Other - Hardware - February 2007

Athalon 1Ghz
Ati Radeon 9550
Intergrated Sound Card
512 DDR Ram
8 GB Hard Drive
40GB Slave

please no bs answers, i realli need help

2007-02-17 12:37:18 · 3 answers · asked by matt 1

I am building my first computer soon and I am wondering which type of hard drive to get. I see there two different types, IDE and SATA interfaces. I've also herd rommers about not being able to load windows with SATA hard drives. Is this true? Which type should I get?

2007-02-17 12:26:13 · 6 answers · asked by mcmatrix12000 3

I am building my new computer and have a question about getting the right memory. The question is what is the difference between dual channel ram and regular. Also would I be able to put 4gb of regular ram together or what? How does this work? Thanks!

2007-02-17 12:23:01 · 3 answers · asked by Matt 1

I read, elsewhere on yahoo answers that a Micro ATX Socket 478 would fit sweetly into the dell... but ive never changed a motherboard before and Im not sure how hard the job would be..

Plus... once the job was done and all the bits screwed in... would my windows OS's (i run a tripple boot 2000,XP and Vista) have dificulies beyond my having to find a few new drivers?? Pls help!

2007-02-17 12:13:31 · 4 answers · asked by MonkeyKing669 2

i've installed geforce 6200 AGP , andy when i tried to open the windows live messenger, it doesn't. and i can see that it uses almost 100% of the cpu!
is it related? i think so... any suggestions?

2007-02-17 12:10:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I had some family pictures sent to me and I saved them to my hard drive. I now am trying to save them on to a CD-R and I keep getting the message

" Cannot copy picture. Files on this CD-ROM are read only. You cannot copy or move files over to this CD-ROM drive. "

There are pictures already on this CD and I went into properties to change them from Read only to normal and it says I can't.

The pictures sent to me are not read only, so is there a way to save these on to a CD ?

2007-02-17 12:08:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently installed windows vista on my computer on another drive seperate from my windows xp one. I didnt like it so I went back to my xp. Now when ever I turn my computer on it tells me to pick windows vista or an older version of windows which is my xp. Is there any way to get rid of that message?

2007-02-17 11:46:47 · 5 answers · asked by ishx360 1

i am looking forward for intel 975 board but it supports crossfire,will sli run on it?ialso looked at asus new boad P5WDH deluxe hut this was aslo crossfire enabled. i have no knowledge of ATi.help

2007-02-17 11:23:18 · 5 answers · asked by sam_hunk 1

I have an old computer that was given from another person. I want to check how much RAM, the speed of CPU it has.

2007-02-17 10:55:36 · 10 answers · asked by jennifer g 7

2007-02-17 10:48:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

RIght everyone since my prevoius post i have now managed to get the PC back up and running (thanks for the comment some were very helpful) i used system restore. BUT... i went back in checked all drives were correxct and present and all appreared to be ok i even played a cd with Media player. I then downloaded the new itunes 7 and guess what the cd/dvd drives have been disabled again, and they wont update or reinstall, it looks like i will have to do another system restore. Getting really annoyed with this now. Does anyone know off any issue with a packard bell and Itunes (i know it sounds stupid but i am running low on ideas)

2007-02-17 10:48:31 · 5 answers · asked by zsphodge 1

Can it run dx 10 games?

2007-02-17 10:48:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently built a computer and installed XP Pro. I tried installing the drivers for the ethernet ports and they installed alright, but I rebooted the computer and no LAN connection was detected and no ethernet cards were either. I decided to do a clean install of XP Pro, so I did, but when I erased the original partition on the hard drive, I was unable to format the hard disk afterwards and got some blue screen error saying something like "hard disk failure"... I plan on buying a new hard drive, but am still worried about the ethernet card not working like last time. BIOS detects the dvd burner, the dead hard drive, processor, RAM and video card worked alright as well when XP did work.

My system info:
Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe motherboard
West. Dig. Caviar 250gig HD (the one that is dead)
AMD Athlon64x2 5200+
wintec ampX DDR2 800 RAM

2007-02-17 10:45:38 · 1 answers · asked by F1reflyfan 4

I have 2 sata drives as boot and secondary. Today I bought another drive (eide) but when I added it Windows says it can't read the boot drive anymore so it won't boot. I tried every combination of slave/master/ide1/ide2 but no joy. I have a dvd-r drive on ide2 and never had a problem I even removed the dvd-r to see if it would make a diff but no.

MB-Microstar MS-7125
Processor -Athlon64 X2 4200
Ram - OCZ 512mb (x2) 1gig
Drives - 1 WD 200g (sata1), 1 Maxtor 200g(sata2), 1 WD 320 eide 1 generic 4x DVD-R

2007-02-17 10:45:03 · 1 answers · asked by AmigaJoe 3

I'm considering getting one of those DIY kits for making an external USB Hard Drive. I would like to know what the maximum size XP Home would recognize, and if it would vary by hard drive enclosure or drivers.

2007-02-17 10:27:36 · 6 answers · asked by loseinburger 1

just want to know if it's at risk of hacking if on 24/7 if it uses much power when on and pc's off and if it's ok to turn it on and off with pc.

2007-02-17 09:58:52 · 5 answers · asked by john c 1

My computer has shut down, and everythime I try to turn it on, the monitor's light blinks, and the screen is blank. But, if I'm lucky, it'll come on after the computer is on for a while. I've got people saying that it's the monitor, and others say it's the power supply. I know it couldn't be the hard drives because I have disconnected them once, and turned it on. The same thing happened, so, like I said, it's not the Hard Drives. What is it?

2007-02-17 09:47:43 · 5 answers · asked by Ninetales 2

what is right opperating temp for a 3.2 amd cpu mine is about 50c is this okay or is over heating

2007-02-17 09:21:24 · 3 answers · asked by josephjamesskill 2

ok i have compaq presario 700, windows xp, wirless internet(broadband card)My internet service is supposed to be the fastest or 1 of em at least. Wat do i do to my pc to make it fast or faster?

2007-02-17 08:41:55 · 11 answers · asked by KeLz s 1

I just tried to install Itunes to my mums PC and noticed that the CD/DVD drive had been disabled. i tried to re enable the drives but it wouldnt enanble them, thinking something was wrong i ran a virus check only to find 400+ spyware trojan virus on her PC. I clean then and tried to quarantine them however one of them (sorry cant remember the name) couldnt be removed. It then started to auto shut down and before i could cancel it, it switched off. I now cant get pass the safe mode splash screen even trying to boot off the recovery only gets me 1 further screen saying detecting NTHardware and wont go any further. It hangs until you ctrl alt del and restart. Please help

2007-02-17 08:28:32 · 8 answers · asked by zsphodge 1

The last partition I have tried to make keeps showing up as Invalid Partition size. I tried different sizes and types of partitions...still nothing, any ideas??

2007-02-17 08:27:30 · 3 answers · asked by clone17 3

Ijust purchased a game called Titan Quest. I installed the game and when i go to play the game the screen goes into standby mode. Can anyone help me fix this problem??

My graphics card is a Ati Radeon 9200 SE series

Thanks for any help

2007-02-17 08:27:27 · 3 answers · asked by sdm1969 2

i am not sure about how to manage the wires and cables...
the sepc of the mobo said there are 5 fan connectos.... does it mean my case can have 5 case fan at the maxium? (including the cpu fan)

or i can simply connect the case fan to the powersupply?

2007-02-17 07:18:09 · 3 answers · asked by Brian S 1

ok here we go again....i push the power button and everything works fine, the cd drives are wotkin, the hard drive is workin, the fans are workin, but nothing comes up on the scree it stays black, i know the monitor is fine because im using it right now with another cpu, and i dindt install any hardware or anything

2007-02-17 07:06:35 · 14 answers · asked by oh hey 1

How do i create a back up restore disc in the event of system failure , i really dont want to have to restore to factory settings or reinstall vista ? Ive searched the system for a method it just has a restore point , no good during system failure . I hate these preinstalled features its all about saving money now with these pc manufactures , Thanks

2007-02-17 07:02:00 · 2 answers · asked by daz1br 1

i press the power button and the fans work, the cd drives work, the hard drive works, but nothing comes up on the monitor
my monitor works fine still nothing comes up on the screen it is just black...whats going on?

2007-02-17 06:51:54 · 10 answers · asked by oh hey 1

choppy. like every 2 senconds the video freezes and sound continues. my computer used to play videos fine. only now it's not, so i know it's not my processor or ram

2007-02-17 06:33:13 · 3 answers · asked by smokesha 3

After doing a "Full System Restore" on my Windows XP computer (from the hard drive backup copy), my computer always freezes exactly in the middle of the "Installing Devices" step. How can I resolve this problem?

2007-02-17 06:21:23 · 3 answers · asked by azaleaimports 1

i bought two sticks of DDR2 1 GB each and i put them into my pc but i also added the original 512 MB stick that i already had in there when i turned the PC on it turned on but after a few moments it shut off and it smelt like something might have burned up in my pc the next morning i removed the two new sticks of DDR2 and inserted just the original 512 stick and everything worked fine do you think it just some bad memory or perhaps something else like the way i put it in i would really appreciate any help you could give me and thank you.

2007-02-17 06:04:45 · 4 answers · asked by Sol 1

Does anybody know a good service provider???

2007-02-17 05:09:17 · 3 answers · asked by C.J. 1