Desktops - November 2006

I leave my tower on and turn off my monitor. Last night, I went out and there were storms. Didn't check and went to bed and forgot about it being on.

This morning, went to turn on monitor and it was locked up. Red and yellow lights on panel were solid. I tried to do a hard reboot (constantly pushing power button) but it wouldn't power down. Had to flip the switch in back. Switched back on, pushed power button, got the lights on, and fans whirred. Monitor made connection, but then went off since no data. No mobo beeps or HD clicks though. Couldn't power down AGAIN, so switched off and looked inside case.

Power supply, case and cpu fans all turn. Yellow light on board comes on. Reset the CMOS jumper, but no change. The board is getting SOME type of power since all the fans are running, but it doesn't seem to be activating anything. Does that mean I've got a bad board, power supply or something else? Everything was plugged into a surge protector, so I'm not really sure what happened.

2006-11-29 05:22:44 · 6 answers · asked by GoingOnVacation 2

Hi I't not having any luck with my other computer questions on here but I will try another one. Under "appearance and themes" and then the "screen saver tab" then "power" and click on the tab UPS. Now there is a big yellow triangle with an exclamation mark there. Do I ignore that or is it important? Windows XP is my OS

2006-11-29 05:19:19 · 4 answers · asked by rachael6028 1

The master hard drive is using Win XP, the pending slave has Win95Plus if that info is important.

2006-11-29 05:04:02 · 9 answers · asked by Bob B 1

What was the BEST deal you got on Black Friday? And how long did you have to stand in line to get it?
I got a HP desktop computer, with 1 GB DDR, and 300 GB hard drive for $450.00, with a free upgrade to Microsoft Vista... think thats a good deal?

2006-11-29 04:16:51 · 5 answers · asked by Purplelicious 2

My comp spec is as follows :: Whenever I switch any heavy program my comp. works very slow and then it gains speed and again it starts working really slow and gets on crazy....

Mother Board :: Intel D101GGC
Ram :: 512 MB
Video Card :: ATI Radeon x300
Processor :: Genuine Intel P4 3.06-3.07 Ghz
Hard Drive :: 80 GB SATA
Operating Sysyrem :: Genuine Windows Xp Sp 2

My Website :: http://www.coolnick.co.nr

2006-11-29 04:13:56 · 11 answers · asked by Nishant 2

2006-11-29 03:20:06 · 5 answers · asked by ktunaxa72 1

I'm trying to build a brand new computer but I'm stuck in between two processors at the moment. Its the AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Orleans 2.2GHz Socket AM2 Processor and the Intel Pentium 4 541 Prescott 3.2GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor. Now, my budget is pretty much low at the moment and I really want to have a good gaming computer. Can someone tell me which processor is the best in over clocking and has a suitable temperature that wont fry up? Or if it's not even those, could someone recommend a few good processors to look into that would settle my craving for a pretty good gaming computer? Thanks!

2006-11-29 02:59:19 · 7 answers · asked by mekidi_cloud 1

How do we get the papaer she wrote for class off the hard drive? Can we just disconnect the hard drive from the old computer and connect it to another computer and print it? Or is it more involved than that?

If she were to take it somewhere would it be expensive?

2006-11-29 02:43:11 · 4 answers · asked by girlnoladrea 3

but i can't because everytime i touch the delete button it freezes!

2006-11-29 01:43:15 · 7 answers · asked by Questionare 1

Do I defrag both and if so, how do I get the REcovery one from 13% to 15% free space. What kind of things would I delete?

2006-11-29 00:14:42 · 7 answers · asked by chr1 4

a message pops up something about Microsoft C++ and then the cursor becomes an hourglass and rotates continuously, it only goes away when I restart the computer. This is a new computer, an HP Pavillion.

2006-11-28 23:56:42 · 6 answers · asked by a_nurse42 1

I have a PIII 600MHz / 80GB HDD / 128MB Ram / N-vidia 32Mb Graphics Card / OS win2k professional, recently this system started hanging up specially startup, if after 3-4 hang up it starts properly after then u can run with for next 10hrs withou any prob. I tried changing RAM & HDD, SMPS but problem is yet to resolve.
what do i do

2006-11-28 22:06:46 · 8 answers · asked by aviweb2005 1

it started off saying error code 4, then 7 and then started to freeze, which resulted in my having to turn it off at the button (not the plug) it then tried to 'recover' but stopped and now says 'no operating system' and theres something called 'glue parts' missing ! ive never heard of it before i dont know whats going on! lucky i have a laptop but the pc is what the whole fam use and im desperate to get it sorted now as its something thats always in use and its like weve all lost a limb and i really dont want a 4 and 9 yr old on the laptop!! lol
any ideas anyone?

