Recent content by k4p84

Hi all, Right I have had some parts to upgrade my rig with for well over a year but it took a motherboard failure to prompt me to actually get round to the tear down and rebuild. Anyways..... The issue is ram related. I have an XFX 790i Ultra board and a 4gb kit of OCZ Plat ram 1800 8-8-8-27...

Hi all, I have been trying out WHS on my old PC and it is working for me. The only issue is that the pc is in all fairness to high a spec to run it 24/7. Q6600 CPU 9800 GPU The server is to hold all my fun media, I edit pictures and video for work as well as to hold my video and music...

Hi all Work has asked us to find a TV for use in our sales room so we have been round the place looking at as many panels as we could. We came across the Samsung 55" LE55B651 (same as LE55B650 or LE55B652 just different colour) Samsung Link It had a great picture in the two places we found...

Hi all Been a clever chap I nipped over to Netgear.co.uk and looked at the range of draft N wireless routers on the wireless broadband modem routers page. I had the cash in my account so I bought a DGND3300 - wireless-N series gateway RangeMax™ dual band wireless-N DSL gateway. Foolishly with...

Hi all I'm selling one of my old HDD. I am trying to remove all trace I ever used it. It was my main OS drive with all my personal docs etc. I know formatting does sweet f.a. as far as data removal goes so I have used the Western Digital tools and written the entire drive to zero's...

Hi all Getting a nice new laptop in a few weeks. Now I get the free option of getting 29 characters engraved on the top right of the screen bezel. So what do we reckon I should get done.................. Edward Muggleton Property of Mr Muggleton Sod of this in not yours I can see...

Hi all, I've hit a bit of a snag here. When I get to this level I get an error message saying. can't load invasion.ffl Anyone got any ideas if there is a fix ?? Ed

Hi all My Netgear DG834G v5 has died on me, it's been dropping connection for weeks. So i'm in the market for a good router, I will spend around the £100 for a quality product. I am not a networking wiz so something that is fairly easy to set up like the Netgear was would be appreciated. I...

Hi all, Guy at work has brought in his laptop for me to look at. Simple thing, power jack has failed. I can pick up a replacement jack for a few quid off flee bay but i can not find a disassembly guide for the model. Acer Aspire 5630 BL50 . I have seen an external battery charger for its...

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-MIMO1# Nice idea but its a shame about the price. You could get a cheap second screen and dual vga / dvi card for the same cost

Just been watching a vid over on YouTube showing some of the cheats in action. Unlimited M203 grenade launcher looked devastating !! Never used any cheats on any multiplayer since it just gets you kicked from servers. Is there actually a way to use comedy cheats like these in Campaign for a...

This little blighter has really started to bug me. If i lock my pc and come back soon after and unlock all is fine with the world. I can access all network resources and the interweb. Alas when i come in in the morning and wake the pc from a locked state I have no network or interweb. I can...

Has anyone else had issues with Windows Updates!! I ran some updates and it has toltally messed things up. All the nvidia drivers.....chipset, graphics and network failed. I tried to role back the drivers but when i boot i just get a blank screen. I have booted in Safe mode and removed all...

I have filled up the piggy bank and it is time to buy a new laptop. I do video editing on this for clients as well as doing light gaming, movie etc when i'm away. Basically i want a desktop replacement in a medium size package. I have used some of the larger 18" laptops but i find them too...

Hi all The company changed it tape backup drive before i joined. Now they have a need to access an old tape. Naturally the old tapes are not compatible with the new drive and the old drive got recycled. So does anyone have a tape drive they do not need that uses these bad boys...