Desktops - May 2007

I just installed a new 1G RAM chip, how can I verify its running. I went to my computer (right click) properties, and it does show 2G total, which is what it should be.. But is that verification enough, how do I really know its using all 2G's ?

2007-05-25 10:53:18 · 5 answers · asked by Knowledge 1

I am putting a e-GeForce 7800 GS onto my desktop. It states that I must disable my integrated video card. But how do you do that? Please be specific!

2007-05-25 10:01:08 · 3 answers · asked by question 2

I'm seriously considering reinstalling my operating system, and erasing the hard drive, my computer has gotten so slow. I have the operating system disk that came with the computer . It's only about 5 months old, and everytime i insert the disk im not sure where to start.

Could someone tell me how to go about deleting and reinstalling my operating system. Also to make sure i can get it back up and running . It is a windows gateway XP.

Thanks

2007-05-25 08:11:38 · 9 answers · asked by Andylhs 1

if you have a motherboard (tyan tiger mpx) that supports PC1600/PC2100 ddr sdram, can you use pc100 memory instead?

2007-05-25 06:36:54 · 2 answers · asked by Mercury 2010 7

My computer runs this Drive C Surface Scan several times daily and I wonder why?? Most of the time it runs it when I turn the computer on but it will run anytime and it is quite annoying. Any ideas?? Or suggestions?? Thank You

2007-05-25 06:30:47 · 3 answers · asked by I love winter 7

it is a compac presario dekstop and is nearly 5 years old

2007-05-25 06:25:48 · 9 answers · asked by apurva 1

Under the safely remove icon in my tool bar I says safely remove "then the name of my hard drive" its an internal hard drive and its my only hard drive. I think this is strange because if I accidentally click that I would probably be in some trouble.

Does anyone know how to remove it from there? or know why it would even appear there? If I find out how too should I remove that option. Finally what would happen if I did accidentally click that?

2007-05-25 06:22:33 · 2 answers · asked by Jay 2

i have a game that cant run in my computer, my friend said that it cant run because it doesnt have GHz to back it up.
and i was wonder if i can upgrade it to make it faster.

2007-05-25 06:11:24 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a game that cant run in my computer, my friend said that it cant run because it doesnt have GHz to back it up.
and i was wonder if i can upgrade it to make it faster.

2007-05-25 06:11:12 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My computer has made a loud humming sound in the past, and I was told that it was the fan. The person helping me at the time fixed the problem. Yesterday, while running several programs on my computer, the sound started again, so I shut down the computer. Will it be harmful for me to run my computer without taking it somewhere to get it fixed (I don't know if I can afford to get it fixed at the moment)?

2007-05-25 05:44:02 · 16 answers · asked by isis77 1

I've replaced an old mother board with a ga-7zxe motherboard and !reinstalled! windows
I do only have 320mb of pc100 ram.

so when I go to youtube, my computer tries load the page, but my computer freezes with an hour glass. its locked. my mouse doesn't even move.(I did reinstall flash as per faq on youtube, no luck)

other flash sites work fine.

also when I play video (.avi) it locks too.
I went to divx.com got the codec, and succesfully loaded their sample divx video online and onscreen. It worked fine,
but it still freezes when playing a video from my hard drive,. I'm using divx player, and Windows media player.

I've updated directX to 9.0 and updated my video drivers.
Also have tried 2 agp cards and one pci video card. Nothing works.

What could be the problem?

2007-05-25 05:42:31 · 5 answers · asked by Mercury 2010 7

when i start my computer from a power button my computer processor fan just starts a bit and then goes out...
it stops after 5 sec but the motherboard is fine.supply to motherboard is coming but only the processor fan stops ater 5 min and computer does not starts...
plz help

2007-05-25 05:29:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm looking to buy a custom made desktop pc to handle game which use alot of ram etc. i've got fair idea of a 2gb ram with an 80gb main hdd and a (750gb slave hdd for the games) with a 22" flat panel mon. but i need a super mainborad with super fast procssor and a good vid card but i dont really what the vid card to be over £150 many thanks rusty

2007-05-25 04:31:53 · 6 answers · asked by rusty2007 1

In reference to an answer. I have 1 gig of ram, and my video card is mid to high level, so can I just upgrade the motherboard and processor and keep the other stuff I have to reduce the cost?

