Is this a good spec laptop for what I need to do plus RUN VISTA?

August 25, 2009

I need a laptop to surf the internet , play small games (I dont play many games on my computer, I have a xbox 360 to play games on.) I will use microsoft word for doing my homework. Here are the specs =.

BASEAMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TK53

OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Premium – English

LCD15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display with TrueLife

MEMORY2048MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2×1024]

HARD DRIVE160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive

GRAPHICS CARD256MB ATI ® Radeon® Xpress 1150 HyperMemory

OPTICAL DRIVEFixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software

WIRELESS CONNECTIVITYDell™ Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-Card – Europe

MICROSOFT SOFTWAREMicrosoft® Works 8.0 – English

KEYBOARDInternal Keyboard – UK/Irish (QWERTY)

SYSTEM MEDIAResource DVD – (Diagnostics & Drivers)

Go!

Computer system requirements for HD filmmaking?

August 24, 2009

I would like to start a filmmaking career, I’m planning in getting the JVC HD200 Pro camera, but i’m not sure what kind of computer equipment to get in order to edit my project. I would like to use a good editing software maybe Vegas and use After Effects. Can some body point me in the right direction?
Don’t mind the cost, I need to know what I need.

Should this be ok?
Dell Precision Workstation T7400 – 64bit Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5440 (2.83GHz,2X6M L2,1333)
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Business Service Pack 1, with media, 64, ENG
Memory 2GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (2 DIMMS)
Keyboard USB Entry Quietkey, No Hot Keys
Graphic Cards 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia NVS 290, Dual Monitor DVI Capable
Boot Hard Drive 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™
Hard Drive Configuration C6 All SATA drives, RAID 0, 2 drive total configuration
Floppy Drive and Media Card Reader Options No Floppy Drive
Mouse New Dell USB Optical Mouse with scroll, All Black Design
DVD and Read-Write Devices 16X DVD-ROM with Cyberlink Power DVD™
Sound Card Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic(D),Dolby® Digital 5.1,VSTA
Speakers Dell™ AX210 Speakers, Black
Resource DVD Resource DVD – Contains Diagnostics and Drivers
2nd Hard Drive 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM Hard Drive with 16MB DataBurst Cache™
Services 3 Year Limited Hardware Warranty with Next Business Day On-Site Service
Installation Services No Onsite System Setup
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
I took your advise and looked at the Mac Pro computers, and they look pretty good. I customized it like so: Would this work? it goes for about ,700.

*One 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel *Xeon3GB (3x1GB) None
*1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/sNone
*NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MBOne *18x SuperDriveApple LED Cinema *Display (24" flat panel)None
*Apple Mighty MouseApple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) and *User’s GuideAirPort Extreme Wi-Fi *Card with 802.11nNone
*Final Cut Express preinstalled

Why won’t my computer boot?

August 23, 2009

I have a dell inspiron 2200 that I purchased in the summer of 2005. It still used windows xp. about a week ago, I tried to restart my computer and it simply wouldn’t boot. after further exploration, i noticed that it does begin to load. it goes through a few sequences then gets to the black screen where there is a large window’s icon and the little moving status bar underneath for about 20 seconds, then simply goes black with the cursor still movable and on the screen. I’ve let it sit for about thirty mins in this screen with no progress.

I’ve done thorough diagnostics in the boot menu by pressing f12 at the beginning of the startup process hoping to find a problem. nothing resulted.

I also don’t believe my laptop came with a boot disc. Looking through some of the original paperwork that came with it, i found something that says my computer does not require an operating system cd or drivers cds. instead, it tells me to reinstall software by using system restore… i’d love to do this if my comp would actually boot!

somebody please help.

thanks

My computer crashes every 5 minutes and i cant use it to do anything now. What do i do?

August 22, 2009

The problem started yesterday. My computer was doing perfectly fine but then it crashed while running some program. so i had to perform a hard shutdown and restart the comp. the computer was still working fine after that one time but the program was buggy and kept crashing and i had to keep doing the hard shutdown. now times this whole scenario by 30 cause i shut it down nearly that many times from all the crashes. but now my comp wont even last 5 minutes before crashing and this is with the program not even running. i uninstalled it and same thing, i get a crash after 5 minutes. and booting up takes a long time in some parts and even still it doesnt always turn on correctly, it freezes in boot up aswell. even in bios it will freeze. so now im stuck. i tried to reinstall vista and it froze in the middle of reinstallation and then i ran the thing again and finished it up but its still crashing. so im guessing the motherboard got ruined because if it was power supply it would shut down after the crash wouldnt it? and its probably not software cause i completely reset the comp and reinstalled vista and i even tried switching wireless cards and mouse/keyboard. i also ran hp diagnostics tools and it says harddrive memory and cpu passed all the tests.
so pleeeaaase help meee. i cant use this thing without it freezing up every 5 minutes. i actually havnt even been able to get past the initial time setup pages and stuff when you reinstall vista. (using a dif. comp)

Old Dell Computer Crash ?

August 21, 2009

I was recently given a virtually dead computer: A Dell 233. The owner said it performed worse and worse and just finally became so hopeless he chucked it. Without giving you all the details he gave me a Dell Diagnostics disk, Win 95, 98 and upgrade ME disks and the boot floppies for each but none will install or run. So far all I’ve managed to install is DOS 6. I’ve scanned everything and run all the diagnostics and the only odd thing that shows up is that CHKDSK found a really long, long path name with a final sub directory called FLASH which for some reason I can’t get into (cd command).

Why can’t I get into this final sub directory to see what files are in it?
Is there any forensics-type software out there somewhere that will help me put some life into this old tank?
Formatting and reinstalling Windows means I probably lose a lot of old drivers so I’d rather avoid that… at least for a while. I suspect you’re right about the RTKit.