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White lightning

July 30, 2010
White lightning

System: AMD 3000, Gigabyte GA7NNXP motherboard, 2GB Kingston PC2700 DDR Memory, PNY 6200 GeForce 512MB graphics, 160GB Maxtor 7200 hard drive, Samsung SyncMaster 245B Monitor Q: I have searched all through the back issues of your magazines to help me find a solution to my [...]

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More information

July 6, 2010
More information

Q: You responded to a question I sent to you back in November 2009 about my 5 year old PC that I wanted to upgrade and your response was greatly appreciated. I had the CPU, RAM and Hard-drive all upgraded and the whole system in [...]

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Graphics updates

June 15, 2010
Graphics updates

Q: I have just tried to install Daz Studio 3, and it says I need Open GL 1.3 (my machine only has Open GL 1.2). I have also tried to install Cakewalk Plasma Express. It says I need Direct X 8.1 (specifically, I gave got [...]

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External DVD problem

December 24, 2009
External DVD problem

Q: Could you help me please with an external rewriteable DVD ROM drive, which I bought some years ago, but now does not work properly? It has an indicator light, which turns on, and it blows air out the back but it will not play any [...]

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Losing the BIOS settings

September 11, 2009
Losing the BIOS settings

Q: Each time my PC has been switched off overnight it goes straight into the BIOS screen when I boot it up and I have to re-enter the date and time settings before proceeding. Why isn’t it remembering these settings and what can I do [...]

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Is 64-bit better?

September 9, 2009
Is 64-bit better?

Q: I have been a subscriber for over two years now and I have of course, thousands of programs on the DVDs that have accompanied my magazines. I am close to purchasing a laptop and I am heavily leaning toward a laptop with a 32-bit [...]

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Upgrading graphics

August 20, 2009
Upgrading graphics

Q: This is probably a silly question, but I’m quite new to using computers. My PC (HP Media Center m7760n) has integrated graphics on the motherboard, but there’s a spare PCIe x16 slot to allow it to have a separate graphics card. My question is, [...]

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