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Does Freeview Box work in Europe?
Evening all We have a Phillips made UK Freeview box. We have a house in Spain and were wondering if it is worth taking the Freeview box over at Xmas. Will it pick up any digital channels in Spain, or are the signals completley different? Cheers in advance.
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Sky TV - in two rooms (not multiroom) need help.
Hoping someone can help me here. We have sky - receiver in one room and around 10 years ago we purchased (from sky) a little thing which plugged from the aerial socket into the portable in the bedroom which allowed us to watch sky there (it's not multiroom as you have to be atching the same sky channel as the main box and…
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No Sound when connecting Laptop to TV
Hello I've connected my laptop to the tv using a VGA cable - works fine. But if i wanted to route the sound to come from the tv where am i going wrong? I have a 3.5mm jack to L R Phono cable i'm using to connect the two. As soon as i plug the 3.5mm jack into the laptop the sound on the laptop goes off but nothing from the…
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Can I reuse my old PC tower case
Hi, Despite being a techie I have been out of the PC building scene for a good few years. Anyway, I have a big but old (5 year) tower that I was hoping to use for building my new PC. It is similar a relation to http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=CAA-TIT650B&af=50 just 5 years older. Anyway, my question is…
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Can windows Xp see a 500gb hard drive?
Just bought a new computer which should come with a 500gb hd but when installing windows Xp, it came up as 235gb. I know this means it is probably a 250gb hd as you do lose some space. The info that came with it though, states that using the wrong operating system can stop the real size being detected, is this true or have…
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problem with Samsung L200 camera - help needed!!
Evening all!! Need a bit of help with a new camera I bought recently - a Samsung L200. Great camera and got great deal in Boots but having trouble loading photos onto PC. I have loaded the software disc onto my PC which came with the camera but when I connect the camera via USB cable supplied, a message comes up saying…
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Windows Update Problem
Posting on behalf of a friend. He has had the same HP laptop for the past 5 years, with no problems at all, never formatted or anything. He bought it via his then girlfriend, who bought it from her employer, who would wipe /re-install XP Professional on replaced laptops, then offer them to employees. He rarely uses it, but…
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Windows 'patch' for recent IE7 weakness
Do I take it that there will be automatic notification by Microsoft to signed-up users, as per usual? I understand that the patch is due out imminently: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/12/16/advance-notification-for-december-2008-out-of-band-release.aspx
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Problem with boot sequence on pc
I have a external hard drive and when its plugged in my computer tries to boot from it and goes no further I have to use reset button and unplug said hard drive. Then when i boot it starts fine, but it does say on startup boot from CD is that right? I gather i might need to change boot sequence but don't know how I have…
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Acer Aspire 5930G Audio out
I was plugging the headphones in to my lappy tonight and as I was pushing the plug in I noticed a red light in side the headphone socket, I was wondering if there an optical connector built in to the headphone socket that can be plugged in to my surround sound amp? There are some letters under the headphone symbol but they…
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Helium Speeking People
HELP when ever i watch bbc news on line or a video(youtube) people are always speaking as if on helium how can i rectify the problem a very big thank you in advance oh nearly forgot merry xmas to everyone
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Installing Fedora
Hi I'm trying to install fedora, on a sun xVM virtualbox, running in windows vista ultimate 64bit. I downloaded the version 10 x86_64 dvd but when I try to install it I get the message that my processor is i686. The processor I'm using is a dual core pentium 4 E2180 2ghz. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What disk I need to…
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which laptop is best from these, need advice please :-)
my husband is on the hunt for a laptop for me for xmas but hes working so much this week he doesnt have time to look so ive been searching. ive found a couple and i need to keep the costs to a minimum so id appriciate your advice as to if these will be ok. all i do is browse the web, facebook, sell on ebay which will be my…
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Is £57 for 5 minutes advice fair value from Dell
Hi I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop computer. I have had it for four weeks and swapped over my old files from an XP machine onto the Vista machine I havent changed any settings or altered anything for the past week and everything was running fine. I alwys shut down by start, shut down, and likewise switch on…
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Looking up IP address?? HELP
Right have friends (using friend loosely lol) who is working in Nigeria just now thing is when I checked IP address it says it can be used for scams though it is used for clean emails also?? Thing is friend aint ever asked me for money or anything like that so no funny business yet lol,though noticed last night it had a…
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HD programmes on HD ready tv?
Advice please as to what exactly do I need to watch HD programmes on a 42" HD ready tv My in-laws have this set up with built in freeview and have added a freeview recorder, I know that only a select few programmes are shown in HD, but what would they need to do to actually watch them in HD? The freeview recorder is a…
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os query
what operating system to install on a 1ghz pentium 3 with 128 mb ram, which should also be okay for networking
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laptop battery care ?
hi , i will be getting a new laptop next week . I have never owned a laptop before and was wondering if there was anything special you needed to do to the battery to make it last longer . Ive been told in the past that you should only attach the battery when not using the mains and not leave attached to laptop when fully…
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spam from yourself?
my lovely sister new to computers is receiving spam from her self?her email adress etc, how can she stop this? she has mcfee installed etc.:confused:
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Wii Fit owners - bargain
I have just sold my 3 month old wii fit plus balance board for £100 trade in at CEX. Cash would prob be around £80. So if you don't use yours much, sell it - you can always buy a new one for cost price later!!
