Desktops - October 2006

I have checked all the cables. I hooked up the monitor to another desktop and it works fine. I have hooked up another monitor to the desktop and it does the same thing. The desktop itself does not go to sleep.

2006-10-10 14:12:45 · 3 answers · asked by ben b 1

At first I thought it was one of the TWO Maxtor hard drives I have installed - one of which is only a couple of months old and barely used, but I have Ghosted the drives making them both bootable and have disconnected one at a time. To no avail as the clicking noise continues regardless which drive is active. I guess they both could be bad, but what's the likelihood of that? Besides, when I use a cone to try to pinpoint the noise, it doesn't seem to be coming from the drives, but rather toward the back of the machine, but I don't know if that's real or echos. I have also disabled the case fan and processor fan but the clicking still continues. I'm down to the power supply, the only remaining movable part in the box that I can't shut off though the cone doesn't isolate the noise there. Could that be it? Any other ideas? It's a generic PC that has served me well for about 4 years now and I'm not ready to trash it... Help!!!

2006-10-10 13:42:42 · 2 answers · asked by grebned 1

Say I am looking into installing a 300gb hard drive and my computer has a 160 gig hard drive and it only detects 127 . How much will be detected off this 300 hard drive ? Will this new hard drive still have the same problem of only detecting 127 on this next pc ? Any ideas

2006-10-10 13:40:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

my computer only detects 127 gigs of the 160 gigs . I wanted my computer to be able to reconginze the full 160 . I dont want to install service pack 1 or 2 for windows xp . Is there any other way that is safe .?

2006-10-10 13:37:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

When my computer monitor goes into power saving mode my computer stops responding. I went into the control panel and reset the power options to never go on standby, but that didn't work. Whether I am working or not, the monitor goes into standby and I can't get it to turn back on. The last time I booted up it went straight into power saving mode before I had a chance to do anything! This is very frustrating! I spend most of my time online trying to keep my Website up to date and I can't afford downtime. Is this a hardware problem with the monitor? Is this a software problem with Windows XP home SP2? What is the problem here and can it be fixed? Should I take the monitor back to WalMart or do I need to reformat my hard drive again with Windows XP home SP2?

2006-10-10 13:30:35 · 3 answers · asked by pro_photographer39 2

Have a Titan Bianca Liquid cooling system, the unit requires to put distilled water, would bottled water work?

2006-10-10 12:29:14 · 6 answers · asked by Tommy H 1

im going to build a high end gaming pc and im going to use the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz 4MB Cache 1066MHz FSB to start with but the question i have which is best having the motherboard P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP for an nvidia base,Intel D975XBX ATX Motherboard crossfire for ati base or having an intel base mobo then just add the gpu to that.....also at the high end extreme gamer level which is the best nvidia or ati for mmorpg,first person shooter,and rpg games?

2006-10-10 12:05:39 · 3 answers · asked by new builder 1

i am thinking to upgrade my desktop processor, the current processor is a pentium 4 3.06 GHz socket LGA 775 and the motherboard can Supports Intel Pentium 4 HT processors i would like to know how much difference is between these processors? will my desktop perform better? faster ? and one more thing if a upgrade the processor do i need to upgrade some extra hardware also? like the power supply maybe?

2006-10-10 11:49:14 · 3 answers · asked by siber_explorer28 1

When I click Start in the lower left hand corner, so that I can select "Restart" or "Turn off the computer", if I click Restart or Turn off the Computer, the computer will not restart and will not turn off. This is a Comaq Presario 5100 desktop which I bought new 6 years ago. I am running Windows XP Professional which I bought and installed about 2 years ago. It has been about one month since I rebooted, and at that time I think it rebooted just fine.
I am wanting to push the button in on the tower to turn the computer off, but am afraid the computer will not turn back on again.
Any comments ?

2006-10-10 10:36:00 · 5 answers · asked by JustPeachy !!! 5

I have an available IDE port on the mother board.

2006-10-10 10:31:19 · 4 answers · asked by cycleman1955 2

Recently, I had some spyware on my computer and I removed it using the Norton Anti-Virus included with the Yahoo! Toolbar. Later, I heard that Norton sometimes messes up your desktop background so I deleted it, but my background still can't change. I can change the color but that's it; I can't change the image. And I've also been hearing about this "Active Desktop" thing, but what does it do? How do I turn it on?

