Hardware - December 2007

Most of my friends have a Desktop and Laptop and my dad has a laptop, my mom has a laptop which i use alot and we have another desktop in the house which is really just krappy right now, oh and i have a desktop running Vista Home Prem...i think it needs reformatting but my dad won't do it and it has stuff that we need on it but i want to buy a laptop for myself, but my budget is 250$ and all the laptops on Craigslist for 250$ are either old or slow, so what should i do?

2007-12-28 08:41:51 · 8 answers · asked by bladerofshrouds 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

The difference is that Penryn is made on the 45nm process and Merom is made on the 65nm process

2007-12-28 08:41:39 · 2 answers · asked by qian_hansen 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I am thinking about buying this laptop...

I need a laptop that will surf the internet, can hook up to a printer, and that has a built in wireless card, since my building that I live in provides free wireless for the residents.

Could you take a look at the ad/link and advise me? THanks.
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/sys/520952991.html

2007-12-28 08:37:04 · 5 answers · asked by FavoredbyU 5 in Laptops & Notebooks

i bought this ram for my dell dimension 2400 which uses pc3200 ram but when i put it in it started making this loud beep and all of a sudden my screen wouldnt turn on

this is the ram i bought

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231036

this is the ram on the dell site

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Memory_Upgrades/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=A0740429

so what is the ram like faulty or something cause i have bought ram before and this never happened to me.

and in my other question ppl said this ram would work

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aox01_RiTqbtdAlTCRst077sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071228132106AA0KLDo

plz help me

2007-12-28 08:36:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

2007-12-28 08:29:32 · 3 answers · asked by Sandy 4 in Monitors

I just picked up an HP S3220n slimline. I like leaving my pc on most of the time. The pc is awfuly tiny.
Will I have overheating issues?

2007-12-28 08:29:19 · 1 answers · asked by eddie9551 5 in Desktops

my coumpter is realy slow i need to know if there is easy and cheep way to clean out it

2007-12-28 08:23:14 · 2 answers · asked by bob h 1 in Desktops

do they make it for agp 8x too

2007-12-28 08:15:08 · 1 answers · asked by kylharrelle 1 in Add-ons

Below is some information about my computer that I got off of (www. systemrequirementslab .com /referrer /srtest). The site said that my video card can't play the game but my mother's old computer can. Can I take the video card from her old computer and put it into my laptop, which is an HP Pavilion dv6000? Her video card is a 128 MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (RADEON 9800 AGP (0x4E48)) and her old computer is a Dell Dimension 4600.

Current Video Card: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family

Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (Build 6000)

CPU: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz

CPU Speed: 1.66 GHz Performance Rated at 3.24 GHz

System RAM: 2.0 GB

In short I want to know if I can take the video card out of my mother's computer and put it into my laptop. Can I do it myself or should I pay someone and how much would that cost? Can I also take out the RAM, CPU, or other componets and put them in my laptop?

Thank you for reading.

2007-12-28 08:13:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Hardware

My Hubby promised my little girl 20bucks one day, and we didn't have it. Sooo, I tried to make some play money printed on thicker paper in the printer. Now, the only way I can copy or scan something is if I tape it to sturdier paper to force it to go through the feed. I know, I know. I messed up. I'm wondering now if there is an adjustment to tighten the paper feed somehow?

2007-12-28 08:05:03 · 4 answers · asked by julz 5 in Printers

My husband's computer will not start all the way-- it will stay on the startup screen with the little thinking icon. It is a Mac G5. He says that the last time his computer worked any softwear that he had running shut down unexpectantly, like it had a virus. Any suggestions on how we can fix this problem or are we going to have to take it somewhere to get it fixed? Thanks for the help!

2007-12-28 07:57:33 · 6 answers · asked by Expecting Momma 2 in Desktops

I have a 3 year old Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook computer with a beautiful 15.4" WUXGA screen (1920x1200 resolution ). The computer itself is getting rather old and slow so I'm looking for a new machine.

