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Xbox Live
Hello! I have just started a month's subscription to Xbox Live. If I buy a 12 month code can I input it straight away (and get 12 months after this month is up)? Many thanks.
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Html help!
Where do I find a Public_html directory? And how do I upload html notepad documents into them? Thanks Amy
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Is this RAM compatible with a Dell Dimension E520?
I'm thinking of purchasing the Dell Dimension E520 on offer at the moment for £293 (Core2Duo, 250GB RAM, 1GB RAM). But I would like some more RAM. If I purchase the same system from Dell as above except with the 2GB RAM option it will cost me another £59. I am thinking of purchasing the 1GB system and adding RAM…
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Just about to buy this laptop, good deal?
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/3337356/Toshiba-Satellite-Pro-L30-113-1-7GHz-15-4-TFT-1Gb-Memory-Laptop-Notebook-Vista-Home-Basic/Product.html All I want is surf the net wirelessly. But I keep hearing bad things about Vista home basic and I keep reading people saying you a need dual core processer. does that really matter…
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Do I Take out the Warranty?
I am hoping to buy an LCD 32" television today and want either a Panasonic or Sony. Can anyone recommend one that is under £550? Also do I take out the shop warranty or is there a cheaper way of doing this? Can you insure your tv against break-downs more cheaply elsewhere?
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TV problems!
Our main TV a Philips 28PW6006C has just started showing 2 faults! First, large discoloured patches are appearing either side of the screen - these tend to fade if a lot of scene changes on the prog we are watching! Second, the picture seems to flick from normal to 'fatten' picture and back again? I guess something is…
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Reliable external HDD
Looking to improve my backup for main PC after recent problems! Any thoughts on what brand to go for (reliability) and who to avoid? Thanks
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vista and messenger
just got a new acer laptop with vista and tried installing windows live messenger as i use it a lot for work but it wont work - installs fine but crashes as soon as i try to open it?? has anyone found a solution? i've found a few people who have suffered the same problem?
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Do I Really Need a Colour Cartridge to print in black and white?
Got a Epson Photo 915 which takes a black ink cartridge and also a 5 colour cartridge. The latter has just run out, but have tried to print a word document and even when selecting black/white it still chucks up an error message saying I have run out of ink. Anyway around this?
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Contract mobile phones. ??
Oh my sweet Lord ! I currently have a PAYG vodaphone well battered phone. 40p a text... I've noticed I'm now going through £15 a month in calls and texts. So I was wondering what sort of £15 a month contract deals are out there. And I want to keep my number. What a mess and quagmire the whole system is. I can't find a…
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Unknown address error 550
I am having problems with my e-mail! When I send e-mails this message comes up: The following message to <XXXXX@onetel.com> was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'<XXXXX@onetel.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table' We have just gone over to…
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DVD writer & software issues
I'm having a few problems with my pc at the moment and I wonder if anyone could give me some advice. I have been using Nero 7 Ultra edition's Nero Vision to burn dvd's and cd's, all was fine until about 2 weeks ago. My dvd re writer is a Lite-on DVDRW SHW-160PS, btw. Well my teenage son bought an mp4 player, it came…
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How to identify the motherboard?
Am trying to figure out how to find out what the motherboard is on someones computer. They have no paperwork (it was built for themm by a relative) and they are not happy to take the side off to look. Any other way? Reason is wanting to know how much RAM it will support to see if more can be added as 'puta is very slow.…
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wireles setup
Hi, I hope there is someone who can help me with my wireless conection. I am with AOL and they have sent me a DG 384G router by netgear, to become wireles I have bought a BT Voyager 1055 USB 2.0 Adapter. The router is configured and all set to go and the enclosed disc tells me that this is fine. The adapter is configured…
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Poor TV reception due to huge trees
Hey, Just recently moved into a new house and our reception for standard analogue TV is poor and I plugged in our existing freeview box and its unable to detect anything. Also, got the sky guy round and he says its highly unlikely we can get sky in because of the massive trees around the house, however the said it might be…
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Problems with bluetooth
Hi Can anyone please give me some idea as to why my Advent bluetooth dongle on the laptop won't pair up with my Nokia 6111? I get all the way to inserting the code on the pc and then doing the same on the phone then it tells me that pairing has failed. if I leave the code blank it tells me that a default code will be used.…
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What is this worth please
My pal is selling me a computer, used of course. It has 150 gig of memory 512 ram pentium (r) 4 cpu 3 ghz processor nvidia geforce fx5200 graphics soundex sound card ( i think) He says it is a bargain @ £175. Having seen what I can buy new I am beginning to have doubts. He also said the graphics card was ace, this does not…
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PC Not starting up
Hi My PC has sort of died on me tonight. I switch it on and the monitor light goes green and then back to orange within a few seconds and displays the power saving message. The tower seems to be making all the right noises but there's nothing getting to the screen. I am sick with worry since I have a ton of pics of my…
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Talk Talk ADSL USB Pain
Hi I have Virgin Broadband and have just received the cheap Talk Talk Router and USB adapter but when I try to install the USB adapter it stops at the point where it tries to talk to Talk Talk and Talk Talk won't respond (obviously because I'm a Virgin customer so they don't recognise me). So I can't use the darned thing…
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Virus
Torjan attack avast keeps finding win32:agent-GXN,win32:agent-GVO,win32:agent-GTZ run ad-adware,spy bot,trend micro online scan but no luck. It keeps hiding in Firefox cache it only picks it up after i run ccleaner Hers my hijack this log Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 21:48:07, on 25/05/2007 Platform: Windows…
