Hardware - December 2007

2007-12-18 22:34:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

All other things being equal(ish), does a higher hard drive capacity generally mean increased power consumption?

I'm looking at Hitachi notebook drives and want to maximize battery life. Does anyone have any power consumption information regarding the Hitachi 5K160 vs 5K250? Which drive (the 160GB or the 250GB) will give me the best battery life?

2007-12-18 22:27:02 · 3 answers · asked by Mitch M 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

i just got a new pc and the hard drive every once in a while is loud compared to my old one. it happens because i am running a program r anything. all i know is that its from the hard drive. is this normal for new pcs. i know its searching the memmory, but cn it get softer

2007-12-18 22:21:54 · 5 answers · asked by subs r de best 4 in Other - Hardware

I have recently bought a Transcend 2 GB Cap-less pendrive. Now my concern is that could it get harmed by the dust, as the connector slot is all the time open? Also if there is any way to clear off the dust?

2007-12-18 22:17:08 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

as titled, thanks

2007-12-18 21:37:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-12-18 21:15:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

I have installed a inno3d nvidia 8800gt card on my system.
Quad core 6600 cpu
2Gb Ram
500w PSU

After i installed the card the system would not boot up properly. It would power the fans on both card and computer but nothing else. I put in the old card and works perfect??

Please help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-18 21:09:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I get a "No Hard disk present" error whenever i try installing Windows XP.

2007-12-18 20:58:42 · 1 answers · asked by rahulv 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-18 20:43:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

2007-12-18 20:40:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

i have brought a hp touch smart pc and in pc world i was told it had a tv card. it dose have a antener port at the back but i only get 2 chanels of that. is there way to get more throught the internet.
thanks

2007-12-18 20:26:15 · 6 answers · asked by Durahn M 2 in Desktops

what will happen to my pc if my computer overheats and turn off unexpectedly because it overheats? affected parts?

2007-12-18 18:47:37 · 7 answers · asked by brian 2 in Desktops

Such as game settings , Video resolution etc.

2007-12-18 18:33:38 · 7 answers · asked by Brandon 3 in Add-ons

2007-12-18 18:28:27 · 1 answers · asked by bujji 1 in Printers

We bought a new laptop for our son 4 christmas.

I set it up a month ago. Pulled it out last night to install bt home hub broard band, but cany get passed the log-in page.

Its asking for a password. I presume i put one in when i set it up, but stupidly i cant remember it.

Can i somehow skip this or over-ride or start set up again??

All thats on the screen is my sons name with his logo picture, under that is asking for the password.
To the right of the screen is options for shutting down.

That is all. Please help x

2007-12-18 18:25:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-18 18:25:17 · 2 answers · asked by Unintended 1 in Add-ons

I heard somewhere that the AMD processor running at 3ghz is equal to an intel processor running at around 4.4ghz ( or somewhere around that). Is this true?

And thruthfully is it better to purchase an AMD or intel even though AMD is cheaper.

2007-12-18 18:15:15 · 5 answers · asked by Jayyyz 2 in Desktops

have cell phone as moduem for wireless internet can i watch digital tv over internet ?.do i need software ? or hardware ?

2007-12-18 18:09:01 · 2 answers · asked by fordman 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

Just wanted to know if it would work , if not , how could you get dead pixels fixed without giving the product back to the manafacturer.

2007-12-18 18:04:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

My GPU core (3D) is 576MHz and the GPU memory is 900MHz. What is a safe MHz to overclock to? it is a 8800GTX 768MB

2007-12-18 17:45:59 · 5 answers · asked by Bend it like Bender 5 in Other - Hardware

how can i get 32 bit color on my lat top i have 16 colors now is there a down load to get it
Thank You

2007-12-18 17:43:41 · 4 answers · asked by wlorch1 1 in Monitors

looking 4 a highly upgradeable pc desktop/notebook in which u can upgrade every thing!

2007-12-18 17:41:31 · 1 answers · asked by XxDeepxX 2 in Add-ons

Once i restart the computer it works fine, but this problem repeats. I am told that it is not an earthing problem.

2007-12-18 16:51:26 · 5 answers · asked by Gg 1 in Desktops

2007-12-18 16:43:47 · 6 answers · asked by Paul Muad' Dib Atreides 1 in Desktops

my computer crashed and nothing would show on the screen, it was if the computer was not recognizing the screen. I'm running on 7800gt SLI, I cleaned out the computer with compressed air and connected everything back. The computer started up fine and displayed fine on the screen all the way until the login screen and than crashed again and gave me the same problem where it does not display on the screen. I have tried everything I can think of and I don't have the money to have a shop look at it, do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help :)

2007-12-18 16:40:45 · 7 answers · asked by Djmaster360 1 in Other - Hardware

how does one tell BIOS to read your
hard drive changes from slave to
C and C to slave?

2007-12-18 16:39:13 · 5 answers · asked by kemperk 7 in Desktops

I'm thinking of buying one and i want to make sure it will work with my PSU.

2007-12-18 15:55:21 · 4 answers · asked by lilgunner_03 1 in Desktops

1 Which digital technology provides an upstream speed that is typically less than the downstream speed?

A - ADSL
B - HDSL
C - IDSL
D - SDSL

2007-12-18 15:50:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous 1 in Desktops

It's a little less than that, it's from Dell and it's currently $800 off for me. It would be fully decked out with everything I could possibly need including a 4 year warrenty, etc.

Worth it or not (the deal can be seen on slickdeals.net frontpage)

2007-12-18 15:43:52 · 5 answers · asked by MLeinart7 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

well i have a Comapq presario F579WM laptop and its great. she's running vista prenium and she's verry fast.
well i've been Noticing lately that the bottom of my laptop is unusualy hot and the fan dosen't kick in to cool it. She's brand new so i dout that something broke. I had her fan and everything cleaned and it still dosen't keep it cool.

the fan kicks in here and there and cools it but when it shuts off it reheats again
Can anyone help?

Best answer gets 10 points

2007-12-18 15:26:03 · 5 answers · asked by ? 3 in Laptops & Notebooks