Skinny, you all OK now?

Yes thanks very much Spaceman.

My son in law's speakers are not working.
The light on the right hand speaker is on .

I have had a look at sounds audio devices in the control panel.
The screen is white and is not working the audio device is disabled.

He has XP windows.
In Display managers in sounds there are 5 ? in yellow.
Unable to uninstall.
How can you help

Give me 10k Dailos and I'll tell you where England are going wrong .... on second thoughts I'll do it for free , my pleasure :-)

ARLY BARLEY, first try uninstalling the devices. Normally when there are several connected devices, one is the master device and you need to remove that one in Device Manager: the others will be removed automatically but wouldn't be removed if you tried to do them individually. The master device should have an obvious name like "sound card driver" but won't necessarily be flagged as having a problem. Then reboot and the devices should all be reinstalled. If that fails you will need to reinstall the sound card driver.

I have a problem with the graphics. Recently started using Dow Jones Newswires service. Initially OK, but I now find that it is causing the monitor to "jump" as if a monitor problem. The monitor is fine without this software running.

I have tried adjusting refresh rates and resolutions etc, using 1280x1024@70Hz

I have changed the graphics card to another unit and the problem persists so it would seem not specific to the card.

XP pro, 1024Mb 400DDR, and Barton 2500 processor, Gigabyte motherboard, so I would assume nothing to do with the available memory etc.

Asides from stop using DJ, any thoughts?

2Abbey

This could be a difficult one to track down but I would start by downloading the latest drivers for your graphics card.

I have loaded in the latest drivers from the site. Problems don't seem specific to news service, just that as I add windows to the desktop then it must be putting more load onto the graphics card thereby causing the problem.

Please help: I have a laptop and now have a monitor. I have set it up so that I can drag different applications to show seperatel on the monitor.
But, on the monitor the applications are far too big. I have altered the screen resolution on my lap top but this doesn't do the trick.

How do I make what appears on the monitor smaller?

Thank you.

2Abbey

How much RAM have you got?
How much virtual memory are you using?

Serpico100

What OS are you using?

You should be able to set the resolutions on the laptop and monitor separately.

btw

If anyone is using a second monitor on a laptop that has an NVIDIA based graphics card then it is well worth downloading the latest drivers. They come with a load of tools to manage multi monitor systems.

Virtual memory set at 1534 Mb, apparently this seems to be the max availble. I seem to recall changing this in the distant past

Machine Ram is 1024 Mb

Optimist
Windows XP. BTW: I regret I am almost completely computer illiterate)

Optimist: much to my surprise I have worked it out.

Thanks anyway

2Abbey

You should have enough RAM so that you are actually using almost no VM so I'm running out of ideas. Possibly you could check with the software suppliers to see if it is a common problem.

Serpico100

You beat me to it. I'm glad you are sorted.

I am thinking that it could be the graphics accelerator chip on the motherboard since it it is not specific to either graphics card and I would have assumed I had enough memory.

Might load up my other computer with my software and see if the situation changes.

Lesson to us all No 1. Just cleaning up the inner wheels etc on the mouse, found I had bought 2 Dax future contracts by mistake! Even better, the price was now 2 pts ahead. Must be doing something right.

Help before i trash the tele!

1) i have a scart lead between TV and line out at back of VCR
2) i have an incoming ariel line from the incoming cable to a satellite reciever
3) i have a lead from the TV to the TV/VCR socket on the back of the satellite reciever

The TV and satellite work ok
The video does not record?

D, if scart is to line out on VCR thats why, scart should be input (line in) on VCR to record.

Thanks Spaceman, this f*cking techno stuff is not for me, bought the video about a year ago, first time i've tried to use it and the poxy thing is so bleeding complicated i cant understand it. Only want to record and watch every now and then but there are so many buttons even that becomes complicated :)

Is that an incoming ariel in the sense of an Archangel or a box of washing powder?

:-)