Hardware - November 2007

I recently bought a sony vaio VGN-CR24G with a hard drive of 120GB and windows vista home premium as the OS. I only have a single drive which shows its capacity as 102GB. The problem is my hard drive space is getting filled up without putting any file or installing any kind of software. Even activities like burning a DVD or surfing the internet is eating up the space rapidly. In the morning I had 82GB free space out of 102GB, after surfing the net for 2 hours, it showed 79 GB free of 102 GB. What is eating up the space on my hard drive? Also can anyone help me with the total size of the drive. I understand that some 9GB is taken by the recovery drive but still the total capacity of the drive should be 120-9=112GB. Why do I only have 102GB available? The OS and system files which take up around 9 GB are in C: drive so why is it that the total space available on C: drive is 102GB? Please help me out.Thanks a lot in advance.

2007-11-01 04:48:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I like to tinker with old computers, research the issues and fix them and give them away. I have this one, no idea what issues it has because I can't get the monitor to power up with it. You can hear the computer powering, but the monitor light stays amber. Its not the monitor, I hooked it up with another one, and its fine. I read on the net that it could be the keyboard is not compatible with the mobo. Does anyone else have any ideas on this? The computer is pretty old, a Compaq built for 98, which I intend to completely redo with 2000.

2007-11-01 04:44:29 · 2 answers · asked by cindy h 5 in Desktops

I have the disk for XP, but cannot find the download at HP for the LaserJet 4600DN

2007-11-01 04:43:02 · 6 answers · asked by Jenni M 1 in Printers

I have a question about LCD drivers. Are they really much different than CRT drivers?

2007-11-01 04:40:53 · 4 answers · asked by bluesc2beatnu 2 in Monitors

2007-11-01 04:35:50 · 4 answers · asked by la$t drinx$ 3 in Monitors

2007-11-01 04:32:00 · 1 answers · asked by ONG J 2 in Printers

2007-11-01 04:20:22 · 2 answers · asked by Angel 3 in Printers

I'm trying to listen to the radio and i hear no sound

2007-11-01 04:13:58 · 9 answers · asked by daddys_ladybugangl 1 in Desktops

A computer printer, or more commonly a printer, produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics) of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper transparencies. Many printers are primarily used as computer peripherals, and are attached by a printer cable to a computer which serves as a document source. Other printers, commonly known as network printers, have built-in network interfaces (typically wireless or Ethernet), and can serve as a hardcopy device for any user on the network.

In addition, many modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as memory sticks or memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital cameras, scanners; some printers are combined with a scanners and/or fax machines in a single unit.

A printer which is combined with a scanner can essentially function as a photocopier.

Printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document. However, printers are generally slow devices (30 pages per minute is considered fast; and many consumer printers are far slower than that), and the cost-per-page is relatively high.

In contrast, the printing press (which serves much the same function), is designed and optimized for high-volume print jobs such as newspaper print runs--printing presses are capable of hundreds of pages per minute or more, and have an incremental cost-per-page which is a fraction of that of printers.

The printing press remains the machine of choice for high-volume, professional publishing. However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers; see desktop publishing.

The world's first computer printer was a 19th century mechanically driven apparatus invented by Charles Babbage for his Difference Engine.

2007-11-01 04:03:48 · 2 answers · asked by Yoko (from Team Galaxy) fan 2 in Printers

i have a Toshiba Satellite L20-267. I want to be able to watch films on my tv using a cable. Am i able to do this and what cable would i need? Thank You in advance

2007-11-01 03:53:52 · 4 answers · asked by Ryan C 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My friend has a pentium 4 3ghz system with 1gb of ram and in that ubuntu when used as a live cd runs faster then my system

2007-11-01 03:39:36 · 5 answers · asked by Bokkasum R 2 in Desktops

I need help, this is really annoying. Whenever I put a blank disc into my computer, even if I'm not running iTunes, it pops it back out! When I try to burn a disc, I can't because it pops it out, please help.

2007-11-01 03:37:47 · 3 answers · asked by Zeek 2 in Desktops

i need nvidia riva tnt2 driver for windows vista x86 ultimate. I haven't found it in nvidia website.plz help.thanks.

