Well I got two weeks left in the semester and on August 18th I will have built my first computer
from scratch, now hopefully during the rest of the year I will have build up a series of topics on
computer hardware and tutorials on building a computer from scratch that most of you will never have
to buy a pre built system again /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0"
alt="biggrin.gif" />. With that being said this is the final specs of the computer I will be
building, after I had a fluke with my floppy drive (had the wrong one). Keyboard &...

Allright im looking at upgrading because my computer starting to become stupid... (games are lagging
when they shouldnt be... heres what i have now so you can base this for what to sujest to me (i
want better lol) CPU: intel 2.8 ghz RAM: 1gig motherboard: intel pos motherboard... (it works for
what i have now...) Cdrom: DVD R/W 16x i belive 3x 40 gig hard drives (im going to get at least a
120 gig) GPX: Nvidia Geforece 4ti 4600 (im looking at the ATI 1950x crossfire but thats a little out
of my budget... but its an awsome card...) Monitor: 21" (i think its huge...) s...

Hello I am about to buy a laptop. I need some expert's advice right now. Which company is good
and reliable? The main question is this- I want a laptop which had a lot of RAM, good speed, a lot
of hard disk space, good video and sound card, bluetooth and a biuld in webcam. The thing, I play
Microsoft flight simulator (One of the slowest games you will find). It needs a lot of space, fast
computer and a good video card. This is all that I know of it. Please advice me over this. Which is
the best laptop for me? And please dont advice anything too expensive. I cant ...

I installed a new PCI Video Card for my PC and when I started to boot up the computer nothing came
up. Not even the BIOS system checks.I figured the video card I put was broken so I tried another
card, it worked. For some reason it won't boot up. Is there a solution to this problem?...

Currently, I am using a Pentium 4 630 (running at 3.0GHz factory default) powered PC which I have
overclocked to 3.40GHz. Combined with a 1.0GB of Dual channel DDR 400 (which my ASRock motherboard
is clocking down to DDR 333) with 240GB (80GB x 3 ) and 4 CD/DVD drives (3x CD-RW + 1 DVD-RW). My
motherboard is being powered by an Intel 865GV Northbridge chipset (800 FSB). It is not like this
computer is not functioning properly, but I want a higher performance considering the fact that I am
runing a lot of multitasking aplications like 3DSMax, MAYA, Photoshop CS3, DW CS3...

I just found a new website (www.radarsync.com/vista) here you can find Vista drivers for your
hardware, it contains more than 30 manufacturers and the drivers are all free. /smile.gif"
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My Mom really wants an ergonomic keyboard. Back in the day - as in, when Win98 was the latest OS -
she had Microsoft's version. Piece of junk - we burned through two of those stupid things before
we figured out how cruddy they are. I like Belkin's input devices. In fact, I'm using one
of their ergonomic keyboards right now. It's a good model for the price (under 35 bucks online -
can't remember exactly where, though). But, I want to see if anybody has any better
recommendations before I make any suggestions to Mom. So...any ideas? /smile.gif" style...

I gifted a digital camera last year and I want to buy it now, but I don't know it's real
price, I've searched many stores on the net but I didn't find it. so I want you to give a
price of this digital camera according to it's features: GENX 6.0 Slim Ultra slim 6.0 Mega
Pixel Camera QUOTE Features : 6.0 Mega Pixels Ultra Compact Aluminum Body Lithium
Battery (nokia series) USB & DC power charging SD Card option ( with 256 MB eXtreme SD Card )
Specifications : " Image Sensor: CMOS (3.0 MP) " Lens Specifications: F-2.8, f ...

Ok, well i am planning on buying an external DVD Drive, and i found this
http://www.amazon.com/Memorex-32023288-Dou...ectronics\ and i think this might be kool,
because i am seeing an S-Video cord on the back of that thing, and i am thinking that maybe that
will allow me to plug it into the back of my TV, or my DVD player and record what is on TV on to a
DVD? i am wondering if anyone here on trap17 have this, or have used it, or have seen it in use and
can vouch for what it can do... besides hook up to a computer by a USB or firewire and burn
DVD's/CD's ...

I have spent quite a while looking for a laptop on the net, i'm thinking of spending around
£1000. It's a difficult decision to make as i have had no opportunuty to test any of the ones
which interest me, i'm working only on manufacturers specifications. I need a laptop that is
fairly portable I.E 15.4" TFT not 17" and would like somthing that i could use for a few games
although i'm not a heavy gamer so an alienware laptop is not an option. QUOTE The laptops
which i am considering are:- Samsung R55 - Intel Core Duo 1.66 Ghz - 15,4" WXGA Glar...

My Personal Guide to Computer Hardware (This took me about a year of cumulative work to put
together, so appreciate it /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0"
alt="wink.gif" /> ) Last Edited 7/5/06 - Wednesday July 5th, 2006 by brautigam FINAL VERSION
(I hope /cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> )
This guide is intended to be followed roughly and to your own needs, however it is sequential and I
suggest you follow it in a step by step fashion unless you already have some knowledg...

The operations that take place when a hardware interrupt occurs are as follows: 1.A special chip
called Interrupt Controller chip receives the interrupt signal. 2.The Interrupt Controller chip
notifies the microprocessor that an interrupt has occurred. 3.To keep track of what microprocessor
was doing before it was interrupted, it saves the contents of registers CS, IP and Flags in stack.
4.The microprocessor retrieves the number of the interrupt from the Interrupt Controller chip.
5.Having found out the interrupt number, it multiplies this number by four (since each add...

