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agrfeed with above, but if all seems OK when everything is disconnected from the Mobo then reconnect one by one and see which if any of the mobo leads causes the psu to blow fuse. A jammed fan, or jammed drive will overload the psu... M

7 used to be a holy number in the jewish scene! a&ctually I hve wandered through all the versions since windows 3 and cant help thinking that actually we have to kleep looking forwards... roll on windows 12 ! ta to all M

whenn any mssoft windows hard dsisk triesto start itlooks for the MBR the master boot record which tells it where to fiond windows! If this file is corrupted then is cannot start and goes to the menu you get. the solution is to replace the MBR and this can be …

siiloy idea ut just check in yourstart up programs,n there might be one one that doesjust what you do not want! M

i HAVE FOUR COMPUTERS oops sorry on a network using a adsl box and a ethernet router. I add and take away two portables to this system; OK so it works but one of trhe reasons that it works is that I was advised a ,long time ago by a …

Jayne, buy a longer ethernet cable! Sorry but I also have used wifi a lot and it can be a real pain so I use cable whereever possible and ethernet will go a 50 metre cble! Anyway back to wifi. Have you tried starting from scratch. delete the wifi connection …

I toitally agree with Durenmatt as the drives need to be seen by the bios. What actual BIOS is on the new mlotherboard. Most bios's should detect hard drives! It may be that youneed to consider (but with serious health warnings!) if the bios is actually deteacting the hard drives …

When the computer boots up it rties various sources for a booting command. Usually the hard disk has one and so it starts from there (depending on bios settings); If by acciebnt ,or design you have left a cd or dvd in the dirive it may try to boot up …

Whilst some of the above suggestions do not connect for me, have you tried rebootiong the router. We often assule all is well and reboot the computer but forget that the router can also block and a reeboot for that by switching off and restarting can often clear the type …

It does sound like a mobo problem with the electrical feed to battery and mobo. can you get any response by even tryijnhg to get to the bios (pressing F2 or del or whatever?) if not then it look very mucxh like a power supply to the mobo. and as …

[QUOTE=captcritter;1106127]I have a sony vgn s-260 that i replaced the hard drive. It will power up, the cd drive turns but then everything stops. I get no start up of the screen. For a while it seemed if i pressed f8 while it was starting i could get it going …

I do not know a lot about macs but all computers have systems to read/ write up to a maximum size of HD. If your other macs are older and earier OS then they may not be able to read and write to very large disks. M

try googling the following win 7 shortcut arrow I think you will find trhe answers there asz trhere are a variety of choices! M

are you sure that BOTH of the memory sticks are fully pushed down and the clips 'clicked' over and tight. I assume the memory sticks are all the same type (ie same speed and config) normally it should default to the slowest but it deoes depend on the mobo nad …

This sounds a bit like ther is a flat battery and it may not be charging. Does the same happen if you have it on mains? Is it possible that your CPU is overheating and immdiately shutting down...vents blocked or even too much dust in heat sink etc? M

I do not know but it is possible ... have you done a factory reset. Often by both removing battery and then poking a small object into a small hole often on the back it can do a factory reset. Have you tried using a bootable device like a linux …

There are a number of free programs out there that you can run to test your own line for speeds up and down. this should enable you to assess the reliability of either the line or the adsl box! M

have you tired reinstalling the printer/s having deleted then in the control panel? I also had very similiar problem of not being able to see on a haphazard basis a network printer and eventually found the ca

Sounds a bit as though it might have been a virus. Have you got a good AV? Can you get into safe mode (F8 press at startupand hold pressed)? If so can you do a restore? Have you got a boot disk like linux? It could be that the MBR …

I had similiar prob with a trial office on a new comp and wanted to use 2003 which I had. I had to totally uninstall the triial version (and do some removing by hand as well with care) before the 'old' activated legitimate 2003 version would work. Although MS says …

further to bobs good reply I would also suggst I have had a number of clients (mainlky with older machines ) with similiar problems of keyboards, ps2 and AVG. I solved them by junking AVG and using microsoft security essentials. Yes I know what we think about ms but this …

could be a number of things! Could be bios gone wrong and not being able to see the hard disk at boot. Need to enter bios at start and check boot sequence. Could be the MBR boot record on the hard disk is corrupt. use recovery disk or run a …

office has default pages eg Word.dot and these carry all the infor like margins, checkers, paper size etc. It sould as though you might have a damaged template file. Look for word.dot and rename it to word.old. Then shut down any office app and restart, it will make a new …

Outlook and outlook express on two different computers can be an absolute nightmare. Ipresume that you are usng some sort of 'syncronising' system. Usually hte best way is via a exchange server. if not then outlook and outlook express store their emails differently and there is no easy way of …

I am a bit rusty on dos buut use most commands. do you use 'help' or '?' as parameters differ! It is also true that windows needs to have available the 'command.com' and rest of the dos commands and it is worth checking to see if they are in the …

a suggestion: Have you tried entering the IP address (or giving fixed IP addreses) in the 64 bit machine of the 32 bit one. i had same problem and by doing this (assuming all are shared) it cleared a log jam. I also found that doing a search using IP …