2006-11-28 21:10:41 · 5 answers · asked by cybermum 1

My husband is trying to do a disk cleanup and it wont actually start, what could be causing this

2006-11-28 19:24:35 · 6 answers · asked by rachel 2

2006-11-28 18:36:02 · 5 answers · asked by jamie_jak 1

what would be a good game that i can play?

2006-11-28 18:28:29 · 8 answers · asked by jamie_jak 1

monitor is working properly and the lights on the cpu are also glowing...do it seems any problem in the mother boad...if so is there anyway that i can do to make it work...
here befor this problem i hav downloaded virtual cd software...and after downloading i am loading some content into that...then due to some power failure my pc was shutdown at that time....after this process its not working ...

2006-11-28 18:06:43 · 9 answers · asked by mani 1

I have Celeron 477 mhz, 64*2 RAM, 10 GH HDD 5 yrs old computer.

When I start a PC. It's working fine. But after a few minute, it freezed. When I restart again working well for few minute and hanged.
Sometime, long beep comes out. Sometimes no beep sound and monitor's LED start blink which is like after shutdown.
I have to switch on-swith off for 3-5 times. Then again working and hanged after few minute.

When I removed RAM. Sometimes no sound. sometime long beep.

I have two RAM module of 64 MB.

What is the problem with my PC. Is there SMPS has problem or RAM has ??

2006-11-28 17:46:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im trying to build or buy a awesome gaming and burning Desktop. now im not an extreme gamer but am starting to like the newer and newer PC games more and more. so i dont need the top of the Alienware setup, but i would like something that would allow me to play games that come out in two years time, easlily, with few upgrades. I like NVIDIA (compared to what i seen from a friend's PC to the ATI i have) but im trying to figure out what is better overall. so in your guys opinion. what the best graphics card to you? also which one would you like the best. Make and Model

ps im not that fimiliar with "computer jargon" and stuff like that (if you cant already tell) so give it so me in some plain english. Thanks

2006-11-28 17:40:59 · 8 answers · asked by Nick T 3

Please help me...my computer all of a sudden shuts down itself and keeps on turning on and off...even without the hard drive it still goes on for a second and then resets and then goes on and then resets and one time when the hard drive was in it reset during the loading of windows and fried the hard drive...even after formatting it on a seperate computer it was too fried..
.back to the resetting computer...it isn't the power supply because i replaced it with a new one thinking it was the problem but it isn't it still resets...please help!?

2006-11-28 16:59:19 · 9 answers · asked by Andrew 2

i bought this computer from a company that didnt need it anymore. but it has a password and login name that i need to know before it wil let me to windows, it goes directly to it from boot, i cant even start up safe mode w/o it, any ways to go in the computer and get rid of it, or do i just have to buy windows again and install it over it? thanks

2006-11-28 16:48:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a Sony Vaio running Windows XP version 2002, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 2.39 GHz, 480 MB of RAM also have about 80gb of storage with about 50gb left. I'm a drafter and run AutoCad and also would like to get into Movie editing....any suggestions in upgrading the PC I have now would be greatly appreciated.

2006-11-28 16:24:37 · 8 answers · asked by Benjo 2

I want to be able to record as much over the air HDTV programming on a computer to use as my DVR. Most of the TV shows I watch are on network TV and I don't want to pay the extra bucks to upgrade my satellito to HD programming. Converting to HD programming via Satellite or Cable is too costly when I all the shows I like are free in the first place.

2006-11-28 16:17:57 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2

2006-11-28 16:17:51 · 3 answers · asked by ra j 1

i just got my computer from a company that didnt want it anymore. and it has the companies like network software and has a password to even get to the start menu, ive called the company and they dont know the password and i cant get on the computer, how do i delete the companies opersating system, if thats what it is. would just buying like windows and just installing it over it work? please someone help! thank you

2006-11-28 16:12:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

disk mode ok to disconnect.

2006-11-28 16:06:22 · 1 answers · asked by sam d 1

2006-11-28 14:28:47 · 3 answers · asked by just curious 2

2006-11-28 14:13:16 · 2 answers · asked by Stan C 1

Can I combine a 512 MB DDR2 stick with a 256 MB one, assuming that I am going to install them in different memory banks? I know I won't get DualChannel support, but will they combine for 768 MB?

2006-11-28 12:24:15 · 10 answers · asked by msasamoto 2

I want to upgrade my dell optiplex gx110 but I dont know what kind of processor to buy and how much speed the motherboard can handle

2006-11-28 11:59:59 · 5 answers · asked by marcus r 1