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PC restart IDE controller shot?
Spare PC that I got out of storage for girlfriends kids has started acting up. Its an old Althlon XP2200+ cpu with 1GB ram and two IDE harddrives. Radeon 9200 pro and sounblaster sound card. Just worked through a few things as I had a few spares Changed PSU Changed IDE cable, and swapped port on motherboard (also with two…
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Auto Refresh
I spend too long on different forums , such as MSE Would like to add an Auto refresh option. Looked at Page Reboot Auto refresh page RebootEvery Refresher Any one got a favourite .... and why ?
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HP C4585 Paper jam
I have been given an HP C4585 printer, it came-up with a paper jam error and the previous owner took-it apart and got it working, however it gave-up after another 20 pages with the same error. I have tried all the usual tricks (but not cleaning the rollers yet, that is for another night). I got it to feed a sheet of paper…
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Help with powerpoint required
Hope somebody can help! I've created a powerpoint to use as a random selector, set the timings as 00.00 and set as a continuous loop. So basically the powerpoint screens quickly flick through the slides on pp, the only way I can stop to make a random selection is to press Esc. ( which makes the presentaion revert back to…
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Epson continuous ink system
Has anybody any personal experience of these that they can share before I buy one of these? I have got an Epson R265 which produces excellent photos but I am getting a bit stalled with having to fork out £50 for genuine ink / £10 for copies every 100 or so prints. I've seen these in action at a number of computer shows,…
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Don't hold out much hope...
but thought I would ask anyway, in the hopes I may just be being thick. I went to Disney in November, took pics on my camera saved to a memory card. When I came home, didn't print out straight away, but plugged the memory card into my comp to view them on the screen. Unfortunately, I got a virus in the computer, while the…
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ms office
on my desktop i have an icon ms office when i click on it theres an option to purchase ms office 2007 or try ms office 2007 i have downloaded and use openoffice should i leave the ms office icon on my desktop or can i uninstall it?
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HAL oooerrr
>>Just what do you think you're doing DAVE ? << clicky Was looking for a new PC case for next gaming PC and this caught my eye - (Not sure about the cooling on it though) But If it started singing "Mary Mary" when I began building it I think that would be it :eek:
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Help please - laptop won't go onto internet
Up until last week, all was well and then the laptop decided not to talk to the router anymore. We have managed to get a connection again for the laptop and the status = connected and signal strength = excellent. However, we can't connect to the internet over the wireless connection but if we take the ethernet cable out of…
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Can you please help me? I have google redirect virus??
Hello, can I Please ask if someone can help me. My computer has a google redirect virus and I cannot get rid off it. I have run malwarebytes log is: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.38 Database version: 2385 Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 04/02/2010 17:28:09 mbam-log-2010-02-04 (17-28-09).txt Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|D:\|)…
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Desktop using a Laptop display
I have just bought a new Desktop PC - the new Medion from Aldi. I want to run my old desktop PC to copy files but only have one monitor. Is it possible to use my laptop display as a monitor for the desktop PC? If so - how? Thanks
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windows 7 - magic desktop
hiya anyone know what magic desktop is about with windows 7 ta if anyone can help
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External HDD in Raw format - But wont let me change to Fat32/NTFS etc
Hi guys, My friend gave me a USB hard drive and i plugged it in and was in Raw format i have tried changing it to Fat, Fat32 and NTFS but it wont let me do it. Is the drive broken?
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AOL - Secure Sites
Unable to log into any secure banking sites, page just hangs using AOL. If I plug in my Vodafone Mobile Broadband dongle everything is ok and pages load fine. Is it an AOL issue, I know they had issues a number of weeks ago but then everything was ok afterwards. T.I.A.
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Internal 1.8" hard disk
Hi Does anyone knows where I can buy a new 1.8" hard disk drive? My current hard disk in my laptop (IBM X40) is on its last legs and I'm looking for at least a 60GB hdd. Any ideas?
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sky anytime
hi, is it normal for a sky+hd box to have less films and programmes in the anytime section than a regular sky+ box? we notice that often there are only 3 or 4 films at the most available in anytime on the hd box we have but the regular sky+ box can have as many as 10 films or more at any one time.this applies in all the…
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Laptops with front loading optical drives
I'm thinking of getting one but finding one is like finding pound coins on the pavement. anyone know of any makes/models that do have this? thanks in advance
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problem with adobe, i think?
i have a home computer and a lap top and if ever i went on a site that said click here to find out/download more info. i clicked and it came up no problem on both computers. but recently no matter which computer you are on any link you go to to download more info it comes up with all manner of messages saying i need this…
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Zbot Virus - Online banking?
I have just tried to log into my online banking, and it kept saying my password or pin was wrong, so I called the bank to be told they had stopped my online banking due to them saying I had a virus on my PC. Se said the virus is called Zbot...? I have had no problems with my PC at all. The bank said this is a sophisticated…
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using paint.net
I want to change a photo so it looks like a picture but I have no idea how to go about this - I've found the effect I want on a site https://www.desma.de (the blue box) but despite downloading paint.net, searching the site, and working through tutorials I am still at a complete loss. If any of you could take a look at the…
