Desktops - September 2006

not good with techno stuff, have a philips computer and AOL have sent me a netgear router. are these things( adapter cards) compatible with most computers? how much should I be spending? because they vary so much. thanks

2006-09-05 23:18:29 · 5 answers · asked by mz.hunnie 3

the time i would be so grateful if u could walk me thru via our im yahoo. many thanx but atleast can someone tell me what trhe jumper is where it is lolcated?

2006-09-05 22:56:24 · 5 answers · asked by jacki j 1

A Message came up when I switched it back on saying there had been a power cut and giving the options of safe mode, safe mode with networking etc. or start up windows i tried safe mode and it did'nt work so i tried start up windows and it gets as far as the Microsoft Screen with the blue lights along the bottom then clicks back to the error message can any one please HELP ME? ( I Now know not to just switch off at the wall when Computers Crash). Please Please Help Me.

2006-09-05 22:34:55 · 14 answers · asked by joa_kel 1

This PC I bought has a no-name mainboard. The hard drives (2) were configured as one primary and one secondary on the same IDE channel.
The secondary HDD was an old 20 GB model; I pulled it without altering anything with the other (primary), and swapped it for a larger 30 GB model. When I tried to boot, the PC went schizo and wouldn't recogize the unaltered primary as bootable!
I messed around with its jumpers and tried the BIOS settings to make the mainboard recognize the primary for what it was - the primary master, to no avail. I think the problem is pretty serious. What about pulling and replacing the CMOS battery to make the mainboard recognize the the primary HDD?

2006-09-05 19:00:15 · 11 answers · asked by Bruce Almighty 4

GRAPHIC CARD IS G FORCE 6600.

2006-09-05 17:31:36 · 8 answers · asked by Gary k 1

I have a Soyo PX400 Lite. The manual says I have the option to change the multiplier, but I don't (it's 12x). I can raise the CPU core speed by 1 MHz, but I can't even break 2 GHz before the computer refuses to boot. I've tried playing around with the memory. Any tips?

2006-09-05 17:13:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have used my desktop computer rarely. last time i used was about a month ago, i burned some cds and turned it off. now i hooked it back up again and when i boot up it goes to a black screen that says "Reboot and select proper boot device. Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key."

anybody know the problem and how to fix it?

its an HP computer with windows XP

2006-09-05 17:09:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

This may be a dumb question, I dunno but the hard drive I have in my pc now is only 3 gb which is nearly used up. I have a older computer which I don't use anymore and was just wondering if its possible to reformat the hard drive from that pc and use it as a second drive on my current pc? I know I will need to get a larger drive eventually but I was considering doing this as a temporary fix. Is it even possible to do this?

2006-09-05 16:25:40 · 16 answers · asked by webgirl126 1

I must have pressed something wrong and now my keyboard is acting as if the ctrl key is perminantly being held down, i think it is stick keys or something similar, how do i stop it? I have tried pressing the left and right Ctrl keys but that has not worked.

2006-09-05 16:05:38 · 6 answers · asked by gee.tar1 1

I am buying a seagate 160gig SATA. (good price..!) At present I have a ATA 133 - 40G ; my motherboard is designed to take SATA. No problem there. But, my q. is can SATA as C:\ and PATA as D:\ coexist on the same motherboard? I also have another Pata drive which is D:\ (40Gig) and I will be getting rid of it. I am running XP prof.

Additionally, how will I take a mirror image of my present 40G into SATA? I would prefer it to be *exact* mirror. I do not want to lose any of my data on my old drive when I transfer. Can someone help me with an answer please?

I would like very much to just get going with the new drive as C:\ with a seamless transition.

I am trying not to spend on any additional software.

2006-09-05 15:32:37 · 3 answers · asked by Nightrider 7

i need reasons why should i buy a pc. why do i need one anyway?

2006-09-05 15:17:27 · 9 answers · asked by Maggie 1

i just installed my old hard drive, as a slave, which is divided into two partitions. i've formatted both partitions, and now i want to combine them into one partition. how would i go about doing this.

2006-09-05 14:54:48 · 8 answers · asked by Mike-Q 5

Error:
It says the shutdown was iniated by NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEMS...What does that mean?

Here are the steps I took:
I turned on the computer
Signed on with password
Desktop is BLANK
After about 1 min it automatically restarts with the above messasge. I cannot see any of my desktop items, not even the windows menu....Help please!

2006-09-05 14:36:47 · 7 answers · asked by Angel D. 1

2006-09-05 14:16:38 · 3 answers · asked by mysterynwaiting 2

I have a Dell PC with a Celeron 2.4 GHz processor with 256 MB RAM. Is there a hardware or software upgrade (or special add-on) I can do to make it perform close to a 2.4 GHZ REGULAR Pentium?

Note:
I know Celerons have less cache; can you upgrade the cache (maybe not) OR maybe I should just upgrade my RAM to 1 GB to get better performance. what's the advantage of having a true Pentium as opposed to a Celeron (does a true Pentium do better when multitasking?)

Thanks

2006-09-05 14:06:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a computer with 512mRAM but and working at home for a company that demands I have 1 gig of memory on my computer. I have several unused flash drives that were given me by my brother.

2006-09-05 12:26:28 · 12 answers · asked by wiserdadddy 1

2006-09-05 12:16:44 · 4 answers · asked by bulophish 1

i am deciding wether to buy a amd semron 2800 1.6ghz processor for £28 for my second p.c
i can buy a intel celeron with a clock speed of 2.6ghz for about the same price,but which is the faster
i know that amd uses a different nomanculture to intel but is the amd as fast as the celeron
which one would you go for?
pick either celeron 2.6 ghz or sempron 1.6ghz

2006-09-05 10:39:24 · 5 answers · asked by brianthesnail123 7

Stuck On The Pentuim 4 Extreme, Or The Core 2 Duo Extreme, What One Would Be Best?

2006-09-05 09:38:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i m looking for a GeForce 7950GX2 and i found XFX, MSI, eVGA, asus, BFG technologies, and gigaByte.
i narrow down my choices to eVGA, asus and XFX but i dunno which one to choose

2006-09-05 07:23:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anon 2

2006-09-05 06:53:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-05 06:30:29 · 13 answers · asked by dawnied1217 2

I need a new computer, and I was looking on Dell at the Basic Entry Computer. Does anybody know how good the Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics 2 video card is for games, and if it has 3D capability, or does anybody have good/bad experiences with Dell.com

2006-09-05 06:16:35 · 4 answers · asked by ghostbeta34 2

computer froze up on startup, only see background screen, should I just turn off computer and turn back on?
have HP media center

2006-09-05 05:10:58 · 7 answers · asked by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6

i would like to use something free like Linux but don't know how do load it. this computer has been wiped clean and has no operating system at all. I would like to use it exclusively for mp3 storage, possible set up on a network.

2006-09-05 04:40:46 · 6 answers · asked by geoffdeaton 2

I am attempting to defrag my hard drive and it doesn't go any higher than 1% and then back to 0.I pull up the details and it is just a blank screen, no boxes no nothing.I know there are supposed to show me clusters but it is totally empty.

2006-09-05 04:36:59 · 14 answers · asked by Richard E 1

2006-09-05 04:11:19 · 6 answers · asked by JJ 2

2006-09-05 03:53:08 · 6 answers · asked by Meg ♥ 1

2006-09-05 03:49:51 · 6 answers · asked by beckysporch 2

How do i do a partition? I have a WinXP CD. Wat else do i need ?

2006-09-05 02:52:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous