More problems here!

Last night my Samsung 25 died, just like like, it cut out. When I try to re-start it the blue light comes on for about 3 seconds and cuts out. The screen doesn't fire up or anything. Dam.

I have another laptop which I have loaded on French AOL to get an internet connection but I really need to get my other one fixed.

Anyone any ideas? I am assuming I have broken the gaurantee as I have had it in bits and a taken a soldering iron too it before! It's only 10 months old.

Dam.

Mr Euro.
Glad your still with us.Quite an event, (health wise).
I am no expert(thats for sure).But in case you missed it they are the same symptoms as my desktop twice recently in the last two weeks.It has turned out to be the power unit first time 40. Second time I might find out latter today.
Hope you manage to get it sorted. Graeme.

Graeme.
Got your E-mail when I got home this morning.
Good luck with those "Deals"

Hello Graeme,

Yes indeeed and thanks.

Have booked some time with a technical Monday so will see. Spent the last 12 hours loading java and other nonesense software to this machince to at least enable me to trade. Only another 20 weeks and I'll have this laptop to the same spec as my previous one :-(

I binned my laptop after eight months and bought a new pc , laptops can't take the hammering imo.

Update.
Picked it up again on Friday.Has been running since with no problem.Only spoke to secretary on Friday as the engineer was out,so not 100% sure what they have done but know they have replaced the power unit again (different one) and fitted a new heat sink (???). Cost 5. Hope this works this time, still can't see the whole logic,I don't expect I will ever understand compters. Graeme.

7thfloor.I can view my acct. but when I try to buy/sell/limit orders nothing happens.No message comes up.It doesn't go beyond the point I enter the epic and buy/sell.I contacted comdirect they are not aware of any restrictions etc. on my acct.

SAW

That's the same type of problem that I had on my SECOND trade although the first went through OK. But I logged off & then back on again and it went through. I'm surprised comdirect aren't being more helpful.

One thing you could try is uninstalling SP2 and then trying again at comdirect.

Guys, just fo your info, I am using Firefox Mozilla for everything now since downloading Sun Java and ComDirect and MoneyAM both work fine - using XP with SP2

I keep getting an error message popping up on start up :

Error loading c:\Program Files\WildTangent\Apps\CDA\cdaEngine0400.dll

The specified module couldn't be found



Anyone know how I can get rid of it ?

Cheers

Hi gang,

Mozilla Firefox and Sun Java work just fine with MoneyAM (and most everything else that I've tried), but I found that some aspects of other sites (eg Finspreads) seemed to have a few problems still. This is because many of these City sites are not too well constructed in the sense that they only test with IE which is quite forgiving of lousy Javascript.

However, the Opera browser http://www.opera.com and Sun Java work well with everything that I've tried.

Opera is not free: if you don't buy it, it throws a changing ad at top right: however, you can configure it to throw text-only ads which are simply text Google searches based on the site content you're looking at. So, when you access financial sites, it suggests others.

Personally, I found this quite unobtrusive.

IE has been subject to a U.S. CERT advisory which simply said that the only safe thing to do was not to use it. So I don't.

Dil, could it be this ?? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cdaengine0400.dll

My Dell ultrasharp TFT screen has become blurry - i.e. the ultrasharp is now slightly blurred at the edges - and I'm wearing my new glasses so no ribbing about the eyesight please ;-)

What could be the matter? Nearly a year old and still (hopefully) under warranty with the folks I bought it on ebay from. Is it something to do with the driver, or is it a faulty monitor. It is the same whether it's run on analogue or digital, and is the same when used on my old Win 98 PC.

All help gratefully received.

Also thinking of buying a new TFT screen to add -

This seems a great monitor 204 plus delivery on ebuyer. Anyone got any better ideas?
LG L1715S 17ins TFT 16ms 0.26mm Charcoal & Grey with 3year onsite Warranty
Diagonal Size 17"
Dot Pitch / Pixel Pitch 0.26 mm
Max Resolution 1280 x 1024 / 75 Hz
Colour support 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Max Sync Rate (V x H) 75 Hz x 83 kHz
Response Time 16 ms
Controls / Adjustments Brightness, contrast, H/V position, gamma correction, colour temperature, phase, clock
Display Screen Coating Anti-glare, hard coating
Image Colour Temperature Adjustable
Image Brightness 250 cd/m2
Image Contrast Ratio 450:1
Image Max H-View Angle 160
Image Max V-View Angle 140
Video Input Analogue video Signal RGB
Interfaces 1 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)

SC, a few questions, have you changed any setting in either the monitor or your graphics card? Have you changed the cable? Can you link the change to anything else? eg new software?

Nothing altered. It seemed to happen when my son played a new game on the old machine and has been the same ever since. Still legible and freinds without a tft are jealous but not crisp any more.

No settings altered other than sometimes change the resolution to larger print to make it comfortable to read.

SC, I suspect something has been changed possibly by the game, is there a way of resetting the TFT back to factory setting? have a look in the manual? its also possible that the refresh rate may have been set to high it should only be ablut 60 for a tft.

I cant rule it out but I would be very surprised if its a fault.

How do I adjust the refresh rate? There is a facility with the buttons to reset to factory settings. Will try now.

Hmm, just the same. Possibly refresh rate then.

Spaceman , yes it is so will look at the links tomorrow.

Cheers

SC:

I've seen and used one of those LG Flatron L1715 TFTs: it's superb, and 204 sounds like a great price.

Cheers

MM

Thanks Derek, I have a twin screen output so will probably buy one. Must go to bed now, keeping you and Spaceman up until all hours !!