Hardware - December 2007

when i hold shift and 2 i get the @ sign and vise versa and also when i hold shift and 3 i get has when im meant to get the pound sign how do i change this?

2007-12-28 21:32:48 · 6 answers · asked by Thomas 2 in Other - Hardware

I do have an original XP disc but the internal drive on my laptop is broke. I hardly use the internal drive so I dont really want to replace the drive due to cost.

2007-12-28 21:15:25 · 4 answers · asked by Tony12Many 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My current memory has a Latency of 5-5-5-12 these are in one gb sticks,is it possible to get xms2 DDR2 dual channel memory with a Latency of 4-4-4-12 and in 2GB sticks to make upto 8GB of xms2 DDR2 Memory in total and if possible where can you buy it. My Motherboard is an Asus P5N32-E SLI PLUS which supports 8GB BUT WILL VISTA ULTIMATE 64BIT SUPPORT THIS AMOUNT OF RAM?

2007-12-28 20:35:22 · 4 answers · asked by joe11112222002 1 in Add-ons

I'm trying to get a extremely cool temprature in my computer case without the hassle of liquid cooling. My tower is about a 1 and 1/2 feet tall and 8 inches wide.I'm running a intel processor on a MSI motherboard. Can I put 3-4 Zalman cooling components in my case? Or would liquid cooling be easier than this? I would like to know your opinion on Zalman products also.

2007-12-28 20:04:35 · 4 answers · asked by Ted 2 in Other - Hardware

Hi There, I have purchased a new motherboard (ECS NF650iSLIT-A) and a new case, the case has front usb ports, but im a bit confused, the USB headers have 10 pins (#9 is blank) but my case cables only have 4 (1 has 3 labeld as follows: VCC, USB- and USB+ and 1 solo labeld GND) i just dont know which pins to put it in, the manual isnt very clear and i dont want to ruin my nice new board

2007-12-28 20:03:57 · 1 answers · asked by Chalkie 1 in Other - Hardware

Don't worry about the price, just give me a link with reviews tests and so on...I would search it myself , but I'm working double shifts and I'm so tired when I come home ... Thanks!

2007-12-28 19:22:27 · 5 answers · asked by ThePipeMan 3 in Add-ons

i need a cheap graphics card..around 256 will do..and wtf is vram?is it better than normal ram?and the cheap graphics card needs to be able to play good games like el matador,crysis,tiberium wars and such..ani recommendatios people?

2007-12-28 19:20:50 · 3 answers · asked by zenpower41 1 in Add-ons

Ok i upgraded from a Intel Celeron d 351 3.20Ghz to a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20Ghz up and running for 2 weeks now and when i go to play my divx & xvid movies my screen sometimes messes up the video dosent but when i play my dvds they play fine i think i need a good video card iam not useing a video card just my onboard video i havent played games yet cause i need a good video card you guys think that might be the problem with my divx & xvid movies

2007-12-28 19:09:11 · 3 answers · asked by F K 1 in Other - Hardware

i was wondering because i ordered
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252
and it doesn't say there is any

2007-12-28 18:42:35 · 1 answers · asked by wwwwwwweeeeee 2 in Other - Hardware

I will buy my video card but I dont know what kind of motherboard I have, u need to know whatt kind of mother board u have to know what kind of video card u need.. agp? or pci? is that correct is this the two kind? I dont know my mother board!! help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

2007-12-28 18:24:55 · 4 answers · asked by Andrew James Ramirez 2 in Other - Hardware

i own an amd anthlon x2 bla bla with an asus motherboard with intergrated ati radeon x1200/1250 series graphics.is it a 128mb graphic?and can i play games like half life 2?and i could play warhammer40k dark crusade without any lag,but i cant play command and conquer generals/zero hours cos it lags and is slow,and is my graphics good enough for tiberium wars?

2007-12-28 18:19:00 · 3 answers · asked by zenpower41 1 in Add-ons

i installed a webcam in my labtop just by plugging it into the usb and running the found new hardware wizard. when i try to instal the cam into my computer i ran the wizard and for some reason it said it couldnt instal and i clicked the run this just once before it started now everytime i plug the cam in to try again the comp doesnt even recognize it. what can i do to instal my cam and the program that came with the cam wont find the cam in my computer. hope this wasnt too confusing can someone please help me.

2007-12-28 18:05:43 · 3 answers · asked by missaizarockstar 2 in Add-ons

cpu = amd athlon 64 x2 4200+ 2.2ghz dual
gpu = nvidia geforce 8600 gt xxx 256mb gddr3
ram = 2gb pc2 4200 ram
hdd = 250 gb hdd with windows vista home premium pre installed.

