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Advent laptop not booting
Hi, a friend has given me their Advent 7116 laptop to look at because it is not booting at all. The symptoms are as follows: It powers-on and displays an Intel logo "splash screen" with<F2> BIOS Setup / <F12> Boot Menu / <TAB> Skip boot logo at the bottom of the screen. My problem is that it simply sits there and does not…
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TomTom One IQ Routes
Hi all, About August time I bought the above item. Used the map guarantee straight away. Decided yesterday to buy map updates. Now I have 2 UK maps - older map & the updated map. How do I delete the older map?
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Poor signal strength to laptop
Hi I have ready the sticky and the relevant looking FAQ’s but couldn’t find anything to help me hence this post. We have just bought a laptop for my wife to use throughout the house whilst our main PC is in the office at the top of the house. The router is BT Home Hub 2 connected to my PC by Ethernet (I think). The house…
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@btinternet.com email
Hi. Is anyone else having trouble picking up their emails from bt yahoo? I can't see a problem shown on the service status and wondered if it's just me or a wider problem. Thanks, Sue
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Outlook Connector
I have just set up a new website and the email address that I have now comes through 'outlook connector' rather than just into my normal outlook. I have never seen this before and not onoly do I not seem able to send emails from this part, but when I delete them it just crosses them out! I will end up with thousand of…
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fast laptop
i currently have a samsung r700 with a t8100 processor, im after a new laptop that is more powerful for around a max of £750.00 can anyone sugest a good laptop for this price. will not be used for games
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Photoshop expert wanted
Hey, I'm looking for a favour. Would anyone be able to clean up this photo? My gran only has one photo left of her brother who passed away a few years ago and we were looking to have it cleaned/tidied up. My aunt tried to clean the photo with a baby wipe and wiped away some of the pic. Thankfully we kept a scan before she…
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Getting a netbook repaired
I bought my little Acer netbook last February from Comet. I got a good discount because it had been returned as unsuitable, but since the assistant told me there still would be a 1 year warranty as normal I wasn't fussed. However now the screen has started playing up so that at the largest angle to about 2/3 open there are…
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Downloading from napster
I've bought an album on napster, but I can't seem to get the songs to download. I click on it, it says it's downloaded, but when I search my computer it's nowhere to be found. If anyone can talk me through the process I'd be really grateful.
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Xbox 360 moding service needed
I need to find a specialist of xbox360 in co.tyrone to get my console JTAG'ed and XBR'ed. Cant find any listings online, sending it some place over the water is not a thing i'd like to do, hence looking locally. Any ideas ? I know this is a gray area, and, if its not allowed to discuss but you have some info, please PM me,…
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video download help
hi all, i'd like some help if poss please. i had this video made up for my kids for christmas from here http://portablenorthpole.tv/home and wondered if i can download onto pc then transfer to dvd. the video link was ent to my e mail address i havereal player and an option comes up to say download this video which i click…
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Nintendo dsi
hi i have a nintendo dsi, been looking for some games for it but have noticed that a lot on ebay state that they are for the standard ds or ds lite, but not the dsi ie mario kart, or mario and sonic winter olympics is this because they are not originals or different software versions .... as ive no idea think the version i…
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wireless problem in windows 7
hi i am having a problem finding a driver for my wireless card for win 7 the card uses the tnetw1130gvf chipset but the only drivers i can find are for xp or earlier does anyone know where i can find a win7 64 bit driver for this chipset
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Memory Map
Anyone use or used http://www.memory-map.co.uk software, 2800 Handheld device or the 7in screen? We have been using sapmaps for our search and rescue operations and don't get on with them, we are now looking at a better option. When we launch the our Airboat we are going to use a Panasonic Toughbook with mapping software -…
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free windows registry cleaner?
is there a free registry cleaner out there for windows? lots of sites with free scans saying that thousands of files are faulty and can easily be fixed by spending £xx.00 !!! do i really need to spend money to get this or is there a good hidden site that does the job for free. have had a look abou the web, but have no idea…
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emails won't download help
For some reason my inlaws downloaded Microsoft Outlook accidentally over Christmas, they were using Outlook Express before, they had a bit of trouble at first as Outlook would only send emails and Express receive emails, in the mean time they got it sorted out (not sure who by because they are not very computer savvy).…
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i pod tagging songs
I have a new i pod with a function if you click the middle wheel while listening to the radio it supposedly tags the song and when you sync with i tunes it gives you chance to purchase the song. I've tried this but can't seem to get it to work. Help please
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Vista - partitioning the hard drive
Hi guys, Can you tell me why the drive is split in 2? & also my c drive has 5gb left from 23gb & the d drive has 38.9gb free from 39gb so how do I transfer program files from c to d to balance it out, if that makes any sense?
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2 sided printing message
hi guys ive had a laser printer for like a year and a half now and love it its great to do 2 sided printing ect. However, i now have a laptop which i can plug in and it runs fine but keeps printing the 2 sided printing instructions every time i print which kinda defeats the point as its an extra page and i mess it up. Can…
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Software KVM
I run 2 PCs on my desk and dont have the space for 2 keyboards and mice. I don't use both frequently enough to pay for a hardware KVM. I just found Synergy+ which is a kind of networked software KVM. You still need a screen on each PC, but one keyboard and mouse can be used for multiple PCs. As you roll your mouse off one…
