Vista keyboard problem
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:51:49 +0100
My Vista Home 32bit keeps loading four different keyboard
drivers and I can't find out how to stop it doing it. I only
want the plain standard PS/2 driver, not the two IR or
foreign driver. I'm beginning to think it will require a
registry edit to get it to stop, though I'm happy to be told
otherwise.
Anyone k ...
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skype "server" ?
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:04:03 +0100
Not really homebuilt, but I hope h/w hacking/tinkering covers it <g>.
Trying to think through the setup of an old laptop to use really just
for skype - idea is to maybe get a USB-connected cordless skype phone
thats always available and have it behave much like an extra phone line
(this is for gf on the other ...
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ot ish where to buy matte photo paper
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:37:55 +0100
hello most knowledgeable people
looking to buy some 6 x 4 or 7 x 5 photo paper must be in matte and a
quality product either by Kodiak/Epson etc
cheers and best regards ...
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Recycled Pc Problems
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:25:29 +0100
I found a PC case in the street earlier that had been put out for
collection by the Cleansing tomorrow so I took it home to see if there
was anything worthwhile inside .The Power Supply,Mobo,cpu and a floppy
and two CD drives were there but no Graphics card or memory or hard
drive .
The Mobo is an Intel D875PBZ ...
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compare NV cards please ?
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:16:12 +0100
Hi folks ... love to hear from someone in the know a bit ...
How will a current bottom-dollar card - 6200LE - stack up against a
"workstation" card of a coupla years ago - Quadro NVS 280 ? (both PCI-e)
Both have 64MB of real memory - enough for me.
Only interested in reasonable, stable 2D performance and reli ...
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dotNet installers query
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:11:08 +0100
Hi all,
Long post, I'm afraid.
I mess around with software, so I like to make sure my machine can run
whatever it is I'm playing around with. So I have stuff like the VB
runtimes, dotnet and soforth installed.
But dotnet seems to be getting a bit silly these days, in terms of what
I have to install. Whe ...
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some burn pins on mobo/psu power connector?
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:51:01 +0100
Trying to figure out why this oldish asus mobo PC wouldn't boot (or
only sometimes). It was certainly *very* dusty inside but having
cleaned it up a bit I could see burn marks on some pins of the
psu-mobo connector. When I disconnected it there were two pins heavily
discoloured and several pins further on, another ...
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Task Manager Wierdness
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:34:17 +0300
PC slowing down, looked at task manager (processes for all users) the
CPU usage is up around 70% but system idle is steady on 98% with the odd
percentage of usage in some running programmes
what's with the 70% CPU usage? ...
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Re: OT: Hard drives
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:51:55 +0100
On 9 Aug 2008 12:46:50 GMT, "Krusty" <dontwantany@nowhere.invalid>
wrote:
>> > Mebbe. But the (only briefly displayed) list of SATA disks at
>> > boot/POST doesn't show the new disk, and when I hit the tab key and
>> > go into the RAID setup it doesn't show the new disk either. So the
>> > hardware isn't seei ...
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Re: OT: Hard drives
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:49:01 +0100
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:51:23 -0500, "Simian"
<Simian@in_valid.semi-evolved.org> wrote:
>If I were going to try and work out what was wrong, first I'd make sure
>the bios was up to date, then I'd get a bootable install CD for windows
>(or preferably a recent linux[1]) and plug just the new drive in place
>of the ...
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