Hey i'm getting a new laptop and i was wondering which one i should get. I hope this is the
right place since this is the advice forum i thought this is the right place to put it. I have any
$$$ amount for one, but nothing like 10,000 dollars. I'll spend a little more for
something that is good and will last. I have never had a laptop. I have just always had desktops.
Any advice would be great....

Hi, ive found a very interesting website called driverguide its very usefull wen trying to find some
driver its very excellent ive been using it and find all drivers i wanted, the only thing is that
there's too many drivers variations and if u dont know the specific need it would be difficult
to find an working driver for ur specification, oh well u can try they service preety good website.
www.driverguide.com...

Hy folks, i've got a 250GB SATA Seagate Baracuda and pluged it in my box. It appears after boot
and the raid prompt but when getting into windows XP it doesn't find new hardware so i don't
know how to install it. I don't have any floppy with the drivers, i'm copying them right now
from the internet but how to install a driver for a non-existent device? I appreciate any help, oh
my box is an QUOTE Cheers! ...

I have seen their specs, and they seem to be really good, but I was wondering, are they good for
working too??? I would like to buy one of those, but I would run also stuff like AutoCad, Adobe and
Macromedia stuff, and don't wanna find that there's a catch. /sad.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> Just by the specs, they seem
to be able to launch anything!!! of course, their cost is almos the double a regular lap
would be. What do you think???...

Ok heres my Situation... I currently have a decent pc, running socket 754 and agp still. Im either
gona upgrade my pc now... or buy a new one next year, heres my situation: I have dfi lanparty nf3
250gb mobo-KING of overclocking amd athlon 3400+ proc-socket 754 2x512-sucky ram(CANT
OVERCLOCK!!!!) 9200 ati agp4x,8x card(SUCKS!) Poning thermaltake 480w psu Poning
thermaltake sviking case Stock heat sink(wahhh) hd-80gb(no problems here Smile) cd rw drive My
thing is... Should i buy new agp card (probly 6800gt or so),_liquid cooling, and new ram? OR ...

Here are some sites which offer hardware training to you.... 1) http://www.tomshardware.com/ 2)
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/ ...

I want to buy Digital camera, Which Digital camera should i buy? I dont want to spend too much money
for it but i also dont want to scrifice the quality too.. Sound strang to get both but i am sure
there will be some product out there, so let me know if anybody knows about it. Sorry, if i have
started this topic in wrong area... Thanks in advance...

for my the worst tech and hardware company is LG ... i think this is because of my history ... 1
... i bought a CD-RW LG .... the first month it works great with de issue that the cds that were
burned to the maximun speed became unreadable ... then the unit crashes and i have to wait 3 weeks
for they to replace my unit ... 2 ... then 2 years later i bought a mobile phone LG ... damnººº it
sucksººº really sucksºº ... the worst part is that the phone received written messages but cant
reply to them ººº never everººº ... 1 year later the display crashesººº anda that was t...

Hey people, I recently bought Halo combact evolved and installed it into my HDD but to my surprise,
I could not play the game due to VGA Hardware problems. I am using an nVIDIA RIVA 64 PRO/64M with
32 MB memory and it is running at 300MHz onboard processor speed with 1.4GB transfer speed. The game
complained that It is having probs with my VGA. I ran an analysis of my VGA with a system analysis
software called Everest Home Edition and I was able to detect that my VGA does not have a feature
called Hardware Transform and Lighting. I think thats the problem with t he ...

I am building a computer soon, and I dont know which to go for. I am leaning torwards socket 939
becuase I can upgrade to AMD 64 3X00 latter when I have more money, but that wont be for at least 6
months. So, then I started thinking about getting a socket A computer that has an AMD XP 3000+. If I
get the socket A, I can get a 128MB VC and a Gig of RAM, but if I get the 939 I will have to settle
with intergrated video and 512MB of RAM for a while. I am asking you this, should I go for socket A
or 939?...

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ive had this laptop for like 3 years its a custom built one that i bought it has Pentium 4 2.0 ghz,
256 mb memory, 40 gb hard drive, ati mobilty radeon graphic card and some other stuff. It hasnt been
working for a long ass time cuz sumthing in there got fried and smoke just came out of the back and
ive talked to some repair guys and they said it was the motherboard. So now im trying to sell some
of the parts like dvd/cdrw drive, keyboard, battery n stuff but i dunno if some of them work like
the graphic card and pentium 4 chip which are both on the motherboard and also ...

Hi, A friend of mine is having this really wird problems with his machine. He bought a computer
some months ago. I mean a good computer but one days ago his computer was shutting down something
like a power problem (i thought something like blaster). But the next days it worked without
problems. But new problems appeared, The computer now freezes after logging into XP and being there
some minutes. I mean it blocks even in safe mode. So, i was thinking we had a virus or something
like that. So i took the hard disk and backup the important things in my box. I was thinking...

I've got a Presario 2568 with a Radeon 9200 shared graphics card. now in the BIOS it says i can
set the card to 128MB, but the manual and tech support say that that is not an option. as far as
tehy're concerned , it isn't a bios option. but since it is, i would like to know whether or
not it would do any good to set it at 128 instead of the default 64. would that count as
overclocking, and overheat the chip? or would it simply be a waste of 64 mb memory?...

Hi everyone. Since most of you are good at computers I though I could use some help for my seminar
anyway being a part of this community I though let's make use of the knowlege and idea's of
people here. I am doing a seminar on PC hardware. Anything about hardware will do. I want to do it
nicely. Since there are over two thousand members here. I thought if all of you could lend me a
little of you idea's it would be great. I alone can do it. But with everyone's help it might
be a lot better. And if you can give me some information also it would be good...

http://shopper.cnet.com/ It contains the comments from user for the hardware. It also have a
price comparison of different shop. Please also give the web site you like....