2007-05-25 04:29:33 · 8 answers · asked by AmberMatthewLandon H 1

I currently have 256mb ram, can I add a 512mb chip to the 256mb?

The reason I ask was I was told I had to keep them the same size if I run 2.

2007-05-25 03:14:38 · 5 answers · asked by John Deere Green 1

hi, was just wondering if it is ok to do this. its just a normal sterio hi-fi speaker, i'm a bit worried the magnet in it may affect the innards of the pc.

advice please?

2007-05-25 01:11:59 · 18 answers · asked by winston s 3

My Compaq pc shut down the other day without warning. I then received this error message. The pc will not reboot from the hard drive only from a recovery disk I made earlier. What can I do.

2007-05-25 00:18:08 · 6 answers · asked by SEAN J 1

i have a wireless router and a CPU and the internet is working fine on that. i bought a new CPU and the internet explorer isn't working on that. any ideas on how to fix that problem.

2007-05-24 22:25:32 · 5 answers · asked by kunal s 2

and perhaps some advice and insight on newer products.

looking to build something that is affordable and reliable.
Dont want to have to upgrade too soon in the future once i have built a new computer.

Ur input welcome too.
Thanx

2007-05-24 22:07:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i formatted a 150GB SATA harddisk, i even delete the partition and create a new partition again and install new OS on it.

now i wan to recover the data. i use GetDatBack for NTFS. it takes me 5hrs to scan for all sectors! now i'm hanged at select files to recover this step.

is there any FREE software that can recover data faster?

pls help thank you.

2007-05-24 21:45:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wonder what is the highest or fastest Processor I can upgrade my pc, it's a dell 4700 seires. I just want to see how much (fast ) it can be.
Thank you anyone out there.
Josh.

2007-05-24 18:28:54 · 3 answers · asked by proficiency10 2

Can anyone help? For some reason my computer is not reading my drivers anymore. They don't show up in my computer info, and when I try to burn anything or run anything from these drives my computer keeps saying no drive found.
It was fine the other day, but now they are gone! What happened, and how can I fix it. I tried restore, but nothing changed.

2007-05-24 18:11:26 · 10 answers · asked by Cjs 3

I got this last week on my sony business computer that says >>>>>Windows could not start because the following files is missing or corrupt \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I took my computer to the BEST BAY and they said that they can't fix it. So I just want to know if anyone had solved this problem.

I do not care about the computer at all I just care that I have files and I used quick books and qickens for the business. I do not know if the files have been saved at the documents or not. I just know that I have files of these programes that can ruin my life if I can't solve these problem.


If enyone knows anything please let me know.

I

2007-05-24 16:58:44 · 7 answers · asked by Gani 1

My son got one of his school's old pcs and when we brought it home and set it up, it kept asking for us to install the modem and it had a drop down list of different ones, we tried a few, but nothing worked. We had it connected to a dial up line, but we couldn't get on line. How can we get this pc to work? Is it possible that there's no dial modem installed in it? If there isn't, could we buy one? We aren't sure how old it is, probably 1998/99 Dell. Any suggestions?

2007-05-24 16:20:17 · 5 answers · asked by Peaches 1

i could get a 1066 5-cas or 800 4-cas RAM
is the price worth the performance?

2007-05-24 16:10:44 · 3 answers · asked by Art 1

If I put a UV cold cathode in my computer, will it damage the parts? since its a UV?

2007-05-24 16:02:12 · 4 answers · asked by lone_wolf842@sbcglobal.net 2

- Windows XP, Media Center Edition, with Service Pack 2 installed
- Dell Dimension DXP061
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13 GHz 2.13 GHz
- 2012GB of RAM
- 250 SATA GB Hard Drive

The specs above (my comptuer) are quite high, and I only got the computer at Christmas time. Now, the problem is that the computer stills seems to run slow and freezes lots of times for a few minutes. It also does log in and load as fast as I would like it...

What can I do about this?

2007-05-24 15:55:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-24 15:49:03 · 4 answers · asked by voxoxox 1

Which operating system do u like best??? why???

which one do u use???

2007-05-24 15:43:26 · 9 answers · asked by Nanu 1

2007-05-24 15:40:58 · 2 answers · asked by wong 1