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How to lower voltage
I have a Garmin Streetpilot i3 fitted to my motorcycle.Problem when stationary with engine ticking over works ok when I drive away it goes off. Stop and turn it on and it works again drive away and it goes off again. Not sure if there is a protection thermo/couple fitting and my alternator is sending too much voltage. i3…
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Printing help
I'VE just started scrapbooking and am printing some images of the web, but at the moment i print one image per A4 sheet, how can i make it that i 've 2 or 3 images per sheet
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1tb or 750 gb hard drive
hi folks i am looking to buy 2 hard drives to put into a small network i use and was thinking of using either 750's or 1tb. which are the best ones to use and are there any available at a decent cost(although prob more worried about performance than cost without rippig the A. out of it) i hope to set these up as raid…
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Questions about giving my computer away
Howday techies! I'm giving my PC away to a charity and don't know what to do to wipe everything on it. Do I need to delete everything one bit at a time?
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Ebay , Refund help!
Hello i have just had a refund from ebay for an item i returned nerver had one before. Does anyone know how i get the money into my bank and not just sat in pal pay account ? :confused:
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Buffalo NAS Drive and Netgear Wireless Router.....gaps
Hi, I have a Buffalo NAS Drive with my MP3's on. It's wired into my Netgear router and my Laptop connects to it via wi-fi. It won't play a single song all the way through without gaps. I don't know if it is the router or the drive. My internet ain't brill but is that TalkTalk or the router? I've had a poke round via google…
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Humax Warranty Question.
hi folks, hope somene can help me as i am thinking of buying a humax 9200t pvr from humax own website and was wondering you are able to transfer the warranty into someone eles name if i decide to sell the humax on ebay if i do have problems with the freeview signal in my area? in particular i am looking at buyin the refurb…
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Clicking Sound and High Pitched Sound on Startup!
When I first switch my computer on in the morning there is a clicking sound and a high pitched noise (which is intermittant). The screen goes black rather than the usual windows startup and asks me to insert a startup disk (cant remember the exact words). If i press restart a few times the noise and clicking eventually go…
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YouTube/ICQ chat/Adobe Flash Player problem
Hi I use two websites regularly - YouTube and ICQ, and I wondered if anyone else is having similar problems to me. Up until a few days ago I was able to watch videos on YouTube with no problems at all. Then a message started to appear saying "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash…
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Wireless problem
After a reboot it takes me many attempts to reconnect my wireless broadband. It will connect for a short while and then fail although it is telling me that it is connected. Eventually I will get a connection which is robust. I wonder why this is happening.
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Will a Wii Fit from Spain work in the UK?
Hi I am off to Spain soon and am thinkng of buying a Wii Fit for use back in the UK. Will it work ok or do I need some kind of adapter? I am also thinking of buying more than one to flog on. What are the regulations with regard to bringing items such as this back to the uk? Thanks.
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view video content on french website (TF1) ???
like the bbc website you can only access some content when you are in the uk is there a way around this as i wish to access some french stuff on the TF1 website from the uk, Also when in france i wish to access the bbc stuff which is blocked too any suggestions would be helpful
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Extension wire for Sky!
Sorry this is not too technical, but dont know where to post this! I want to rearrange my living room and so the TV needs go a corner...but dont have enough wire which comes from Sky dish? Can we use any other wire / where can I get, say about 3metre length?
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PC losing CMOS settings
I powered on my desktop PC for the first time in a little while, and a few weird things happened: 1) It powered on as soon as I turned the master power switch on at the back (there's a front power on button that you're meant to use every day, but I usually switch it off completely when I'm not using it). 2) The power-on…
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system restore
can any one help when i try to restore my comp it goes through the process but then say system restore incomplete and no changes have been made :confused:
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delete folder
normally when i go to empty out the deleted folder, it asks me to if i want to empty the whole folder and it does, but now it will only do it one at a time and everytime the message box comes up and it is taking ages to delete everything how can i get it to delete it all in one go its on windows mail thanks
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How to prevent spamming on mse
A lot of spam is being posted on the freebie section is there anyway of preventing spammers on this website? One of my suggestion was once someone reports spam the message is removed immediately before it is checked out by the moderators.I don't know if this is possible. Please if the above message is not suitable here…
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Is this a virus/spyware or nothing?
Hello! I was doing a scan on my pc as you do and noticed something a bit strange....let me run you thru it. Last Sat used my pc,updated virus/spyware software as normal then did 2 scans (one of each) no viruses or spyware found so I switched it off. Last night put on my pc and did the updates straight away,then all I did…
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Vundo infection help please
Ok, I picked this up somewhere and started getting a lot of pop ups. After some investigation I Oooh another pop up... Anyways I downloaded malwarebytes and did a scan, it got rid of loads of the vundo pap, thought I was rid of it but now I am still getting sypmtoms of infection. Every scan I do it tells me I have…
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transistors
I'm making this circuit, without the RTS line. And I'm using BC546 and BC556 from Maplin, I need to confirm that I definately have the pin outs correct, Maplin catalog said they were both the same (T092), but I was the one reading it and I don't know my !!!! from my elbow when it comes to this stuff. I'm confused because…
