Other - Hardware - January 2007

I have a radeon 9800 pro 128 and an Athlon64 3200 and 1gb of pc3200 ram but I still can't run even empire earth 2 at the lowest settings. I get these triangular opaque artifacts mucking up the screen and after a while they take over the whole screen. I am not sure if this is a configuration problem or if my hardware is obsolete. If it is obsolete, what upgrade would make this go away aside from the 400 dollar video card upgrade route? Processor upgrade? Memory?
Note: I did try updating the video card drivers to the latest set but still have the graphics problem.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

2007-01-22 08:49:21 · 2 answers · asked by Brandon H 2

When i power it up. Sometimes it gets recognized and I can access it in windows, sometimes it does not. Sometimes it gets recognized out of the blue as a removable drive (exp. Memory stick) Then works for a while then just vanishes off windows. I checked the warranty off Western Digital's site and it has no warranty, which is a joke because it is a 160 Gigabyte SATA hard drive that I have not even had for 2 years. I would like to try to get it to work , what are my options ?
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1 hour ago
PS. Im never gonna by a WD product again!

1 hour ago
Yeah, thats what sets apart Hard Drive makers...Their warranty support ( or lack there of) when one of their drives go bad. I usually buy Maxtor Hard Drives , just because their warranty is around 4 years.

1 hour ago
Since its going to go in the trash anyways, is there anyway I can try to do (take it apart ? ) to save it?

1 hour ago
Nope, never dropped it.

I just turned it on its side standing up and it started working.....I have access to it right now.. Its not clicking , running very quiet. Maybe a stablizer inside is not working right.

47 minutes ago
I get some "cycle redundancy errors" on some of the files on the Hard drive when I try to move them off.
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2007-01-22 08:28:42 · 9 answers · asked by Matthew K 2

Has anyone ever had a disk brake/explode in their CD/DVD drive? I was in the middle of installing a printer driver, out of nowhere "Boom" (Same sound as when you bend a CD in half) My first thought was that one of my fans broke but they were all fine. Realizing it was my drive, I took it out, opened it up, shook out the peaces and put it all back together. Works fine again. How did it happen? I've had it for about 10 months with no problems, then all of a sudden, POW! The drive is a PLEXTOR 16X DVD±R DVD Burner. I was thinking maybe a bad CD?

2007-01-22 08:20:22 · 7 answers · asked by reedysm 1

screen size is 30x35cm,.
three koss small single speakers

2007-01-22 07:54:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please I want to get the Dance Ejay 6 but I have Only 224mb RAM And it says 256mb RAM!!!

Will this matter if I get it and also please help me by telling me what RAM is thanks turnre04!!

P.S. I am very thank full 2 any answers!

2007-01-22 07:46:50 · 8 answers · asked by turnre04 2

Okay now after I add the memory is there anything special I need to do?

2007-01-22 07:34:10 · 6 answers · asked by mjhjzepp 1

I know that by installing a graphics card it relieves all the video onto the card which improves performance of gameplay, but does installing a sound card do the same(relieve stress off of the computer for faster performance?)/

2007-01-22 07:21:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whenever I play a game it runs just fine for a while, but then the sound just stops. I have a Phillips sound card that I used. After I disabled it and went back to the factory sound it seemed to work ok for a while, but then it did it again. Is there a way to fix it so that the sound doesn't 'drop' out?

2007-01-22 07:19:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it matter?

2007-01-22 06:45:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 06:19:15 · 4 answers · asked by Scoobe S 1

I picked the option that said my computer could read 13 types of media cards, and I thought a floppy disk was included in the 13 types. I can never get through on the phone to the support center. Are floppy disks being weeded out like cassette tapes?

2007-01-22 06:12:43 · 9 answers · asked by stephanie 3

2007-01-22 05:50:37 · 7 answers · asked by Slim Jim 1

Well my computer will turn on sometimes and other times it won't. When I do get it to come on it works fine but if I unplug the power supply and plug it back up it will not come on. If i open the case and unplug the power supply from the motherboard and jiggle it around alittle bit it will finally come on but i have to do this almost everytime I want to get on my computer. So I don't know it is the power supply or the motherboard. I know it is not the switch because the motherboard it self has a switch to power on and both switches will turn the computer on after I tinker with the power cord.

2007-01-22 05:10:39 · 2 answers · asked by Jed J 1

I Have 512mb of ram and GeForce 6200 terpucache with 256mb video memory and Intel HT 3 Ghz but games dos'nt run fast in high details
So do i need another graphics card or just extra ram to increase my computer gaming performance?
Thanx!!!!

2007-01-22 05:00:19 · 9 answers · asked by momo 1

2007-01-22 04:58:05 · 9 answers · asked by diana h 1

The choice I have is Intel Pentium Core 2 quad core QX6700 ( 4 x 2.4ghz cpu ) or single core hyperthreading processor at 3.6ghz. I want good performance now and in the future.

2007-01-22 04:54:22 · 4 answers · asked by kyrarae87 1

Hai All,
I am using SAP installed PC with configration, 512 MB ram and Windows 2003 server as OS and P4 2.4GHz processer. Now I want to upgrade my system to P4 3.0/Duo core -- 512mb ram and install the same hard disk.

Can any one suggest me... will the SAP work even if i change the configuration of the system?

2007-01-22 04:30:00 · 1 answers · asked by Sriram R 1

I am wanting to buy a router, but the adds are saying "people also bought"... and they are showing this adapter. It's about $40.00 on average. What is this, and do i need it? all i want is to be able to run a laptop on my home DSL connection. Also, how easy and safe is a hard connection for spiltting a network connection?? Please help me...

2007-01-22 04:02:10 · 4 answers · asked by amber 3

I have a portable disc drive for my pc at work, i somehow managed to delete some important contracts i had on there and i really need them back!! can anyone help?

2007-01-22 03:44:36 · 5 answers · asked by katiepinkkate 1

Right I need to know so im 100% sure the new motherboard I am aiming to get will work with my current computer which is a iextreme 6082

2007-01-22 03:33:54 · 3 answers · asked by RIC624 1

I'd like my large external hard drive to hold programs like itunes for example. I'd also like my computer to be able to access them, just like the internal drive. How can this be done? Tell me all you know!

2007-01-22 03:19:56 · 4 answers · asked by Antonio v 2

2007-01-22 03:10:33 · 6 answers · asked by John Z 1

list of all input devices

2007-01-22 02:50:13 · 4 answers · asked by larvigne05 1

I was told when I bought the motherboard and processor that it would go as high as 3.2 GHz.

Why does my processor speed always stays at 2200 mhz, or 2.20 GHz.

2007-01-22 02:49:58 · 3 answers · asked by alphilly 1

2007-01-22 02:28:08 · 4 answers · asked by Star 2

i have a laptop, and the board is off. i had a login when i started, so, know i dont have anymore my pc, but i toke off the hard disk and put as external in other pc, but when i go to open my folder name, appers a message that access is denied. i had tryied to put the hard disk as master in other pc and made a fix boot, chkdsk/repair with win xp in console ms-dos. the repair was completed after that appears the menu to choose if u want to start normally, or in safe mode, even if u choose one of them, dont apperas nothing in the screen , just stay black. i need a help the documents are very important.

2007-01-22 02:15:25 · 3 answers · asked by senoritapc 2

2007-01-22 01:14:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My computer has been running fine, then all of the sudden, I keep getting this message that says instuction at "0x74985c91" referenced meamory at 0x00000000 the memory could not be read...click to termimate... so far I only notice this popping up when I try to play spades online with yahoo, and not only it keeps telling me that i need to install flash player, but when i look it shows that i have it, and it keeps talking about activex, I am really a novice on this stuff, I have done all that i know to do, if anyone can make any since out of what I just said, please help me, and if this matters, my hard drive went out about a month ago, and put a new one in, and every since then it has not been running right, is that normal... any ways thought i would share as much info as I could to see if anyone could help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-22 01:05:12 · 6 answers · asked by sunshinebear 1

they keep coming up on a lot of the pages i vist and it gets very annoying

2007-01-22 00:08:35 · 4 answers · asked by Mike737 2

i dont know much about the physics of energy, but it seems like computers are using more and more power these days, with increased mhz everywhere. so will the time come where a manufacturers hit a maximum before and computers overheat or blow a fuse, and then have to develope something new?

2007-01-22 00:07:09 · 1 answers · asked by whatever 1