Recent content by Juleswc

thanks so much for the valued for advice folks! I've now backed everything up and will now attempt to have a good look at the drive! although think to be honest from whats you've said it looks a crook one :-( Cheers Jules

any advice would be fab on this one please folks. I've had this problem for about 6 months, but it seems to be getting slightly worse.. The Problem : whilist using Vista - can be internet, DVD, photoshop etc - the pc freezes and then about 20 seconds later I hear a struggling noise from...

Wondeful. Thanks for the advice guys. I tried resetting Bios and it still hung on that and then tried the optical drive and it works a treat!! So thanks for the advice. Much Appreciated. Cheers Jules

Hi Folks, Having some trouble with my 13 month 500gb sata seagate drive.. three hours ago while procesing photographic images it just restarted for no reason. Now the pc hangs on 'Verifying DMI Pool Data' and does nothing.. If I hit f12 and go through boot menu and choose the hdd it boots up...

Hi Folks, this morning, totally out of the blue my pc restarted and then I got the following missing or corrupt etc etc ... windows root>\system32\hal.dll I've been really worried..as I hadn't backed up for ages and had just done a photo shoot and hadn't backed up before deleting the images...

Thanks Guys :-) All correct and working - thanks so much for your superb advice. Cheers Jules

Hi, Thanks for the prompt reply and helpful information. It sounds something I may consider, I'll have a look into that. Now I may be acting thick, (quite possible LOL) I've downloaded the drivers from the Gigabyte site and put on floppy etc, however I reboot and press f6 and nothing...

Hi, I'm running XP Home with a Gigabyte 7VAXP Ultra motherboard. I've got a 80gb IDE HDD installed which is running XP etc, however I've just bought a 250gb Sata Drive for the motherboard which I'd like to install. I've attached Sata cables etc and when I press F4 on start up for Sata/raid it...

Thanks, I'll give that a try, but I haven't changed anything at all.

OK, I'm at the point where I'm pulling my hair out. I have an Epson C46, attached to an older PC that I use for word etc. The pc is running win2k. The printer has been installed ok for 9 months and working good, however over the last few months I cannot print. Whenever I print something the...

Hi, I've just bought a Belkin router and have connected the one PC fine, however the other pc is going to be wireless via a USB adapter. The usb device is working fine, and it is showing up on the client list etc and is communicating ok (ping results are fine), however I can't access the net...

I'm just switching to Broadband and I'm planning on getting the Netgear DG834GT wireless modem which will be connected to my Win 2000 PC. I have another PC also running Win 2000 downstairs and therefore plan to buy a USB adapter for that one.. However the USB ports on the PC are only 1.1, where...

Superb, Thanks for that. Jules

Just out of interest, what would I do if it wasn't Win XP Pro, just normal XP? which is what I have.

Excellent - thanks