a new laptop.. What I am worried about is, if my laptop ever dies, like.. the video card or anything, will my files be stuck in it forever? Because when my computer died I could always get the files out of the hard drive. But it's different with a laptop.. So, what do you recommend?
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A hard drive is a "hard" plate that is spinning very, very fast. Above it is an arm that reads magnetic signals on the plate. The arm doesn't actually touch the disk; it is moving too fast. Hard drives are assembled in clean-rooms. A speck of dust could cause the drive to destroy itself.
When the hard drive breaks, usually some of the motors in it have become stuck. This can be fixed, but only in a clean-room. It isn't normally done, and it is very expensive.
Occasionally a hard drive's arm will touch the plate while it is running. If this happens, the disk tears itself apart. Data will not ever be recovered by any means if this happens.
So unless you are rich enough to spend thousands of dollars on a hundred-dollar hard drive, you didn't recover data from a _broken_ hard drive. You are probably thinking of something else that broke on your computer, or software troubles.
A laptop hard drive works in the same way. If it breaks, you will not recover it. If something else on it breaks, you will have to send it to the manufacturer to recover data. Local tech shops won't be able to recover data from a laptop.
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i have bought the new nvidia 8800 gts graphics card i was wondering if it would work with this motherboard http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/+Asus+P5N32SLi+Premium+Socket+775?productId=25690 please reply quickly becuase i need to buy soon
(Thanks, anonymous mod)
**That is entirely an issue with your Power Supply. It has nothing to do with the motherboard. If your Power Supply is underpowered, the graphics card won't EVER work**
Yes. The graphics card takes a PCI Express slot, and you can see in the technical specs that the motherboard has two PCI Express x16 Graphics slots, and three other slots that would also work.
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14/f
I've been having nosebleeds since I was little, but just recently in the past few weeks i've started to get them daily. Sometimes I'll get them in the shower, sometimes I'll get them when I'm just walking around my house. I'll put pressure on my nose, lean foward, put an ice pack on the bridge of my nose, but it takes about 20 minutes for them to stop. And I always have to blow my nose during it because I feel the mucus dripping down my throat. When I blow my nose, it'll be a big clump of bloody mucus. Sometimes it gets into my mouth and I'll have to spit it out.
Are these serious? Should I call my doctor? Thank you.
For the past week I've been having constant nosebleeds as well, with an intensity I've never experienced. I'm starting to think of going to a doctor, but I've heard they burn the insides of your nose, which I am definitely not looking forward to. I think I'll wait until three weeks to go to a doctor, and in that time I am taking iron supplements to make up for iron lost in bleeding. When I get a nosebleed, I stick a wad of tissue up my nose. If you cut off the end, people won't notice until you get very close to them. I also do this preemptively before I go to sleep, so it doesn't wake me up.
This strategy has worked pretty well for me.
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My internet won't open pictures from Google Images. Evertime I click it to view full-size, it gives me a dialog box that says "Would you like to open or save this file?" and its NEVER done that before. It looks like this:
http://i12.tinypic.com/8fo2z28.jpg
How can I make it go away? Thanks.
I don't know why it would do that. If you are using AOL Topspeed, try disabling that. Switching to a different browser like IE, Fiefox, Opera, or K-Meleon will probably fix it.
You can ask this question here for more help:
http://annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp
http://protonic.com
http://forums.techguy.org/
If the same thing doesn't happen to this link:
http://www.advicenators.com/img/hsingle.gif
you can copy/paste this to a question at those links:
"Hello. Whenever I try to view full-size images on Google Images with the AOL browser on XP, it tries to download it as if it was octet-stream. I don't want to switch browsers. Thanks"
If you are not able to access that image without downloading it, copy/paste this:
"Hello. Whenever I try to view direct images online, I get a download dialog box. Inline images work fine, but if I try to view them by themselves they try to download. I am using AOL browser on XP and I don't want to switch browsers. Thanks."
Good luck.
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i accidently deleted a picture off my camera after i downloaded it onto my computer that i wanted to print off my camera. i cant print it off my computer because my printer sucks. soo is there any way i can get the picture back onto my camera so i can print it out at like walmart? thanks!
