pc stopped working and smell of tcp??
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:21:56 -0000
My ex just rang to say the kids pc (which i built) suddenly stopped
working - n lights power anything - hbut smell of tcp - cant remember
anything about it but that it was a gigabyte MB and new power supply about 4
years agio (kept upgrading) - will be having a look at the weekend ... Is
this likely to be mb ...
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Accessing network shares...
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:18:33 -0000
PC1 is running WinXP Professional, PC2 is running WinXP Professional and PC3
is running WinXP Home. Administrator account password is the same on three
computers. PC1 and PC2 connect directly to a wireless router by Cat5 and PC3
connects wirelessly.
Trying to access the administrative shares on PC1 and PC2 fr ...
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2009 Women's Metallic Classic Short UGG Boots in Soft Gold are now in
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Tue, 3 Nov 2009 06:58:09 -0800 (PST)
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Parallel printer & usb converter device
Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:08:15 +0000
I have a parallel printer working fine to a XP sp PC.
I'm swotching to a mobo with no parallel port and so would like to get
the pronter working on usb (rather than buy a new pronter just now).
So I got one of those "parallel-to-usb" converters. (Centronics plug
with electroncs to convert to usb 2)
So I:-
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Physically getting into laptops...
Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:06:51 -0800 (PST)
Hello all... I have an HP Pavilion ZE4111s laptop and I need to get
at the motherboard to replace a damaged item... I have all the edge
screws removed which allows me to separate the keyboard from the main
chassis by about 30mm all round but there are two pillars roughly
above the 'M' and 'V' key which which app ...
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Dell recovery disc, recovery partition and Win7
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:21:17 -0800 (PST)
Hi all,
I've got a Dell Insipiron 9400 laptop that I want to clean install
Win7 and remove the dell recovery partition.
The laptop is out of warranty. Originally supplied with WinXP and then
upgraded to Vista Business through Dell upgrade program. I have both
XP and Vista recovery discs and COA for both OSs. ...
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Lithium battey on mobo problem
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:07:51 +0000
Very old PC keeps losing Data and Time and BIOS settings. I took the
battery out and it's completely flat. As the machine is several years
old I'm waiting to get a new battery to fit. Just out of interest,
with the battery out of the mobo (pwr on of course) I measured the
voltage at the battery housing (on the boa ...
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Mounting drives in folder...
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:37:46 -0000
As I am running out of space on drive C I added another drive, E (D is a
CD-Rom). Microsoft say that I can gain access to the space on E as though it
were on C by mounting drive E into a folder on C.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889 says
"You can also use mounted drives when you need additional storage ...
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Win7, install 32 or 64 bit?
Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:08:04 +0000
I am on the point of installing Win 7 Pro which has been sitting on my
coffee table since the 2nd. Initially I had anticipated installing the
64 bit version, but I have now learnt that an application I like I has
issues with 64 bit.
The machine has dual core AMD 64 bit 2.8 GHz CPU and 4 GB RAM on an Asus
M3 ...
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Driver download services
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:36:58 +0000
I've used a couple of services which identify the hardware on a computer
and provide updated drivers where they are available. These include
driveragent.com, and driver genius. Both are just a little too
expensive for me to want to use them on every machine that comes my way.
Any recommendations for altern ...
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