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me again!! still looking for computer and someone said they will build me one..

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  • hostertlady
    hostertlady Posts: 876 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    you know what?

    i am not going to bother with SIMS 3!! it is doing my head in thinking about it, if daughter wants to go on SIMS 3 then she can get a flippin computer of her own :D

    I have bought an external hard drive ( 500 gb) and i have backed up all my work ( very excited that i did that)

    Now my service provider has sent me a wireless router, at the moment i am using a BT voyager 105 modem, if i start using a wireless router- will that speed things up?? i know my son will be pleased as he has a pc in his room but no internet so at least he can get online IF i can successfully set up the THOMPSON HIGH SPEED WIRELESS ROUTER
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    It's unlikely to speed things up, but is safer, providing you encrypt the signal with wpa/wpa2.

    What did you use to backup? What is the brand of usb drive.

    You still need to check whether the cpu fan is spinning.
    !!
    > . !!!! ----> .
  • hostertlady
    hostertlady Posts: 876 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    closed wrote: »
    It's unlikely to speed things up, but is safer, providing you encrypt the signal with wpa/wpa2.

    What did you use to backup? What is the brand of usb drive.

    You still need to check whether the cpu fan is spinning.

    wpa/wpa2. ???? what??

    i bought an external hard drive to back up- it is a fujitsu siemens storagebird-35ev840

    i took the side panel off my tower ro look at cpu fan- it all looks rather dusty in there but i dont know which is the cpu??there is abig white thing that says push on it?
  • turbobob
    turbobob Posts: 1,500 Forumite
    The CPU will be underneath a large metal heatsink with a fan mounted on it. In this picture the CPU fan is the thing to the right.

    heatsink01.jpg
  • cit_k
    cit_k Posts: 24,812 Forumite
    I would avoid using those two computer shops again if they told you to buy a new computer simply because of a bad cpu fan....
    [greenhighlight]but it matters when the most senior politician in the land is happy to use language and examples that are simply not true.
    [/greenhighlight][redtitle]
    The impact of this is to stigmatise people on benefits,
    and we should be deeply worried about that    [/redtitle](house of lords debate, talking about Cameron)
  • hostertlady
    hostertlady Posts: 876 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    cit_k wrote: »
    I would avoid using those two computer shops again if they told you to buy a new computer simply because of a bad cpu fan....

    not just because of the cpu fan to be honest,its cos i was going on about the sims 3 etc ( see previous post) anyway, i am not bothered about SIMS 3 now, DD can suffer in silence, Lol:D
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