Desktops - January 2007

i have the required coponents to run battlefield, but every game i load i am punkbustered. i am led to believe that punkbuster was only to prevent hackers, well i don't hack yet i can't pick a spawn point before i am punk bustered out. i have a compaq presario with a 335 celeron d processor, its s 2.8 ghz with cache resevred in memory, i have 512 ram, wireless keyboard and mouse, "using memory" and minimal functions running in the background. a decent sound blaster card, and an ati x1300 with 256 mb ram on board. i have dumped 300 to run this game and can't play it, help would be useful, i can buy 300 more in memory but will that make the difference, i don't know please inform me thank you. phil

2007-01-25 14:42:38 · 1 answers · asked by phildopharcyde 2

2007-01-25 14:38:26 · 4 answers · asked by themostwantedprince 2

I`ve always used a pc but I`ve recentely started to do movies and my friends have been telling me to use a mac.Are the mac computers that much better?

2007-01-25 14:37:02 · 9 answers · asked by matorkbi 1

2007-01-25 13:59:49 · 2 answers · asked by shellshenec 1

I need to install a new motherboard on my PC, my current one is dead.

1) How do I know which MoBo is compatible with my computer? Am I able to only buy certain kinds? What specs should I be looking for? I'm not looking for an upgrade, just something that works. And is the general price range for that? I have an emachines that's 2.5 years old.

2) Are they hard to install? I'm pretty good at figuring things out, and I know how to install everything else, like a PSU, RAM, video cards, drives, etc, but I've never tried a motherboard. Is that simple to do or is it best done by a repair shop?

3) At one place I went to the guy said that after the motherboard is installed, the computer won't just start up, he needs to fix the software too and that would be around $60. He said you either have to fix the software or install the OS (XP home edition) all over again. Is this true? I've never heard of that. The only thing wrong with the PC is that it needs a new MoBo. Has anyone heard that?

2007-01-25 13:55:43 · 10 answers · asked by Cody 3

I will be getting a free upgrade disc of Windows Vista Home premium in the mail soon. My computer is an eMachines T5212 running Windows XP MCE 2005, 1 GB RAM (128 MB is shared with onboard video) and a Pentium D 805 dual core processor at 2.6 GHz. I plan to get a dedicated video card and upgrade to 2 Gigs of RAM in the future but I would like to run it now.

2007-01-25 13:52:09 · 12 answers · asked by beebaugh24 2

My mac just worked fine yesterday. Today it is not switching on and the fan is working even without the mac been switched on. Each time i try to turn it on, the sound of the fan increases but the mac still dont come on. Can anyone tell me what to do pls

2007-01-25 13:46:27 · 11 answers · asked by Gee 1

When I take the hard drive and RAM out it stays on. However if either of these two components are plugged it it fails. Someone please give me some helpful ideas.

2007-01-25 13:03:05 · 2 answers · asked by Dude 2

Intel speed?
whats the difference between pentium d, dual core,dual 2 core?
I wan to know how to calculate the GHZ and i know which is the latest and the price.Can give example by showing the speed calculation?And what are the advantages intel has over amd and vice versa. Pls be more specific.

2007-01-25 13:01:07 · 3 answers · asked by Andrew K 1

These 3 processore are 1.8 GHZ...If these 3 processore have the same ghz ,then why is core 2 duo more expensive then core duo and pentium d?Can show me the calculation of ghz for the 3 processor?

2007-01-25 12:50:43 · 2 answers · asked by Andrew K 1

whats the difference between pentium d, dual core,dual 2 core?
I wan to know how to calculate the GHZ and i know which is the latest and the price.Can give example by showing the speed calculation?And what are the advantages intel has over amd and vice versa.

2007-01-25 12:43:03 · 4 answers · asked by Andrew K 1

2007-01-25 12:30:30 · 9 answers · asked by ding p 1

My motherboard usb connectors went out. Since then I have bought a PCI card so I could have usbs on the outside of the computer, however, I still have equipment that needs to be connected directly to the motherboard. Are there PCI cards that I can connect this type of equipment to or some other option. Preferably, I need to connect a card reader and 2 sets of usb ports. Each one of the devices connects to the 9 pin usb port.

2007-01-25 12:19:25 · 4 answers · asked by 120 1

i need to erase all the stuff on my old computer so we can donate it, but there's so much stuff scattered and it's taking forever. the computer isn't connected to the internet and i don't have any of the original windows disks. is there any way i can do this more effectively?

2007-01-25 12:04:01 · 6 answers · asked by conste11ations 2

I recently wasnt able to have my media player work when i installed a new motherboard, I went and reformatted the hard drive did all the driver updates for everything and still didnt work. Due to a corrupt windows file I had to reformat again. This time i checked my media player right after formatting and it worked. It worked up untill I installed my nvidia geforce 6200. I went and got the newest update for that but i am still unable to stream videos. So I would like to know if anything whats left to do?

2007-01-25 11:31:52 · 2 answers · asked by webgemini2004 1

Everytime i try and uninstall any program from the control panel, rundll pops up and uses 100% of cpu usage and thats it. Nothing uninstalls, the comp just stays at 100% usage with everything running extremely slow no matter how long i wait. I dont have any viruses or any type of ware ( i just reformated my disk ) so i know its not the problem. Currently i do use Zone alarm security suite which has some program features and i do use tuneup utilities which has an uninstall feature (which gives the same results resource rundll hog). Those are the only two programs i have that have any connection to any program. This problem is really starting to bug me because most of the time im just uninstalling manually (deleting program files/registry) of whatever program. Any suggestions? Much thanks in advance. Oh and the rundll stalled even before the reformat.

2007-01-25 11:29:38 · 1 answers · asked by lodidodii 1

it has a 2.30ghz intel celeron and 768mb of ram

2007-01-25 11:25:43 · 5 answers · asked by nursie_knotty 1

just recently i changed the battery on my motherboard and when i booted up, the bios displayed an error about the cpu and now both the bios and windows detect the cpu as 3.71GHz but originally its a celeron D at 2.93 GHz. i dont want it to burn out, how can i get the system to run it at 2.93GHz again? any would would be greatly appreciated.

2007-01-25 10:48:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i already have 2 gb Ram in my computer..and the rest is stock in the computer...the computer is a Dell dimension 2400 its like an year or 2 years old and still runs really good and fast...what do u guys reccomend i need to install for vista ?? i might get Windows Vista Home Premimium ..or any thing where i need to do those 3 d windows effects..thanks

2007-01-25 10:42:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a pcv-rs 420 sony

2007-01-25 10:40:20 · 2 answers · asked by carol 2

Anyone out there still using it? I have 3 pcs in my house. My personal laptop: win xp sp2 core 2 duo widescreen... a dell desktop: 8400 3.0 p4HT xp sp2.. and a dell 450 p2 with windows 98se. I have a wireless card on it and mcafee that comes free with comcast. the only pc that i have it on (norton everything else)
and i runs well for surfing and email when the other one is in use. i tried xp on it and it runs like garbage.
anyone do the same thing with an old junker?

2007-01-25 10:22:31 · 11 answers · asked by Rusty Caldwell 2

Its an Intel processor with the same socket and everything except the processor I'm replacing is slower. Will it work on the same motherboard?

2007-01-25 10:19:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-25 10:17:22 · 4 answers · asked by carol 2

As soon as I boot my computer up, it starts to make a grinding noise. This happens only sometimes. Not every time.

When I shut it down completely, then restart it, it works perfectly fine..

What I have noticed is that the shut-down time is longer when it makes this grinding noise... It takes about 2 minutes to shut down.. When everything is fine, it takes only 15 seconds to shut down..

What could be wrong?

2007-01-25 09:32:18 · 21 answers · asked by ? 3

It's a desktop pc,four years old,running winxp

2007-01-25 09:32:05 · 11 answers · asked by Charles K 1

I have an extra operating system on my computer and I want to delete it because my computer will try to start with the one that doesn't work rather than the one that will work. I can still start the computer.

2007-01-25 09:17:14 · 7 answers · asked by Jeb 2

I play pc games, listen to music, and surf.

2007-01-25 09:04:29 · 9 answers · asked by Matt M 1

Because i have an Gx 270 dell desktop computer..This is what my computer has just to give you an idea..when i go to view system information on my computer its say it has Intel R Pentium 4 2.80 ghz and 512 mb ram.. I was thinking of upgrading my computer... specially harddrive... because i ranout of the hardrive in my other comp.. I see the price differnce with the SATA AND ATA hardrives..because i know all the new computer come with SATA hard drive.. can somone explain to me the differnce between them besides the speed and also do you need to have sata plugin your motherboard to install the SATA harddrive if not should i be better off with ata?

2007-01-25 08:46:36 · 6 answers · asked by Baller S 1

I've partitioned my hard drive and the letters F and G have been assigned by default as D and E are used for my DVD/RW and CD-ROM respectively.
I'd prefer to have D and E for my new partitions, how do I change the letters assigned to the optical drives so that they become available to assign to the partitions?

2007-01-25 08:39:08 · 5 answers · asked by MPatrinos 3

I have a Quasar(m56786)km400a ver 2.0 mother board with an amd 3000+ processor.On a Packard Bell i media 1504.A while a go my pc started blepping then freezing and/or shutting down.I eventually worked it out to be overheating.(I had a house fan blowing in the open side).
I have just carefully put some thermal paste on the processor and this did the trick .however,I am running speed fan and it says temp 1 - cpu o.k. temp 2 - (unknown) 50c. temp 3 hard drive o.k. temp 4(unknown) 50c.I would like to know what temp 2 and 4 are, I think one is outside case,I would also like to get these temps down.i would also like to know of any good motherboard temp monitor programs. Also, What is that square heatsink (3cm x 3cm) with two pegs on it just underneath the main processor? (how do you remove the heatsink? does it require thermal paste) I think it is one of the high temp readings (temp 2 maybe)
Many Thanks

2007-01-25 07:55:37 · 4 answers · asked by NICK J 2