PlutonianEmpire
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Why does my laptop's "charging battery" light keep blinking off and on? It's on for three minutes, turns off, then turns back on one second later for another three minutes.
Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II
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aimeeandbeatles
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Is it charging? Maybe a loose cable?
Question: How can you tell when a computer is going to die? My mom is flipping out thinking hers is about to. I know how to tell a hard drive but Im not sure about a computer in general especially since shes not being real helpful and instead is throwing papers around trying to find the warranty (it expired three years ago)
Question: How can you tell when a computer is going to die? My mom is flipping out thinking hers is about to. I know how to tell a hard drive but Im not sure about a computer in general especially since shes not being real helpful and instead is throwing papers around trying to find the warranty (it expired three years ago)
Mathalamus
Emperor of Mathalia
my previous computer died in a similar way, and i never found out the cause. it could be anything from the graphics card to a bad motherboard.
Your Mom is psychotic, it could just be her imagination or a virus
Reiser
Young Christian
Does memory = RAM? For example, if a laptop has 250GB Hard Drive/2GB Memory, does it mean it has 250GB of storage for files and 2GB of RAM?
What does RAM stand for?
What could I do to add more RAM to a desktop/laptop?
What does GHz mean, and how does it help with processing?
(I know, I should Google all these
)
What does RAM stand for?
What could I do to add more RAM to a desktop/laptop?
What does GHz mean, and how does it help with processing?
(I know, I should Google all these
)
aimeeandbeatles
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Mostly considered, yes. but the page file is a part of the hard drive used for memory but that is usually not includes on the specs, just the RAM. it slows things down though. Very early computers used vaccuum tubes for their memory.
random access memory. The "random access" part comes from the times of data cassettes because when hard drives came out you could access any part of it at a time while with a cassette you need to rewind and fast-forward.
Buy the right kind, open up the computer and put it in the slots. I heard its one of the easiest procedures.
gigahertz. It measures the speed of the processor.
Reiser
Young Christian
Thanks aimee, but I meant what exactly do I search for for RAM extensions, like on Amazon?
Genocidicbunny
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uhh...RAM?
Reiser
Young Christian
Haha, I asked because "RAM Extensions" didn't find anything.
I just found an old
p). Is there anything I could do with it that would actually be profitable for me? Maybe I can switch it out with my other old
EDIT: Here's a small picture of it I found on the Internet.
EDIT2: Okay, tower.
aimeeandbeatles
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Thats not called a hard drive, its called a tower. the hard drive is inside the tower.
Haha, I asked because "RAM Extensions" didn't find anything.
I just found an oldhard drivetower in my brother's old closest. It's an eTower one, and it still has a floppy disk drive, so it's obviously primitive
Maybe I can switch it out with my other oldhard drivetower that I'm using on a different computer; the only difference (as I can see) is that the eTower one is smaller.
EDIT: Here's a small picture of it I found on the Internet.
EDIT2: Okay, tower.
You could build a new PC in the old case.
aimeeandbeatles
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I use CamStudio myself but it gets rather choppy sometimes. I think there's an old freeware version of FRAPS floating around though.
Question: In a store I saw blank CDs that were "Macintosh-formatted." I thought that all CDs used the same filesystem regardless of OS so what does this mean?
If you really wanted to you could HFS+ format an optical disc which would render it unreadable to Windows without special software, not sure why though since if you formatted it FAT32 it could both be read and written to by OS X and Windows
(note FAT32 only works on things up to 4GB)
For profit? Sell it on Ebay. It won't get you much though.Haha, I asked because "RAM Extensions" didn't find anything.
I just found an oldhard drivetower in my brother's old closest. It's an eTower one, and it still has a floppy disk drive, so it's obviously primitive
Maybe I can switch it out with my other oldhard drivetower that I'm using on a different computer; the only difference (as I can see) is that the eTower one is smaller.
EDIT: Here's a small picture of it I found on the Internet.
EDIT2: Okay, tower.
Reiser
Young Christian
Well, actually, basically the only reason I wanted to get rid of it was because it had only one USB port, and the one I'm using (I have two computers now) has two, but is bigger (as in the whole tower).
However, if I buy this, it would make it a much better idea to switch the two. I'll just wait until I get a Best Buy gift card, though (which will be coming soon, I'm sure).
However, if I buy this, it would make it a much better idea to switch the two. I'll just wait until I get a Best Buy gift card, though (which will be coming soon, I'm sure).
Someone who's looking for a certain kind of computer with a certain OS to run certain software. The 10 y/o might be just the ticket.
