Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

Integral said:
So I'm looking to upgrade my peripherals in the near future.

1) What are the best 24" 1920x1080 monitors in the $200 +/-30 price range? I've seen a variety of Asus and Samsung monitors in that range but don't really know how to intelligently distinguish among them.
2) Does anyone have recommendations on 2.0 or 2.1 speaker systems? What to look for, what to avoid, how much a decent system costs, etc?

:thanx:
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This has a 5 egg rating with 87 reviews. Samsung is a top brand it's a sale price. Hard to beat that.

Same model for a bit less. Check cost after shipping.


This is a 4 egg rating with only a few reviews.

4 1/2 stars with 58 reviews

4 1/2 with 40 reviews



now i'm tempted... :shifty:
 
Dont buy monitors on Newegg. Their return policy sucks. Amazon will let you return it for any defect while Newegg wants 8 dead pixels at a minimum. And trust me, nothing's more annoying than having 7 dead pixels in the center of the screen and there not being anything you could do.
 
I just setup a network between me and my mom's computer (my DVD drive finally kicked it and I'm borrowing hers for the time being). However, for some reason one of our neighbor's computers is on the network. It's not a wireless one AFAIK. How did this happen?

EDIT: This neighbor is not a geek.

ANOTHER EDIT: I installed a game. However, it requires the CD to be in the drive for it to run. I tried putting it in mine but it didn't work (think the laser's shot). Is there a way to get it to detect over the network? In the network folders, the drive shows up as a folder.
 
Do any of the computers on the network have a wireless adapter? Perhaps they're piggybacking on that.
 
Neither of them do that I'm aware of. Also, the box for the router says nothing about wireless.
 
Just checked, didn't see anything.

Weird thing: The fuse blew just a little while ago, right after I finished checking it. Then when I booted up my computer, it tried to run the Linux Live CD I forgot to take out of the drive (I had it in to test if the OS was the problem, it wouldn't boot.) Does anybody have a clue what happened?
 
No. The computer booted right. Just that when the fuse blew, it seems to have restored the broken DVD drive. :dunno:
 
Check the BIOS. Seems like the boot order got reset.
 
Yes, I have it default to boot from CD. Because I normally don't have a CD in the drive. The thing is, I thought that the drive was dead. It spun up but nothing happened. But when the fuse blew, it worked again.
I was considering the electrical system, but the problem with this is that everything else with the CD drive works. It opens and closes and makes the whirring noises fine. Just that it won't read anything, which makes me think the laser is shot.
 
@Genocidebunny, Cutlass -

Thanks! I'll look into those Asus' and that Samsung. The Samsung looks particularly pretty.
 
What would be best for printing roughly 10 photos/month? Color inkjet or color laser?
 
Inkjet uses ink pretty quickly, although it actually depends on the model. Lasers are pretty expensive and can be bulky (I remember seeing one crash to the floor after being put on a flimsy table)

this article is 5 years old but it may still be worth a read. If you google it there's also quite a bit of other stuff.

QUESTION: Suppose ... I click on a result on google which looks useful but it just tells you to register. And you use User Agent Switcher to make yourself look like a googlebot to access the stuff. Is this breaking any laws?
 
What is the purpose of the clear plastic discs you sometimes get in spindles?
 
Hi, I've got 2 questions here...

1)One desktop comp I own (which I do not have internet access...) started getting Blue Screen errors about 3 months ago, becoming ever more frequent until now I can barely even turn the computer on and have it running 1 minute before generating another error...
(In technical terms, there have been at least 10 different specific errors defined that I have seen, ranging from a driver overrunning a stack-based buffer to bad pool calls to a page file being written in a non-pagefile area and many more...)
One option it tells me I can do is find the latest updates to my system, but without internet, I'm not sure how to find which updates to get...
(I'm using a public computer right now, of course...)
The computer is running Vista Home Premium SP1

2)For my laptop (and I guess I could use it for my Desktop computer too...) I need to know which SP2 download to click...
I'm not sure if I have 32-bit OS or x64 OS...
I guess the real underlying issue...if I try to update a 32-bit OS with the x64 SP2, will it deny me the opportunity or will it actually damage my system?
 
I found an operating system where the ISO file is 4.83 MB. Is there any smaller OS?
 
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