Other - Hardware - December 2006

Well have a year old computer that is fast and is ok but the last month or so it made alot of noise and sounded like the hardrive cooling fan was making bad noises.
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n the last 2 weeks the noise has gone, my guess is the fan has stopped working, however now after the computer has been on for about an hour or 2 it freezes up and then shutsdown. If u play a game or make it work harder and do all the same things it used to do fine in the past it only seems to last about 10 or 20minutes. Could my computer be overheating? or is is something else?

If it is overheating could this do damage to the hardrive?

2006-12-18 01:14:46 · 5 answers · asked by Doug 1

2006-12-18 01:07:27 · 5 answers · asked by richie101in 1

I am willing to spend about 150 USD.

2006-12-18 01:01:24 · 4 answers · asked by Guess Who 2

Will old software run on a newer processor?
Will new software run on an old prossesor

2006-12-18 01:00:26 · 4 answers · asked by Guess Who 2

Hi everyone,

I have got a problem with my external hard disk. When I plug it in to the USB, the device is recognised, but before the system reads the files and show the hard disk as a storage device in "My Computer", it comes up with an error message, saying that "hardware may have problems" etc (I tried it in 3 computers so far, and the above message appeared on one of them). I suspect that the problem occured when I had a "critical system error", that resulted in my computer to shut down instantly, and while my hard disk was connected and operating - playing music - (the hard disk was working properly until I got this error -when I rebooted my system the disk was not working so I presume something such as disk corruption happened then -).

Any ideas what the problem could be and how to solve it? Is it the disk or could be a disk case connectivity failure?

I would like first to retrieve all my files from the disk, and secondly to get it work again!

Thanks in advance.

Orestis

2006-12-18 00:56:21 · 3 answers · asked by Orestis 1

I bought my computer 2 weeks ago, brand new. It came with speakers, they worked for 1 week now they dont. Im frustrated. I think my mother had something to do with it, the night before she tried to install my copyer scanner printer thing. If anyone knows anything please contact me. when i try to play a song from limewire it says there is no sound component or somthing like that.

2006-12-18 00:39:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

choices
A ram
B byte
C bit
D intergrated circuit

2006-12-18 00:19:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-17 22:12:23 · 5 answers · asked by arlen_bs 1

Do I need to buy something separate? Is it indeed possible? only there is some old games i'd like to play like "7th Guest" and "Sophies World", but I don't want to install them in case it damages my computer.

2006-12-17 21:32:12 · 9 answers · asked by Mason 2

Originally I could run it at a level that was above the pain barrier. Can any of you computer buffs out there help me?

2006-12-17 21:16:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to build a TV studio to start cable TV and Internet TV broadcasts. Can anyone tell me what kind of professional equipment I need for a HD/ Betacam studio? And where can one buy second hand stuff?

2006-12-17 20:48:44 · 2 answers · asked by anton 1

can anyone help me i have been trying to make more disk space on my pc and i dont know all the items on my pc and what i really need, i have java, adobe, omnipage pro 9.0, acrobat, bin, caere, cabinets,quicktime, im confused do i need quicktime if i have media player, i have microsoft office so do i need internet explorer and outlook express, how do i know what files to delete i had pc problems and had repairs i think ive got duplicate files, i know there are a lot of questions but just an answer on one would be great, and i thank anyone for their help

2006-12-17 19:14:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm adding a new pci express card to my PC , i can use the new card but the shared system RAM is still being used by the onboard card.
intel D101GGC

2006-12-17 19:04:03 · 3 answers · asked by Mike Lu 2

what cds i need to do this job. if it celron or intel motherboards... any different in formating?

2006-12-17 18:45:18 · 4 answers · asked by Purushothaman P 1

2006-12-17 18:31:46 · 3 answers · asked by Lekshya 1

I am a Computer Professional, giving hardware,networking and security services in India. Do, to some security requirement, I have to disable all the USB ports from 20 computer of my custoumer. The operating system used is Windows XP.
Friends, I know that the USB ports can be disabled from BIOS, and even from Windows xp's Control Panel.
What my requirement is some Techinical way, by which no one can reinstall or remove a password and reinstall it. I dont even want to remove the USB chip from the motherboard, as it will void the warranty of the motherboard.

