mbbcat,

I have to ask, what are you doing between the machines where it is better/more productive for you to use the 400MB/s firewire which you are having lots of problems with vs the 100MB/s ethernet which would nodoubt work out of the box?

Im still on 10 MB/s wired and 11MB/s wireless at home

Lots!

mbbcat,

Well, taht cleared that up ;)

Question on graphics cards / monitors.

Bought a Dell last March with XP Home and a 64mB Nvidia GeForce3 Ti500 graphics card. The card seems to have both an analogue (blue) and a DVI connector (white).

Obviously, the supplied CRT 17" monitor is analogue and works fine. Is there anything to stop me buying a 17" TFT panel with DVI to make a dual monitor system? XP does allow that dual monitor thing.

Advice appreciated.

Al

Big Al
Pretty sure the answer in no on that one.
EMail info@nvidia.com

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=contact_information
Regards
D,

Thanks Croc. Thought I had a relatively cheap way of doing it. Looks like I'll have to fork out a bit more if that's the case. Worth a try.

Al

Since I moved house, my PC has become incredibly noisy. If I apply some pressure by leaning on the top of the PC, the noise disappears, so my guess is that a card is loose inside (though the PC appears to be working fine). I am tempted to open it up and push the cards in securely, but could I cause some other problems by doing this ?

Any other suggestions gratefully received.

kjoco, no harm in taking the cover off to check for loose bits, disconnect from mains first, obviously. Look out for loose power/audio cables fouling processor fans etc, can often be a cause of frightening noises.

kjoco, more likely to be some mechanical part, a fan as the troll says or possibly the case itself, rather than a loose card.

the troll, Kayak

Thanks guys. I'll give it a go this evening.

Success ! Eased a cable away from the fan and peace returns. Ta very much.

I found it very easy to use RVS Com with my ISDN line. It is an answerphone/fax etc.

I can not find one to work with ADSL, most require a voice modem to work.

Any ideas??

Before the storm.

I suppose I could buy a solid satate answerphonre for the phoneline, perhaps it is impossible- if not worthless trying to get my PC to be an answerphone/fazx centre as it isnt on the voice phone line>

Tradesman, correct, to send/receive faxes *directly* it would need a modem and phoneline connected. There are various 3rd party products that work over an internet connection for sending/receiving via a gateway service, take a look at www.efax.com as an example, or ask your ISP, quite a few offer this now.

thanks, kinda nice to have received emails in storage with answerphone messages.

oh well

Tradesman, modems are very cheap these days...

so if I add a 'normal' 56k modem to the phone line part of the adsl connection I could use it as a pc/answerphone.

Well yes, although you would need a "voice" modem and software to go with it (which most of the time is supplied with the modem). Also, bear in mind that you would not get anywhere near 56K on a telephone line with ADSL. The ADSL carrier signal degrades the line so that you will get perhaps 40-45K at best.

I want to set up an Apache Web Server which I have never done before. Can anybody give me some help when I get started?

Croc,

On what operating system? windows/linux/freeBSD?

Ive been installing/configuring/maintaining apache on linux systems for about 4 years now and may be able to help...

Email me: jonathan@moneyam.com

J.