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    Advice on motherboard warranty claim hassle/situation...

    Ok this is the situation... Ebuyer have said they will honor the 3 year warranty on my ASUS board, which has developed a fault with 1 of the 2 PCI express full slots. Its a ASUS P5E AiLifestyle Series iX38 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard. However they no longer have my board...
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    New System Time

    Hi all, Long time snce I have been on the forum, but like Indyjones, its time to build a new system, as mine has been around just about as long as his... I am looking to spend around £350-400 ish, and will be buying motherboard, processor, cooler for cpu, ram, graphics card, maybe a larger...
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    what are these folders and can i delete them?

    Folders called $NtUninstallKB873333$, $hf_mig$ and many others similar found in the windows directory on C: size of them is big, and I noticed recently most of my c is full, when i should have about 2 gig free. . . . What are these? Andy
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    Sharing ADSL Internet Connection

    well i have had some sucess! I got the file sharing problem cleared by checking settings on the mcaffee firewall i didnt know was running in background in addition to windows one, that cleared that barrier. Second i used a piece of software called pppshar, to create a proxy server and used...
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    Sharing ADSL Internet Connection

    Ok, lets cover the points highlighted.... 1: I dont want to buy a router for ADSL when im only home for 2 months and will be going back to NTL in september, when i wont need any networking as it will be just my pc in my house elsewhere. 2: I have sucessfully run a server and also a...
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    Sharing ADSL Internet Connection

    Hi all, Parents just got ADSL, via AOL (:crosseyed: unfortunately), and I want to share the connection via my hub for the time that im home. I have used a server setup previously when I was on NTL and that worked fine, however im not having much luck with this setup... The AOL connection...
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    ternary phase diagram software

    Umm MTDATA is the dogs danglies when it comes to phase diagrams, scheil calculations and such like, however it is extortionately expensive being programmed by the national physics laboratory.. You can acquire temporary educatinal licenses i believe or trial uses - but these i still think are on...
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    MS word syles and contents pages

    Ok here goes, lets see if someone smarter than me can help me out! Im currently beggining to plan the layout of my final year project. Im getting all the styles and headings etc.. set out in word document so i can just fill in each section when I have the correct data. Now all is going...
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    Logitech MX1000 Laser club

    anyone having the jumping problems - it is solved by using the ps2 port rather than the usb or by using the latest setpoint software. there was some problems with early base stations - its in the faq on the logitech website :)
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    Hot Plug & Play and Hot Swap

    I think it means you can plug it in and disconnect it without having to worry about turning it on and off ( my friends caddy has to be disconnected in windows then turned off then removed from usb). I wouldnt have thought it was possible to change the actual drive in the caddy while it was...
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    AMD 64-bit single-core processor club

    your arctic cooler is the loudest bit weeeeee te rest must be pretty quiet then :) when we removed the stock cooler on the 9800pro the system got instantly quieter - but once the cpu and NB are ramped down too its very quiet. if we put some sound deadening in i think we would have a really quiet...
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    AMD 64-bit single-core processor club

    mainframe guy - did u sort the noisy NB fan out? just built my friends system with same mobo as you - using an arctic case and g/c cooler and stock heat sink and fan on a winchester, and when cool and quiet is used to ramp down the NB and CPU fans the system is sooooo quiet :) :) :) its...
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    New PC build troubles

    well after 16, yes 16 different combinations of hardware incluing different ram and g/c it works - with all the new (and original) hardware, and the old hdd's.... in exactly the same configuraton that we started with - down to the jumper settings on the drives, everything the same. why it works...
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    New PC build troubles

    well here we have the problem... just finished building a friends new pc, based on neo 2 plantinum MSI board, 3000 winchester, 1 gig matched dimms, 80 gig drive, 9800pro 128meg, etc... everything fine and dandy, windows seems to install fine, gets through to serial key and all that etc...
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    acura legend 1991 speedometer problems...help?

    sounds like your speedo/tripometer cable has snapped/come loose or similar and is no longer working your dials. have u got the manual for the car?
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    CRT Monitor Respray

    ahem well the wknd has been and gone and still no pictures! tut tut tut
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    CRT Monitor Respray

    has the monitor not been finished then? not heard a sniff on this thread for aaaages!
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    Drive jiggery pokery

    Ok, I dnt know if i can do this but here goes! I still currently have my 200 gig sata drive as storage and temp partition, and my 160 gig ide drive as system and more storage. I want to swap these around so that the temp partition on the sata drive is the boot partition. However both the...
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    Reall Annoying!

    Ok this is how it happened. I am using my pc for a few days without a re-start. Then suddenly I lose the ability to drag and drop, lots of program wont respond to the mouse wheel (like winamp - the little bar scrolls in the playlist window, but wont move the up down of the playlist window...
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