my pc for Call of duty 4 when it comes out in Nov. I realy dont wantot have to pay 400+ for a 8800 gts and in a month the 9 series comes out. I want to upgrade my computer so it last me at LEAST 2 years. So what i wanted to do is upgrade my pc and then just get the 8600 gts for like 150. Now what i wanted to do is prob nov/dec i would want to get the 9800.

I would get like the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz, good mother board, memory and so on. BUT I heard the geforce 9 series will not be using PCI Express x16 but a better kind of slot meaning i would need to buy new motherboard and possably memory and/or new cpu. SO if you happen to know anything about that please tell me! IF so i will just buy the best graphics card for like 150 and a little memory and wait till dec. PLEASE give all the info youi can give! THX

2007-10-27 12:47:11 · 3 answers · asked by Slapjack 3 in Add-ons

I have 1gb of DDR2 RAM. I run Object Dock and Desktop X and Windows XP, Office 2007, and i video/audio edit. I have a RAM METER and with only running my core programs. (windows, Object dock and Desktop X) i use 43% of my RAM.

Should I upgrade???

2007-10-27 12:45:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops