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Faulty Hitachi LCD tv
Hi I bought a 26" Hitachi LCD tv 2 years ago. This week the tv has started failling when I switch it on. Basically, the image gets sometimes splitted in a few parts (always horizontally), some parts gets frozen, sometimes are zoomed, even the display menus are shown wrongly. Then, after 5 minutes it starts working fine. It…
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firewire card
have a toshibe equium A210-1C4 laptop how do i tell if it has a firewire card installed. also if i connect my camcorder to laptop how can i tell if its recognised it thanks
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iPad iplayer app
Hi, Is it possible to watch programmes from the iplayer iPad app on my tv with the vga cable. Thanks
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Best back up solution - external hard drive?
Having benefited from the amazing help on this forum after my laptop went very sick, I'm looking for a fail-safe back up method. We have wireless broadband, mainly using two laptops (plus smart phones and wii, but no paid-for TV services). We take digital photos, but not massive storage issues. I'm assuming an external…
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Print spooler error
Hi My HP laptop (running XP) can't see the installed printers, which have been installed for ages and which I have been using until this problem occurred a couple of weeks ago. I've gone to the admin tools and reset the spooler to start and run automatically, but when I try to print I get an error message which leads on to…
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router advice
Hi, I have virgin media and a hard wired router connecting X-box and wii to the modem. I have just got a new android phone with wifi and want to connect this to the net. Can anyone recommend a good (but cheap) way that will allow me to keep the x-box and wii hard wired and allow wifi connection for my phone. I have a…
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sony no longer giving me digital
moved house just over a year ago. Left Perth with my Sony wega kd28dx50 tv which worked perfectly well and then arrived in Helensburgh and tried to tune it in and it wouldnt work. Tried everything including payin 50 quid for a guy to come and look at it but to no avail. Called Sony and they said that it wasnt not…
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Sky TV Link won't work ...
Too long a story to go into but an idiot ( namely me) pulled the cable out of the back of the tv at my Mums. Found out a couple of days later that the sky remote control will not work in the bedroom. I've put the cable back in the right place ( I think ) but it still does not work. Do I have to 'power up' the tv link…
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epson r320 printer, engineers cd
my printer is not working and I have seen a cd that is supposed to re-set the printer, anyone used one ?
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The resistor colour code.
On the day a teacher was disciplined as being racist for quoting the old non PC rhyme to remember the code, my question is what rhyme do you use. The code is:- 0 Black 1 Brown 2 Red 3 Orange 4 Yellow 5 Green 6 Blue 7 Violet 8 Grey 9 White
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Problem deleting files/folders
I have a lot of files/folders in my documents I want to delete. They aren't all together so I need to go down them and highlight the ones I want to delete. To delete more than one say 10 at a time I highlight one then press control and highlight the others I want to delete then right click mouse for delete. It is copying…
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turn your gmail account into a 7gb drive
here's a niffty download that will add gmail as a 7.5gb drive to my computer ,anything that you want to back up , just drag into the drive and it will send it as an email + attachment to your gmail account automatically http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml
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Easy techie question...not (HTML/ASP/JS)
I have an ASP page with 2 dropdown list boxes. They have id's of "select2" and "select3". Their "onchange" event is set to call a javascript function that will draw a button on screen (as follows): function checkDeferDate() { var el1 = document.getElementById('select2'); var el2 = document.getElementById('select3'); var…
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VHS to DVD using PC? HELP!!!
I'm trying to convert my husbands collection of VHS tapes to DVD but not having much success. My DiL loaned me a piece of kit called DAZZLE. I've loaded the programme on my PC - all OK. I've connected my old VHS player (red & white plugs - output to input on the Dazzle 'thingy) I didn't have a set of yellow plugs but DH…
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Quick question for Google Chrome users, favour needed please
Hi all, After having issues with IE and it's slowness yesterday i installed Google Chrome which so far i am loving. However one thing i noticed was that when i sign into my Ebay account for a split second and i mean a split second before it signs me into my Ebay page it says the following. If you are seeing this page, your…
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rebooted PC, Netgear router not found??
Have had to completely reboot the PC from scratch as it crashed. Have an issue now in trying to install the drivers for our Netgear wireless router. We have the setup disc, but during the installation run, it says it cannot detect the router?? Running Windows XP, other programmes seem to load up no problem. I have no idea…
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Razer Barracuda mic prob.
Hi all, I have installed a Razer Barracuda sound card and headset but have a problem with playback. For some reason when using the headset's microphone in game, other people can hear the game's sounds from my PC. Also, if I play music on my PC with any external speakers disconnected and chat to someone using the…
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Dongle help please.
Hi my parents have a really old desk top computer and use dial up internet. I was wondering if a PAYG dongle would increase the download speed and would be cost effective. Mum doesn't surf much but her emails get 'stuck' when there is a big one to download. I was wondering if all dongle internet costs the same and if it…
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MP3 Player?
Hey, I'm looking for a non Apple MP3 player has to be not too big or not too small and have a screen for videos and decent enough memory - a solid amount. Also should be easy software wise to upload songs to it?
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Itunes question
Hi, I don't know how but I appear to have duplicated most of my music library. I know how to find all duplications however it only seems to let me delete them manually one at a time. This will take me forever. Does anyone know a way to do it automatically in one go? Thanks Fifi