The problem is, I can't seem too find any new notebook computers that have such good resolution at a 15.4" screen. I don't want to bump up to a 17" screen because those computers get to big to move around! I've looked at Dell, Lenovo, and Sony so far, and all of their 15.4" screens seem to top out at 1680x1050 resolution - and even this resolution is uncommonly high and expensive.

I find it so strange that 3 years after I bought this one, I can't find a screen with as good resolution as my current one! Aren't computers supposed to improve fast? Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thanks!

2007-12-28 07:56:24 · 1 answers · asked by tidy mess 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

I just bought a 1GB MicroSD memory card and I don't have a laptop, how do i hook it up to a computer, do i need some kind of an adapter?

2007-12-28 07:45:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

its brand new but for some reason its just showing green and blue .....no red

2007-12-28 07:24:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

Are they for specific jobs? Or just a cheaper version of a regular laptop?

2007-12-28 07:02:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-28 06:34:02 · 3 answers · asked by Nathaniel C 3 in Add-ons

do they make 'em for multiple drives.. like up to 5 drives maybe?

if they do, where in the world do i find one? what keywords to use in ebay? ..any help would be nice. thank you!

2007-12-28 06:33:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

what are the pro and con of using a recycle toner? i have a hp laserjet 1320 printer. obviously the recycle toner would be cheaper. but would the recycle toner be able to print the same amount of pages as a brand new toner? what about the quality? so any1 here ever use a recycle toner can comment on this...that would be great. thx in advance.

2007-12-28 06:23:16 · 3 answers · asked by seafood10 3 in Printers

how much ram can you install on a imac , macbook
how much can you install on a windows vista 64 bit computer

2007-12-28 06:00:41 · 5 answers · asked by Andreu 2 in Desktops

i got a digital camera printer for xmas [the small one] and i want to know if i can get black and white pics from it because that wasn't an option on the printer, but there is black ink i can buy..

2007-12-28 05:54:38 · 2 answers · asked by jade elizabeth 1 in Printers

I would like to know find the brand of a pc as i have noticed that many pc now come with one brand and the cd rom has a different brand but that's not really the case to me.

what i am interested in knowing is how to check from the system itself and know what brand the pc is.

2007-12-28 05:52:39 · 7 answers · asked by Invasion 3 in Add-ons

I want to change my card, the current one i have now is this one: Intel(R) 82865G graphics controller, it doesnt support some new things that I need to use, so I was wondering if this one is better, http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.d... I know it's cheap, but i just need it to work, that's all, and if not that one, is this one also good http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.d... Any help would be great..

2007-12-28 05:44:46 · 2 answers · asked by :D 5 in Other - Hardware

I have my laptop connected to my TV through an S-Video cable and I can see the picture, but the audio is still playing on my laptop speakers and not my TV. I thought this cable was capable of transmitting video as well as audio through one cable? If this is true can someone help me configure my Dell Inspiron 1420 to output audio/video?

2007-12-28 05:36:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-28 05:25:12 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

2007-12-28 05:24:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

My laptop is a dell lattitude cpi pentium 2 processer it has a virus and is exeptianally slow, I need a new anti virus putting on it and the virus taking off and i need it to go faster, how much will this cost and what should i ask 4when i take it into the shop? thank you and happy new year

2007-12-28 05:20:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

For some reason I can not remember where the settings are to change it. I have to use a USB mouse right now which is not good for when you are traveling help me out.

2007-12-28 05:14:31 · 1 answers · asked by aegisaaron2000 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-12-28 05:14:12 · 4 answers · asked by janeflame2005 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

i was looking for a new video card for my pc and i found a good one but it says that its 64 bit and my pc is currently 32 bit, will there be any negitive effects of this card (like not running or somthig elce)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130021

2007-12-28 05:07:30 · 1 answers · asked by nick 3 in Add-ons

2007-12-28 04:49:03 · 9 answers · asked by Hubbabubbabubblegum 2 in Laptops & Notebooks