NEC are packard bell and they use a hard drive recovery partition which if i remember rightly cannot be seen under windows or under windows install its hidden by dos commands try press F11 when u get the nec logo and see if it starts the system recovery if so u will know for next time if this...
so why then if when asked for cd2 during my media center edition install if i skip it it installs windows xp pro on my pc??
taken from wiki
Although MCE is based on Windows XP Professional, Microsoft has disabled its ability to join an Active Directory domain post install. This effectively...
if the acpi has been somehow changed even if you change it back windows will still complain
reset bios to deafult and reinstall windows is sometimes the only way to fix it fully
some isp's will give out static ip addresses some charge for it and some do it free if you ask
just call aol and ask em whether they do it or not or buy a router that has a mains plug and never turn it off and you will pretty much have a static ip
also when buying and installing any new dvdrw drive update the firmware which u can get from liteon site
a pc with 256mb of ram and onboard gfx Will play dvds fine
if you have 2 optical drives on one cable check jumper settings
contention ratio...
512kbps is a bit low for gaming
try to stick to uk servers
any pc accessing the internet while your are gaming will cause ping spikes where ur ping shoots up
even opening internet explorer on another pc
basically bought a french cooker which has the option for 110V i think and the standard 230 got the electric wired up fine has been for a while the oven is electric and one electric hotplate style hob
The gas however is another story
it has 3 gas hobs which i would like to use but the...
first off im new here so hi guys
When upgrading pc hardware there are more things u have to think about that u might first think
first off obviously there is the mobo (motherboard) u have a couple of choices to begin with AMD or Intel personaly im an amd fan as the price performance...