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Using the old fashioned bios (as above there should be a button to press on starting to enter the bios) then you need to add a new boot priority ... that of the USB. A trawl in google like which button to enter bios on machine make bios etc should …

you do not say how you haver connected, if by cable see above but if by wifi it is quite p)ossible you are losing signal because of nearby electromag/ micro waves or other interference of a metallic nature! M

I have had similiar problems with Western Digital, especially if Ubuntu is around. I traced my problem to the fact that the WDD has its own boot mgr and that is not totally compatible with some OS's. It may be worth reformatting the WDD drive but I had to return …

lots of possbilities but first suspect is the boot manager file is corrupt on the HD. Next down the software line is corrupt windows file, or corrupt drivers Could also be a hardware fault (video or mother board or HD ) could also be one I had a long time …

I have had some success cleaning cd & DVD using first soapy water and soft ,cloth and then a fine metal polish (and clean off agazin) M

Rather than use IE for downloads as above there are other browsers, but also quite a number of free download managers that are both friendly and efficient. try googling "download managers." M

There may be another help in that if you could boot from a linux or mulitboot type boot disk (you may need to change the bios settings) and then see if you can access the boot.log file and that will tell you at what point in the process it stopped. …

perhaps it coulkd be marked as solved? I use Ashampoo CD burnerand never had any trouble M

the power button is not just a power button. It is itself controlled by software so that the machine can go to sleep turn off and also reboot etc. So that software also has to be kept alive when the machine is off (and that relies on the internal battery …

it is worth nopting that the address 192.168.1.1 is very often used by modern adsl modems and thus wont respond to a direct ping as they are often protected against that (from the adsl line. M

beeps on start up indicate a fault. Depending on hte make opf bios you can find in google what the beeps mean but you nee to know the bios make. Then you can go on from there knowing what in your case 7 beeps means M

and do you hear any beeps from the speaker M

I agree with looking at other browsers. IE tends to be full of goodies but this can lead to problems. Simpler Browsers (too many to name!) can be more reliable. Have you also cleaned the registry lately? M

I believe there are a number or boot laoder programs that will do the job you want quite easily. Google boot loader windows, or boot menu and take yoour pick. This is probably a better notion than editing the current master boot record (MBR) on your hard disk but it …

I hope this may interst others who have similiar problems! I have a Western Digital 1.5 Terra Hard disk that is formatted in EXT3 for a humax satellite box. ( satellite type boxes tend to be EXT format for larger file handling) It went awol due to power cut whilst …

Not clear on the possibilityoif the forum causing this but there is in the settings for most mice a setting that allows it to show or not show when hovering... cant remember where though! M

small jack sockets and plugs are not as reliable as people think! Often dirt or just tired springiness in the socket can cause one side to fall over. Another possibility is that with repeated use the plug cable has become broken inside the covering close to the plug where it …

don't use the computer if at all possible as it may overwrite the old files (deleted) on the HD. Actually it does not delete them it changes the first letter of the name of the file in the index to a ? character that then tells the OS it can …

do a search on google for cloud printing, it is very easy to follow and enables distant printing. M

most files have attributes (eg read only, hidden etc) right click on the file in the usb stick and go to properties and one of the attributes is 'last accessed date' that will tell you when the file was last used (copied or altered, / accessed) M

you could also look for the reset to factory option. Usually a small hole underneath the computer where you insert a pin / end of paper clip and it resets to as original factory option then reformat. M

there is a repair facility in outlook but you have to be able to open it! A suggestion that I have had to use is to save the outlook.pst file (the one with all your data emails etc in it.(do this by exporting or by finding the file and copying …

I do not know the exacgt answer but try this! turn off system restore delete explorer shut down normally restart windows will then restore original explorer (if it does n't then down load it or restore from recovery it should work if explorer is the problem! good luck M

try right clicking on the screen and see if you can change the screen parameters. I had a very similiar happening a while ago and it was because the screen was displaying in the wrong way! M

also worth running a registry cleaner as so many progs may have left rubbish there as well. M

