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I had just got my PC working perfectly when I decided to load a new game onto my PC and start enjoying it for a change and now its come up with a new problem :-s After installing a game (Age of Empires) and playing it for a couple of hours (and losing) I closed it up and all my icons had been...

Sorry for posting here, couldn't find a PC software - General discusion. I am considering changing over to Linux, simply because I'm not a fan of the microsoft corporation. I have a few concerns though. Firstly will all my applications definately work with Linux including games. Secondly, which...

Can anyone help? I can't run any video files at all, and we know how important they are to my work :-) The error message says "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction" and I can choose close or ignore. How do I get it to open in 32 bit mode?

I bought a Zorra ATX case a while ago. It worked fine for a while with a P3 450Mhz (socket 1) CPU but after upgrading to a P3 733 Mhz (Socket A) CPU it has failed to work. As soon as I plug the power cable in it starts the fans turning and the CD lights start flashing and there is a 1 second...

I have recently passes the 210 and 215 exams and am still finding it difficult to find a job. I'm not in a position to be able to build on these yet. Could anyone suggest maybe what sort of jobs I should be going for or what the best way of going about it is.

I have bought a stylish Zorro ATX case which I thought would look good. I had my PC in before and it worked fine for a couple of months. Now it has gone odd on me, whenever I plug it in it sort of powers up. All the fans start, the CD roms both power up but there's no monitor or HD power. The...

I have bought a new Zorro ZTX case and have put a MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard in. I've built up a couple of PCs in the past but they have all been pretty much identical :-s The problem is the plugs that are part of the case (IE power, reset, speakers etc). I can figure out those three plugs its...

I have installed W2K on my PC. In the process I decided for some reason to convert my drive to NTFS. I also neglected to creat any partitions. Now I want to create a Dos partition and I don't even know where to start. Also, would it be advisable to go back to FAT32 instead!

I have recently bought an Epson C62 inkjet printer. I have used it to print CD labels just over a week ago. I haven't used it since and presume that I left it on since then. Then yesterday I wanted to print some more labels and it wouldn't turn. I checked the power plug cord was plugged in and...

I have just bought an AMD processor and been told afterwards that it will need a mobo that supports 233Mhz FSB. I have an ABIT KG7 RAID mobo and will be getting an ASUS A7V8X mobo. I have looked at all the specs on tomshardware and on AMD.com and can't figure out if it will support 233Mhz or...

I can start my PC and perform some tasks, but when I try something a bit more memory demanding my system goes blank for a moment and then comes back frozen and a siren goes off. I can't ctrl,Alt,Del or even power off from the power switch, I have to switch it off from the wall socket. I have...