Very pleased with myself.Installed a new CDRW and it works,Next i want to put a DVD RW in as well.Will this also appear as a D Drive? or do I have to do lots Of Regedit etc.

Iain, if its IDE (which it almost certainly will be) it should be pretty simple and it will apear with a new drive letter (probably E:). Make sure you connect it up correctly, if its on the same cable you might need to jumper it to slave. Only slight problem can be getting sound from 2 drives, as long as they use the Ide cable it will be OK but if both want to use the audio cable you will have to chose one as there will only be one connector available on your mobo/sound card.

Cheers Spaceman.The supplied cable(for the audio slot) had two plugs at one end is this to link to the next drive?Also how do i power the second drive?
Are there any web sites that cover Installation issues In simple terms????
Iain

Iain, I thought I had replied to this but I must have forgotten to press 'Post Reply' !!!

The extra connector on the audio cable isn't for a second drive its a different type of connector ;-) you will still only be able to use one. It should not matter as the audio will probably come via the IDE connector as most do now.

If you haven't got a spare power connector you will need a splitter which you can get from PC World etc, they are cheap and convert a connector into 2.

I am sure there must be some sites that cover this sort of thing, I don't know any but I am sure someone like DocProc will know, I am pretty sure Doc knows all the sites on the internet as he often posts links to useful sites.

Thanks.
"different type of connector"!In the daylight. I can see that now:-))))

If I put in additional PC memory, am I correct in thinking that all the memory modules should be the same size? And is it ok to have 3 memory modules, or should it be a multiple of 2 (ie either 2 modules or 4 modules)?

Just had this from Pipex re my upgrade to 1mb
" I have checked BTs systems and it shows
that BT have rejected the regrade due to the line not being able to
support a 1MB connection."

What type of line do you have to have?I live approx 1 Mile from my exchange.Is this a case of BT Being difficult.It took them ages to sort out my Migration from them to Pipex.So im a bit cynical.
I wonder if it would be available if I was prepared to pay BT`s 40.99 a month as opposed tp Pipex`s 33.99;-)

"Sophos anti-virus protection bypassed
And different bug makes software loop-de-loop.

Sophos' anti-virus software can be bypassed by a virus-laden e-mail if it doesn't contain any MIME boundary definitions, the company has admitted.

MIME, or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is the basic protocol used for sending graphic, audio and video on e-mail. But Sophos has found that Delivery Status Notifications generated by qmail mail servers (the second-largest in number on the Net) that are infected with the MyDoom virus slip through the anti-virus software undetected.

Only qmail servers set up to include the original e-mail in the bounced e-mail will not include MIME boundary definitions and so slip through. But it still remains a significant security hole considering the number of qmail servers (around one million) and that the impact of many modern viruses and worms come from the emails automatically created by their appearance.

On top of that, a separate bug in the scanning engine means that the anti-virus software can be used to launch a denial of service attack on your PC if certain MIME headings are used. An "unexpectedly terminated MIME header" will send the application into an infinite loop, eating system resources in the process, the company said.

In effect, an unpatched version of the software will soon prove a liability rather than offering any sort of protection as not only will virus writers quickly latch onto the idea but the software itself can be used to bring down your computer.
..."

http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&newsid=1023

What are qmail servers ?

Help Help Help!!!!!!

Just installed a dual head matrox video card and i can get a clone on both screens but what am i doing wrong i have tried everything so that i can get 2 independent screens to run internet explorer but to no avail....

this pc is 1 step away from going out the F*****G window :-(

Make my day please...

Rick...

MB, control panel/display, settings tab, click on second monitor, and tick "extend my windows desktop onto this monitor". You may also need to click on the advanced button, Dual Head tab, and set dual head multi-display.

it a g550?

Kayak,

I cannot find the bit about extend my windows desktop...have a box with multi-display setting but you lost me now:-(

Rick...

G 400 dual head matrox....

Mega Bucks

What O/S are you using?

Optimist..

Win2kpro amd 2400xd and 512 mb memory,it will run ok on it own with 1 monitor and i can get it to clone itself but i have run out of ideas on this one:-(on what settings to use!!!

thanks for all your help guys..

Rick..

MB, if you click control panel/display and the settings tab, do you see two monitors pictured?

Mega Bucks

Click Control panel then display and then the settings tab.

Do you get a large gray box at the top of the tab with two blue boxes inside labeles 1 & 2? These represent your monitors.

If you see this then underneath it there should be controls to change the resolution and colour depth and also two check boxes labeled "Use this device as primary monitor" and "Extend my desktop over this monitor". Sometimes they are grayed out depending which monitor is selected.

I have described WinXP but have used multi monitors on Win2K and know it is similar.

thanks guys for all your help this is p**sing me off now can get the box with 2 monitors but not progressing much so i think i will just admit it aint for me:-(

this is the only thing on computers is 16 frxking years that has beat me!!!!

Mega...

MB, when you get the box with two monitors, if you click on the one that says "2", don't you get two tick boxes below, one of which saying "extend desktop onto this monitor"?

Before giving up totally, try reinstalling the drivers. These are the latest ones: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

will give it a go..thanks