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Want a simple backup program to use with my parents external hard drive. They want one that does it all in the background so they don't have to get involved. Should be able to make, say 10 backups, and then replace the oldest one once it gets up to 10. Any suggestions? Thanks

I put a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz HT processor into a motherboard that can only take a 400/533FSB? Will it run but at a lower speed? I've got a P4 2.53Ghz non-HT porcessor in there now, but have been given this HT one which I think needs a 800FSB. Cheers.

If you only had the money for one raptor? Also are they noisy compared to a spinpoint?

In Windows Explorer under E: it says "CD Drive" when it's a DVD burner. It still functions fine - Nero writes to it and it still reads DVDs. How can I change it back? Cheers

It seems a great way of cooling your machine, but I can only find a couple of BTX fans, couple of cases, and have only seen one micro-btx mobo. For those of you who don't know it, the processor is places on the mobo towards the front of the case and the cpu fan draws air in from the front, over...

Aria do a dead pixel check for £19.95 on their TFT monitors (I wouldn't buy a monitor from Aria without a pixel check - who do you think they sell the ones to that fail the test?!) Are there any other sellers who offer the service? And do you think it's worth it?

Make sure your case is compatible with the new beer requirements for World Cup 2006 :D You'll need some good cooling in there.

I know you can get devices to stream music from your computer to your hifi in another room. And there are devices that use RF to allow someone upstairs to watch a video being played downstairs. But is there something which plugs into the S-Video output on a graphics card to allow you to watch...

If one machine had 2 network cards could you use it to connect 2 more machines and bridge them into one network? I know it's easier to get a router, but I've got a spare card at home and it's a lot cheaper just to buy another crossover cable.

Just read this article on Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores/ You can get the Pentium D 805 for under £100 delivered on ebuyer. One very overclockable chip. Edit - I took out 2 exclamation marks. They made me look very excitable.

I had it up to 62oC last night after 20mins of running Prime. Some website says the max for the chip should be 71/72oC. It's a stock fan, but not overclocked. The case has 2 HDs in and a slow graphics card, but I've got an extractor fan on it. Should I be worried? Had no problems before and...

I'm thinking of getting one to get back into IT. Basically I finished uni in 2001, got 2 years IT experience but then I went travelling for 21 months and am finding it difficult even to get a helpdesk job because of the experience gap on my CV. Is an A+ the right way to go?

What Specs Do I Need To Make A Multimedia Machine (record and playback)? I'm thinking of building a small and quiet machine (micro ATX size) to act as a DVD player, HD recorder, music player and video streamer from a networked machine. It will just sit under the TV so won't need to be overly...

At the moment I've got a master (OS and applications) and a slave (Backup, swap disk and temp folders) hard drive on the primary IDE channel. And a DVD-ROM and CD-BURNER on the secondary channel. My DVD-ROM is starting to get read errors so I thought I'd replace it with a DVD-RW since they are...

I've got a home network - 2 machines XP Pro with crossover cable and ICS. I just highlighted a sentence on my machine and CTRL-C'ed it. Then I pasted it and it was a sentance my dad had just written in an email on the other machine! How on earth can that happen? I'm running VNC Remote Desktop...