Other - Hardware - May 2007

Please help!
I have just bought a Western Digital Hard Drive to store my photos on. I have copied my photos onto the drive and it is already saying it has run out of disk space!
It is 320GB and I have only put about 300 photos on there.
What am I doing wrong??

Thank you.

2007-05-29 10:56:42 · 4 answers · asked by Lisa 2

I have a 160gb hard drive and 256mb ram what would be the best setting for my swap file?


In a few days I will have a total of 768mb of ram and still the 160gb hard drive, what would be the best setting for my swap file with this much ram?


BTW I already know that its best to keep the initial and maximum size set at the same size

2007-05-29 10:07:37 · 2 answers · asked by John Deere Green 1

My computer hardive caught on fire a few months ago when I was playing one of my computer games. I want to know whenever I buy the new hardrive; will the XP OS software that I also plan on buying run on my new hardrive, since everything was erased on my old hardrive ?

2007-05-29 09:36:01 · 4 answers · asked by SHAWN 1

2007-05-29 09:33:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

has an arrow with round circle. says you need to change to an administrative account. You cannot delete it. You have to click "ok" and the pc will continue...until OK is clicked holds up everything. Do not know where it came from. Any suggestions?? Thanks

2007-05-29 09:05:20 · 1 answers · asked by oldtimer 1

My P.C's tower keeps making the same beeping noise over and over again and turning itself off

It has been on all day (and used heavily) is it somthing to do with it being overheated?

Every time I turn it on again it keeps beeping and nothing happens it doesnt load up

Its a windows xp brand new gaming PC

Its only started doing that 5 mins ago please tell me it isnt broken


im on my friends comuter in case u were wondering how im asking the question

Somone please help!
thanks soo much

2007-05-29 08:47:50 · 11 answers · asked by hamya bob 1

2007-05-29 08:27:39 · 10 answers · asked by ladyrana 1

I am looking to build a pc. In your opinion what is the best gaming motherboard available?

My preference is to have a motherboard that is very very fast... i am going with 8800 Ultras and would like to use a Ageia PhysX™ processor as well.

Any suggestions would definately be helpful.

I was looking at:

ASUS P5N32-E SLI or the Striker Extreme however if you have any better suggestions... let me know

2007-05-29 08:27:05 · 5 answers · asked by Eric 1

ok, so i want to buy a 250 GB external hard drive... i have a hp that has enough space for me to do anything on really, i just dont want it all on my computer... for example, all my music, pictures, i have a few Sims 2 games... and software like my webcam, my digital camera software, my mp3 player software... would i be able to put that kind of stuff onto an exteral hard drive, or are those only for files and stuff??

2007-05-29 08:04:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Under the computer description it says:
Generic
Generic
Mobile Intel(R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
2.70 GHz, 480 MB of RAM

I did a system restore because i thought it was running too slow and my 30 day trial was up for norton and everything, i did the system restore and none of my old programs were there nothing? What did i do wrong

2007-05-29 07:58:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

for some reason my ram is always running at 50 %.i have 382 mb of ram,(and i dont think i need more),and for some reason its always running at 150 mb or less.i dont have many proccesses.only about 35 which is good,and i dont have any big programs running bu yet my ram is so low! and im running xp.if that helps.

2007-05-29 07:46:05 · 8 answers · asked by dbsantos77 4

hi
i was watching a movie that suddenly my computer freezed.
then i restarted my compuer but it did't boot at all.
usually when i boot my computer, it beeps and then my windows starts. but at now it starts but it doesn't beep and doesn't show boot screen at all.(i.e monitor doesn't show anything) then i checked my monitor but it was working on other computer.
the power is there in the case and fans of cpu and Mainboard and Graphic card are working properly.

what can i do?