I also had a similiar prob on a ortable with its own HDD. I used the same route to get the data and then used a partion managaer to repartion the disk to a single partition disk and then put a boot sector on it and all now runs. Sometimes …

if the machine wont start at all and no bleeps and no hard disk movement then it sounds as though either the power supply is dodgy or the motherboard or processor is not working; can you boot into a CD boot startup cd? If so then the problem is much …

can you do a memory test? Have you sufficient memory for Win7? It sounds a bit electronic rather than win 7 so far on two machines neither has hung once but then maybe thats luck! M

some laptops have a hidden hole in back (or sometimes the side and on one on the front!). remove the battery and then insert a paperclip and operate the microswith in this hole. This also does a factory reset. M

have u tried using ctrl alt del nnd seeing what is goint on? try deleteing in task manager anything to do wiht IE and then make sure your ani virus is up to date. BOL M

check ALL connections , power supply, and internal cables and cards to mother board ertc; Will it start in safe mode, (F8 on start up)? if all fans ok, processor heats up a bit and no beeps it is likely all is okl! Howver if the video card is loose …

If the program is no longer on the machine (as above) then do a search on *.cpl files and remove the file with hte name like paperport.cpl (or just to be safe rename it paperport.old) and then the control panel will not see it. M

it is quite likely that the machine has got the recovery / restore mode switched on. In safe mode go through to tyhe control panel and look for admin tools or just do a seartch for 'restore' and then you should be able to put the machine backl to the …

will it boot in safe mode (press f8 repeatedly on start up?) try right click on screen as well, as some progs take over the screen and blank it and rt click can get it back! have u got a strat up disk ie windows boot or linux... try using …

are you using automatic DCHP or have you set the TCP/IP addresses by hand. On some machines I have on a network by setting the TCP/IP addresses (different) in the usual range 192.168.1.X and onwards solved this problem for me! avoid x = 1 as many adsl routers use that! …

A word from experience on a similiar problem was actually solved and very reliable by using ethernet cable! I know if you haven't got access for a cable then wifi, but over distance cable and repeater / routers can be a very cheap and reliable solution. M

This may be a too simple reply but have you checked where and what is the default dictionary. If it is in a different location to where office expects to find it...! you may well get the result that you have. It may also be worth checking the original installation …

I agrere with Riq. Norton is bloatware softwa&re and takes onver he computer completely. Please avoid becos fute problems will magnify. delete all Norton av and then look at AVG Panda Avast,or tother who do just as good a job (see commercial reports) and they are free. If you do …

Once while Sailing across the atlantic ALL OF THE GPS ON BOARD 4 UNITS FAILED FOR HALF HOU?rSINCE MOST WERE BATTAERY UNITS IS WAS NOT POWER FAILURE PERHAPS IT WAS GOOD WE HAD SEXTANT AND COMPASS ON BOARD THE MORAL S BACKUP YOUR ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS BY OLD FASHIONED MANUAL ONES …

having used linux, windows all versionand dos and done some programming , pascal c++, prolog, basic and now entering the third age I value enormously being able to change the things I want to change. However using Linux (without relearning a new language) I find the commands just too complex …

Even here in the south of france we get snow and as far as your satellite was concerned I have repeatedly in snowy condition to get up on to the roof and clean the head... works wonders! perhaps those satellites at goon hilly down also need their heads cleaning?!! M

agree with all the above and even suggest if the distance is too long for one cable buy (yes you will have toà) a router and just extend again. Wirelss is ok but not through stone walls metal or in the voicinity of high electrical fields like micro waves. M

Not entirely but have had the same headaches. Word and excel handle grid lines differently! (Word uses a table) and excel's are inherent. however I cured this by tuning off the grid lines in excel in the printer area (I cant remember exactly where) and thus when they were copied …

just a very old fashioned tip but works every time is to use the command processor > and then using dos commands and you can remove almost anything! if you do not know DOS then at the command prompt type HELP /? and youget some help. I when relly stuck …

Oh dear networks from scratch! Try this ther eis a network wizard that can help. Basically you have to have a connection between the machines (either ethernet cross over direct cable) or (ethernet blind cable through a router or ADSL modem) or via wireless. Each of these systelm have theor …

I thiink you wil have to alter the registry but I cannot remember exactly which entry. It is one that deals with the file associations but googling registry file associations or something like that will hellp. M

I once had trouble with a router working intrermittantly and rebooting it made it work.... they are not rebooting the router on its own are they? but I agree more likely malaware. M

Usually onboard videos may need turning off to allow cards to operate! (on older machines it was a jumper. Pci cards shold take precedence but it could be a driver problem. I presume no go in safe mode? Is there any beeps (3 indicates at startup video problem! (ie cant …

There are a number of partitioning programs free (try google) and then you can boot from those partition programs once you have got a friend to put them onto a bootable CD. from there you can re partition etc; M