I use a eeepc and had ubuntu natty 10.** and all worked well but reverted to eeebuntu as not enough memory. I had a Kingston 4GB ext 4 formatted sd memory stick but now eeebuntu says that it can only read ext 3. So do I upgrade (and lose memory) …

perhaps get hold of a cd (or memstick) with a partition commander type program on it. Then restart the computer from such CD and use the partition commander to reset the active partition to the windows one. Otherwise just get a booting type CD (recovery disk) and get it going …

It is worth actually looking at the temp range of chips A long time ago I ran a network in a school where the average temp in winter was below 0° All of us froze but even more suffering by the computers! If you are working in low temps computers …

Not help exactly but an observation!, In many recent programs (eg win 7,office etc) you get a range of programs from student through home to professional etc). The ability to do backups using the internal backup system to any drive other than C: does not work in some of these …

I general I agree with Ric, but I have on 2 occasions spilt liquid onto key boards. If you take the keyboard apart (carefully) then you will find that most keyboards are made of a rubber membrane which has 'tracks' on it and the key actually is a graphite push …

some anti virus and some anti malware programs have within them the possibility of marking a program as legitimate rather than detecting as a virus. Worth looking in the AV to see if it has such a let out clause! M

I have a client with a reasonably modern computer. Upgraded from Vista to win 7 32 bit (it wont run 64!) all went OK and registered. I tried to reinstall the legitimate version of MS office from the purchased disc CD (2007) and it runs the set up but then …

I need good advice on simple small linux to use on eeepc 4g early asus machine I have used xp, linux natty nahwal and others but all use too much resources and I want to completly start again (including mem card) any easy suggestions very welcome and how to do …

I think perhaps the post test detects the keyboard (as ok) but then when it uses the OS (after boot) to use the keyboard it finds difficulty. I spilt red wine over a portable keyboard some time ago and had similiar symptoms and it was due to keys being stuck …

It might be a firewall problem (or virus) or your DCHP server may have got turned off and it cant resolve the address of the website. It may also be that for some reason the university is blocking your sue (personnally ) of the internal university network leading to the …

The later versions of windows have a partition manager program in them but my advice would be to look at some of the partition manager programs on the market. try googling 'partitiomanager' or similiar. M

yes to above but also use a partion type disk manager to both remove the partition, and then format the disk with FAT 32 and then set the primary partition to be the boot partition. Then you can insert the xp disk. (the xp disk will do the above if …

There are two password levels with win 7, one is the actual user password and many are the times I have had clients swear their passwords were correct only to find that they had the capos lock on or were using the wrong password. However id everyone is having this …

Will the drive see any CD? If not then the drive is probably dead or the cables loose etc. if it can see a CD then it is likely that the cd -r is dead or has already been written to or started and failed to write to it thereby …

There could be a number of things wrong! The first is that the battery is dead, the second the on off switch is faulty. The third is that there is corruption on the MBR of the hard disk, the fourth is that there could be a virus. On most portable …

Not oinly the wiring, memeory but also the Hard disk, if that has failed it wont start unless you try to start from a different boot system. As you do not appear to be able to get to the first screen even to get access to the bios it seems …

I presume yes it is! Normally the master boot record (on the primary hard disk)tells windows at boot up where to find the operating system.I doubt if you can add a second direction for another windows onto the microsoft MBR (master boot record) However there are a number of other …

If it is not too late you might also look at Libre office. M

I do not use MS2010 but in most office type of software there is likely to be a 'tools' or configuration file. Very often inside that file there is an option to turn on or off updating for the program in question. M

It sounds like trouble! Can you be sure (by going to the bios ) at start up that the machine is actually try or set to boot from the CD and not the hard disk. If you can set the bios to do that you can then boot from either …

Thgis can be a difficult one! as you know but you have looked at one area that seems to me still to be a possibility. A ,number of items and especially the processor have shut down facilities that do not appear on the logs if they get too hot; You …

I do not know the exact printer, but very often you can use a printer driver from a less high level printer in the same manufacturers range (or of similiar type) and that often works. M

agreed, would seem to be solved? M

without more technical kit available I would begin to suspect the hard disk, either electrically or problems on the surface in the vicinity of the MBR, but for that you either need to try to boot from a USB or linux bootable CD to be able to look directly at …

:)Or in simpler terms for people who do these things just get the same RAM as is already in the machine! Thanks and apologies to Caperjack he is right so often. M