Recent content by gramirez2004

Does the coating on my monitor screen affect the picture quality. I washed the screen with windex and i'm not sure wether i damaged the coating. All the coating is is anti-static right? Nothing I should worry about for image quality? I have a NEC Multisynce FE770 Flat screen monitor.

My monitor's picture twitches every now and then. It's a little twitch. I know that electormagentic waves can do that like when my television is turned on. I don't if my picture twitches because some electronic device is turned on in my house. Can my uinterrupted power supply be the problem? And...

what is the degauss feature in my monitor and how will know when to use it?

I have a radeon 9600xt and it's fast enough to run far cry and any other games. It was recommended on the screensavers television show as the best cost-effective graphics card and i agree. It's fast enough for any game.

Every time I turn on my television the picture on my monitor shakes. This only happens when the television is first turned on. When my electric speakers were close to my monitor there was a wavy pattern but i fixed that by moving the speakers away. I know this is some kind of electrical...

Also do other pieces of hardware have shutting down procedures like the graphics cards or the CPU?

Why is it so important to shut down the computer through the shut down command. I know about the damage that can happen when the computer loses power when the operating system is writing to the hard drive. But does the hard drive itself have a "shutting down" procedure apart from the operating...

Can you still plug in 2.0 speakers in a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound Card?

Okay, what's the advantage of having a 256mb video card. No game uses that much. Not even a game like far cry. And if agp video cards need more memory don't they just use the main system memory.

I Just want to find out what exactly the difference is between the different audio specifications. I have a Logitech X120 Stereo Speakers and they sound awesome. What's the difference between 2.0 and 2.1 speakers? Will I notice a difference? Is there somewhere I can go to learn more about this?

It's a microsoft optical mouse. No, it's not cordless.

Everytime I turn off my computer the light in my optical mouse is still on. Is this normal? Is there someway I can change the setting anywhere so that the mouse light will turn off? I have a microsoft optical mouse.

I have windows xp.

I recently turned off my computer by switching off the power without a proper shut down from windows. I've heard that this can be bad and can lead to corrupt and damaged files. What happens if I shut down my computer without shutting down from within windows? How will I know if something has...