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Hi, Nvidia GTX970 yet seems unable to display a graduated soft shadow, ranging from zig zag edges where shadow has a shortish 'soft edge demarcation' to ripples/ contouring where shadow is more of a slight darkening of a large surface. In a flight sim. Also in CAD I had basket'weave effect...

Hi, asking for a friend. He has recently bought a Dell tower unit and has had the fortune of acquiring a set of Logitech R20 speakers (two small units and a subwoofer bigger unit). He gets no sound from the larger box (the subwoofer). He has the yellow jackplug lead from the small speaker into...

Hi, My motherboard decided that all four SATA sockets wouldnt play ball with my SATA bootable HD, (dual boot Win2K/WinXP_home), and trying my PCI IDE/SATA card saw the PC functional again, even reading one of the two storable SATA HD's from one of the Mbd SATAs !...albeit with an irritating...

Hi I need to get a second hand laptop under £450 with separate graphics card giving OpenGL, so most Nvidia or ATI should suffice. I have heard it said that Toshiba are best avoided, go for Dell for repairs and spares, is this so, and what of Sony or other leading brands ? Obviously a brand...

Hi, Can a laptop be plugged into a standalone monitor, the type purchased for desktop or tower PC's ? Of the current flat screen variety and also deep back CRT type ? I ask for a few reasons. A friend of mine prefers viewing monitors for quality of picture, I do also. I wish to find him a dirt...

Hi, I have videos stored on removeable caddies with ATA HDs, created on a dual boot PC, the partition created with Partition Magic 8 when booted into the Win2K side of things. I was running daily Win XP home SP1 and never had a problem with my caddies. I have done a PC rebuild going over to...

Hi, I have an MSI 875P neo motherboard, and three SATA and one ATA HDs attached, latter via a raid pci card. PC is dual boot Win2K and XP residing on one of the SATAs. I purchased Farstone Disk Clone Pro 3 following a successful trial for OS partition restoration purposes. The install of the...

Hi, How to get data off former HD which had active partitions ? I have had a rebuild of my dual boot PC that had 2 internal ATA drives and a caddy with ATA, with three SATA 300 drives. Of the ATA's, one has my data on an extended partition (D drive), that same HD also had two active...

Hi, Need clone partitions SATA to ATA not with ghost...so how ? What software would allow me a stable method of cloning a partition to a partition, SATA as source and ATA as destination ? It seems Norton Ghost 10 can be problematic on some PCs when dealing with SATA hardrives. My engineer...

Just wondering what I can get away with on my MSI 875P neo FS2R m'board (spring 2004 was when I bought it, it was top of the charts at the time, great reviews and spec.) MSI site says ok for upwards of 160Gb, odd that (misprint ?) as tests are with 40, 60 80 160 and a 200Gb !..so assume 200Gb...

Help please, Win XP SP1 PC, Audigy just fine, then install SP2, access denied 50% of the way through, install does a rollback, warning that some things may not work so well, and its lost me my sound :mad: Tried registry fixes progs, Creative diagnostics say hardware not found, but PC is dual...

Hi, I am wondering if to go for a HD with 16Mb Buffer and 11ms seek time at £196 or 8Mb buffer with 8ms seek at £188. Both drives support NCQ, a buffer for reading off data I gather. Seagate barracuda being the make. I have three so far but never really considered buffer data. Transfering MiniDV...

Buying a printer from the USA, having bid for it (not yet paidf for it) I now discover that the USA are 110V 60Hz and UK are 240V 50Hz. Is it possible to get adapters that allow USA kit to run ok under UK mains ? Surely there is a 240v to 110 v convereter, but what of the 50 - 60 Hz difference ...

Every 5 mins it seems I get a pop up on my WinXP PC with the message Windows Delayed Write Failed Windows was unable to save all the data for the file F:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applicationdata\McAfee\AntiSpyware\Data\SpyData.dat The data has been lost. This error may be caused...

Whilst I am familiar with multisession of a CD-R, knowing that one must not close disc, only session, and that some burning progs have a better interface than others for letting you know whats already on the disc before you start to add data, some only let you know after you have added and you...