Q: Can I replace my graphics card in my Toshiba Satellite® L505-S6959 laptop (with a NVidia G-Force 9800)?
Q: I have a six year old desktop with an AMD Athalon(tm) xp 2000+and 2 256MB DDR RAM. It’s begun giving me problems like loose RAM, Heat sink and fan knocking off.
Should I just junk it and buy a new one or try and upgrade? My only usage is email, web browsing, online games and a little bit of MS office at times.
Q: I want to upgrade my CPU on a Dell Dimension 2200. Which CPU can I use and what would be good for multitasking?
Q: I have two desktops (Compaq Presario SR1410NX and Compaq Presario SR1050N)Â that I could choose from to upgrade and I am wondering which one I should upgrade.
A: There comes a point in every computers life where the cost of upgrades wont get you the performance you could get if you spent the same money on a new computer. In the case of these two computers it would be a better idea to spend the money you would have spent on the upgrades on a new machine and you will easily get 5 to 10 times the performance out of the new machine than you would out of the upgrades.
Read Question HereQ: When installing program updates for programs like iTunes, does the size of the updates build on top of the disk space already used by the program or does it reuse the disk space already in use?
A: Every program update works different. iTunes, for example, has you download a new iTunes and it actually replaces the old version so you don’t need to do any deleting yourself. Some program similar to this will actually uninstall the previous version during the install process. Read the rest of this entry »
Read Question HereQ: When I install updates for a program (e.g. itunes) does the size of the updates build on top of the memory I already have for that program or does it replace the memory already there? What is normal size increase that should happen? Anything else I should know about this and what to do about it (e.g. delete old program files)?
Read Answer HereQ: We run an old accounting program in DOS – Realworld – v8.6. It’s working fine in XP. We have a new computer we want to run it on – it’s a Vista machine. We need to change the config.sys (config.nt in XP) to change the files= from files=40 to files=128 and edit the himem.sys settings. The program errors out – stating not enough memory. We can’t seem to find where to properly set these changes in the Vista machine. Any suggestions?
Q: I just upgraded to AOL 9.1 and lost my favorites. Is there anyway to retrieve them? AOL tech service was no help.
I did not copy them before upgrading.
Q: I have two desktop computers and I am trying figure out which one I should upgrade. I think I should just go with a new one but if I was to upgrade one of these which would be better and any suggestions?
Compaq Presario SR1410NXÂ or Compaq Presario SR1050NXÂ and is PC3200 ram compatible with either machine?
Read Answer HereQ: I have an Acer 3600 when I upgraded to Vista my wireless light went off. How do I turn it back on to get wireless connection?