2006-10-10 10:25:32 · 4 answers · asked by Richie 1

sometimes display comes up but i get 5 beeps when i turn it on any ideas??? sometimes i turn it on its ok

2006-10-10 10:19:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

my computer freezes up when using it allso takes a while to do opperations asked of it

2006-10-10 09:23:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a 64bit AMD Athon 64 processor which runs at 1.8Ghz, I really need to upgrade! plz help, I have 1 GB of memory, and a 256 MB video card. it runs great but it still skips on most games, usually shades on bf2, but i would really like to run at 3 GHz! is their a chipset available for my motherboard at that speed?

2006-10-10 09:06:51 · 2 answers · asked by g-rald 2

I plan to buy a camera that uses usb2 but my old computer has usb1

2006-10-10 09:00:21 · 8 answers · asked by joe gee 1

2006-10-10 08:41:17 · 8 answers · asked by darkdrium6 1

STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The windows Logon Process system process terminated unexpectedly with a status f 0xc0000142 (0x00000000 0x00000000).
The system has been shut down.

2006-10-10 08:31:59 · 4 answers · asked by Jersey Girl <3 1

My toshiba sd-r5372v DVD writer acts like its reading a cd but then the green light stays on and it acts like it is done but its really just stuck? Anyone have any ideas about why it is messing up? It used to work just fine it just recently started doing this, and sometimes it still works normally only about 60% of the time does it mess up.

2006-10-10 07:41:00 · 1 answers · asked by kennyl370 1

I was looking on the Dell website and their hard disks run at 7200 rpm. Is that not slow?

2006-10-10 06:46:21 · 5 answers · asked by Siu02rk 3

I have a 40g hard drive and looking to upgrade, i looked on the dell website for upgrades but all they have were external hard drives. I have an external hard drive already. I am looking for internal, could i find any dell internal hard drives somewhere else? I looked on ebay, and that was no help.

2006-10-10 06:15:51 · 9 answers · asked by luda_girl_stl 2

I have a 40g hard drive and looking to upgrade, i looked on the dell website for upgrades but all they have were external hard drives. I have an external hard drive already. I am looking for internal, could i find any dell internal hard drives somewhere else? I looked on ebay, and that was no help.

2006-10-10 06:15:31 · 6 answers · asked by luda_girl_stl 2

When I bought my PC the guy told me it didn't have a game card. I want to play the new SimCity game, but I think I will need this card. When I search though nothing comes up for a game card, is it a graphics card that I need? or a video card maybe? And is it something I can install myself?

2006-10-10 05:48:52 · 7 answers · asked by Christy928 1

So I need to take out the original memory, put the new memory in that slot, then put the old memory in the other slot (slot 2). I tried this but it only registers 512MB and not 768MB it should be.

2006-10-10 05:41:20 · 8 answers · asked by jerseyjoe2425 2

I am trying to remove the battery that will erase the administrators password

2006-10-10 04:46:57 · 6 answers · asked by nasbas03 2

2006-10-10 04:07:48 · 7 answers · asked by travforward 1

dont wanna spend over £1000 on the entire Desktop. around £800 would be good. i want this computer to run as fast as poss to run lots of meaty audio editing and sequencing software. a Bit of gaming as well.
so yeah, what processor shall i buy?

Cheers

Ryan

2006-10-10 03:53:29 · 9 answers · asked by Wetfrog 1

2006-10-10 03:00:32 · 4 answers · asked by danny w 2

is it very hard to upgrade my internal 40 gig hard drive to say a 320 gig hard drive? is it possible to do this with limited computer knowledge, or should i pay for someone else to do it? is it sometimes not possible to do this, because the computer will not allow this ? i have a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop.

should i just buy an external drive, or are internal drives faster? the speed is important to me

2006-10-10 02:26:10 · 5 answers · asked by jjc3333 1

sometimes i hear a series of blep sounds coming out from the cpu then suddenly my computer stops responding followed by a shutdown. what's the problem with my computer.tnx

2006-10-10 02:23:20 · 6 answers · asked by student 1

I want to buy an external enclosure for one of my old hard disks but I don't know which size I need.

The top surface of My HD is roughly 3.5" accross and 5.25" lengthways, which are of course the two standard sizes!

Which one should I be looking at? Many thanks.

2006-10-10 02:09:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous