Other - Hardware - February 2007

Everytime I put in a CD in my drive, I get an error message saying "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows."

HELP??

2007-02-14 13:33:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a Compaq Presario 1245 Laptop, and I just recently installed a new harddrive, formatted it, and was going to reinstall a windows disk. The system boot fine, and allowed to go into the setup fine, but there was a problem with the Cdrom tray being loose and shakey and not reading the disk. It was just a missing rail, that goofy me forgot to put back in....Anyways, I took out the Cddrive, fixed the problem, so far so good. However, now it will boot into the setup, but thats about it. Otherwise I get a Boot Disk Failure message. The CD doesnt open, and when go and manually open it, and insert the disk, it doesnt even spin. Its just dead, like its not there at all. It shows up in the BIOS, and lets me select it to boot from. So, Im thinking its just a wiring problem, like its not plugged in all the way, but everything looks fine. Could this be a HD problem? Will a boot disk failure cause the cd rom to not even work at all? I tried booting from floppy too.....nothing.

2007-02-14 12:23:08 · 4 answers · asked by clone17 3

Everything is just unbelievably slow and it's really annoying.

If I minimize something, it takes a long time and has to load everything. I heard changing my theme to XP Classic speeds it up a little but XP Classic is REALLY ugly and I don't feel comfortable with my computer anymore if I use it.

I am running Windows XP Pro. I have 128MB ram, 1GHZ PROCESSOR.... uhh. yeah.

Please, I need help speeding it up.

2007-02-14 12:19:31 · 6 answers · asked by Esteban D 1

I'm looking at buying either a Western Digital, Seagate or Maxtor.
The Maxtor is an external (I want external), but the others are IDE (I think that this means it is made for inside the comp...?) Anyways, with the Seagate or WD I would get an external case and put it in myself.
To answer this question, don't worry yourself about price, I've found some pretty sweet prices, but rather, WHAT IS BETTER and WHY?

Cheers heaps!

Gman

2007-02-14 12:00:30 · 10 answers · asked by gman 2

This computer does not take the 512MB chip that I bought for it, it would only take two chips of 128 each, can anybody help me with putting the new 512MB-ROM chip to work.

2007-02-14 11:35:48 · 9 answers · asked by theking200313 2

do i need a sound card on my windows 2000 to use a headset? and if so can i put a sound card in a windows 2000?

2007-02-14 11:20:28 · 2 answers · asked by OliviaMorgann 2

i have a 200 gb hdd....making it about 203gb total, but its only show 189gb, i kno that its is always smaller but this 1 has some thing that says it will always show no less than 197gb when formated and windows xp installed, i dont even use it as a primary hdd its my backup drive.

2007-02-14 11:10:37 · 4 answers · asked by stuntmaster84 2

2007-02-14 10:28:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do i remove front (plastic) to replace cd drive??

2007-02-14 09:57:52 · 2 answers · asked by sml_dale 1

My monitor plugs are different that my video card plugs? Do I need a special monitor or did I buy the wrong video card? I have the BFG 6600 GTOC... (AGP Version)

2007-02-14 09:08:33 · 5 answers · asked by mad_master_malachi 1

Also I have IDE hard drive that i can not get them to erase, i have a hard drive washer, but it wont reconize them either.

2007-02-14 08:58:12 · 2 answers · asked by Brody112683 1

I have a Acer aspire 5100 laptop,When I plug the Ethernet cable into the port it doesnt click into the lock position,and can be easily pulled out. I have tried diferent ethernet cables, and none of them lock into position.Is this normal on laptops ,if so is this to allow the cable to be pulled free if the laptop is inadvertantly moved, Or have I just got a faulty port/socket,even though the connection is good. please help.....

2007-02-14 08:46:08 · 8 answers · asked by sparky 2

My 80GB Western Digital hard drive is formatted but I didn't get 80GB, but only got about 74... where did the other 6gb go?

2007-02-14 08:41:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a custom built pc. I was going to go on the internet, but my router configuration utility from netgear froze. I restarted my pc, and now, the adapter will not start. I tried uninstalling the device and the drivers and restarting the pc, and then reinstalling everything, but it will not start accoring to device manager error 10. I am so upset! I wanted to transfer my activation of adobe acrobat pro, so that I could reformat my hard drive, and then upgrade to vista, but this issue is keeping me from it! This is the first time that I have had this issue, and I am ready to pull my hair out! Thank you so much!

2007-02-14 08:29:58 · 4 answers · asked by Mikecool509 3

as title... can someone plz help...?
here is the link of the chipset fan that i wanna buy... but i have no idea where should I install it...on the side vent..? or no?

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2146653&CatId=498

2007-02-14 08:23:10 · 5 answers · asked by Brian S 1

I have these new boze speakers hooked up to my computer and everything, but i've had them from a long time ago, and i did a system recovery to get rid of all my data and start over, but when it was done, it said my speakers could'nt be detected, and it said that no audio device was found after i searched, how do i re-activate them or get them back up and running on my computer again???

2007-02-14 08:11:48 · 6 answers · asked by pimp_knuckles 3

If i have a IDE power supply connector, and my hard drive is SATA is there any way i could convert the ide to sata?

2007-02-14 08:09:23 · 3 answers · asked by Slim Shady 3

hey my friend gave me a 512mb of DDR2-533...i know my computer has a spare slot for the ram but how do i know if my pc is compatible with this ram..ive checked the emachine webpage and i cant find the product(possibley because i bought it in Ireland)...if i do try it will it crash my pc which i really dont want to do that..anyone know if its compatible..my laptop is an intel celeron, 512mb ram at the mo and a 60g harddrive..i know pretty **** spec but hey im trying....

Thanks guys

2007-02-14 07:50:55 · 1 answers · asked by LouLou 3

it is very very slow down loading anything. Anything he clicks on is very slow. He is on the Broadband also but were not talking about being on line , its his hard drive thats slow. Anyone know why this is happening. He has loads od space left on his drive, he has used up less than a 1/4 and has very few files.. Any advise pease.. ??.

2007-02-14 07:48:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

for school use in exams so cheap = good... must be loads of 32 mb ones hiding somewhere??

2007-02-14 07:46:29 · 5 answers · asked by missy 2

I am limited in computor knowledge

2007-02-14 07:27:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Read explainations but they dont seem to make much sense! Could somebody explain to me what a raid array does in plain english?

I know that RAIDing several drives allows teh computer to see them as one big drive but thats about as far as I understand!!

Thanks in advance!!

2007-02-14 07:23:08 · 2 answers · asked by MonkeyKing669 2

I know how to do CTRL+V to paste, but I'm a programmer and doing a lot of copy/paste is hard on my pinkie fingers. I have an emachines keyboard with a one-touch paste button, but the button broke. I'd like to reassign the paste command to another key.

I've been searching the web. I see a lot of articles about creating shortcuts to programs, but nothing about programming an actual command.

2007-02-14 07:10:06 · 2 answers · asked by crimsondryad 2

our CD drive either doesn't read the disk, or when it does, the programs are messed up (with an audio cd, the songs skip terribly)

2007-02-14 06:59:15 · 6 answers · asked by toku_kuns 2

Im having a problem with my keyboard, it seems to start my computer in SAFE MODE. My keyboard has 3 lights above the F keys..One is "1" scond is "A" and third is a bold "down arrow" figure. What is the "down arrow" for? I have never seen it light up before until today when my keyboard is dying.

Thanks in advance!!

2007-02-14 06:53:13 · 4 answers · asked by Mike E 3

I am not sure what my computer is other than an Oxford, it was bought from a friend, pretty much home made. My speakers are creative. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You

2007-02-14 06:10:45 · 1 answers · asked by jesus_loves_us4 1

Hi my pc is asking me to press f1 to continue or del to enter setup tried all kinds of keyboard ps2 usb wireless ones none of which will let me continue the problem is it is in a mame arcade machine and will be a pain to get it out and a new pc in, any ideas how to get round this would be great sorry i do not know make of pc it is a pentium3 with phoenix bios us tusl2-m acpi bios if that helps thanks Darren

2007-02-14 06:08:52 · 3 answers · asked by DAzzza 2

What is the difference between Kb 's , Mb 's , and Gb 's
How many Kb's make 1 Mb and how many Mb's make one Gb

2007-02-14 06:04:49 · 4 answers · asked by JW 1

i want a PCI-E card x1 which has 128 or more MB and can be used for Windows Aero. I want to fit one on my Dell Dimension 3100 but the onboard graphics sux. Also include the link for detailed specs. Thanks

2007-02-14 05:46:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

My computer's speakers (Cambridge SoundWorks 2500 - yes, I bought them in Japan) were working perfectly until I tried to update my sound card driver (Realtek HD Audio) and now they have stopped working.
It's a 5.1 system and to hear anything at all through the speakers now I have to turn the volume up to full and the sound (very quietly) comes out of the top-right speaker on my desk, and only that speaker.
I _think_ my volumes are all configured correctly but I may be wrong. Anyone got any ideas?

2007-02-14 05:41:31 · 2 answers · asked by JMC 1