Desktops - April 2007

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Which is better?
Are Macs really invulnerable to viruses, phishing, and other kinds of problems?

2007-04-24 18:41:50 · 9 answers · asked by elchistoso69 5

Do Dell Computers Really Have A High Fire Hazard? i've heard alot of people say stuff like that but im not sure if its true. is it?

2007-04-24 18:17:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am cheap and have some PC4200 DDR2 memory lying around. Can I use it with a CPU with a 667MHz FSB that requires PC5400 memory? Is there zero chance of this working or is most DDR2 ram fairly overclockable?

2007-04-24 18:07:32 · 7 answers · asked by Nick N 5

Should I shut down my computer when a thunderstorm approaches? Any other precautions I should take? What am I risking if I don't?
There's one on the way.

2007-04-24 16:05:11 · 18 answers · asked by Alice K 7

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2945261&CatId=1533

I thinkig os buying this motherboard. Also i want to install watercooler on it. Do you thinks is compattible with water cooler? Thanks

2007-04-24 14:18:29 · 7 answers · asked by HS Student 2

I there a processor that has more speed that mine, 2.44 GHZ
Or can I increase the speed?

2007-04-24 13:53:20 · 4 answers · asked by HS Student 2

My OS is Vista...is there some way to fix this boo-boo? Thanks!

2007-04-24 13:30:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Intel celeron 600MHz I would appericate any help Thanks again "dumb founded".

2007-04-24 11:25:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have already removed any start up programs not needed. cleaned my registry and defraged my hard drive.system specs are as follows. Xp profesional (2003) x64, hitachi sata II 100gb (7200rpm) hard rive,Pentium D 3.0ghz (800mhz FSB) 2 GB samsung DDr2 667mhz dual channel memory. Dual Geforce 7600 512mb SLi video cards.built in nvidia ethernet harware firewalled (comcast cable modem) Abit NI8 mother board with a geforce 4 chipset. acer 17 inch lcd monitior (vga)
I built the system about 2 months ago and I installed xp again but it did not solve this problem.

2007-04-24 09:29:37 · 3 answers · asked by JMR 3

I have a new A8N motherboard that will not boot. This is a replacement to another board that bit the dust. When I plug in the power cables the machine will turn on just fine. However the video card/usb ports/ethernet are not receiving power. The power supply is a Enermax Liberty 500. I am powering this up outside of the case, barebones.

The Liberty is a 20+4 power connector. On the original board I had a similar problem to what I am having now. I had to just use the 20 pin and leave the +4 off.

Idea's?

2007-04-24 02:29:35 · 1 answers · asked by Pootski 2

im building my own computer soon and just wandering...
i was also wandering if i had the room in there if i could add 4 hard drives (since 1 Motherboard can handle 2 hardrives)

2007-04-24 01:42:13 · 6 answers · asked by shit head 3

Hi, Im looking for a Uninterruptible power supply, but I dont understand the watts part that each of them have. Some say 300, 500, or 1000 ect. I dont want to buy one that wont work with the desktop. Any recommendations and info you could give me? I heard something also about if you use more than the watts it says it will overload or something like that.

Thanks, Mike.

2007-04-23 22:42:37 · 5 answers · asked by Mike33 1

the hard disk is used by 4 different users. After some time the computer is getting very slow. What can i do to speed up the performance again?

2007-04-23 21:12:38 · 1 answers · asked by Klaus 1

My current processor is 1.1Ghz i think and i have a pentium 4 i think lol also i have 512 ram and 32gb hard drive now i know i need to upgrade my processor speed and hard drive but how do i know what to get.

I think i need a dual core processor but how do i know if the one i buy will fit onto my mother board etc? And same question about the type of hard drive.

I just run Dxdiag an it says my processor is as follows:

AMD Athlon(tm) XP, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.1GHz

2007-04-23 20:15:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

it has 320 gb hard drive
1 gb of memory
windows xp

2007-04-23 19:47:28 · 7 answers · asked by justin g 2

???

2007-04-23 17:26:54 · 3 answers · asked by shuknight 2

Does this mean I have to replace the internal battery and if so how do I do it without erasing memory?

