Other - Hardware - June 2007

So last week I had CHKDSK complaining about my secondary HDD, but it failed during every attempt to check the drive. I ran SpinRite, which appeared to be unsuccessful (only made it about 4% through and then claimed to need several hundred more hours to finish and had unrecoverable data). However, after rebooting after SpinRite, CHKDSK was able to finish and since then everything seems to be in perfect running order. Running SpinRite now gives the HDD a clean bill of health.

Now, I'm nervous about the future of the drive. It's mostly for storage, nothing too important. I'm going to make a backup DVD for some of the rare music and whatnot, but I'm still worried that it may go wonky again. I can afford a new drive, but money is a little tight. I have a lot of experience with computers, but I've never had a drive seem to be finished but then make a seemingly full recovery. I don't know what to expect.

Anyone have input?

2007-06-04 12:20:50 · 5 answers · asked by HaphazardJoy 4

I've just loaded XP on to an old PC but now the @ and " symbols are both in the wrong place (swapped places) does anyone know why and what I need to do to correct it?
Thanks, Dave.

2007-06-04 09:25:57 · 9 answers · asked by David D 1

2007-06-04 08:47:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is the difference between DDR and SD RAM. Which will be better in terms of performance and cost

2007-06-04 08:20:01 · 6 answers · asked by Inspiron6000 1

ASROCK SKT-775 4COREDUAL-VSTA S/L 1066FSB

Anyone know if it's reliable or not? Good? bad? I looked around, but couldn't really find any reviews or test reviews...

2007-06-04 07:56:09 · 3 answers · asked by kydseoul26 2

please give a answer

2007-06-04 07:40:54 · 2 answers · asked by on prob guy 1

I get this message a lot and my computer shuts off and restarts, I was wondering if anyone knew what i had to and what that means.

2007-06-04 07:37:09 · 2 answers · asked by ACCole 2

What is your opinion over that??

For me here 's the pro:

Pros: 1) Computer's with low RAM, like say, only 256 MB or below, should use AVG. It hardly slows down pc startup unlike Norton or other commercial anti-viruses.

2) For those who have heard that Avast! is better, well maybe but I find Avast!'s full system scans to be terribly slow. It took me more than an hour to complete a full scan with Avast! On the other hand, AVG only took about 25 minutes and it doesn't use too much RAM during these scans too so I can do something else like web browsing without being slowed down.

3) There's no technical support for this free edition but at least there's a forum. Better than Norton which doesn't even have a forum, right?

4) Has about all the features you'll need in an anti-virus.

5) Super fast updating. Updates are frequent too.

6) Efficient automatic updating (I have Norton on another PC and it's slow to automatically update- if there's any).

7) Here's a nice one, AVG has a feature

2007-06-04 07:33:07 · 11 answers · asked by Roland 1

i would like to get a fax machine, i have cable internet, some one told me u have to have dial up for fax. is this true?

2007-06-04 07:02:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-04 06:57:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

just wondered?

2007-06-04 06:31:32 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Cooling fans computers

2007-06-04 06:28:10 · 8 answers · asked by Adam Stryker 1

Mariann Merrit STOP spamming for your Norton crapy products!!?

Asking obvious questions in order to increase Norton products is SPAMMING even in Yahoo answers.

2007-06-04 06:17:42 · 2 answers · asked by fredasita 1

I'm looking to buy a new laptop, and in the specs I keep coming across a "L2 cache". The standard on pentium processers at my price range is 1 or 2 MB, yet on AMD's it is 128 or 256KB exclusive. what does this mean for the performance of my laptop?

2007-06-04 05:58:57 · 3 answers · asked by mattyatty 3

It already has an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 integrated into the motherboard. I've read somewhere that this should therefore leave some slot (sorry, forgot the name of the slot) open, allowing you to install a separate dedicated card.

Also, would it be worth it to do so in order to be able to play semi-new games on it? Processor is an Intel Core Duo processor T2250 (1.73GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache), ram - 1GB DDR2.

Thanks for reading this!

2007-06-04 05:55:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I remember only a few years back a PC would cost you £1000+ and now you can pick one up for £200 from the high street. Memory used to cost a lot too and now you can get it virtually free and there are things like 30Gb camcomrders that cost little more than a tape system. Why is it all getting so cheap?

2007-06-04 05:32:58 · 8 answers · asked by The Shadow 3

I need to keep the ifo on the hard drive. So what I am asking is how do I get rid of a partitioned hard drive and make it a single hardrive without erasing the info that is already on it. I want to keep the hard drive in the system and use it but want to make it bigger by making it one hard drive instead of 2. Thanks.

2007-06-04 03:56:46 · 3 answers · asked by hankeram 1

I have google toolbar, ms messenger, and yahoo messenger and norton is this whats slowing the startup down.

2007-06-04 03:52:14 · 5 answers · asked by davey 1

2007-06-04 03:09:17 · 3 answers · asked by butterfly26th 1

My Cpu is Intel pentium 4 processor with 2.4Ghz ..but now days both system and bios show intel celeron 8.4Ghz whats the problem

2007-06-04 02:50:15 · 7 answers · asked by malik461 1

Please read the question criteria. On any system (I now use windows XPpro but may go to linux) you want it to be at the best performance it can be. Please don't answer with the most obvious answers like defrag, clean up files.... I realize when you keep installing more programs on a pc the system usually slows down from processes running in the backround. Please base your answer on a freshly installed operating system with no added programs. You may think the system is as fast as it can get but there are still programs running in the backround. I was told there is a keystroke you can press to manually accept programs to start, maybe that would be a great place to start... or would you say linux is faster? And I also realize it depends on how your computer was put together with which hardwares that work together or conflict

2007-06-04 01:36:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-03 23:28:43 · 7 answers · asked by saransh s 1

I'm planning to build a system. I was thinking of getting a full tower case because the extra room helps circulate air better and thus run cooler. Is this worth it? I don't plan to do SLI or over-clock my CPU. Is there any benefits to running "cool"?

2007-06-03 23:27:12 · 3 answers · asked by InvisibleWar 2

When I tried to install the PCI internal modem with the driver, it fails to install the driver and it says the "the modem is detected by it may not work properly". After this I shutdown my computer and tried to install again it does not configure the modem I'm trying to install. Is there a solution for this problem?

2007-06-03 23:23:58 · 2 answers · asked by Black Mamba 2

Basically both the audio and video are jumpy whilst I am uploading or downloading things to a second used hard drive I got about a year ago

2007-06-03 19:30:56 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

and dont say buy a new hard drive

2007-06-03 18:40:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-03 17:37:45 · 3 answers · asked by NCC-1701E 2

I am typing this on a linux freespire live cd someone please help me get back to windows!

2007-06-03 17:14:03 · 1 answers · asked by Zach 1

Is Lite-On 16X DVD Internal IDE Drive a DVD Burner or DVD Player?

2007-06-03 14:43:53 · 7 answers · asked by curly 1

So I'm low on cash, so I am going to buy a barebones kit from a website. The kit I want has the mobo, case, cpu and power supply in a bundle. So I was going to buy the right ram for the new motherboard and stick everything else thats in my current computer into the new one. They all work fine. So my hard drive is what I'm curious about. It has all my info on it, and so can I put that in the new computer without the computer going crazy on me, or will I need to reformat it and reinstall windows? Thanks for any input.

2007-06-03 14:08:50 · 7 answers · asked by chicksiedoo 1