Desktops - November 2006

not to much money. i need a dig camera with video.

2006-11-12 11:36:46 · 4 answers · asked by tiny 2

When I go to turn it on it kicks up for a couple of seconds, the hd starts to initialize and then it just cuts off.

2006-11-12 09:21:18 · 6 answers · asked by Missing_Link 2

Its an old motherboard, should I use (4) 256mb or (2) 512mb ram? I just found that it only supports 1 gig, so, which would be the best bet? Is it safer to do (4) 256s because its about 5 years old?

2006-11-12 08:40:08 · 7 answers · asked by Mashu 4

Is there anyway I can undo the copy made of my internal hard drive to my externa. My friend was only supposed to back up my internal hard drive but ended up copying it(he used Paragon Back Up Utility Software). And its freaking me out because all the data that was on my external hard drive is lost(exact replica of my main drive) Can the data be restored freely through windows or any type of freeware that won't have limitations?

2006-11-12 08:00:02 · 8 answers · asked by luda_girl_stl 2

And can you tell me what kind of computer/laptop you're using?

--Just curious...

2006-11-12 07:57:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. If I have 4 slots, should I put four 256mb or two 512mb ram? (Its and older motherboard, so it doesnt have the dual ram ability.)
a. Why?

2. I have a 1.8 pentium 4. I also have a motherboard that can hold a max of 2 gigs of ram. If I install 1 gig worth, would it run alot fast then 512? Or, because its a 1.8 itll run about the same?

3. What do the numbers mean? 4 - 4 - 8, 3 - 3 - 8 ...etc.
What do each represent, and what is better, higher or lower number?

2006-11-12 07:40:32 · 3 answers · asked by Mashu 4

I have a Compaq Presario S6020WM with 760 MB RAM 40gb hdd 2.6 ghz processor.

2006-11-12 07:19:00 · 7 answers · asked by Marsam233 2

the home computer is so full and almost maxed in memory - i tried to clean it up, one by remove unsured programs another was to defrag however it was so slow that i left the computer and came back 5 hours later and it was still processing and it hadn't even hit the 1% complete yet. what should i do?

2006-11-12 05:48:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cant find where to start defragement on my computer. Its a HP with windows XP

2006-11-12 05:01:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-12 04:41:36 · 10 answers · asked by fazmushka 1

Even with the power on, the power on button doesnt light up or turn on. The motherboard shows some light but the system all of a sudden refuses to work anymore. Is this a hard disk problem or something worse?

2006-11-12 02:09:39 · 12 answers · asked by Hotdog 2

2006-11-12 01:51:51 · 7 answers · asked by Faireen 3

2006-11-12 01:27:41 · 5 answers · asked by Nayan B 1

Was looking for a small link.
This is too big.

2006-11-12 01:12:26 · 6 answers · asked by emeraldisle2222 5

I have a P4 machine with onboard VGA. I bought it from my friend. I have XP Pro. SP.2. Everytime I startup, the display brightness is extremely high. And everytime as soon as I open Graphic properties> Colour- the brightness comes to normal. This is a bit disturbing.
I tried reinstalling XP and reinstalling my graphics driver but the problem still persists. I asked all my friends but none could help me out. I can't figure out what's wrong. Could you please suggest?

2006-11-12 01:06:49 · 6 answers · asked by Party Animal 2

2006-11-12 00:54:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think mine could be overheating.

2006-11-11 23:00:11 · 8 answers · asked by emeraldisle2222 5

*CPU: Intel Core Duo2 E6600 2.4Ghz|
*Motherboard: Asus P5N-SLI SE Deluxe
*RAM: 512mb x 2 (1gig) DDR2 xms2-6400 800Mhz
*Graphics Card: XFX 7900Gs XXX Edition 1.6Ghz , 256 RAM , Clock rate 600 MHz
*PSU: XG Vortec 600watt , 2 fans
*Sound Card: Creative Soundblaster xi-fi xtreme music

1. How many stars would you give it out of ten
2. What would you change
3. Any other comments

:) Thank you very much for answering my question :)

2006-11-11 22:24:26 · 8 answers · asked by Lance Y 1

Hey, follow up on my previous qn.

