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Hardware

Sound advice

December 15, 2011
Sound advice

System: Compaq Presario SR1000, Windows XP Home Q: I can’t get any sound out of my computer. The following message comes up when trying to play music, “Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound device. There might not [...]

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Web pages not loading

November 8, 2011
Web pages not loading

Q: I moved my computer from the floor to an elevated position on the desk. The move necessitated removing and reinstalling all of the connections. When I next attempted to go online, I could not load any pages. I am hooked up through a Linksys router and [...]

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Install XP to SATA

September 27, 2011
Install XP to SATA

Q: I have a PC which used to run Windows XP Media Centre, unfortunately, it  crashed a little while ago, the fault caused only a black screen and a cursor arrow  to be displayed. The restore disks I’d created immediately following delivery, would not even [...]

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iTunes storage

September 5, 2011
iTunes storage

Q: On computer A I have iTunes installed. The iTunes folder is on an external drive and the iTunes folder is specified in iTunes. iTunes works perfectly. The iTunes application on this computer was used to import songs. On computer B I also have iTunes [...]

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Noise annoys

August 29, 2011
Noise annoys

System: Intel Core 2 Duo, MSI 975X Platinum motherboard, Windows 7 Home Premium Q: My PC was built for me by a friend and has been fine for the past year or so. However, recently the CPU fan has become very noisy, making a ticking, [...]

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Sticky problem

August 23, 2011
Sticky problem

Q: I had always been under the impression that all USB sticks were of the same standard until I recently purchased a new 8GB stick. The new one, a different make from my other, performs much better speed wise, why would this be? Another puzzle, [...]

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Random shutdowns

August 1, 2011
Random shutdowns

System: Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 150GB Seagate hard drive, Windows 7 Professional Q: The other day as I was using my desktop PC it closed down for no apparent reason and with no warning. I tried to reboot but it simply made it [...]

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No scan do

July 20, 2011
No scan do

System: AMD Athlon XP2400, Windows Vista Ultimate Q: I have an HP 2575 all-in-one printer that worked fine on an XP system. Since upgrading to Vista it would print but the software wouldn’t allow me to scan. HP has issued a software upgrade that is [...]

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Lack of drive

June 27, 2011
Lack of drive

System: AdventT9003 Computer, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, WindowsXP Home Q: I am having trouble with my LITE-ON DVD-RW SOHW-1653S DVD drive. It will not write to disc and won’t recognise any discs that are inserted. Yet Device Manager says everything is working and my other [...]

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Unable to write

June 17, 2011
Unable to write

Q: I wanted to take some photos off my PC onto an RW-CD that is already half full. Using 3nity CD DVD Burner from your magazine’s coverdisc. I added the ones I wanted to it but it returned with: Can’t write on this disc. Please [...]

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