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When you say Flashget and FDM are they P2P (peer to peer programs)

Unfortunately mate it's a catch 22 they are always advertising and that gets them customers - that and the fact they somehow manage to swing major deals with Dell and whoever. Luckily ESET have started to advertise lots now in the UK and I am hoping that they overtake the likes of Mcafee and Norton, granted it will take time but when people see what Nod32 can do compared to Norton there is no comparison.

There must be a driver issue with the Cruzer - what model is it and I will have a look for the driver

If the Heatsink on the CPU is not fitted correctly then there is a high possibility this is the problem - the problem that you are describing is more common on overclocked systems, you may just need to redo the thermal paste that sits between the CPU and the CPU heatsink. again this is an easy process - do you know what cooler you have on the CPU? do you know what socket the processor is? 775? There are 2 bridges on the MOBO:- Northbrige at the top of the board - it will have either a fan on it or some pipes and the Southbridge at the bottom of the board and again it will have either a fan or some pipes on it - fans are more common on older/cheaper boards, and pipes on enthusiast boards.

Hi Imagen, Welcome to FPCH :) Right the lines that you say you are getting across the screen is due to heat build up. This can be caused my many things, but the suspect areas are:- 1- The Northbridge on the MOBO 2- The GPU chip and ramsinks on the Graphics card. 3- The CPU itself can be getting hot. resolutions (corresponding to above numbers) 1 - get a fan that points at the Northbridge. 2 - get a replacement cooler dependant on the mounting points these are fairly cheap and easy to fit. 3 - get an uprated heatsink for the CPU, again these are cheap and easy to fit.

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Sorry Keith, in 2002 the first version of Media Centre Edition of XP was released - you have XP and I bet that the person you are referring to uses XP MCE

No problem - glad that its all sorted :)

No mate as long as its one at the back of the PC and not the front. there is a site that I use called toast.com I think it is and you can select different companies globally and test the up/down speed and the sizes of files that you download/upload vary too.

No - the MOBO only beeps when there are problems. if the lights and the fans are going then 99% of the time its all ok :) test with a monitor and GPU and come back to us, and we can go from there.

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Harry I cannot urge strongly enough to use something other than Norton for backups - use Acronis - even if you get the Norton backup onto disks chances are that you will not be able to load them back again - the online one is slightly more reliable but as for CD/DVD Norton is not up to the job.

Put it in the memory banks under - 'learning' :)

I bet that the version thats on it is MCE and not just XP

Norton 360 - God help us all :eek: I have seen some shocking reviews on it - strange for a symantec product :D, why do people still insist on buying what 'shops' say:- Seth - I hope you will be 'advising' them on stronger software with a hammer in hand if need be lol

Depending on what speed internet you have from Virgin they may give you one FREE or you can get one from them for £40 and as Wolfey says they are fantastic routers. and if you need help setting it up - me or/and Wolfey will help :)

No problem Mara - :)

The powered adapter can make a huge difference Doug, especially if its not USB 2 and is USB 1.1 - try without the USB hug and connect directly to the MOBO at the back of the PC

Glad its all sorted :) Gav for future reference when building a new pc, it should be done in this order:- 1- install the OS and any available service packs 2- install the drivers from the MOBO disk 3- install the graphics drivers. if you do any other configuration then you can have some major issues ;)

When you say the icon - I take it that its a shortcut - manually navigate to the C drive and then program files and try and launch it from there. The shortcut could have just stopped working.

What is the driver you are using at the moment 177.41 is the latest version from memory - go into C:/nvidia and post whats in there. can you also tell me what speed the RAM is.

The GPU is nowhere near as good.

Have a look here mate Windows XP Internet Connection Setup (1 of 3) - BBS 42 and where you get the option to manually setup or load from an ISP cd - I would use the CD that your ISP gave you. Hope this helps