If any one is having a better solution kindly Help...!!!
Thank You.

2006-12-17 18:07:09 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-17 17:40:24 · 3 answers · asked by mawopi 1

well, im going to buy a pc soon, will this pc, mainly to play counter strike source only, and web browsing, i wont be playing new games, just CS:S. tell me if this this will give me good prefomance (60-70 fps)

AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+
2gb 533mhz ram
80gb HDD with data burst technolgy
and a geforce 7300 GS 256mb video card
305 watt PSU (I know this is low, its a dell)

with everything on low, 800x600 resolution, do you think i will be able to achive 60-70 fps?

2006-12-17 17:39:34 · 4 answers · asked by patryske 1

I hav 2 partitions: drive C & D, each having a disk space of 20 GB. I will b installing a new hard disk of 80 GB soon. My aim is to divide & distribute that 80 GB space equally to my exisiting partitions(C & D) so that the new total space of the 2 drives becomes 60 GB each. I dont want to create any extra drive E or whatever. How do i do that ? I know that i will hav to do this from Disk Management in windows Xp but i dont know the exact procedure. Can any1 help me with this ?

2006-12-17 17:39:24 · 6 answers · asked by coolfriendlyguy 1

I have more than 2,000 songs in my iPod now and if I delete anything from iTunes and update my iPod, it automatically deletes those songs also. I need to reformat our computer because it has been really slow and we can't figure out what it's causing it. I am buying an external hard drive to save all my important files before I reformat it, but I don't know how that works with iTunes. Will I just go to "My Computer, open "Programs" folder, copy the entire "iTunes" folder and paste it to the new drive? Has anybody done this before? I can't write all those songs in CDs. It took me a long time to upload all these songs from CDs to iTunes. I don't want to do that all over again when I reformat the computer. Any inputs would be very much appreciated. :-)

2006-12-17 16:49:03 · 10 answers · asked by lexie 1

2006-12-17 16:20:39 · 7 answers · asked by Edward K 1

hate to erase all of unknown, but my only option is to erase hard drive and upload new os...how do i do this?

2006-12-17 16:10:40 · 5 answers · asked by Jerry B 1

2006-12-17 16:00:55 · 3 answers · asked by robin y 1

2006-12-17 15:15:42 · 4 answers · asked by bartmcqueary 3

I had to reinstall windows on my hard drive. I wanted a fresh install so I formated the drive. Well now I can't find the diver needed for my Ethernet card.

"What brand is it?" You may ask. Well I don't know. It is built into my mother board with is an Aopen brand. I don't have the software that came with it.

The device manager just shows "Ethernet controller" with a big yellow question mark out beside it.

Is there a way to detect the Ethernet controller brand/model?

2006-12-17 14:56:00 · 5 answers · asked by bartmcqueary 3

2006-12-17 14:29:13 · 3 answers · asked by Matthew O 2

You're typing, typing, typing and you make a mistake, so you go back and start typing and before you know it, you look up and half your sentence is gone!!

2006-12-17 13:38:02 · 8 answers · asked by Rachel Bz. 2

I had my sis ter open up my computer to clean out all the dust from inside (i believe that she used an air be pump to do it)! she disconnected some things and reconnected them, then when i tried tunring on my computer it would sound like it was working but the power light wasnt coming on and nothing was coming up on the monitor! After that i fooled around with it for awhile making sure everything was in the right place, i gave up tring to get it to work!

later on my sister got a new computer for her self and i decied to fool around with her old one by switching out her hard drive for mine. when i turn on the computer it loads up and get to the screen asking if you want to go into safe mode, last working config., etc. i tried all of them and every time i choose one the computer will restart and start the process over again

2006-12-17 13:30:35 · 4 answers · asked by PSYCHO 1

When I hooked it up to my laptop it worked fine so it must be the computer. Otherwise the computer is fine. It's a Gateway w/ a ViewSonic moniter and they are both less than a year old.

2006-12-17 12:54:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

It runs windows XP, came with 1GB RAM (not sure what type) It has an Sis motherboard on it. Does anyone at least know when motherboards started supporting the SATA format, and is it common, or found on more high-end systems?

2006-12-17 12:41:54 · 7 answers · asked by albertalbert 2