2007-05-29 07:37:01 · 9 answers · asked by unknown1 u 1

My A1730N HP computer has an intergrated video chipset and i was thinking of updating the video card to a EVGA 7950GT PCI express x16. how do i go about doing this

2007-05-29 07:22:54 · 3 answers · asked by solaris0000 1

Problem in installing XP in p-4 2.4 Ghz , 845 gl motherboard, 128 RAM, when i am installing xp in my pc in processing of installation the system files are transfered but when it is restarted it is going hange

2007-05-29 06:47:29 · 4 answers · asked by inderjitsingh2005 1

I'm a PC tech, but my knowledge of multimedia needs work. What are the main concepts of sound and video that a tech needs to understand to support PC multimedia? I'm thinking TV tuner cards, why audio is so quiet sometimes when watching internet videos,....things like that.

2007-05-29 05:46:00 · 2 answers · asked by homer742 3

after installing xp now only 9GB left.

2007-05-29 02:38:33 · 12 answers · asked by jacob m 1

I add 1 GB Data into my computer , 1 GB space is lost in the Harddisk.
I DELETE 1 GB , and EMPTY recycle bin , the hard disk show 1GB space FREE , but WHERE does this deleted data go ? What is the SCIENCE / LOGIC on fate of deleted data ( emptied recycle bin ) if it does not leave the harddisk ??

2007-05-28 23:22:13 · 4 answers · asked by prabhoo 2

I have a p4, 865GBF motherboard 533MHz, and two DDR 256mb rams.
1.Does my motherboard supports DDR2 ram?
2.Can I buy 7600 AGP8x with 512 DDR2ram
please help.

2007-05-28 23:16:32 · 6 answers · asked by SUV 2

2007-05-28 22:54:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i asked earlier about saving information from a hard drive that is installed in a PC that doesnt boot. someone sugested that i should place it as a slave drive in my current PC.

2007-05-28 16:31:28 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont think theres such thing as micro atx cases? correct me if i m wrong i remember fitting micro atx motherboard into this atx case when i built my first computer. Also why are there so many MIcro ATX mobos instead of ATX? do micro ATX mobos have any advantages over ATX mobos?

2007-05-28 16:13:44 · 1 answers · asked by staepuff 2

hello i'm planning to build or buy and new computer tower, i like to know what is the number one computer company that is out there, and my goal is to find what store who can build me and tower, with fast speed, gb, what will you do if you have money and what kind of system you will but together to build and tower, i'm very little expertise in computer, i like to know what kind of number one program cd burn to you, what speed, what, fan motor, what tower, computer graghics, to use, etc..... i need help who know what they are doing with knowlage. thank you

2007-05-28 16:10:15 · 9 answers · asked by dean d 1

2007-05-28 15:54:17 · 8 answers · asked by Mike 1

what do they mean when they said that their computer blew up? which components blew up? and what other component will it affect?

2007-05-28 14:46:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I asked a similar ? but it dissapeared, i have a "PCI bus" under my system devices when i press windows+pause, does this mean I can run PCI Express or just PCI?

2007-05-28 12:57:47 · 3 answers · asked by hfbldprince101 2

2007-05-28 12:44:44 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

So I bought an ATI Video Card for my DELL desktop. I open the thing up and come to find out that the port is backwards from what I need it to be? Is this a propriatery thing? The gold slots were also slightly different. The card fit in the slot when I took the face plate off and put the card in backwards, but the connection was slightly different. Is there anyway to get by it? The ATI is an 128 pro All In Wonder AGP. Is there a cable and box that can turn it into an external video card with the cord connecting from the card directly into the AGP?

2007-05-28 12:30:12 · 5 answers · asked by mtsubosshog 1

2007-05-28 12:25:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Also what does the insert key and windows key do?

Thanks

2007-05-28 11:00:20 · 4 answers · asked by ? 2

The processor in my Vista Home box is a painfully slow Celeron, but the M.Board supports some much faster ones. Where can I find good, clear instructions for the upgrade? Is it very difficult?

2007-05-28 10:39:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous