hilary

Make sure your notebook "IN" (side) and "OUT" (back) air vents are not restricted in any way. It is most probably switching itself off as an overheating safety measure.

Hilary, I run a Dell laptop and mine gets so warm I prop it up at the back to allow heat from underneath to dissipate. It goes all funny and locks up if it gets too warm. I had to reformat the HD completely recently & reinstall everything and it ran a lot cooler after that ( well, the fan kicked in a lot less). Hope this helps.

A lot of the heat generated by a laptop will be the disk drive. Defragmenting the drive regularly should help since the disk will have to work less.

hilary, looks like we are all agreed then; heats your problem

Thanks guys. I don't really see it as being a major problem because it happens so infrequently ...... it's more frustrating than anything else and I ended up losing something yesterday when it happened, which prompted my question. I'll just try to be a bit more conscious of it from now on.

robber,

I've always had a problem being hot.

:-))

H,
So I've heard

;-)

Kayak - I asked BT to run a line check for me yesterday. Still waiting....

Hi...Problem....

I am trying to migrate from 2-4 screens
am trying to replace my Matrox G550 card with a Matrox G200 Quad card

When the new card goes in .It tells me my

BIOS is not fully ACPI compliant...need to updata BIOS

anyonw know what that means...and where I can get it.
I have all the specs on Chipset etc etc

HELP !
Gone back to old Dual card ...and that works OK

Croc thanks for your help on my separate prob. this am...
but one call on a Sunday is enough..so am posting here instead

foale, look on the motherboard manufacturer's website. If you find a download, follow the instructions very very carefully or you could wreck your motherboard.

The Publisher
The Matrox 550 has independant controls for left and right hand screens on resolution and colour. You should press the auto button on your monitors after you have changed the setting. Also the refresh rate should be set at 60hz for the Samsung TFT's
Call me on 01902 676159 if you need any help

Foale, Any time glad to help
http://www.giga-byte.com/ but take care as Kayak says.
Somehow I do not feel it is the Gigabyte Motherboard BIOS that is the problem but could be the on on the graphics card?
Anyway there is a utility that allows you to update the BIOS on the Gigabyte site http://www.giga-byte.com/home/qflash.htm
I am glad to see your up and running again!
D.

Interesting development over this weekend regarding my laptop. I always suspected as such, but finally decided to take a detailed look.

My laptop had an ATI graphics card (M6) with 16mB RAM. Have discovered that I can run the laptop TFT and another screen from it along the lines of a dualhead. This is FYI for those who may have a similar graphics card in their laptop.

Al

Request for from a novice playing domain games ;)

Just purchased a group of domain names linked to a business prospect - so went down the 123cheapdomains route. Now I've got the names registered it would be useful to be able to have email directed through using the domain names - nothing fancy at this stage eg. info@xyz.com etc.

I assumed (naiively) that, having ownership of the domain, I should be able to set up simple email accounts at no extra cost - but I don't think I can do this - or can I ?

The idea is that, initially, I will use my Blueyonder web space to develop a token web site - which would have queries re-directed for each of the domain names - and email addresses which, equally, could get routed through a common address.

Any of you IT chaps out there got any ideas - that are reasonably cheap - for a budding entrepreneur ??

mg (Wet behind the ears)

Bored with Outlook Express try this.Very good.http://www.incredimail.com/

I downloaded Spybot but it stopped a lot of adverts(which is good) but actually I can't see some of the adverts on my own home site where I have some banner exchanges. Anyone know how I can turn off the advert blocker?

Scorpion

Keep getting this option:

I have reformatted my pc and changed from xp to 2000,all problems i had previously now resolved.
one question

I have no sound and cannot find the volume icon that is usually on the task bar,i have looked in sounds on my control panel but cannot find any reference to it.

can anyone point me in the right direction?

Mr. W.

In control panel --> sounds and audio devices

there is an option to show volume control on task bar

- if that is greyed out it is probable that you do not have either the correct driver installed for your sound card or no driver installed

check in the device manager for your sound card - dev manger is in control panel ---> system --> hardware

cheers baz

still cant figure it out i will have to contact a pc company tommorow

thanks again

I have just bought and set up one of these:



A Vigor 2600w ADSL/ISDN Wireless router

I am using it as an internet gateway over ISDN. The box dials up the Internet for me and I can access the net via a direct ethernet connection to the box or wirelessly to the box.

My question is: I have always accessed the Internet direct from my PC and with Windows XP I've been using its firewall option for all internet connections. Now the router is dialling the connection - it has some sort of firewall built into it. I have activated the XP firewall protection on the Wireless Network Connection (a belkin card) in the Network Connections bit in XP, but am I really protected? Is the router still the weakest link and stuff could get through?

Confused of Hambledon