Hardware - December 2007

I need to sell my PC in order to buy a Mac but i'm not sure how much I could get for it. I will sell monitor seperate so this is base unit only.

AMD Athalon 64bit processor 2800+ 1.80Ghz
512MB Ram(Expandable to 4gb)
ATI Radeon 9600pro Graphics card
150GB Hardrive
Soundman AC97 Soundcard
DVD-RW Drive (3 other slots for more drives)
Floppy drive

Oh yes would come with vista installed. Just want to know how much I could sell it for on Ebay or anywhere else (suggestions welcome)

2007-12-12 08:21:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

alright. soo I hate the fact that in order to see the screen i need to have my battery plugged in so that the screen brightens up with light...do any of you dell or maybe the non-dell laptop owners know if there is some sort of setting that I need to fix or look for in order to keep the light on without the use of the plug??

2007-12-12 08:14:28 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I have an old compaq case that has two usb ports on the front... and i'm upgrading my motherboard that has usb 2 support... What i'm wondering is if i plug the usb ports from my case on the motherboard that is usb 2 will they work as usb 2 or will the still only work as usb 1... or will they not work at all?

2007-12-12 08:11:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

Im ordering a ATI RADEON 3850 Graphics card and a silence 470watt ATX PSU with 26 amps on 12v im wondering if it can run this and everything on my computer

2007-12-12 08:06:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My ant has a real old computer, almost 3 years old now if im not mistaken she has AMD Athlon 3400 she complains its very slow and when she plays half life episode 2 (new one out) the computer frezes. She also has vista as Operating System.

Im flying over to visit her next week and i was thinking of buying her a Nvidia geforce fx 5500 PCI (she only has pci slots i made her check with Astra32). I will also install fresh copy of windows xp cos im thinking vista is eating up her ram making her pc slow. Anyways if i buy nvidia geforce fx 5500 pci 128mb will it be able to run games we have today on low settings?

2007-12-12 08:05:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I have a HP LaserJet 3050 All in One machine. I am having problems printing from a software program (work related). The PCL format on the software is a PCL 4 and the printer lists as a PCL 6. Would this be why I have problems printing? Is there anyway to change the PCL? If it's not the PCL anyone shed some light as to perhaps why I cannot print (I can print perfectly fine from say Word, excel, Outlook, etc.) Thanks!

2007-12-12 07:58:30 · 2 answers · asked by changeup45 3 in Printers

2007-12-12 07:41:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-12-12 07:39:15 · 6 answers · asked by shelby.sheperd 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

i want to bulid on to my compuetr and i was told to start with a motherboard and build up. but i want to buy froma place that sells good products? Is there a brand name that is better, and of web site?

2007-12-12 07:38:38 · 10 answers · asked by Sis 1 in Desktops

At every power failure my Computer Shuts. The UPS does NOT work. Could you tell me what is the problem?And how can I fix it?
And Could you also tell me How much harm this abrupt shut-off is causing to my PC?

2007-12-12 07:36:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

is there anything on the market which would allow you to insert a pci express graphic card into a normal pci slot? maybe a adapter or something similar?

2007-12-12 07:35:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I currently have 1gb of RAM on my laptop. I am thinking of upgrading it to 2 1gb slots (4GB). Is it worth it, and what will this do to my laptop?
Thanks in advance.

2007-12-12 07:33:20 · 5 answers · asked by Nick J 2 in Add-ons

my computer has been running slow and i cant play new games even tho my video card could handle them.

2007-12-12 07:08:50 · 6 answers · asked by sharpki 2 in Other - Hardware

intel celeron cpu 2.53 GHz 503ram intel(r) 828656 graphics card. What new features can i do with this set up?

2007-12-12 07:06:17 · 5 answers · asked by Star R 7 in Desktops

Well, simply I bought this in a shop and plugged it in my USB slot but the sound comes out of the speakers and the microphone doesn't work - I use Window XP Home Edition if that's any help - how do I use them :).

