Anyone tried this?

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/windows_live_safety_center.mspx

Have a good Sunday, folks.

TP

I recieve the following daily emails: midday and close of market from MoneyAM (2) and a morning email from Sharecast.

All 3 suddenly stopped coming as from last Friday, I have checked my spam filter on my email account and all the right boxes are ticked as are the boxes with Money AM. Checked the spam box and the 3 emails don't appear there.

Anyone else had the same problems? or anyone know what Is causing the stopage please?

Stan,

You are set up to receive these E mail s from us - it could be that your ISP is marking them as spam - you may need to contact them to ask them to allow All mail from MoneyAM.

Ian

I'll give them a try, thanks Ian.

Ian,

My email A/C Is with Lycos, and ISP Is with the dreaded BT!

Is It possible that BT would suddenly do this, comunicating with BT In the past has usualy been a time wasting activity so want to avoid trying to contact them to be honest.

Stan,

I would start with Lycos, as they provide the E mail. Might also be worth looking at your internet security, to see if this is blocking them.

Ian

Thanks Ian, will do.

Just started to unsubscribe and subscribe, hope that has some effect.

Really have not got the energy just now to deal with this.

Ed:I can always read Greystones posts on here.

This e-mail arrived last week, maybe of interest to some. Ref Broadband + PC, 8 Mb broadband upgraded to 24Mb when available next year, also in the package a new PC value 500, a free 'Windows Vista' upgrade. At the end of the 36 month contract they give you another brand new upto date PC free! All for 20 a month Plus a one off payment of 50 for a modem. You will need a BT line.
Shame I just bought a new PC recently plus have 15 months to run with BT broadband. Seems like a good deal to me!

OK the web site >> http://www.redteninternet.com

ps - I have no connection with this company. DYOR!

Interesting idea but a 3 year contract (on a cursory glance, I might be wrong). I would strongly discourage anyone from signing even a one year contract for broadband. The broadband market is moving very quickly and you certainly don't want to be stuck for three years with an ISP that isn't performing. Imagine trying to trade with your pages timing out and being unable to move ISP.

The '24Mb when available next year' is a bit of a red herring. Most BT exchanges will be upgraded starting next year (it could be 2-3 years before they all are) and no doubt all providers will offer 24Mb when available on your local exchange.

I've got a self-induced problem with the DVD drives on my PC that I wil be very grateful for help with.

I wanted to replace on of them with another drive. I disconnected both (for easier access) drive data & power cables, but them found that there isn't room to get the drive that I wanted to change out. I replaced the data & power cables for both drives, but they neither of them work - there appears to be no power supply to them - they drive doors will not open & they do not show up on the system.

When I've changed drives before I've alwasy been able to do a straight swap without any trouble.

Any help with where I've gone wrong will be greatly appreciated

thanks

Have you pushed the power cable plug fully home? They are sometimes very difficult to get fully in. Do you have a voltage tester? The voltage on the plugs is very low. I think it is 3.5v in some cases. Another possibility is that there are often spare power feed plug inside the case for extra peripherals. Try connecting to another power cable plug. If they won't stretch then do it with the DVD external to the case just to test the door opening. Is there power going to any other part of the PC, such as other peripherals? There may be a fuse on the power supply itself. Fuse on the mains plug? Running out of ideas now.

Thanks for your reply Haystack.

All other devices, extra & external (usb) hard drives are ok.
Everything on PC is OK except for the 2 DVD drives!!
No spare power cables unfortunately.
Have tried re-seating powers cables several times - no effect - will try again as they are a bit difficult to access because of their position.

Thanks again - greatly appreciated

Have you looked at the Bios settings. If you have booted the nachine up without the devices, it may have forgotten them. It may depend on whether you have PnP (plus and play) enabled at that low level. If you haven't then you may have to explicitly mention their existence. The Bios system is much more intelligent these days and can work out a lot stuff for itself, if it allowed to.

Thanks for that - will have a look - but I am coming to the conclusion tho that it's a PSU problem - I connected the spare drive with the same (no power) result. Might have to get a new PSU :-(

ChuffChuffChaser

When you switch the computer on with the problem drive connected, does the machine boot OK.

Assuming it does, try unpluging it and swaping the powerlead from one of the other devices to your DVD drive if it still doesn't work it is not the PSU.

Hi Optimist - yes everything boots up & runs ok - just the 2 DVD drives. Surprising as it seems, there are no spare power leads - the only power leads, (other than the one feeding the DVDs), are the ones for the mainboard, sata drives, etc - none of them would of course fit the DVD drives

Looking at the DVD power feeds - how are these set up - are they 2 connectors daisy chained together or separate ones? In disconnecting the power you may have dislodged one of the wires that go into the plastic power connector.

a cheap case fan that connects to the IDE drive power connector may be a useful test tool. I've got one that has a female and male connection so you don't loose a drive power cable on just the fan.

Are you positive the drives worked immediately before?
Is the PSU wattage man enough for the job - you mention additional and usb drives.
what happens if you disconnect power to all but the essential devices?
hidden in the bios menus may be power outputs for various voltage levels - do these look to be within 5 percent of the stated values.

ChuffChuffChaser

I see your problem. A new PSU may well be your best bet, but assuming it is a standard sized one, get one with plenty of leads and power to spare.

If you can get a new PSU from a shop, take the DVD drive with you and get them to hook it up to another machine.

Huxley - 3 connectors daisy chained - only 2 of which are used. The drives worked ok before I started "pratting" about :-((

Could be the psu is not powerful enough - I have 1 extra internal & 2 extra external drives (1 of which is rarely turned on & was off at the time).

Optimist - I will try the spare DVD (which also would not power up) on my wife's machine see how it goes.

Thank you again for your interest & response & similar thanks to you Huxley