Other - Hardware - May 2007

Hey guys, I was just wondering why computers, especially Dells, tend to slow down over time even when they have plenty of hard drive space? I know that defecient RAM often is the problem, but if that is true, then shouldn't they be slow when you get them? Any help would be appreciated.

2007-05-13 08:25:55 · 1 answers · asked by austin 2

Ive just posted a question about being retentive about cleaning my computer. but I would like to know what else everyone has in their minitowers. etc

Mine is
AMD x2 64 processor
2 gig DDR 2 800 RAM
2 x SATA 2 250 gig drives
7.1 sound card
7.1 speakers
21 inch trinitron monitor
Gforce 7900 GS with 500Mb DDR3 memory
another Gforce 7900 GS with 500Mb DDR3 memory in SLI mode

It runds quake 4 in super high deatail on 1600x1200 without a stutter, at around 100 fps with AA and AO turned to the MAX

it also copes with anything really

and all for the price of £800 ish I built it myself, just wondering if there are anyother Electron heads out there well computers dont drink pertrol do they!!!!



Cheers Mark

p.s. Im not showing off, my mates also have other big systems as this

2007-05-13 08:22:08 · 6 answers · asked by billybobbowinkle 2

introctions please

2007-05-13 08:06:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-13 07:48:17 · 3 answers · asked by VAsuuc 1

Hello all tech heads. I normally replace all thermal compound on all heatsinks every 6 months including cleaning all fans and dust etc. Im just wondering what is everyone else's practices on this

cheers

Mark

2007-05-13 07:35:46 · 5 answers · asked by billybobbowinkle 2

2007-05-13 06:20:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-13 05:59:52 · 7 answers · asked by J-Bone 2

my system has 4 hard drives (not the same but all 40G or larger), 2 ATA ports and 2 ATA RAID ports.

One drive is having a problem. It is the only drive on one port and set as master. No configuration for single on the drive. It will transfer small files but hangs on large transfers.
I deleted the partitions with Partition Magic and tried to reformat. Nothing will reformat it, it just hangs. HHD utility says xfer rate is about 1mb/sec. all others are around 24mb/sec.
Tried SPINRITE - but runs at 1mb/sec so I canceled it.
tried Seagate utility. same thing.
Is drive toast or is there something that will fix this????

thx

2007-05-13 05:33:19 · 6 answers · asked by Bill R 7

According to Active Power Inc., their non-battery UPS's last about 20 years. Im just wondering how accurate this estimate is.

2007-05-13 05:21:08 · 3 answers · asked by KhrisB 3

will this cause a problem?

2007-05-13 04:39:50 · 3 answers · asked by Justin M 1

2007-05-13 04:18:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently built a computer and have yet gotten to the BIOS screen. Computer boots up fine with one beep. But trying to figure out why when I don't have the monitor hooked up it says no signal (monitor is crt, has worked before) but when I try to hook up the video cable (with an dvi adapter) it blanks out. Is the video card fried or just the adapter doesn't respond to it. I bought the adapter from best buy open box, so someone returned it but the video card is brand new so I don't know if I fried it or not.

2007-05-13 03:00:03 · 2 answers · asked by David K 1

I got a PCI Nvidia GeForce Fx 5500, I want to upgrade this video card, which can be a good video card better than this one that does not cost too much? (no more than $200)

thanks

2007-05-13 01:34:13 · 3 answers · asked by atlas_sigrid 1

i have an MSI PM8M-V mother board, and i know there is an option i need to change to be able to install a windows op system. if you have this mother board and encountered this problem, and know how to fix it please help.

2007-05-13 01:07:05 · 1 answers · asked by puddle 1

specs:
amd sempron 3000+,2000mhz, 512Kb cache,333mhz fsb

1GB ram

BFG Tech BFGR6800OC GeForce 6800 128MB 256-bit DDR AGP 4X-8X

I want to run it at full settings will my setup be able to handle this?

2007-05-12 23:41:18 · 4 answers · asked by matt m 1

function of hard drive,moderm,cpu

2007-05-12 19:14:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

function of each hardware

2007-05-12 19:06:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i've been trying too hook this keyboard up to my computer to run it on fruityloops but when i plug it in the new found hardare pops up and i pres download driver but nothing happened so i went to casio .com to download the driver but still nothing happend oh and its a usb key board

2007-05-12 18:56:19 · 0 answers · asked by x14terror 1

my CPU is an AMD Sempron socket 754 2800+,MSI motherboard is K8 754, K8M800, 8237R plus 6ch audio, 10/100 LAN, (RoHS), (IDE, SATA,*1, SATA POWER*1 CABLES

2007-05-12 18:13:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

We know that Duo Core Processor is 2 Cores combined into one. Is it possible to combine 2 Duos and get twice that speed?

2007-05-12 17:50:12 · 5 answers · asked by You mad? 5

What is NTFS? FAT 32 and FAT 16? i am installing window XP. what are the differences? whats better for my XP?

Thanks

2007-05-12 17:38:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-12 17:38:44 · 4 answers · asked by answer 1

So my other computer crashed and I need to re-install xp. I get through the setup until it asks me to make a partition. I try to but it doesn't work. any help

2007-05-12 16:13:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im just curious!

-Ari

2007-05-12 11:35:42 · 6 answers · asked by Ari ♥ 1

I want to get a new PC that can run things like Photoshop and Virtual PC images much better than my current PC. I have about $1200 to spend. Which chipset is best suited for this. What is the minimum processor / memory / cache I should consider? Should I just buy from Dell, or configure myself?

2007-05-12 09:30:12 · 2 answers · asked by rd 1

Does this motherboard have a video card?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=2487802&sku=P459-1224

If not could I use this one with it?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2844188&Sku=P450-7894

Thanks

2007-05-12 07:54:07 · 7 answers · asked by Beasty 2

Hi... Does anyone knows how to connect a very old computer (Commodore, Sinclair, Atari 400, etc) to my PC monitor computer? I've read something about connecting a TV Tuner Card that support NTSC/PAL to my PC and plug the old computer in the TV card, but I haven't found anything like it...

Any ideas?

2007-05-12 06:54:23 · 3 answers · asked by BEMuscles 7

I have a Benq joybook 5000U and im having problems with the screen.I think its the graphics card because the i have yellow lines going down on the screen and my computer is forced to put it into its lowest setting.But if it is the graphics card then i dont know if i can change it because it is integrated and i dont know what else to do cause i have updated the driver and bios so does that mean i pretty much screwed or is their a solution to this?

2007-05-12 06:40:38 · 4 answers · asked by SpartanWarFighter 4

i was given a motherboard with the cpu still in and don't know whether i can change them or could i just swap my old motherboard for this one.if i change the motherboard is there anything else i need to do so i don't fry my pc

2007-05-12 06:27:50 · 4 answers · asked by amanda m 1

If i open a doc or excel file from a pen drive, edit it, get print out.... is it possible to recover the data from the hard disk in case the pen drive get damaged... or lost

2007-05-12 04:41:44 · 4 answers · asked by subrata K 1