2007-12-12 07:04:24 · 4 answers · asked by Patch 1 in Add-ons

i am going to get a 8800gt graphics card but i have found 2 and would like to know which to get:

1.256MB XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog XXX, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1600 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 650 MHz, 2 x DVI-I, HDCP, Fan

at £143.21

or

2.Asus Extreme 8800GT 512MB DDR3, PCI-E, Dual DVI, HDTV OutCore Clock Speed600 MHz Video Memory Installed512 MB TechnologyGDDR3 SDRAM 256-bit Memory Clock Speed1.8 GHz with
Company of horoes:opposing fronts

for £162.03


which one???????? (they both have 112 pipelines i think. thank you

2007-12-12 07:00:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I'm looking to get a laptop and one of the main price differences is because of the graphic card. I'm not going to use it for gaming. If I purchase the laptop with the better graphic card (all other specs being the same), would DVD quality and video streaming be a lot better? Or won't make much of a difference? Thanks

2007-12-12 07:00:00 · 4 answers · asked by Justin 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-12 06:38:26 · 6 answers · asked by sweetbby931 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-12 06:33:10 · 7 answers · asked by Meee =] 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My computer keeps turning its self off, crashing. It can be running something then just turn off. to get it back on I need to turn the power off at the wall to reset it. Often if it’s in the middle of a scan, or running an on-line game. It has even shut down while it is sitting on the desk top , with no programs running.
The hard drive is not full, and I don’t think it’s over heating. This is an intermittent fault, but it is getting a lot worse.
When looking at the task manager it offer says it’s only running at 7-10%.

Does anyone have any help or guidance they could give with this problem.

If I have missed something of the detail please email me and I will give any info that may help, in a diagnoses.

WinXP home, sp2, it’s about 3 years old.

Thanks in advance.

2007-12-12 06:14:42 · 11 answers · asked by Bio Hazard 4 in Desktops

i do not want myfreeze.com on my computer and i don't know how to delete it i went on my computer and did remove and it never removed it

thanks
heidi

2007-12-12 05:28:33 · 7 answers · asked by hbwal13 1 in Desktops

In the morning today the free space was 900 MB, after few hours 650 MB, and now in the evening - 1.17GB.
Few month ago 3-4 GB.
I have firefox installed and regularly updated, scanned and no viruses found.
And hard drive only Windows xp and some Program Files - 2.5 GB in total.
Nothing else.
Old computer - only 7 GB.
Don't know what's going on.
Sb could help me?
Cannot do the defragmentation nor restore like a month ago or so...

2007-12-12 05:23:57 · 6 answers · asked by Peter P 1 in Other - Hardware

whats the best brand for the price? price range : $600-$1,800 usd

2007-12-12 05:20:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-12 05:18:04 · 3 answers · asked by PaKiLaMeRaNg P 2 in Desktops

2007-12-12 05:15:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

some people says that is the mother board and other says (CPU) and other says is the Hard Desk but no one of them is shure and i want to now what is it ? could you tell me

2007-12-12 05:13:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

I have a desktop in addition to a laptop. The broadband moden I have is hooked up to a router for wireless. Whether or not I use the router, my desktop would not recognize that the ethernet cord was plugged into it. I went into Device Manager, and the ethernet card is still listed there, but everytime I start up windows, it is automatically disabled. When I re-enable it, it never finishes starting up, it seems to get stuck in the IP Address part. Once it made it completely through startup, but still wouldn't connect to the internet once. I have not made any changes to my computer that could cause this, in fact I rarely use that computer at all except to print something. Do I need to update my drivers, and if so, how could I do that without connecting to the internet? At this point I'm considering just reformatting Windows XP. Any other suggestions?

2007-12-12 05:10:50 · 6 answers · asked by Brian 3 in Desktops

it looks like something like this 5UT15w P@&C@@

2007-12-12 04:13:00 · 5 answers · asked by Kenny D 1 in Printers

I want to build a computer for my mother for christmas present. She only use computer for internet and I want to run vista ultimate on it. What is good combination of part that are inexpensive. I have dealt with high end alot but I never built low end computers so little advice could help. Although it is low end I want the computer be able to do good at what it is built for. Meaning not become laggy in vista and run internet fine.

2007-12-12 03:59:40 · 5 answers · asked by jason 1 in Desktops

Tips? Anything I especially need to avoid?

2007-12-12 03:37:30 · 3 answers · asked by Rabbit 5 in Other - Hardware