Other - Hardware - March 2007

this morning my dad was cleaning out my computer, using disk cleanup or something like that, and now when i try access my back up harddrive it won't work, i just keeps asking me if i want to reformat it. my hardrive is connected by usb. the computer knows its there but i can't seem to access it anymore. any ideas how i can fix this?

2007-03-19 15:44:27 · 1 answers · asked by icemaster1500 5

I have repetedly tried many meathods to fix but when I plug my power supply in with my GeForce 8800 GTS it make a loud high pitched continuous beep. When I take out my graphics card it does not make this sound

2007-03-19 15:08:13 · 7 answers · asked by werling44 2

I just got a new video card a GeForce 8800 GTS. I hooked it up and hooked up the new power supply. When I turned it on it has a continuous high pitched beep/whine that is most likly coming from my mother board. What could be the cause of this

2007-03-19 14:17:49 · 5 answers · asked by werling44 2

I was wondering if its possible/safe to have 4 internal hard drives, 2 SATA and 2 IDE in one PC.

2007-03-19 14:03:57 · 3 answers · asked by siavash_4001 2

It was working fine yesterday...Anways... I tried to plug the case usb ports (front) to motherboard and I must have had the acouple of wires mixed up because when i booted it up, it turned on for 10 seconds, turned off, and just never came back on. I unplugged the wires to make sure my pc was ok but it just didn't want to turn on. Now i'm stuck here hoping I can just replace my powersupply (only thing I have confirmed is Videocard and HDD still work). If anyone has any input i'd be glad to hear it... Thanks.

2007-03-19 13:54:37 · 8 answers · asked by soljamta87 1

i have a space problem on my computer. it has low space available. i have windows xp pro and xp home on it. i need to remove one of them before it crashes. can i partitions it or should i reformat it?

2007-03-19 13:49:45 · 5 answers · asked by christine 1

my external hard drive is detected when my computer feels like it, am i disconecting it wroung.

i just turn it off when im finished with it.

2007-03-19 13:17:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

My comp says i have like 100mb left on my C drive when in reality that's not true, i have more like 30 gb free. Also when I went on disc defrag it showed literally 99% of my files in red(meaning their fragmented). So i guess I know the problem, i just don't know the solution. Virus and adware problems didn't help.

2007-03-19 12:54:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-19 12:52:40 · 3 answers · asked by Dr. Answerman 1

I need help. I have a Compaq presario computer SR1750NX and I want to get the 8800 computer but I need a new power supply. I need a power supply that has a six pin connector for the 8880 card. I found a power supply that has 550W but it does not say how many pins the connector has but it does say that it has a PCI EXPRESS connector for the 8800 card. Will this work in my computer if not can some one give me a site where they have good power supplys for my computer.

2007-03-19 12:29:29 · 2 answers · asked by Will S 2

2007-03-19 12:03:37 · 1 answers · asked by sortofwiseguy? 1

Kid played with keyboard and we thought keyboard was not functioning. But it does but like 2 seconds minimum for a keystroke. Went into Control Panel, adjusted keyboard settings but no luck. What could he have changed and how do we get back to normal. We've tried 3 keyboards... no problems with keyboards.

2007-03-19 11:50:37 · 3 answers · asked by John L 1

2007-03-19 11:49:20 · 9 answers · asked by kylas_nana 2

F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 and F12 dont work =(

2007-03-19 11:20:34 · 2 answers · asked by Oh yeah 2

Just in case my hard drive fails, I dont want to lose everything. I have movies, music, pics, etc. Im running windows XP.

2007-03-19 10:38:48 · 3 answers · asked by juju 3

after losing all my work on my pc by not making A back up disc i now find that ive also lost my cd key for my office 2003 disc wot can i do ????

2007-03-19 10:38:39 · 4 answers · asked by MAUREEN G 1

i have a dimension 2400 comp, and the disk drive (drive D) will read the cd empires dawn of the modern world, but nothing else. particually battlefield 2. any help is much appriciated.

2007-03-19 10:33:48 · 2 answers · asked by _ 3

It is either the soundcard or device, i do not know which. do you buy a new card? or if it is the device what do you do?

2007-03-19 10:28:48 · 3 answers · asked by tapeface88 2

2007-03-19 10:13:50 · 4 answers · asked by tottenhamcallen 1

2007-03-19 10:12:37 · 1 answers · asked by Zefram 2

2007-03-19 10:08:59 · 9 answers · asked by airlicious 1

i used my windows xp media center disc that i had lieing around to try and use that and see if it resolved some of my issues. installed it and am using it now by one question i have it WHERE IS MEDIA CENTER, on my other pc's it right on the quick launch, not there, so i tryed program files not there, so i searched for it NOT THERE. Can anyone help me

2007-03-19 10:07:36 · 2 answers · asked by chris b 1

2007-03-19 10:00:21 · 5 answers · asked by bazza 2

I cant download anything ect because it says my e drive is full ?
everythings going to my e drive i dont know what to do to clean my e drive? discc clean up isnt worknig and i cant downlaod or install anything on the pc?

2007-03-19 09:44:01 · 3 answers · asked by leanne_grinter 1

2007-03-19 09:35:49 · 5 answers · asked by simon 1

hi guys i have Acer laptop , and with no reason the mouse "touch pad and the clicker " stop working ... i uninstalled the driver and re installed it again from the website the same problem ... nothing i have a usb mouse it works good , ....!!! one more thing .. when i start my computer the pad mouse works for a secound and stoped again ... any sugtions ?? thx .

2007-03-19 09:07:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-19 08:41:11 · 7 answers · asked by DOVIE B 1

Hello. I am fixing my brother-in-law's computer that my OTHER brother-in-law built with all kinds of stupid hacked beta versions of windows, etc...

- I did a clean install of a legit Windows 2K on a new harddrive.
- Because I didn't make the computer, I dont know what kind of MOBO it is. It has an onboard ethernet connection. I couldn't get it to work, so I put in a PCI ethernet card and installed the drivers and I am able to connect online
- Computer is running a GeForce FX 5700 LE video card. I DL'd the drivers, installed it.
- I downloaded and installed Firefox.
- DL'd Avast! Antivirus and ran it, did a boot scan, etc... no problems.
- I did this whole process TWICE to rule out a bad install of the OS

When I open up IE or Firefox and resize the window or attempt to generally move around, SOMETIMES it will throw an iexplorer.exe error. Sometimes it will simply crash the computer all together and force it to restart. All fans are working.

Suggestions? Or is it a lost cause?

2007-03-19 08:40:54 · 3 answers · asked by Ryan Pediatrics 4

Do I need an extra SATA power cable to connect my power supply to the SATA DVD burner? Or I can just simply connect the 4-pin header from the power supply to the DVD burner?

2007-03-19 08:01:28 · 5 answers · asked by Brian S 1

I bought my husband a Microsoft Wireless keyboard and mouse for his birthday, since connecting it we have had a few hiccups, but the most recent one is that the keyboard seems to go to sleep after just a few minutes of inactivity, using the 'sleep' button is ineffective, and the only way to get it to work again is to restart the whole thing, which is time consuming and so infuriating.
Does anybody know why this happens and how to stop it from happening, and in laymans terms if possible, hubby is at work, it would be so good to have it sorted for when he gets back. Thanks :-)

2007-03-19 07:40:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous