Other - Hardware - June 2007

I was shouting into my desktop pc's microphone on skype when it suddenly stopped working. Is it possible that the shouting could have damaged it? causing it to stop working completely?

2007-06-19 05:29:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

If power consumption is not a criteria, i.e. if one can afford it, is it better to keep the PC (not the Monitor) ON all the time even if it's not being used ? Does it provide better thermal stability of all the components in the cabinet by keeping the power ON, instead of switching on / off as and when required ? If it's advisable to keep the PC ON all the time - is it suggestive for all weather conditions ? If not, upto which temperature is it OK ?

2007-06-19 05:02:21 · 7 answers · asked by Mouktik Sarkar 2

I know the 8800 GTX does but wasn't positive about the GTS version. I assume it would too, but I was wondering if anyone was positive that the 8800GTS supports Direct X10.

2007-06-19 04:13:11 · 3 answers · asked by mikehockstein 2

hi,i have just bought two new seegate sata-hard disks 7200.10 (each 160 gb), now i want to know what is this RAID thing in hard disks,i am using a gigabyte mobo which supports this feature but i dont know how to set my hard disks in raid n how will it affect the performance of my pc??????
i wil really appreciate any kind of help!!!!

2007-06-19 03:33:49 · 4 answers · asked by t2manu 1

2007-06-19 02:25:12 · 7 answers · asked by skibird 1

This may sound stupid, but do computers actually require oxygen to function?

2007-06-19 00:14:19 · 7 answers · asked by liquid9ine 1

I'm looking for general advice about water cooling my new computer. If I have a water cooling kit installed, I can get an oem processor (without heatsink and fan)????

2007-06-18 22:13:16 · 4 answers · asked by PCP 1

Which card offers better performance for games like Medieval 2:total war with high settings and FIFA 07?

256Mb nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS PCI-Express VGA Card

XFX 256MB GeForce 7900GS Value PCI-Express VGA Card

Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI VIVO AGP Graphics Card

Any help GR8ly appreciated.

Thanks

2007-06-18 22:03:27 · 6 answers · asked by PCP 1

i formatted my hard-drive and installed windows xp.
everything worked fine except for the sound.
i looked on the internet for the drivers, there were none.
i went on the people who made my computer's website (iQon) and they had no audio drivers at all.
what are my options here?

2007-06-18 21:57:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-18 21:50:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

technically how does motherboard send signal to power supply to turn itself off when you shutdown.
And when I remove power supply from mother board and system, plug it in to power yet it was not turning on. The CPU power button might be touching one or several pins of the power supply to turn on. What are these pins???

I am refereing to an ATX system.

I would like to know this for troubleshooting purposes.

Thanks so much.

2007-06-18 21:21:27 · 5 answers · asked by Teddie 3

My DVD drive won't recognize SOME DVDs. I bought 2 new packs of DVDs, one -R and other +R. About 10 out of 30 +R were recognized, and about the same number of -R. What can I do to fix this?

My drive is: HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4166B
Firmware Version: 1823
Capabale of reading/burning: +R,-R,+RW,-RW

2007-06-18 19:17:53 · 3 answers · asked by questionMan 1

2007-06-18 15:16:48 · 6 answers · asked by wanabewest 1

Hi guys, i bought a new motherboard "Abit K8n" and i got a strange problem right now. I am not sure is it about my mother but...
the problem is like this, I am using SATA2 HD and now when i try to plug both of them to the mother board, the monitor cant recevie any signal. Or i say it is not booting up. Then i try to only plug either one of the HD at a time, the computer can boot up. Then i try only plug one of the HD into the motherboard and one of the HD ONLY connect with the power supply, then the computer doesnt boot up!! i have try both of the power supply cable, they work fine. I am using a 485W power supply.
So...can anyone tell me what is going on?

2007-06-18 13:46:46 · 4 answers · asked by RockmanXX 1

should i go with a 7900gs on or 8600gt on xp?

[also would DX10 be worth the vista's poor stability]

Personally i dont know if i want to go vista. Im just curious how the higher-end last gen stacks up with a mid range next gen.

2007-06-18 12:52:02 · 5 answers · asked by milk_eway 2

Is there anything besides the type of connection (mine is PATA) I need to look at?

2007-06-18 12:37:02 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am planning on getting a new video card for my pc, and I motherboard only supports PCI.

Here's what my PC already has:
Windows XP Home Edition
2.7 Ghz Celeron processor
512 MB RAM
25 GB of HD space left (out of 60 GB)
64 MB Intel Extreme 3D Graphics card (integrated, it sucks)

Which video caerd would you suggest? I'm looking for a 256 MB PCI card. I already know that my computer's CPU and RAM aren't the best, but I'm not planning on playing anything like Crysis or Lost Planet. I just want my current games to run much faster, like Battlefield and Halo, and I want to get Call of Duty 2 to actually work.

2007-06-18 12:36:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well I have been having some problems with my desk top computer. It stopped turning on. Power cables are fine. Before it stopped turning on it would turn on, but monitor would not come on. Now it has stopped turning on completely. Does anyone think the mother board is fried? Battery dead? Etc.. Need some help and ideas. Thank you. I will update question when answered.

2007-06-18 12:26:37 · 7 answers · asked by talldaego78 1

I read that a pentium duo at 1.8 gig or 2.3 gig is faster than a dual core pentium d 3 gig as it has two processors, this means that the 1.8 or 2.3 is double giving 3.6 speeed and 4.6 speeed respectably.

This is not logical to me unless each task that is running is equally split between the two processors on the 1.8 and 2.3 gig duo. The 3gig dual core is always running every process at 3 gig so prove to me that the lower speeds are better.

Thanks in anticipation

2007-06-18 11:41:47 · 3 answers · asked by David C 3

or do i have to buy it (windows)

2007-06-18 11:31:34 · 3 answers · asked by ... 5

The ATi X1950 is apparently a very high-perf graphics card with HDCP support and video acceleration. I just want to know if with this Gfx card and CPU would I b able to satisfactorily play HD-DVD/Blueray. Thanks.

2007-06-18 10:53:06 · 7 answers · asked by thendi_100 1

My laptop recently died on me, so I took out the hard drive and put it in one of those enclosers. I was having no trouble at all transferring data to a new external hard drive, until I got to my music folder. Everytime I try to copy a file or folder it says
"Cannot Copy - [file so and so]: Access is Denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use."

Which, they aren't! Every other file on the drive I can access but my 15 gigs of music. What do I do?

2007-06-18 10:38:24 · 7 answers · asked by Billman 2

Hi i have seen an 80gb portable usb hard drive on ebay, it says it comes with '1 x USB Cable with slipped USB ports' and on the picture it has a mini usb and also on the same lead are 2 usb plugs. Can anyone tell me what this means? Do i have to plug in 2 usb ports on my computer to run it?
Thanks
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-80GB-2-5-External-HDD-Hard-Disk-Drive-USB-2-0-UK_W0QQitemZ230144171058QQihZ013QQcategoryZ16178QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

2007-06-18 09:04:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

boot it up with a windows xp cd but it still says that the ntldr.dll file is missing can ne1 help plz email me or answer this question

2007-06-18 08:40:49 · 3 answers · asked by Mohammad K 2

I have lots of RAM installed on my PC, and i was wondering that if there is a way to redistribute some of it to my graphic card and make it into VRAM. If it is possible, how can you do it?

PS: Can you do it the other way around?? (redistribute VRAM to RAM)??

2007-06-18 07:58:42 · 2 answers · asked by skyscraperxd 2

my plan is to have a WD 150 gb 10000rpm on my primary drive and 320 gb 7200rpm on my secondary hard drive? what are the disadvantge and disadvantage?

2007-06-18 07:46:52 · 9 answers · asked by arielangelo 1

2007-06-18 07:04:48 · 9 answers · asked by NervousWreck 2

IBM T42
Old drive crashed.
New drive came with no O/S
Trying to install Vista.
Computer can't see hard drive to install vista on
Thoughts?

2007-06-18 06:14:30 · 4 answers · asked by TJ McFly 2

ive check to see if a brand new mic works on the computer and it doesnt so that tells me its my computer that isnt letting the microphone work. I use ventrilo alot with my mic and thats why i want it to work so i can talk on ventrilo. i have a built on sound card in my mother board and a PCI slot one and the mic doesnt want to work for either sound card. plz help

2007-06-18 06:11:55 · 1 answers · asked by naz_debo 1

for example if i had looked at something on the internet, would you be able to see that if you transfered from one hard drive to the next? and do you see all the files being transfered onto the new hard drive? because i got a virus on my computer from a game and i have someone fixing it but i dont want them to see all the things that are on it, so is tehre any way to make sure that they do not see that?

2007-06-18 05:24:31 · 3 answers · asked by Tiffany A 1