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I've always had systems with AMD chips from K5 onwards but I really like the sound of these new intel chips so I'm going to go for it but I need some advice on mobos. My system plan was to get an AMD AM2 with an Asus M2N32 Deluxe but that has now gone out of the window. Can anyone suggest a...

I work in a school and am looking to buy a laptop. We have a budget of £500 and I have no previous experience with buying laptops. Could any one suggest where to get them from for a good price and what models to look at?? I also have a £300 budget for a digital camera. Can anyone suggest a...

I'm looking to buy an external HD for backup and moving files from one computer to another. Can anyone give me some advice on what to look out for and if there are certain brands to avoid? I've just been looking at a Western Digital Essential 80GB USB2.0 and it looks good and the price...

Can anyone give me some ideas for a case, cooling and PSU for a K8N Neo4 Platinum, AMD 3500+, 1gb mem and a 6800gt. I have no intention of moding the case and I'd prefer to stay away from anything neon. I live in Greece and the summer temp get's quite high so I'm pretty concerned with how...

Can some one please clear something up for me? I'm looking to upgrade to a whole new machine sometime soon. I'm trying to get something that will last me a while so I was looking for a 64bit AMD system. On the whole people are recommending slot 939 so I was looking at the ever popular Neo2...

Does anyone know when Spybot 1.4 is out?? I remember seeing that it was in beta phase, but wondered when it will be out as a full release

I have just been mailed by a friend who has bought a second hand "Dell Latitude CPt". It came with no driver CD and was infected with anything and everything so he did a format and installed Windows 2000 only now he has no sound. Does anyone have a link or know where I can find these...

If any one can help with this problem it would be greatly appreciated: I have my main hard drive (HD1) with 2 partitions, 1 with data and progs the second with my documents. Yesterday I decided that I needed to backup my documents onto a spare hard drive (HD2). unfortunately this had 2...

Can anyone help out with this mind numbingly boring but frustrating problem I'm having. I've always used MS java, but since this is no longer available/ supported I was looking into Sun Java. I downloaded (which at 2.5kb/s was a tedium in itself) 1.42.05 only to read that it has a...

I got an email from a friend with some security tweak suggestions. Before I do any of them I'd like to know what they do. Can anyone help to clarify exactly what these tweaks do and what they protect against please??? I ask my friend and he had no idea. --- Registry Tweaks...

Can anyone help. I have recieved some really funny gifs in my emails. not as attachments, but as part of the email. Can anyone tell me how I can save the individual images?? I'm using outlook and it lets me save them as BMPs or msg files. Thanks in advance Si

I have an odd problem that i need help on. In my computer/ WE when I double click on one of my drives to explore it the search box appears. when I right click on it Search is at the top and bold instead of open. I know this may seem like a trivial thing to most of you but it's buggin the...

Can anybody give me some advice on how to get OE to send mails??? My friend uses OE and has 3 mails in the outbox. I've tried sending them and it gives me a message about the server not responding for 60 seconds, etc wait or stop?? I use the same ISP and use outlook 2003 and I have no...

Can anyone help?? I've got a Zoom pci V92 modem from UK and I'm using it in Greece. I have got "AT+MS=V90" init string in the advanced settings section. When I log on to my isp I'm on for 5-10 minutes and the connection dies. It stays alive but all data transfer stops. I've got the...

Can any one please help me. I'm running Zonealarm pro and want to add some extra security by closing down any un-needed ports. Can anyone point me in the right direction of a list of ports (udp, tcp, etc) I can safely shut down. Thanks for any help

Can anyone help. I recently upgraded my hard drive and CPU fan. I reinstalled windows XP and my memory went from 512 to 256 MB. I restarted and it was back up at 512 for a few days now it has gone down to 256 and has been like that for 3 days now. My system is Soltek 75drv4 board 2 X...

Can any body help. I bought a new HD, formated it and copied 16 gig of stuff to it. I then put the HD in a different system as the primarary HD and installed XP, during the install I was told that I would have to delete the partition and start again I did this and so the 16 gig of stuff has...

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to kazaa lite?? I've tried emule (WTF!!!) and shareaza (sick of pending downloads!!) If anyone can offer any adware/ spyware alternatives I would appreciate it.

Can anyone tell me anything about the Antec Hard Drive Cooling System IDE + SCSI Dual Fan? I'm sure I read somewhere that it shares power source with the HD?? I have no more power leads from my power supply so something like that would ideal. Is this a good product or what are the...

Can any one help with this problem? I booted up as normal, it got passed the windows XP black screen but instead of booting any further it just went to a black screen and then a blue screen with c0000415 unknown hard error I haven't updated any drivers or tweaked or anything for a few...