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ack, yeah, just realised and was about to hit the edit button. Now I gotta think of a cheap way of displaying a PS3 though :(

Hi, I looked around for possibilities for this and it seems that the outcome is NO it cannot happen as laptops don't usually have the right ports, I was just wondering if I am correct in thinking that mine has a VGA input on the back. It's a blue port that is also on PC graphics cards, sorry if this seems like a really stupid question but I am not sure and I don't want to be disappointed if I buy a PS3 :P will it work for me? Thanks

Well, the links are just for reference, I'm getting one from eBay and I have found these 3 models and they are all about the same price £250, where the macbook is £800.

Hi, I have been recently looking at laptops (on a fairly tight budget) as I go off to university soon and I don't currently own one (and my desktop is a tad too big :P) and I was just wondering if I missed anything on 3 models I have been looking at. I am thinking that the best one is the Medion Akoya E5211, (MEDION® AKOYA® E5211 Notebook) all the reviews seem to be very positive and it seems to offer good specs at a good price, the only downside is the short battery life of 2 hours. it seems too good to be true and I am worried that I have missed something as I know that sometimes reviews are biased by the shop and sometimes the actual specs are lower than displayed as the parts are not so good. THen I was also looking at the Toshiba L300 12i (Satellite Pro L300-12I - Product Specifications - Toshiba). This also seems to have good specs, very similar to the Medion, but with a smaller HDD and a slightly weaker CPU. Finally there is the Acer Aspire 5633 (Acer Aspire 5633WLMi review from TechRadar UK's expert reviews of Laptops and netbooks) which is last on the list, but it also seems to have good specs for an affordable price (I am buying on eBay, not for £689.00 :P) any input would be greatly appreciated, as it stands, I think the Medion is the best one, but any input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I am just posting to see if there is any software around that I can use to make my PC run more efficiently. my PC sometimes seems to run rather sluggish despite the fact that the CPU is only at 30% usage (it never goes above 30%) and a small percentage of RAM is also in use. Is there anything I can do to make my PC run more efficiently??

It doesn't seem to detect the HDD or the USB stick at all except in the BIOS. It just keeps saying "Operating System Not Found" but it doesn't do anything else or try to boot from the USB (despite the fact I set it to)

It's a clevo, but I have just confirmed that it boots from USB as it came up on my boot menu in the BIOS. However, my laptop now has a problem in the way it doesn't detect ANYTHING (it shows up in the boot menu with a "!" next to it :(

Lappy isn't THAT old, it has a good 3.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 256MB dedicated ATi mobility radeon 9700 (no upgrades) also, it doesn't have a floppy drive and it didn't come with a USB floppy drive so I HOPE you are wrong because the CD drives really are impossible to find xD

I had an OS on an old HDD (that one day decided to hate me and stop working) and once XP is installed, I can use the external CD to load software, such as word, games etc. but I can't boot from the external CD.

I have tried this, but it does not work on my laptop (It did work for this desktop PC though as the MOBO on my desktop is much newer than on my laptop)

In the WinSetupFromUSB-0.1.1 window: click Browse, next to the Windows 2000/XP/2003 Source box, and navigate to the location of the XP Install CD. I take it that this is just the CD?? ("F:\" for me) May seem like a stupid question, but I'm being ultra careful.

Danzil, the CD drive just doesn't work, not even when I was running windows on an old HDD, I installed other software from an external CD drive. under boot devices, would "removable devices" refer to a USB stick, because I have one, and I have my XP CD so I could make a bootable USB stick with ease. I can't afford a new CD drive, and I'm not even sure it would be worth it, my laptop is OLD and CD drives are rare for it (and so they are expensive).

In the bios, it gives the option of "removable devices" would this be a USB stick?? I have no OS on the laptop HDD, it is completely void of anything (Including partitions, but they can be made in the setup) The blue screen, I can't remember what it said, something about removing any newly installed Hard drives and trying again (which would defeat the object of the installation :P) and the CD is actually broken, I don't know how, when I bought the laptop it worked just fine, but the CD deteriorated over time, now it just doesn't work at all.

Hello, I am trying to install XP onto a laptop, however, the CD drive does not work at all. The only options I have to boot from are as follows: Removable Devices - I don't know what this would classify as 'removable devices', possibly a USB memory stick or a CF/SD card?? (I have a CF slot and an SD slot built in to the laptop) CD ROM - Does not work at all HDD - I can't boot here as it is a brand new HDD Network Boot - erm... what?? I have attempted to install XP using a converter and plugging the laptop HDD into my desktop PC through the converter's USB connection AND through the motherboard directly. Both, to no avail, I received a blue screen shutting down the installation process (it appeared just after set-up had loaded the necessary files and it said "setup is starting windows" at the bottom of the screen at the start of the installation. It did not even get to the point where I could select the partition I wanted to install it onto (I would have to create a new one, but I didn't get that far)) I am not sure, but I feel that the problem is the fact that I am trying to install it on an external device, please help. Thank you

I believe so. I have attached a screenshot, but if there is anything else I need to do I would like to like to know.

well, it's plugged into the top GPU (in PCI-E x16_1) and it's a VGA plug.

I dont have a 4 pin plug near the PCI-E slots, I only have the bridge and a lot of jumpers but no other connections between the mobo and the GPUs. I have this MOBO: GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Specification - GA-N650SLI-DS4L (rev. 1.0) I think I have set it up correctly and this problem does not occur on the first run a game, only the second and further instances. Also, it does not occur after watching films, only after games. Is there any way I can redirect more voltage to the GPUs in the bios as I could not find anything myself.

alright, I was planning on getting a new one anyway but this will most probably accelerate the process and puts my mind at rest (in that it isn't one of my expensive components that is fried)

Shut down always for me

There could be a virus or downloader on your comp. When was the last time you ran a virus scan? Also, maybe your HDD needs defragmenting as this can cause a PC to run slowly, so maybe that could be considered.

It started the first time I put it on. I have always used SLi on this PC, but the monitor was used on a PC with a 64Mb GPU before I used it on this PC. I have not always run nVidia, but with the components in my PC at the moment I have only run these GPUs.

My monitor is a Proview/EMC/PTS PZ456 but unfortunately I do not have another monitor to test it with and I lack a VGA - VGA cable so I cannot connect it to my TV.

I installed the drivers for my motherboard too, but the monitor is relatively old. (it's a flatscreen but it's about 12")

Hi, I have 2 nVidia 7600 GS GPUs with fully updated drivers and SLi enabled. However, whenever I run any game (I tested old ones and new ones) the screen ocasionally looks as though the image is shaking (I really can't describe it very well). However, the bigger problem is that whenever I close/minimise a game and then open a new one (or re-maximise) the screen flickers between black and the normal image and some textures lose their colours and turn a multitude of different colours. I have no idea what the problem could be as I have tested it with different resolutions and refresh rates and I still get the same problem. What is going on here? Thank you for reading

I was thinking of this one. Asus P5N-D socket LGA775 motherboard - Misco.co.uk