Other - Hardware - November 2006

there is no "Any" Key and when i install software it asks me to press it to continue but i cant find it. Please help

2006-11-19 08:07:05 · 16 answers · asked by rage.dave 3

I mean the kind that you have to install with the cord hooked up to the computer. but is it safe? I heard that if you put too much hardware on a computer that the computers hard drive will crash or something.

2006-11-19 08:04:53 · 4 answers · asked by xxpunk_princessxx86 1

I just bought a new computer game. I tired to open the CD ROM...but it will not open and there was not blinking light. What is wrong? What can I do?

2006-11-19 07:57:42 · 6 answers · asked by D L 1

Hello, I would like to know how much ram i should have in order to run windows xp nicely like I have 512megs of ram right now. Do I need to add another 512mb of ram just for Vista in the future?, or stick with it?

2006-11-19 07:50:39 · 10 answers · asked by BMC_17 2

2006-11-19 07:34:38 · 5 answers · asked by rosa h 1

2006-11-19 07:19:39 · 3 answers · asked by Douglas T 1

I just refomated my computer and plugged my speakers back in, but they won't work anymore. All the connections are ok and the power light is on. My friend said i need a driver but i don't know what to do to get one. I have fairly old Altec Lansing speakers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. thankyou in advance

2006-11-19 07:11:44 · 2 answers · asked by dibley90 1

2006-11-19 04:46:08 · 11 answers · asked by karshasmith 1

Upgraded PC to XP and lost the sound its a tiny computers model and took the advice of checking the sound card and doing a google search for the drivers. Can't find anything all I know is that its an on board wavetable32. Can I buy a seperate sound card if there is one built into the board already or is there another way?

2006-11-19 04:22:36 · 7 answers · asked by castle1 2

2006-11-19 04:10:43 · 6 answers · asked by karshasmith 1

2006-11-19 03:32:36 · 4 answers · asked by albert 1

I' ve used about half of my storage space up on my computer and I was wondering if there was alway to gain some storage space back by deleting files or programs. If so, what usually takes up the space that I could probably get rid of?

2006-11-19 03:30:06 · 9 answers · asked by paintingneko 3

2006-11-19 03:17:46 · 5 answers · asked by pcmd88 1

My daughter has pressed something on the PC that has made all the text go really big. How do I get it small again?? Thanks XX

2006-11-19 02:57:58 · 2 answers · asked by ames 2

2006-11-19 01:25:30 · 1 answers · asked by rafibeyondall 2

Hi all,

I curently have the following specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2800, 2.09 GHz
1GB RAM
GeForce FX5900 (126MB, AGP)

I would like to upgrade to an AMD 64 processor but have been made aware that I would have to also upgrade my motherboard. I'm fine with that, however to save money I would like to keep my other devices (primarily my graphics card and memory). My confusion comes when looking for motherboards, I have found it hard to find any motherboard that have an AGP expansion, they all seem to be PCI. I thought that AGP had become standard for graphics. Some of the motherboards have integrated graphics which are better then my card in some cases however I would like to upgrade in the future and am not sure that PCI graphics is the way to go.

Does anyone have any advice, maybe a few good websites that have a good stock of computer conponents. Finally is there any benifit to choosing a particular socket motherboard e.g. 939, 754 etc.

Thank you in advance

Steve

2006-11-19 00:14:59 · 10 answers · asked by psychologiststeve 1

I think it's my TV Tuner, or something, but I get the error message of restarting my computer, safe mode, and blah. It's something like the blue screen of death, only that it hasn't got anything to do with Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything.

First time I've seen it - Restart computer - DONE.
Other times - Go into safe mode and delete unwanted stuff or restore system.

I decided to restore the system, but out of the 3 times I've tried, it comes up with "Restore Incomplete". Also, this is happening very frequentl today, when it hasn't happened any other times other than once or twice a day.

I thought it was the drivers of the TV Tuner, so I was thinking of uninstalling them, but when I try to do that, the screen comes up.

Also, if this helps t all, here is the error message thing with the ocmplicated numbers and such.

