Other - Hardware - October 2007

i got a message saying Disk Defragmentor has detected that Chkdsk is sceduled to run on the volume: (C:) ,please run Chkdsk /f. I have no idea what this means.

2007-10-26 17:02:16 · 5 answers · asked by Aspigabadilla 2

What is the real performance with frontside bus? Is bigger better?

2007-10-26 14:16:13 · 6 answers · asked by Arnoldray20001 1

Im currently using the 12VAC 1000mA power supply with no problems so far. Will the power supply damage my device in the long run?

2007-10-26 12:51:42 · 4 answers · asked by Fr0stByteZ 1

I bough a Comapq Persario about 5 years ago. Since a year ago it has been giving power supply problems. I would have to keep on plugging the cord in and it evenualy worked. Then one day i moved the computer to a new spot in the house and when i pugged it in it starrted shooting sparks. Now it dosen't work. If i get a new power supply for the computer will it work again.

2007-10-26 04:51:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

pls help me!!!!

2007-10-26 03:06:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

pls help me!!!!

2007-10-26 03:05:51 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

warning! cpu has been changed.

2007-10-25 22:18:59 · 2 answers · asked by fhm20us 1

I do mainly video editing/photoshop etc but hardly any gaming.

I don't want to do any overclocking and I was looking at these packages. One is a 6600 and the other is 6850:

6600: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?MBB-P5NQ66

6850: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?MBB-P5N685

I've read reviews and comparisons all over the internet and they they only seem to take into account that you spend all of your time gaming and you want to overclock them.

I think i'm stuck between weather i should go for the dual core or quad core.

What would you recommend? Will one need more cooling than the other? Which will run faster out of the box for Sony Vegas, photoshop and flash?

I'm upgrading from a Pentium 4 2.6GHz with 1GB RAM. Will i see much of an improvement?

I'll be using the new setup to go to Uni with so I won't want to be doing any more upgrading for around 3 years!

Thanks a lot
Jon

2007-10-25 22:12:18 · 2 answers · asked by Jon J 1

2007-10-25 20:54:37 · 9 answers · asked by Cindrellaman 1

I just hooked my old HD up to the computer in order to save some documents I really need to get onto the new hard drive. Unfortunately, on the old hard drive, I had set up Windows XP for myself (Owner) and 2 other people. Since I cannot boot from the old hard drive, or if there is a way to do it, I don't know what that is, I cannot enter my password to log on as Owner on the old Hard drive. There is no opportunity to log on to the Owner section of the old drive. I have already salvaged the other stuff, but I need the Owner's documents before I deep-six the drive.

How can I login if I can't even boot off the old drive?

2007-10-25 13:27:27 · 2 answers · asked by double z 3

I bought a dvd burner external, hp 1040. I use my roommate's dvd burning program which is just dvd shrink 3.2. The dvd decrypts fine and encodes fine but then when it burns it burns a couple % and stops and says error. Then if I do it again it works fine. So this wouldn't be a problem except my dvd's are not rewritable and therefore ruined. So it is costing me two dvd's for every one i burn. This has happened on the last 4out of 5 dvd's ive tried to burn. Any thoughts?

2007-10-25 13:07:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have an old hard drive which has a lot of data on it. It would save me days or weeks if I could get the data from this drive instead of re-entering everything. But when I connect the drive to the motherboard, Windows Explorer doesn't find it.

I disconnected the CD and attached the old HD to the cable the CD was using, and also to the power supply. I booted and tried to find the new hardware, but Windows didn't find it.

Next, I changed the boot sequence to boot off the CD, because the old HD is connected to where the CD should go. I got 'No drive found, insert system disk and try again'.

What should I try next to get the computer to recognize the hard drive?

2007-10-25 12:39:18 · 4 answers · asked by double z 3

I have an acer ast180 w/ vista .How do I know if the power supply currently is a propriety supply or universal?I want to install a pcie card.But my psu is only 250w.Also could I put an put pci card instead of pci e?

