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Delayed write failed?
I got myself a 2.5" external drive to back up my hard drives onto and store away from the PC, few of my friends do this and it seemed like a good idea. Beats backing up onto 10 DVD's I remember reading a while back that motherboards with VIA chipsets have a 'delayed write faliure' problem with external drives on USB 2.0…
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power port on my laptop is lose and wont power up or charge the battery
hi the power point on my packard bell laptop seems to be losse and sometimes will not go on. any advice where i can get it fixed at a low price. i bought off ebay and it worked fine for a couple of days. and then started to shut itself down when the power light indector goes off untill u move the power cable jack plug…
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can you tape from freeview
I bought a freeview set top box today to see if I could improve my picture as I have quite bad reception at times. Some of the channels are better, but my problem is I cannot access my video when freeview is on and vice versa. Both freeview and video are connected to back of tv and I have to remove one of the scarts to…
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dell asking for £541
i was having a few difficulties with my battery/charger or adapter so i sent in my laptop to dell to get it repaired and i got a call from dell telling me there was a fault in the motherboard and if i wanted to ..i could get it repaired for £541 i could buy 2 new laptops from that £541 do you think this is fair? wat should…
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Sky digital - certain free channels not working
Recently Ive noticed that my sky system has stopped showing certain channels that are normally free to air. Channels such as SKY3, ITV4, Ch5, etc etc are not working most of the time- I get a message saying signal not found. Sometimes if I wait long enough the channel may start working but thats if Im really lucky! Other…
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DVD Burner wont copy - help please
Hi I have a Lite-On DVD burner. All was ok for about a year but now im having major problems. Whenever i try to copy a DVD it always fails when it is reading the DVD. It says that the problem was "unable to locate layer break" When you download something and then add that to Nero and burn it to DVD you have no problems, it…
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Any experiences with *USB* KVM switches?
I wonder whether anyone has any experience with KVM switches which use the USB and VGA video ports on up to four PCs, and can switch a single screen, USB keyboard and USB mouse to any one of them, reliably? It is becoming almost impossible to get PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports on new PCs, and so switching USB ports seems to…
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What's it called?
Hi, Having issues with my laptop power. It struggles to get a good connection, went out to buy a new lead today (The last on got snapped after a slight dissagreement :o ) and its still the same so I have ruled out the lead being faulty. I can now only assume its the connecter that you plug the lead into on the back of the…
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How do you view 2 web pages at once with firefox
Title says it all really, I have just downloaded firefox to enable to view 2 pages at once but can't see how do to it. By the way I love this forum, it is always helping me out, thanks in advance.:beer:
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copying e-mails
got a virus and wanna back up my e-mail files though safe mode then wipe the hard drive, anyone know how or where to find my e-mails?
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free online IT courses
Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me. I'm a novice to the world of PC's and want to learn more. It's difficlut for me to find time to get to a college, so ideally would love to do it at home. I have registered with vision2learn, but the courses, they say, are not available and are full. Any ideas, anyone? Thank yu.
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External Hard Drive
I posted this on the I want on board but didnt receive any response so hopefully somebody may be able to help me here Im after an external hard drive mainly for back up purposes. Dont really need really big capacity. Anyone got any advice when buying and wheres gthe cheapest to buy from. Cheers in Advance Forgot to mention…
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Help - Internet security...
i have norton security installed on my laptop, but this is about to expire. before i renew it, i'd like to know if it's true that you can download a decent security system for free. if so, could a kind soul point me in the right direction?
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Laptop Battery
I bought a laptop about 2-3 months ago from Ebuyer, its an Acer Aspire. Since i have had it, it has never run off the battery, always the AC adapter. The first time i put the battery in it charged up from 0% to 70% and wont go any further. When i try to turn the comp on without the ac adapter, just the battery, nothing…
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name & address
hi can anyone point me in the right direction? finding a software that will auto fill my name address etc it drives me mad having to do it all the time when filling in forms on line thanks in advance
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USB TV for Laptop
There was a discussion on here a few days ago (but I can't find the thread :o ) about USB TV sticks and products - I think this would be good for my laptop and I've found the following product on Amazon.co.uk - it seems to come with a remote and an antenna but I would appreciate if anyone has this product, what they…
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ipwins
I've found a program on my puter called 'ipwins' and have done a bit of research on it on the internet. Apparently, it multiplies itself and causes pop-ups. Have tried Adware Away but that doesn't pick it up on its scan and I can't delete it directly because apparently 'the file is in use'. Add/Remove programs doesn't work…
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Dates in excel
I'm having trouble getting excel to recognise dates, I'm using this formula to create a value but it doesn't seem to work =IF($E2-NOW()<=$K2,$J2,) I've formatted the E2 cell as a date but it keeps bringing up a #VALUE error in the cell with this formula. Anyone got any ideas why Thanks Max
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lcd tv HD,, which cables to use
whats best cables to use with sony lcd hd tv? from sky to tv ? from dvd to tv ? at the moment just got normal scart leads ,, will other cables make picture any better ?
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Microsoft Money 2005 Price Update Problem
I have been using Microsoft Money 2005 for about 15 months with few problems. But, on May 10th, Microsoft Money failed to update the prices of Funds (OEICS and Unit Trusts) correctly. It seems to have confused pounds and pence so that the values of all my funds have divided by 100! Anyone else have this problem and know of…
