Desktops - October 2006

I just built my computer but when i go to audio devices, it says nothing is plugged in. I have onboard sound and device manager shows all drivers are up to date. I put the speaker wire which is lime colored into the lime colored slot yet nothing. Do I have to enable/disable something in the bios?

Thanks in advance.

2006-10-03 07:43:24 · 6 answers · asked by Arif R 1

Hey guys,
I have got a question. I have a computer, for which I just purchased a new SATA 160 gb hard drive. Now I have 2 hard drive sticking right next to each to each other, since I don't have any other space to put the new hard drive in. Anyways, it is a Western Digital WD1600JS model.
I bought the drive to save it as a backup, so that in case my other master hard drive goes out, I will have the backup of my things.
Anyways, let me get to my point. Ok, I switched on the PC went to Everest and it showed that the new SATA HD is about 68C. I was blown away by that reading, I felt the drive and it was a little warm. I downloaded another temperature reader and it stated the same. I took the drive back and I got another one of the same model. Switched it on and the same, it is getting to 68C although the book says that normal operations are at aroun 55C. I called in for their customer support and they said to do a drive analysis, I did it and it took almost 3 hours, and the analysis showed no problems.
I opened the side of the PC and put my room fan towards it and it cooled the drive back to 40C.
Now my old regular IDE drive is at 40C, while my new SATA drive is at 68C.
So I don't know if you guys could help me out on this, but what I was thinking to do is go and get a hole made on the side panel of the case, buy a new 120mm Fan and let it blow the air in. The Fan that is in the back, I will turn it around so that it would blow the hot air out.

Now my question is that I want to get a professional to make a good looking hole to put the fan on, but I don't know where. Do you have any suggestion about any shops that I could go to and ask them to make the hole.

Other than that, do you guys think that this is OK to have a SATA HD to be at 68C while the other one is at 40C?

Please consider my question about the shop to take it to first and then advice me something on this new HD.

THank you very much!!!

2006-10-03 07:04:45 · 8 answers · asked by walkingdeath 2

2006-10-03 06:43:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-03 05:22:19 · 10 answers · asked by PHILL G 1

2006-10-03 05:06:55 · 10 answers · asked by PHILL G 1

2006-10-03 04:57:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-03 04:36:00 · 3 answers · asked by josh s 1

i have an harddrive has been formated ,now i need to put windows xp home on it ,can some one plz help ,or any web site would be good ??

did have win 98 on it made start up disk and deleted partiton 1 and made new one then formated it .now i put cd in and it says replace cd try again

2006-10-03 04:31:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

what do you like about branded or established brand name pc e.g dell, IBM, Compaq, Sony etc?

2006-10-03 03:46:25 · 3 answers · asked by Faireen 3

I have a sony vaio pcv-rs410 and my burner just stop working with a error power calibration failed. now I think its the disc that im using (dvd-r 8x) and before it stop working i used dvd+r 16x could that be the reason?

2006-10-03 01:53:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is the $100-$150 cost justified to upgrade from what I currently have: 512mb of PC3200 to a gig or more? I know memory in general is a great thing but the tech said that on an 2004 HP Pavilion with only a 400mhz FSB and a Celeron D, it might not be worth it...I might not notice much difference at all. He said that upgrading the HD to get more free disk space would be a more noticable difference in speed. What do you think? I run general office applications...MS Office, IE and an Act Database.

2006-10-03 01:21:04 · 6 answers · asked by Dave 5

2006-10-02 23:49:04 · 3 answers · asked by wcs_fynest 1

it would just refuse to turn on. Usually it would only be succesful after a few times. Recently it got worse. By the way I noticed the CPU fan is not working. Any idea on what causes this? Has it got something to do with the fan not working? Thanks!

2006-10-02 22:50:17 · 6 answers · asked by jimmy 2

I've a intel motherboard and 1.8 cpu.It is slow with some games.Should i increase the clock speed?Does it has any fall backs??
Pls tell if u have any suggested methods.
Thnx for the time

2006-10-02 20:23:28 · 6 answers · asked by i hate humanity, i love God 3

2006-10-02 19:51:19 · 12 answers · asked by JOHN C 1

2006-10-02 17:45:20 · 2 answers · asked by Ed 6

2006-10-02 17:21:30 · 4 answers · asked by Pedro A 1

2006-10-02 16:59:38 · 2 answers · asked by Lito S 1

my dvd plays fine with windows media player but the same dvd does not play smoothly with powerdvd. i tried reinstalling the software, but after a while the same thing happens.

2006-10-02 16:52:16 · 1 answers · asked by john v 1

2006-10-02 16:26:06 · 9 answers · asked by cody 1

2006-10-02 15:05:21 · 4 answers · asked by shelia m 1

what is processor stepping like E3 or E6? Also, if im not a gamer, is a video card which was very good 2 years ago going to make a difference if i upgrade to 128 bit? I use adobe photoshop sometimes but im not really a gamer per se.

2006-10-02 15:03:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-02 14:38:49 · 8 answers · asked by psyconut7132 1

What programs can be used to burn DVD's? How to once in programs.

2006-10-02 14:38:10 · 3 answers · asked by bpzzer 2

2006-10-02 14:17:04 · 8 answers · asked by whirl_wind_mallard_man 2

I'm building my first PC, and I think something is wrong with my power supply. The light on my motherboard comes on, but not devices get power, and the PS fans doesn't come on. I have a multimeter. How can I check it?

2006-10-02 13:18:29 · 5 answers · asked by Smoothie 5

''power surge on hub port usb device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port''.

2006-10-02 13:08:04 · 4 answers · asked by Coffeyvillian 3

I am running Windows 2000 and need to know how to transfer my files except for the OS from my master drive to my slave drive.

2006-10-02 12:37:54 · 6 answers · asked by 420girl 2

2006-10-02 12:07:46 · 7 answers · asked by Eric 2

again. how can i fix this because i really need to rip some cds on the computer by tomorrow. thanx in advance.

its an internal drive

2006-10-02 11:56:55 · 3 answers · asked by enjoyincubus_02 1