1 16x dvd burner / cd burner
media card readers

with 15 inch flat panel lcd monitor, and nice keyboard and mouse.

thats my pc and im thinking of selling it and getting a nicer one

it can play crysis at 800x600 at medium high

2007-12-28 17:57:51 · 6 answers · asked by geoff wk 2 2 in Desktops

I bought my laptop as a demo model so Windows was already loaded when I got it. But when on the net a lot of info is missing from web pages (icons, colours, boxes to click on, etc) plus in Excel when putting colour into cells (it only shows in preview) so you can't see what you have done while working on it. Word is the same - when you change font colours, etc you can only see it in preview. Should I uninstal Windows and reinstal it or is it more complicated?
(NB Cant go back to supplier - have moved out of the country)

2007-12-28 17:54:22 · 6 answers · asked by Queen RuBee 3 in Monitors

ok so i wanna get my first laptop is a mac apple notebook good i want the laptop at the apple store is it a good one?

2007-12-28 17:50:24 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I bought a new computer and it has nothing installed on it, such as windows or anything and i need to install windows pro and get my key off my current computer and get it on to my other computer, how do i get my key so i can just put in my windows xp pro disk and take the key from the computer im using right now and put it on the better computer?

2007-12-28 17:48:10 · 4 answers · asked by Tony K 2 in Desktops

Im using a LCD tv as my new computer monitor and i cant get it past 800 by 600 resolution even after updating my graphics card and rolling it back and reinstalling the drivers

2007-12-28 17:33:34 · 3 answers · asked by Swift 2 in Monitors

I have a Plantronics computer mic.

2007-12-28 17:30:57 · 3 answers · asked by T's Mom 1 in Add-ons

i have an hp pavilion 6630 its old and runs slow when i get on the internet or open apps! it has 64 mb shared memory and 10.2 gb hard drive and it has windows 98. i want to make it run faster or update it with more memory. where can i go and how much would i waste? any suggestions?

2007-12-28 17:25:34 · 15 answers · asked by Keven 1 in Desktops

Thanks in advance.
1. PNY XLR8 Dual Channel 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3233706&CatId=2264

or

2. Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz LL Memory (2 x 1024MB)

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2176265&CatId=2264

2007-12-28 17:25:31 · 9 answers · asked by Fly Like Jordan 3 in Add-ons

i don't really do any heavy duty gaming...
but i do play the sims 2 and i have all of it's expansion packs and quite a bit of custom content, so i'd like to be able to play it and it work relatively fast, yet still look good.
at the moment i'm playing it on a toshiba laptop and it's not working so well.
i don't have that much money to spend, around $1000 would be good, under would be even better. i'd like to only have to spend $500 dollars but i know that for a computer set(monitor, desktop, keyboard, etc.) that's almost impossible.

2007-12-28 17:24:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I want to downgrade from vista to XP.

How do I know if the hardware that was once running on Vista will work on XP? Hardware being graphics card, wireless card, sound card, ram, and etc.

I have a HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop.

2007-12-28 17:24:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

I'm planning to build a new computer with 4gig ram and I'm wondering how to install them. I know for Vista that you have to install 2gigs first then install the OS then install the next 2gigs to get the full 4gigs. Is XP like this or can I just put all of it in at once? Help, never used XP in my life.

2007-12-28 16:56:47 · 4 answers · asked by Wally West 4 in Desktops

hello i recently purchased a AGP HIS Radeon 9250 video card. i have a compaq presario s3000nx and intergrated s3graphics i put the agp card in and attatched the vga cord to it but the monitor remains in standby. it doesnt make an attempt to turn on when i click the power button. i have tested it on 2 monitors and used 2 vga cords to test if it was a cord problem. i have a phoenix award bios version 6. is there somthing that i have to do in the bios or something else that i dont know about?

my power supply is 250 watts
i have a fic am35 motherboard
amd athlon 2000+

2007-12-28 16:44:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

i have a FLY pen and it says it requires a computer with at least 512 of RAM how do i get that because i uninstalled my sims because they where a coulple thousand

2007-12-28 15:58:19 · 10 answers · asked by Tori 2 in Desktops

Just wondering..

2007-12-28 15:36:22 · 7 answers · asked by xssy 3 in Other - Hardware

Mainly for gaming, music, videos, video editing, chat etc...

What would your choice be?

And why?

2007-12-28 15:32:20 · 4 answers · asked by D 1 in Add-ons

2007-12-28 14:40:21 · 2 answers · asked by Marjory I 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

okay. my camera is a Fujifilm Finepix F480. my laptop is an HP Pavilion dv2310us Entertainment Notebook PC. i downloaded the camera's cd into my computer, did everything the directions told me to do, updated all of the software onto my computer from the camera's website and for windows in general, made sure the device driver software was working and updated

but

for some reason, everytime i try to plug my camera into my computer, it says its going to download everything and work, but then it says it failed because it says "Device driver software was not successfully installed". it also says, however, that the Samsung HM160JI SCSI Disk Device is installed properly...

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO :(

does anyone have any idea what i should do?

2007-12-28 14:35:44 · 5 answers · asked by jane 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-28 14:28:16 · 11 answers · asked by Andie 1 in Desktops