Skinny

You can find out which motherboard is fitted from the info at start-up or better still by running Belarc Advisor. Then go to the motherboard manufacturers site where they should list the battery type or at least show a picture from which you can guess.

Alternatively, go and buy a standard coin battery which odds on will be OK.

Optimist - many thanks.

When you change the battery do you have to save any cmos settings or is it just take one out and put another in? Never changed one yet.

Optomistic

All the BIOS settings will be reset to the deffault ones so ideally you need to go through the setup screens and make a note of your settings.

However, in most cases, the reason that you change your battery is that it has already discharged and reset the settings. Therefore there will be no changes to record.

Thanks Optimist.
ps what are the first indications that the battery is losing its power?

Optomistic

The first indication is normally that the time is wrong when you first startup and you often get a CMOS checksum error. Most batteries will last 5 to 10 years anything significantly less suggests either a bad battery or a motherboard fault.

Thanks again Optimist, as you may have gathered I don't know too much about the 'bits inside'

Hi all.
Can anyone point me inthe direction of a site for checking broadband speed.
Thanks

Cloudbase:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

Anyone help.
My computers having problems re the following virus.... Trojan horse Generic.WUD
First caused problems when installed software that came with Inovix Ipocket, and appears to have gone onto infect files located in C:/System Volume Information/restore72C2204C-854-4C55F
I run Windows Xp and have the latest downloads.
Also run spybot and AVG free version. It was the AVG that found the virus. Also can not download anything to my IPocket although I could until this virus appeared.
Any ideas how to get this out my system. I cant find any info re this virus.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Greek.

Everyone's using this one these days, principally because of the graphics I think :-)

http://www.speedtest.net/

MM/ Kayak, many thanks

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I want to buy pc anywhere so that I can use my laptop to take control of my pc principally so that I can access my email held in outlook on my pc.

It appears to retail for about 120 according to symantec website.

But there are new boxed products available for between 15 and 20 on ebay.
I cannot see the catch although there must be one. The sellers have very good ratings and have sold in excess of 1000 items. So, can anyone explain what exactly I'll be missing out on by buying from such a source ?

The security of knowing you won't go to prison for using pirated software? ;)

Does the product have a security code in the box? If it is the key to the access then a product from a third party may not be secure. I am not sure how the security is handled.

I've bought products like Norton Internet security from highly rated retailers on ebay and the products have worked fine. Sometimes you get a slightly older version, and they're rarely boxed, but I never think all the latest bells and whistles are always neccessary.

Buying from a highly rated source means you can be reasonably confident they're not using pirated software. Someone, somewhere, would have left negative feedback if they were.

You're usually buying oem versions which were intended for distribution with a new PC but somehow became detached from their link - but they work fine. If it were me, I'd go the ebay route.

cc, take a look at www.logmein.com. It may do what you need and the basic version is free.

cc

"I want to buy pc anywhere so that I can use my laptop to take control of my pc principally so that I can access my email held in outlook on my pc."

If that is all you want to do then why on access Outlook from the laptop and leave the original Email on the server. It is a problem about historic Emails on your PC, but they can be copied across to the laptop as well.

Within the last month sombody recommended Crucial (from America) on here, I can't trace back who It was but would like to ask If anyone has used them.

The price on RAM Is about 50 cheaper compared to buying over here. 2x512.

So the questions are has anyone used them for RAM, how long do they take to deliver (standard). Is the quility as good as Kingston memorey which Is the make of supply over here?

Thanks.