Put the image file on a floppy or a disk and bring it to walmart. They will probably be able to print it for you.
If not, plug in your camera and go to "my computer", which is usually in the start menu. One of the drives will probably be "Removable Drive(E:)", possibly with a different letter. Go into that and you should be able to transfer pictures directly onto your camera.
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heyy
where do people get their songs from?
like download them?
cos i want to get some but i cant find anywhere to get them
thannkss
xox
I get torrents from btjunkie.org and download them in Azureus Classic. If that fails, I use KCeasy and Shareaza, which are similar to Limewire.
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but how do you use limewire?
Read their documentation:
http://www.limewire.com/support/userguide/
http://www.limewire.com/support/
Downloading *anything* that you would normally have to pay for is illegal in the US, not just programs. And limewire pro doesn't make it legal.
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What would happen to my 1996 chevy tahoe if i took out the fuse for the PRNDL (park, reverse, neutral, drive, low), Automatic Transmission, Speedometer, Check Gauges, and Warning lights. its all on one fuse
Everything the fuse is connected to wouldn't work. It might start, it might not, you'd have to check. It won't explode or anything.
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Someone has committed copyright infringement against my website. They said that they copyrighted my company's name, By Teens 4 Teens, and are going to sell it for $3500 to a magazine company.
He says that he's a lawyer and a website designer, although, I'm not sure if that's valid information or not, however, he has committed copyright infringement against myself and my company by using my company's name.
What should I do?
**You can check with the US patent and trademark office. And you are probably right, I doubt he knows what he's talking about**
By Teens 4 Teens is a trademark, not a copyright. You don't have to register a copyright. You DO have to register a trademark, and if they have, you are out of luck. First to register gets the trademark, and the trademark lasts as long as their organization exists.
If you *have* registered it already, then you wait until they serve you papers or have done something to actually infringe your trademark (they haven't yet). Then you get a lawyer.
If you haven't registered it, and you suspect they haven't either, contact the US patent and trademark office to register your trademark.
(Note that registering your trademark isn't necessarily required, but you have no rights in this situation if it isn't.)
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Is there a way to figure out who is sending me arbitrary IMs?
I'm thinking that this person might be dangerous, but before I block them, I'd like to know who they are.
It's IGAM, by the way.
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The only information you can get without asking is their IP address. This will tell you their ISP and approximate location. It will be hard for you to get even this, though, since most IM clients don't give it to you. You would probably have to use a packet sniffer, which you will find difficult to use.
If they are being abusive, you can report them to AIM(or whatever). It is usually against their terms, and they'll get banned.
If it means a lot to you to get their IP address, download and install wireshark:
http://www.wireshark.org/
and then contact me by IM the next time they IM you. I will walk you through it.
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i was surfing through the internet and i stumbled upon this....http://immortalityring.com/home.php
is it for real? or just a scam?
I have one and I haven't died even once. It must work!
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I have a Compaq Presario laptop, and it hasn't been too bad. I've had to send it back once to get it reconfigured, but that's all. I've had it back for about two weeks now.
I just got a notification saying I have low virtual memory [I think], but is that really bad? Or what does it mean?
There are two factors that affect your computer's speed: RAM and CPU. CPU isn't important for you right now, this has to do with RAM. Think of RAM as the size of your desk. The more RAM you have, the more space on your desk. Every time you open a program or have a program running in the background, like the programs running in the lower right of your screen, some space on your desk is taken up. When you close it, you get the space back.
If you have so many applications open that they need more RAM then available(they are bigger then your desk), your computer uses "Virtual Memory". This is an area on your hard drive that acts like RAM. It is much slower, but without it larger programs wouldn't be able to run. Windows will automatically increase your amount of Virtual Memory, so it would be incredibly rare for you to run out completely, but your computer will be very slow from using more of the slower Virtual Memory instead of RAM. When you get that message, Windows is increasing the size of the Virtual Memory.
There are three ways to stop the message. The best option is to buy more RAM. This will significantly speed up your computer, and allow your computer to operate using less Virtual Memory. Unfortunately, it is difficult and expensive to add RAM to a laptop.
You could also run less programs, or make your programs use less RAM. This clears some space on your "desk".
Finally, you can change the way Windows handles Virtual Memory so that it doesn't give you that error.
My guide here will help you with the second and third options:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=223&userboard_id=38985
Step 2 of my guide changes the way Windows handles Virtual Memory, and makes it more efficient. The rest of my guide optimizes your computer so that you use less RAM. It will drastically speed up your computer.
Good luck!
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I would like to download stuff. I had Kazaa but I don't know it is not working right. Does anyone know a good free download program?
Here is my guide to similar P2P programs:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=484&userboard_id=38985
KaZaA comes bundled with tons of viruses, so you may want to run some scans after you uninstall it:
http://spybot.info
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
http://avast.com
http://security.symantec.com
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
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there is a quiz on addicting games.com
and i can't get the answer to #42.
the quiz i believe, is called the impossible quiz
if you type it on google it should be the first one.
can you tell me what 42 it is?
you can just say like
1st row, fourth down
or somethign thank you so much!! =)
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If you really want to cheat, rot13 this( http://rot13.com ):
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So my family's going on a vacation in winter. We're from Barbados which doesn't have snow or any relly cold areas. The coldest it gets is about 25 degrees celcius maximum. So we're leaving in a while (few days) and I have no idea how i'm goin to stay warm to reach New York. Tell me how to dress to go to the airport please? how many layers of clothes will i need???????
You should wear three layers: long-sleeve shirt, sweater, and light jacket. Carry a light winter hat and gloves. Wear long pants, sweat pants would be best. You may want to bring handwarmers for your feet; don't wear sandals.
If you anticipate being outside in 0 degree C weather or colder, pack a heavy hat, heavy gloves, a heavy jacket, thermal underwear, a scarf, and additional handwarmers. If you anticipate being in deep snow, bring winter boots.
Have fun!
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I'm on my second Xbox and the warranty is expired,so I can't get it replaced.I was going to get one for Christmas but I'm not so sure that I want to keep shelling out money for a faulty piece of hardware that could just die on me whenever it feels like it.I'm considering getting a PS3 instead but I'm not positive.
People that have a PS3:What makes it better than the 360 and do you regret buying it?
People that have both:Which do you prefer and why?Would getting a PS3 over a new 360 be a bad choice?
Game selection is everything. You should buy the one that has the best games for you, and that's the only thing you should consider. They will repair your xbox360 for free if it breaks, so don't worry about that.
I don't have either, but I want more PS3 games, so that's the one I would get. You might have different game preferences, though, so research it carefully.
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what are some other good songs.
like my world by sick puppies.
Use these to find similar music:
http://www.gnoosic.com/tripex.php
http://pandora.com
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for some reason my computer doesnt let me log into facebook, or my email. when i try pressing enter after i write in all of my information, it goes to the page that says webpage wont work, and i checked and it is not blocked or anything, and as far as i know my firewall is off. do you have any ideas?
You have SSL disabled:
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When I log off but my laptop is stll on, when I go to log back on the screen just stays black but I know it is on because of the lights. I'm pretty sure it's going into standby, how do I take it off? Is there anyway I can stop it from going into that mode? Thanks in advance.
Pressing any key on the keyboard should return it. If not, do what breezyd37 says.
To stop it from going into standby, go to start, run and type:
powercfg.cpl
Change "System standby" to "never". This might reduce your battery life.
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i jsut downloaded the program that records. i am a songwriter and i do believe that i make great songs. so i want to add music now i have my piano and guitar and i want to play and sing at the same time while recording, basically i want a recording studio right in my house..haha. can someone please tell me another program that can do this and can fix my voice in case i dont like how i sound? also, can someone tell me how i can use audacity becuase i dont understand it. thanks i rate!!
Get a microphone and record yourself using Audacity's "record" button. That's it. There is no way to modify your voice in a way that would make it better-sounding. There is no way to take your voice out of a song that has music in it.
Audacity can be used to cut out portions of the song, read the documentation for more info.
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