Recent content by yorkshirepudding

Guys thanks for all that it is clear to me now why that happended so im going to do this: buy another 512MB module, make sure its the same and install in this way <SLOT1> 512 <SLOT2) 256 (origional) <SLOT3> 512 <SLOT4> 256 (origional) that should enable dual channel mode and give me a good...

this is very infuriating! ive tried every possible combination in he 4 slots and its not working, sometimes it only shows up as one module, sometimes the 512mb module is only half capacity, and when they are installed all together the Rating drops from PC3200 to the next level down friggin heck...

Great how can i get it to work correctly, just try several combinations of where to place the RAM

i dont know if this is of any use to someone who uses it heavily but my new PC came pre-installed with Sonic digital media home and its pretty damn good! made a direct copy of a 1000MP3 dvd in about 15 mins including making the image and transfering thats not too bad in my experiance

I have a HP Pavillion a1128uk it has 4 memory slots 2 taken up by 2x 256mb modules i bought a single 512 mb module to take it to a Gig of ram. after installing the new module in the 3rd empty slot the 2nd slot of memory disapeard and only showed on the 1st and 3rd bank installed with 768mb! so...

This is an odd one folks i took a spare CD-ROM drive home from work, installed it, no problems ran perfect, then i re-installed the origional drive and it worked brialliantly! i have no idea what i did LOL

cheers guys ill try it out i think its worth trying to wrangle a new drive from HP everytime ive delt with these sorts of problems in the past they have been very helpful. and i think HP know about it the UK has a dedicated 640 drive helpline LOL

i bought a brand new HP Pavillion with a HP 640b Lightscribe DVD/RW for christmas and its ace, the one thing that really lets it down is DVD and music CD playback and even video game cutscenes playback, all of which is really slow and stutters a lot, now its not the discs ive tried old and new...

Hi folks my home computer came pre-installed with Norton Internet Security, for a while all was well but all of a sudden recently it decided to block access to my POP3 server, Outlook couldnt connect at all. i believe this occured after i brought 0ffice 2000 fully up-to-date, i of course...

cheers guys sorry for the late reply! ive just realised we signed up for mcafee support so ill get those guys to help out!

Hi folks im having trouble updating McAffee Viruscsan Enterprise 4.1 on a PC on our network. i have a feeling the users deleted it somehoe rather than uninstalling it, and the new version i want to put on wont install over it due to the fact its not beenr removed, is there a way i can edit the...

cheers for all the suggestions folks! i do believe tinkering with the visual settings sped it up before but im not done tinkering yet! i might consider the downgrade

i can only run 256MB unfortunately the system wont accept anymore. it does get along quiet fine with XP ive noticed but it just to speed it up a little more if you think the OS is a problem should i downgrade?

Hi folks was wondering if i could get some hints and tips to boost my laptop the system is currently Time Traveller series E 500MHZ AMD processor 256MB RAM (i am buying more ram tonight to take it to this max amount) 12 GB hard disk win XP now overclocking is a bit beyond me at the minute and...

I am sorry if i have placed this in the wrong forum but i couldnt locate anyplace to do with general network issues our servers make a real racket and its starting to get on peoples nereves, it is located within the finance department and not sealed off. now for enviornmental and security...