I am currently using an AMD athlon XP 2800+ system.
overclocked to 2.3ghz (not sure abt the cache, if there is, i roughly think it's abt 512kb)
768mb ram
and 8xAGP 256mb ATI Radeon 9600 power colour.

Is it worth upgrading to dual core D805 2.66ghz? about 2mb cache i think.

Would there be an improvement in performance of my game? If so, roughly what's the percentage in improvement? considering the same amount of ram?

2006-11-11 21:55:58 · 5 answers · asked by sdbsenm 1

What are decent numbers for a proccessor speed, system bus, hard drive, RAM, and others?
I want to buy a computer, and i need to know a few things so i don't waste my money. I just use the computer for basic web-surfing and use of a couple other programs. my current computer hold 240.0 MB of RAM, and runs programs just fine. I can't tell what my proccessor speed is though because I'm running windows ME and can't find it in my 'computer> properties' like suggested.
I need to know:

How much RAM should I look for? a lot of computers within my budget have 512, is that good?

What proccessor speed should i get? is 1.8GHz good?

System Bus numbers? is 1600MHz good?

Cache Memory? what's the difference between level 1 and 2? and is 256kb's reliable?

The hard drive size for the computers in my price range are 120GB, is this too low for what i want?

Like I said, I only really surf the net, and have a couple games and graphic software installed, along with a camera and a couple mp3 players i have used on here. I know it's a lot of info, so thank you in advance!

2006-11-11 18:51:24 · 10 answers · asked by Bitterly Sweet 3

2006-11-11 17:54:31 · 6 answers · asked by Ruby 3

My computer doesn't recognize that it has a CD drive. It shows up in My Computer along with a: and c:, but when I click on it, the message says it is not accessible. If I put a CD in the drive, the message displayed asks that I put a CD in the drive. How do I get the CD drive to run?

2006-11-11 17:53:41 · 8 answers · asked by lindakflowers 6

i live in Canada, and i want a site besides dell.ca

2006-11-11 17:22:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i wanted to know what is the best desktop on the market today, under $1,000.

thanks :)

2006-11-11 17:17:07 · 9 answers · asked by coralflower 3

I wish to utilize my surroundsound system to play audio from my PC. Is there an easily adaptable (USB) connectivity?

2006-11-11 16:38:41 · 2 answers · asked by sunnyjay 3

2006-11-11 15:33:54 · 23 answers · asked by LORNA W 2

Have a Western Digital WD800 SATA HDD Master (w/XP on it), and a Seagate 120 GB HDD as slave(for storage). Has been working fine, then a few days ago, I went to turn the machine on and got a checksum error. Got rid of the Checksum error, now getting ERROR LOADING OS. Checked the BIOS, and the WD HDD doesn't show up. Used XP CD to get DOS prompt, and the WD HDD doesn't show there either. No installations or significant changes have been made to the system in the past week. At first, I was thinking the HDD went bad, but not sure, since the problem came about very suddenly. I was looking for answers or suggestions, and came across a posting of a somewhat similar situation, and it indicated that a bad CMOS battery could be the culprit. Is this worth looking into? How much do CMOS batteries cost?

2006-11-11 15:29:11 · 5 answers · asked by bluecollarguytx 2

I'm wondering if it matters whether or not it is upright in the box, or lying on it's side. It's going to be surrounded by a thick layer of soft material all around so it won't be able to really move at all.

2006-11-11 15:18:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

this is a dell diminsion 2400 with a burner.

2006-11-11 15:04:44 · 10 answers · asked by phillip b 2

What amounts of disk space do the TB, PB and EB mean in a computer? And are thier computers that do have these amounts on the general sales market?

2006-11-11 14:09:13 · 1 answers · asked by dreamangel20051 2