Recent content by Remmy

I just had a really strange thing happen to me that I've never heard of before. I was having a conversation with my mum via SMS, then all of a sudden I got a reply off her that made no sense at all in the conversation, and it turns out her phone received a message claiming to be from me, with...

Hey guys, I've just finished my 3rd (penultimate) year exams, and I have a research placement in Germany this summer. I think taking my desktop setup is a little impractical, so it's time for me to get a laptop. I have little experience or knowledge with them regarding which brands are...

Hi guys. I'm trying to set my PC to turn on everyday at a fixed time using the RTC option in the BIOS. My motherboard is the Asus P8P67 Pro Rev B3, and there's nothing helpful in the manual. I enable 'Power on by RTC', then set Days to 0 because it says 0 = Everyday. I then set the alarm's...

Hi everyone :) I'm posting on behalf of a friend who is upgrading a Windows 8 laptop to Windows 7 for a family member. Neither of us have any experience with Windows 8, so we were wanting to know if there is any precautions or tips you could give us to ensure a smooth install. In case all goes...

Hi everyone I'll preface this by saying I have no idea how complex this sort of system is to implement since I have no experience in web design, and very limited programming experience, so just tell me if it's too much hassle to even consider. I was thinking some kind of IM chat feature would...

Hey guys My mum finally decided it was time to replace my dad's PC which is about 10 years old now, and you can make a brew before it's loaded after turning it on. The only real specification she gave me was it had to be quiet since the current one sounds like a hairdryer when it starts getting...

Hi guys :) I've got a bit of an unusual one here, but some may find it interesting so I thought I'd share what I've been doing for the last few weeks in my 3rd year physics group project at uni. We're in the last week of the project now, and we've been working on it once or twice a week for...

Hi guys, earlier today I received a suspicious looking email from 'Royal Mail Notification' (noreply@royalmail.com), which looked like this It seemed very odd when they seemingly had no details about me (name etc.), and it seemed like it had been written by a child "Royal Mail has detained...

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could hypothetically have two soundcards simultaneously installed, and switch between them easily. For example if you wanted a good soundcard for speakers, you can use that, but if you wanted to switch to a good soundcard for headphones, could you? Again...

I noticed this warning on the bottom of my K95 If you can't read it, it says "Some experts believe the use of any keyboard can cause serious injury to hands, wrists, arms, neck, or back. If you feel pain, numbness, or weakness in these areas see a qualified health professional" This just...

Hi all, I've got some EL wire for a little window mod I'm doing. I'm going to run it underneath the U-channel around the edge of my window so it glows blue. Firstly, does anyone know of any brand of good CLEAR/TRANSLUCENT U-channel, or where I can get some decent stuff? I bought some online...

Driver issues on BF3 Hi, I've recently got BF3 working, and now sometimes I can play for hours on end with no problem, but other times it crashes as soon as I load up several times in a row. The error it states is the GPU driver, so I tried running with SLI on, and off, and it still...

Hello :) While I was upgrading my PC earlier this month, I was installing a waterblock on my GPU, and I noticed this pasty white gunk on a couple of pins on the back of the PCB, so I just cleaned it off with a cotton bud. Sorry the picture is a little blurry, it was hard to get it to focus so...

Hi people I've had an OCZ Vertex IV 128GB SSD since about October, and now they're on sale for £72 and I'd really like to get a new one and stick them in a RAID0 array. I'm sure it's not ideal to use a new and a used drive together, but would it still be okay to put them in an array with each...

Hey guys :) I'm a complete newbie to GPU overclocking, I've only ever done CPU before. I used to have my i5 2500k at 4.7GHz, but then reduced it to 4GHz for some reason which is what it's been at for a while. I have just OC'd my SLI GTX580s using Afterburner. Base clock from 772MHz to 915MHz...