the troll,

Thanks, just done it.

Mike. getting used to XP.

Martini,
go to www.mozilla.org and just download your own preferences, for yourself-you will need to get Java and stuff but it leads you through the procedure like a dream, (and most of the time I am in one these days, so it has to be easy if I can do it),
really good stuff.

cheers

IAIN

ps after I has sweated over a hot PC for two days trying to sort Explorer,
my 19 year old cheerfully told me she had used mozilla at school for ages, i love her really, I think

Sequestor
Thanks
M

Sequestor (et all),

Try Mozilla Firebird, a fork of the mozilla project. Its just the browser rather than news/email client too, and it is just lovely. I am using 0.6.1 with a few plugins/extensions and it is lovely. No crashes or anything :)

Just my 2p

J.

I'm trying to make my Olympus software send email pics without sucess. I suspect I'm putting the wrong thing in the "Outgoing mail server (SMTP) box. Can some kind soul tell me what it is for ntlfreedom (ntlworld as was)?
tia

hawkeye - probably smtp.ntlworld.com, should be the same as whatever is in your email program's outgoing mail server/SMTP server entry.

Can I back up my hard drive onto a disk/S using a CD Writer(Nero.If it helps)If so how do i do it and with what prog.
Iain

Any ideas?

Iain,

Unlikley that you will be able to do an entire backup onto one CD with todays hard drives.

You can open nero and drag all your work files/My Documents stuff into it just to back them up, which is all you really need to do...

J.

Cheers John.

Does anyone know if its ok to load excel and word from 98SE on to a m/c that has XP? I think my old m/c is indicating to me that it wants to retire and I would like excel and word on my No.1 m/c but don't want to splash out unnecessarily on Office XP SB.

Thanks
Rob

Rob, do you mean that you want to install MS office 97 from the disc that you used to load it onto your 98SE PC? If so the answer is yes, no problem.


Neil

Neil

Yes - I'm not much of a techie so thanks for translating the question :-)

The disk says its Office2000 SB, still ok I assume.

Cheers mate
Rob

I upgraded the motherboard on the PC to an AOpen AK79G-1394 capable of using faster memory, later processor etc. Using Xp professional as a clean install on a new drive. Installed motherboard drivers and everything was OK.

Obtained the service pack 1 from microsoft and relevent updates, installed them and now the onboard sound doesn't work. Uninstalled and reinstalled the motherboard drivers, still no sound. Device Manager says everything is working and properly installed. The only clue seems to be that in Sound and Audio Devices it states that there is no audio device!, item is greyed out.

I have obtained the latest bios for the motherboard from the net.

This seems to be a conflict between Xp SP1 and the motherboard since the speakers were working when originally installed.

I would be most grateful for any suggestions.

2Abbey, download and install the latest chipset drivers from the Aopen website, as well as the bios. It's the nforce driver. You might as well update the display driver while you're at it assuming you're using the onboard graphics.

Robb, office 2000 would be even better :-)

Thanks, I'll try that. I am not at present using the onboard display driver as I have to apparently use my own AGP card in order to use DDR400 Ram-doesn't say so on the box however!

The website has a selection of 2 drivers that are suitable for Xp. Bothare in the form of zipped files. I downloaded both and unzipped them. However I am unsure whether they installed. I have not had a problem unzipping and installing on other occassions.

Is there any way to determine which version of the software that I have installed? The Add/Remove program simply states NVidia Display drivers. Worrying enough there doesn't seem to be any mention of audio drivers relating to NVidia.

I'm with you and am convinced that the correct software is not installed. Have I unzipped the files correctly. If not it seems that I should be able to find them on my C Drive and manually install.....

The ones named nvidia nforce should be the chipset driver, including audio. The ones named display are obviously the display drivers. You probably need to unzip them (one at a time in case they unzip to the same file names) and then click on setup or install or something similar to install them.

If you go to Device Manager and click on the audio devices it should tell you the version number of the driver.

I would probably remove the display driver if you're not using the inbuilt graphics.