2007-11-01 03:32:48 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

HI there

My PC is knackered and Ive been rolling around Ebay for a new one. The following place seems quite reliable but I just wondered if anyone could tell me if the specifications seem ok?? It seems a really good deal.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUAL-CORE-5600-AM2-64BIT-4GB-PC-19-TFT-320GB-nVidia_W0QQitemZ200165664116QQihZ010QQcategoryZ179QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

Id like a machine that can play the latest games and has a nice amount of space for music etc, this seems to be the ticket but I just wanted some opinions for folk who know the nitty gritty. Dont get me wrong I'm not after a complete beast of a machine, but I just wondered if there was anything particularly dodgy about this deal.

Thanks for any help/opinions

Shaun

2007-11-01 03:27:53 · 3 answers · asked by didgey1000 1 in Desktops

2007-11-01 02:54:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

i dont mean person choice, but hardware/software issues would restrict the availabe screen area and color resolution. cpu, hard drive capacity, what programm etc?

2007-11-01 02:50:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz with 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS,
Or the same processor above with 1.6 GHz, with 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT?


It pretty much comes down to the comparison between better video card, or better processing power.

2007-11-01 02:49:57 · 1 answers · asked by Gaby D 4 in Other - Hardware

it works fine but the icon in my task bar says the network cable is unplugged even though the usb is in my pc.any ideas please?

2007-11-01 02:43:39 · 6 answers · asked by You lookin' at me? 4 in Add-ons

I'm going to upgrade the ram, thanks

2007-11-01 02:43:20 · 6 answers · asked by Steve 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

I want to hook up my desktop computer with monitor in an enclosed, unheated structure. With the coldness give my computer problems (New York City winter)? Is there something I can do to help the computer operate in the cold?

Thanks

2007-11-01 02:39:15 · 7 answers · asked by backofaturtle 1 in Desktops

I've seen mics for cheap when shopping. What would be a reason for having one..what do people use them for?

2007-11-01 02:38:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

How is called the black film (screen) that one can put on his laptop or desktop screen that will make the screen black or unvisible from every angle? What is the real name and where can i find one?

NB: It is kinda annoying to have someone sneaking on what
you doing on your laptop when they have no business
looking.

2007-11-01 02:37:31 · 3 answers · asked by t.wes87 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

After I use the "safely remore hardware" icon to remove a memory card, my HP desktop with its 8-in-one card reader always requires a computer restart before it can read another card. Once I properly remove a card, Device Manager shows the USB Mass Storage device disabled with an exclamation point. Reenabling the device has no effect. Only a complete restart brings it back up and running. Is that the way it must work?

2007-11-01 02:29:20 · 2 answers · asked by Steve71 4 in Desktops

"Cleaning up" I meant personal files on a PC. I would not go as far as reformating it because I don't know where my original recovery discs are. I just want to delete all my personal files without re-installing Windows XP. Any help would be great thanks.

2007-11-01 02:27:13 · 6 answers · asked by Niko 1 in Desktops

2007-11-01 02:23:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I'm at a loss ! My husband practically lives on his PC and I can't think what to get. The PC itself is like a year old and has already been upgraded beyond belief, he has external hard drives, card readers, web cams, wireless mouse,photo printers, digital cameras, scanners etc etc etc He's not into new games or USB gadgets like lamps and stuff. Any ideas ??

2007-11-01 02:08:54 · 18 answers · asked by Debi 7 in Add-ons

I was considering building a new computer. However its been awhile since i built my own system, back in the day if you had say an athlonxp 3000+ with a 333mhz fsb you would buy pc2700 memory. Nowadays you have all these different types of ddr2 ram, so lets say i had an athlon 64X2 4200 with a 2000mhz fsb how would i figure out what type of ram to use so my ram would be in sync with my processor? thanks for the help

2007-11-01 01:56:01 · 10 answers · asked by gman 3 in Desktops

I recently purchased a desktop computer and wanted to install the professional sound card into a PCI slot. The computer only had 2 PCI slots and they were being used by a serial/ parallel coms card and a Dual Screen display card. I asked the company that sold it to me why there are only 2 PCI slots and they told me that the PCI slot is obsolete? I find this hard to believe. Is there a way to expand the number of PCI slots?

Thanks

2007-11-01 01:32:50 · 7 answers · asked by Odie 5 in Desktops

If I stay on a web page a few minutes, frequently my screen will go black. I can usually re-activate it, but sometimes not. What can I do to prevent this? I have a wireless laptop. I have Windows XP. This problem can be very annoying!!

2007-11-01 01:24:46 · 7 answers · asked by YellowRoseO'Texas 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

It's not working at all!!

2007-11-01 01:16:23 · 19 answers · asked by sazzieh 2 in Laptops & Notebooks