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right, ive decided im gonna buy the gf a laptop for her birthday, i can afford about £300-£350.
anyone reccomend something decent?
needs to have decent processor, 1 gig ram, ideally 17" but 15.4 is fine.
ive looked on tesco.com but the laptops are out of stock.
also been on...
No more?
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Hey all, girlfriend wants to buy herself a laptop, shes seen one in the catalogue which she can get for £500 or so.
i know catalogue prices are usually high but could someone check the spec and tell me if its an ok price?
she wants to pay it over the year as she can afford a small weekly bill...
im installing XP on a friends laptop tomorrow, will i need to put service pack 2 on or is it not essential?
He doesnt have the internet, its just used for uni work etc
Right, got a few youtube vids i want on my pc but i only want them as MP3.
Anyone got a link to some software (free) that i can use? or another way to do it? cheers
moms got a s**t slow laptop, its got like 98mb ram with a 1300mhz processor.
it runs stupidly slow.
im sure the procesor i can work with, but i really think it needs more ram.
how do i change ram in a laptop, where is it and does it basically look like desktop ram?
is there a limit i can...
when we installed sky, we had a package which included the sports channels, but we found we didnt really watch em so we cancelled it, it was took off the bill months ago.
i tried em yesterday and all the sky sports channels worked?
none are on the bill.
are they free now or have sky slipped...
right ive got 2 pcs.
1 upstairs, 1 downstairs, both are wired to the router via ethernet cables.
the pc downstairs is working fine.
the pc upstairs wont connect to the internet.
its just decided to break, been working perfect for months.
the light comes on the router to show 2 sockets are...
thought ide attempt to take off some lowering springs from a car im breaking. got all my tools ready, tried to undo the top nut under the bonnet and the entire strut was just spinning around!, tried to hold it still n undo it, tried for a good half hour before i thought f**k it, the struts are...
right, upgraded the gf's pc few weeks ago now, but recently its been restarting itself every couple of days.
Stability issue?
Ive upgraded the CPU and ram. Could i try underclocking the cpu and trying that? as the cpu is maxing out the motherboard
Ideas? ta
currently smoothing a diffuser into a bumper, pretty much same way youd smooth a splitter into a bumper, diy at home job.
just wondering if i should make a guide for it and whether it would be a worthy addition to the guides or not bother?
oppinions?
trying to play an old game but im getting a graphics error, tried patching and its still there, been told to try....
"do you use hardware or software render? i think software work best"
how do i switch between hardware/software rendering? so i can test it.
ta
anyone know what happened to the mk 1 V8 project about 1-2 years ago? i remember the frames being welded in but aint heard of it since.
possibly adams 16v buddies when he had the banana?
2 lights on the front of my pc and the light that flickers when its loading are very very bright, anyway of turning them off in bios or getting software that turns them off.
been told that if i unplug them from the motherboard the pc wont boot up?
anyway at all to keep em off?
ta
Got a printer downstairs - Epson C66 but i could never get it to work on my xp pc.
Now ive got vista, im just wondering if theres anyway i can get it to work on vista?
Do i NEED vista drivers for it, isit vusta compatible or should i just sell it and buy another cheap printer?
cheers
ok im gonna smash all 3 pcs up soon.
earlier i set up the new cpu, all is well, i put in the new harddrive (which is my old one with vista on it) and it comes up that it wont load, nothing works.
So i decided to throw the harddrive in my pc as a slave, reinstall vista onto it and try that...
cpu came today for the gf's pc. stripped it down, put it in and booted it up.
in the load screen it comes up as AMD Athlon 1800XP (1.4ghz).
This is the item i bought http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=200121656739&rd=1&rd=1
an...
just going through my camera options and theres this
Quality
5MF 205 Frames
5MN 409 Frames
3:2 459 Frames
3M 651 Frames
2M 818 Frames
03M 3993 Frames
whats these do? what should i be using general pictures on.Is this anything to do with resolution as currently its on 1024x768, but ide like it...
wonder if anyone can help with this. When i download stuff, the file is perfect, the video is fine, the sound is fine, but like lately ALOT of my burns have had bad syncronisation.
Basically the speech/video is out by 2 seconds or so. It isnt the file as it plays perfect on the pc, its just...
just been messing with the taskbar and ive somehow done this. ive gone through the options but i cant seem to figure out how to put it back.
basically my windows are overlapping my desktop bar at the bottom, they cover it completely on full screen, ideas?
right, ive had this on for aslong as i can remember.
Ive googled the company and apparantly its related to a something called Kontera.
Tried ad aware scan, tried spybot search and destroy scan, tried CrapCleaner scan, tried Add/Remove programmes (nothing in there), no folders in Program...
ok i have an c2d e6600 @ 2.4 gig, 8800gts 320mb and 2 gig of ram.
My CPU - temp on stock cooling is 33 degrees
My Case - 38 degrees.
first of all, do these seem about right? low? high?
secondly, overclocking. im interested in doing it but im getting a few people saying ill blow my cpu up, ill...
ok about to order this ram.
currently in the pc is 512mb, ddr, 266mhz, cl2.5
the motherboard supports 2100 2700 3200.
now, im gonna be buying 1 gig of ram and trying to add my 512 to it, does the ram have to match up?
ie, my ram is 2100 266mhz, does the new ram have to be 1 gig 2100 266 mhz...
upgrading my old pc so my partner can have it, but she wants vista on it. ive ordered the extra ram but the processor in it atm is an amd xp 2200 (1.8 gig).
found out the mobo can run the 2800xp.
found a 2800 xp on ebay BUT its without heatsink and fan.
will it be ok to run my 2200 heatsink...