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Annoying TFT flicker
Hi folks, I 've just bought a 17" HP 1703 TFT monitor from staples for £80. It was cheap because it was ex display and there are no speakers. I have checked how many hours it has been on and it is a passable 283 hours. My question is, when I have installed the monitor, the picture is clear and stable, but there is what I…
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Pre-amplifier
I need to connect a record player deck to a mini stereo system. There is no output & apparently I need a pre-amplifier. Can you buy these? Any advice appreciated.
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Misbehaving Modem?
Hi Board Experts, Need your help. Just come home and noticed that my NTL 250 BB modem was sending and receiving data and no-one was using the computer - The computer was not even on? Any explanations? Thanks in advance. Spikey
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MS KB891711 April update but still problems...
I installed the original Mocrosoft KB891711.exe update on my Win98 system and had the same probs as others with blue screens, pc restarting on its own, freezing, crashing and pc excessively slow. It showed in start up list in misconfig and in task monitor. Now after uninstalling the original one completely and reinstalling…
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SPOOL32 Error
I keep get this error message coming up SPOOL32 caused an invalid page fault in module <unknown> at 0000:100012b5. Registers: EAX=00ea04d0 CS=0167 EIP=100012b5 EFLGS=00010202 EBX=0000c295 SS=016f ESP=013aff44 EBP=bff8516b ECX=80006a30 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=2d67 EDX=80006a20 ES=016f EDI=bff92b8f GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP:…
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How to calculate bandwith being used ?
Hiya Ive just got NTL installed on Friday PM. I think I had to reset my router to factory settings as Id messed it up while attempting to add wireless security *blush* Anyways, Im on the 1GB deal which has a 3GB cap per month. Im trying to work out if this is a comfortable limit for us - we have 3 PCs, 1 is used for…
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excel query
I exported a report from sage to excel and as i expected lost some of the formatting.However i want to change the figures in some columns to negative numbers. Is there a way i can change positive numbers to negative without having to change each and every single one. To complicate matters i want to the negative numbers to…
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Internet settings
I change my internet settings to "always dial my default connection and it keeps changing back to "dial up whenever a connection is not present". Why is that, does anybody know? Thanks.
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Trojan problem - please help!!
When we turned on the computer tonight, instead of our usual screensaver a blue screen came up with the following message: Fatal error in IE has occured at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM< 00010E36 Error was caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c We ran Norton Anti Virus but that didn't come up with anything and I have tried…
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Im a computer dummy. Trojan?
Just got my nice new computer and installed my spyware and Trojan came up as high risk. Clicked on details and was advised to block it which I did but then I had a message come up from Windows XP telling me to reinstall it as my computer would be affected. HELP PLEASE, do I reinstall it as per Windows XP or just carry on…
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Dual Boot Laptop
Wondering if anyone knows. Have a laptop from work at long last which ive configured for dual boot, XP for home and 2000 for work. Ive been messing about with partition magic and has a feature called hide partition. What i want to do is when the laptop boots into XP to hide the 2k partition completely anfd vise versa. Any…
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do i need to have ethernet on both pcs in order to set up a network
do i need to have ethernet on both pcs in order to set up a network (as checked computers and only one has an ethernet network adapter)or is there a there a way round it where i can get away with just having ethernet on one of them. if i need both of them to have ethernet how much at a guestimate does it cost to have it…
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recording internet
does anyone know of any freeware i can use to record video and audio from the net :rolleyes:
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Cheap TFT from Germany but what taxes do I pay??
HI all, I called a company in Germany supplying TFT monitors and had a very good quote from them for a 19inch monitor. They said that if I am having it delivered to the UK then I pay no German sales tax and would therefore be eligilble for a further price reduction....this brings the price down even more and including…
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My Memory -any good?
Anyone used them before? some of their stuff is tax free and i would like to buy some memory cards from them but need to know if they are any good. http://www.mymemory.co.uk/
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Firefox 1.0.3 Update get it now
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ What's New 1.0.3 Firefox 1.0.3 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers. We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. Here's what's new in Firefox 1.0.3: * Several security fixes. * Fix to improve…
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Cheap Ink
Hi, I'm looking for ink for my printer its an Epson Stylus Colour 440 anyone know where I can get some on the cheap.
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Help - mozilla search
Is there any way of separating search plugins into separate categories, so they don't all appear in a single drop-down list? I'd like to have separate categories for general web search (eg Google, Yahoo, Gigablast), news search (eg Google News, Feedster), foreign language synonym dictionaries (eg woerterbuch.info,…
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I've just discovered the beauty of RSS
A few days ago I was reading a thread on here that listed the RSS feed URL's for the forums. Since I use Firefox I simply copied one feed and added a 'Live Bookmark' so I could see the latest updates for that forum via a button in my browser. However, after seeing just how much time this was saving me in checking the…
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Broken Sky box, need CBeebies urgently
We stopped our Sky subscription a couple of months ago and have been happily watching just the free channels since then but it appears our Sky box died a death last weekend. It has one red light on now and no amount of cajoling will switch it to green. Our daughter is missing CBeebies so we need to get the free channels…