*** STOP: 0C0000008E (0XC0000005, 0XA95DAD59, 0XA8CD3A28, 0X00000000)

Please help. ;_;

2006-11-18 23:55:02 · 7 answers · asked by Kaz 1

Ok Heres My Situation My Computer "Lags" or "Skips" after either Playing A Game, Watching A Video Clip, Or Sometimes For No Reason At All I Have All The Updated Drivers For All My Hardware This System Wasnt Built Long Ago Everything Is New Except the vid card and processor Here Are My Details THanks In Advance For Anyones help

System Specs:
Pentium 4 3 GHZ Processor
DFI Lanparty 925X-T2 MB
2GB DDR2 533MHZ Kingston Value RAM (Dual Channel) Western Digital 250 GB Sata HD
Nvidia 6800 256MB PCI-Express Video Card
Ultra X-Finity 600W Power Supply
52x52x52 Sony CDRW
Pioneer DVDRW Drive

2006-11-18 23:17:10 · 2 answers · asked by metallicafreak19812001 2

I turned off my pc, tried to turn it back on and the fan spins a little but then stops. The keyboard is showing power somtimes. I've checked that everything is pluged in tight, taken out memory and nothing is working. What shoudl I try next?

2006-11-18 23:14:25 · 4 answers · asked by Shaki 1

2006-11-18 20:23:49 · 6 answers · asked by rajeev_k_1 1

I have a laptop and I need to put some info from it unto a new hard drive I got to store my work. What do I need to do? I am absolutely clueless when it comes to electronics.

2006-11-18 20:14:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-18 17:03:54 · 2 answers · asked by Mei-Mei 1

I want to know what exactly will happen if i disconnect my only apapi (parallel ATA) hard drive from the computer while the computer is running. I am running windows XP. ]
Can it damage my hard disk?
Can it damage the secotr 0?
Can it erase the whole data on my disk?
Will just the comp. will hang?
Or just the monitor stops showing anything...

Plz answer if u know even a little bit about it.
I am going to do it in next 2 hrs.

2006-11-18 16:58:16 · 11 answers · asked by rnd 1

As soon as I turn the computer on and log onto my account, the mouse and the keyboard lock up. The screen freezes and the mouse clicking does. Some of the keyboard strokes it does respond to (e.g. ctrl-alt-delete, and windows key) but nothing else. I have scanned the entire hard drive several times with two didfferent antivirus progams, but the problem still persists. I have no recently installed any new software or hardware. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated

2006-11-18 15:32:36 · 10 answers · asked by yamzk666 1

My old computer's power supply died. I bought another e-machines, took my old hard drive, and attached it to the slave terminals of the new machine. It is now drive "F", with "C" being the new internal drive. I can see files in "F", and I want to take my old MS works Calendar data file (wherever that is located - let me know) and import it to the calendar on the "C" drive, but I can't open the files on "F" - I get a message "not accessible, access is denied." I right-clicked in the files' Properties, tried to allow sharing, but get "The shared resource was not created at this time." How can I get my old calendar files (and other personal data) from my old drive into the new one?

2006-11-18 14:59:56 · 8 answers · asked by cnstars122 1

I checked both boxes in Windows Xp CHKDSK and rebooted.
CHKDSK completed in 2 hours - does it repair anything and if so what and how please....

2006-11-18 14:48:38 · 8 answers · asked by treving 42 6

My Dell laptop Inspiron 1000 was switched off during a system restore to an earlier date. Now when attempting to load Windows XP, a blue screen appears: "Bad Image Checksum. The image comctl32.dll is possibly corrupt." I can get into various menus by pressing F12 or F2 during startup but can't figure out how to reload my system disks. I've tried reconfiguring to an earlier known good configuration, loading system defaults, etc & now feel as a last resort I have to reload using disks. I guess it will erase all personal files? Please help---and thanks in advance for your time & advice.

2006-11-18 14:21:17 · 4 answers · asked by Jake A. 2

I just acquired an old Apple. and after turning it off, when I tried to re-boot, a pic of a floppy disc w/a flashing question mark is as far as it'll get. I can't go anywhere else and I don't know how to bypass this. I am Apple-ignorant.
It's a Power Macintosh 6500/250 Home Edition. 250 MHz, 256K Level 2 Cache, 32MB RAM, 2MB SGRAM vid memory, 4GB hard drive, floppy disc drive and 24x CD-ROM.

2006-11-18 13:33:02 · 3 answers · asked by sharnon007 2

2006-11-18 13:14:49 · 6 answers · asked by punk bitch piece of shit 3

i installed vista on my 40gig hdd and when i rebooted my pc i had the choice to boot from win xp(on my 200gig hdd) or vista then i installed winxp on my 200gig hdd and it now boots straight into winxp i looked at the boot in msconfig all it has there is "[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect" how do i boot my vista answers are greatly greatly apreciated thanks,

2006-11-18 12:54:56 · 3 answers · asked by Nick E 1