Other - Hardware - October 2006

Here is another one of my NEW XP problems/Issues. When I play Windows Media Player, I dont get any sound, video is fine. Whether it is an .mpg .avi or .wav file, It doesnt matter, No Sound. But if I start Power DVD (even without starting to play any movie) I get the sound in WMP. I thought it would be a codec prob. so I installed "all in one Audio codec" no help. I unstalled and then updated WMP to ver 10, nothin doin. I stil can bet it has something to do with Audio codec, but I cant figure out what to do or where else to look. One more thing as long as Power DVD is on, I have the sound in WMP, as soon as I close Power DVD, sound goes with it. Any suggestions, help, recommendations?? BTW Sound Always works in Power DVD no matter what.

2006-10-29 15:16:30 · 3 answers · asked by uemail_me 1

Im looking for and planning to buy an inexpensive and reliable external hard drive...it doesnt have to be a lot of space...maybe a 20-40GB...(100GB would be nice).

2006-10-29 15:15:57 · 5 answers · asked by Shane 3

2006-10-29 14:37:44 · 3 answers · asked by fornoman 2

2006-10-29 14:37:32 · 2 answers · asked by salimdist 4

i want to get a cheap board and Biostar is the cheapest i can find.is Biostar any good or does it have compatability problems or short life or high on DOA ratting?

2006-10-29 14:31:03 · 4 answers · asked by U can't B like me 5

I'm thinking about getting a mac but I want to know if it worth it.

2006-10-29 13:55:37 · 18 answers · asked by bigmike3323 2

2006-10-29 13:51:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i bought a new hard drive for my cpu. i was wondering, how can i install it without having to reinstall windows. i have no recovery disk so i need help getting this done.

2006-10-29 13:36:53 · 8 answers · asked by whatever 1

i go to play games and the system s run real or mostly alot of laggin slow i'close odd and end programs down to a minum. i keep system clean can i do something to sped thins up i thought i had enough memory in the card to stop this.. help anyone

2006-10-29 13:34:02 · 1 answers · asked by elmoe 1

I have 2 HDD's, a Western Digital 150gb Raptor, and a Western Digital 500gb Caviar - both SATA. The Raptor is set as my primary and works fine. The Caviar does not appear when I open up 'My Computer.' When I go into the Device Manager though, both drives show they are there. Also, when I open up the BIOS, both drives appear. Simply put, all I have is my C: drive and my DVD drive.

I've checked the connections, and they seem fine. I've even tried changing where on the mother board where the Caviar plugs into.

And I'm assuming this has something to do with it - but in my system tray, since I've built this PC, I've always had the icon showing "Safely Remove Hardware," referring to both HDD's. Why would it be doing this to something as permanent as a hard drive?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

2006-10-29 12:48:38 · 3 answers · asked by R K 1

It's a dual core. It would play a game that requires a little bit over without overclocking right?

2006-10-29 12:44:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

thanks.

2006-10-29 12:13:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My teacher and some other students were calling the computer, or the "tower" a hard drive. Once they decided to call it a "hard drive protector" Its not a hard drive protector, or a HARD DRIVE. its just the COMPUTER, cause its also got the CD ROM drive, the sound card, the graphics card, the processor and all that other stuff, I might be wroung, but i don't think so, Am I??

2006-10-29 12:00:12 · 10 answers · asked by Jordan Watkins 1

For a gaming computer with a raid 0 or 5. If so why?

2006-10-29 11:41:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

It would be a lot faster no lousy Hd to rely on usb flash drives 1GB are like 30 dollars and that would fit an OS on it why havent they done this?

2006-10-29 11:14:09 · 2 answers · asked by bigmatfatcat 1

notice they look funny when using iMovie to view the webcam. I think it's cause it shows a mirror image (the way someone actually sees you). But I look really asymmetric.. maybe I am

2006-10-29 10:48:21 · 2 answers · asked by PaulN 2

How can I repair a faulty IBM Thinkpad T23 systemboard if it fails to detect a working hard drive without replacing the whole systemboard because everything elses work.

2006-10-29 10:16:44 · 2 answers · asked by belmeen 3

My C drive has 12% memory left but my D Drive has 97%. As a result my computer is running slow and cant defrag it (it needs 15% free). Please help as I'm seriously thick when it comes to computers! (so that means words of no more than two syllables!)

2006-10-29 09:30:29 · 6 answers · asked by Ah! 5

is there a good gaming graphics card between $150 - $200 that wont do "the blue screen of death"? my current graphics card does that.

2006-10-29 09:14:34 · 3 answers · asked by K 1

I am trying to copy some old family recordings over to CD before the audio tapes go bad, and to make them easier to share with family members.

Based on some instructions I saw in an article I purchased a Y cable and downloaded some free software called Audacity. There are three unmarked ports on the back of the PC that will accept the cable end, but I can't seem to get the recording/transfer to work.

Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. If there are other ways to accomplish this please advise.

Thanks

2006-10-29 08:42:10 · 7 answers · asked by CB 2

seagate ex h-d fell over just on to its side now doesn't work. is it possible to fix without great expence

2006-10-29 07:23:46 · 10 answers · asked by 23x23 1

i bought a game which needs 384 mb ram but my pc only has 256 mb . would a ram stick help

2006-10-29 06:40:07 · 9 answers · asked by not very smart 1

its not the amount of RAM but its speed that im lookin for .. in terms of MHz ..

i got 256MB ram .. of which 32 MB is for graphics (geforce 2 integrated )..

cpu : amd athlon 2000+ ( 1.67 GHz)

not quite sure if its 266 MHz or 333 MHz ...
kindly lemme know .. coz im looin for an upgrade ..

also does ASUS A7N266 - VM motherboard support upto 1GB of ram ???????? as 2 * 512 MB ??????

thanx in advance ....

2006-10-29 05:45:12 · 4 answers · asked by rave23 2

Every time I turn my computer on, it either freezes before loading Windows, or it loads Windows and restarts right away. When it restarts I get a blue screen that says a problem was detected and Windows was shut off to prevent damages in the computer, then it says "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". It tells me to deactivate the BIOS memory options - what the hell is that and how do I do it? Still in the blue screen it says "Technical Information: ***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xD7536008, 0x00000000, 0x80576FDF, 0x00000000)"
What should I do? Please help, it's really annoying that this happens every damn time, sometimes it takes a loooong time before I can actually turn the computer on.

2006-10-29 05:39:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

windows xp

2006-10-29 05:38:21 · 6 answers · asked by shogonzo 2

i want to know its speed and such, so as i can upgrade succesfully.

2006-10-29 05:18:25 · 9 answers · asked by weebouncydude 1

When my pc manufacturer upgraded my pc they failed to give me any software. So now that I've formatted C:\ and reinstalled windows I can't get my USB2.0 to work because I don't have the drivers!!!

2006-10-29 04:16:02 · 3 answers · asked by badly_spawn_boy 1

asus p5wd2 premium
p4 800fsb
1gb 500mhz
250gb matrox sata (mobo only sees 127gb why??)
geforce 6200 turbo cache
400watt power supply.

2006-10-29 04:10:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

but works great and is reliable. Whats a good brand? I have been looking on Newegg.com but I am still not sure what to buy.

2006-10-29 02:49:19 · 4 answers · asked by Daniel "Pathology" Damnation 2

I need to know because I am making a new computer.

2006-10-29 02:14:59 · 3 answers · asked by Daniel "Pathology" Damnation 2