2007-10-25 11:18:29 · 1 answers · asked by Austinomic 1

The ATI Radeon 9200 (RV280) is 64 MB memory size, GPU Clock is 250 MHz (original: 250 MHz), the RAMDAC Clock is 400 MHz, the Pixel Pipelines is 4, the bus type is DDR, and the Bus width is 64-bit.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200:
Memory: 128 MB, 64 bit DDR, 400 MHz (effective), 3.2 GB/s Memory Bandwidth, 250 MHz GPU, 4 Pixel Pipelines, 350 MHz RAMDAC..

Which one is better? Please answer only if you know for sure. I need to get the right answer. THANKS

2007-10-25 09:18:54 · 6 answers · asked by Igor 1

that's what my computer uses does the brand matter

2007-10-25 08:52:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

just in pastic bad not in seagate box or anyting is this becuse of OEM one or is this 2nd hand HDD

2007-10-25 07:48:08 · 3 answers · asked by randike2007 1

Ok the total free space of my hard disk should be 63.3 GB. I wanted to download a 7 GB file from bitcomet. But I changed my mind and stopped downloading and removed the file and the software. But still my hard disk is showing it has 54 GB of free space. What can I do to solve this problem?
10 points to the person who can solve this.

Oh btw my operating system is Windows Vista.

2007-10-25 06:09:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have to type backwards! Details later! It randomly keeps scrolling to the left; please help!

2007-10-24 14:41:00 · 5 answers · asked by Leafy 6

2007-10-24 14:01:24 · 4 answers · asked by isidro_rosa 1

I am trying to install The Sims 2 Deluxe, however when I insert the disk my computer won't recognize it. My computer WILL recognise other CD/DVD programs as well as normal CDs.

I have a eMachine T2341, with Windows XP. The Sims game is made for windows computers. Also, the game will work in my sister's laptop. Do you have ANY idea what the problem is, I really want this game to work.

2007-10-24 12:40:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a HP Pavilion a6109n with stock mobo will i be able to use the AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 6400+ Black Edition to its full potential ? if not what is the best processor i could get that will be used at it's full potential.

2007-10-24 11:24:50 · 3 answers · asked by timmy n 1

Hi, I am looking to see if such a cable exists. I have seen plenty of leads that convert a Molex Plug to an SATA plug but I need the other way around. My scenario is this that I got a new PC and all the power plugs coming out of the PSU have only SATA power plugs and no Molex plugs at all and I don't want to go changing the power supply unit just to get one with both. I have this perfectly good IDE DVD Writer I want to put into the case and I have found an adapter cable to convert the DATA part from IDE to SATA no problem there but what do I do about power for the IDE DVD Writer if all the power cables coming out of the PSU are SATA only?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Andy.

2007-10-24 11:22:16 · 2 answers · asked by Andy - from Ireland 1

2007-10-24 08:05:23 · 5 answers · asked by Ace of Spades 5

2007-10-24 05:44:50 · 1 answers · asked by Zaden W 1

I just want to make sure I wont be downloading viruses.

2007-10-24 05:31:22 · 14 answers · asked by PAboy05 1

So it goes from pump to cpu, to radiator and then back to reservior/pump. What temperature does the radiator bring the liquid down at? at average?

2007-10-24 05:13:30 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-24 02:13:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've heard of these dual core\quad core processors. but what does that mean. someone said that if i had a 2ghz Dual Core Processor, i should have 4ghz of processing power. Is that true? What does that mean

2007-10-23 23:20:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

My second keyboard stopped functioning for the same reason as the first one (don't know the specific reason), but after un-installing a game on my cpu (Maplestory) and restarting my cpu, both my keyboards stopped working (downloaded/un-installed the game twice). When going to my keyboafd sortcut in the control panel my eyboard cannot be detected,even on my brother's computer. Any suggestions on how it stopped working? (I use Diskeeper too, if that's the probem/typing wth an onscreen keyboard so there might be typos).

2007-10-23 12:00:33 · 2 answers · asked by Steve 3

Servers must be for business and pc's for home, not these days every one wants a sever why? working from home? higher spec gaming , dual and quad processors. how many megs does an average person need?

2007-10-23 11:33:44 · 5 answers · asked by capa-de-monty 6