2007-04-23 17:06:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Machine fell ; then mouse stopped working;then keyboard stopped working;tested working mouse into mouse port and it doesn't work. Same with keyboard port. No lights on either the mouse or keyboard. Is machine done? Can you replace these ports easily? Did a system restore , couldn't finish because I have no keybord!!
any help will be appreciated. Thanks
M

2007-04-23 16:58:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

for some reason i cant open up my device manger on my dell xp computer..can someone please tell me how 2 get it

2007-04-23 16:56:00 · 4 answers · asked by can_you_set_me 1

I have seen some of the latest workstations from HP and Dell and they use xeon processors which is a server processor. Does this mean they are using a server mobo and processors, RAM, etc. to run a desktop computer? Can server hardware run normal desktop processes? Lastely does anyone know whether xeon or extreme QX6700 processors are better for gaming?

2007-04-23 15:02:20 · 2 answers · asked by Scott S 2

I start my computer and all is good but, after a short time my start menu and desktop icons become inactive I have to reset to get things working again, pain in butt
using windows xp FD (no idea what FD is)

Any ideas Thanks

2007-04-23 14:41:09 · 8 answers · asked by Willy 5

Have win xp pro home edition, I bought a used computer, pulled my old hard drive with windows on it and installed as the boot (only) drive in the new computer, upon starting up it says:

Windows did not start successfully possibly due to a hardware/software change, choose how you want to start windows:

safe mode
safe mode with network
safe mode command prompt

last known working config
start windows normally

I have tried each of these and it reboots and goes back to this same screen, when I had done this in the past (upgraded comp) windows would normally start up but would want to re-authenticate windows, but windows won't even start.

Any thoughts?

I am going to try it with another computer and see if it starts there, but if I put the win xp drive in the old computer I pulled it from, starts right up without issue.

Any help is appreciated.

2007-04-23 14:31:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 14:11:39 · 3 answers · asked by brazil4life2006 2

2007-04-23 13:54:27 · 2 answers · asked by rashaud b 1

Ok
i have an amd athon 64 3700+ (socket 754)
it has a heat sink and a fan attached to it
i took it out no problem to clean under it and the fan ect....

now i cant get it back in
i cant lift the lever to loosen it.
do i have to loosen the lever first?
if so how would i go about doing so as the heatsink and fan are attached to the cpu
also do i have to remove the heatsing and fan?


HURRY NEED ANSWERS ASAP!!!

2007-04-23 13:19:54 · 4 answers · asked by Cute W O the E 7 2

I am looking to build a new PC for gaming. I am not sure on what chipset to get. Give me some educated suggestions.

2007-04-23 12:59:21 · 2 answers · asked by krazy_coconut_82 1

Can i put a partition on my hard drive without partition magic? It says it's not compatible with Vista. I have about 2 gigs of audio that i want to keep before I reformat my hard drive and i don't want to separate them and put on 29 disks. is their a way to zip them to fit onto 1 disk? thats actually 2 questions. sorry.

2007-04-23 12:27:48 · 4 answers · asked by brobrahbro 1

2007-04-23 11:14:51 · 7 answers · asked by hasanti_29 2

2007-04-23 11:11:05 · 12 answers · asked by Borat 1

About six years ago my evil sister-in-law bought a HP computer and I set it up for her. Now she is getting a windows drivers pci sys error, windows won't open, so I told her to run the recovery system on her computer, which is to press the F10 button upon startup and go through the system recovery process. She said it was starting the recovery process but she never let me know what happened. I don't know what's going on (she won't let me look at the computer itself), but now she is driving me nuts looking for a recovery disk, which I never took. She's calling me a thief and that I stole it from her. I recall that the computer never came with a recovery disk, that you had the option to make one but no one ever did it. I think that there is partition of the computer that takes over the recovery if there ever is a problem with windows. She is going berserk over this, someone (her ex-husband) told her that all computers come with recovery disks, and that I hid it somewhere on purpose!!!

2007-04-23 11:06:38 · 13 answers · asked by ♪ ♫ ☮ NYbron ☮ ♪ ♫ 6