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Just to add to Kens advice, I have a maximum ADSL line speed of 6MB/s, for most of my uses this is OK as it isn't too expensive a service. However, during busy periods, streaming video will sometimes stop to buffer, or catch up, other times of the day it is fine and a video will play right through without a hitch. it sometimes isn't what you are supposed to get in connection speeds, it is what the bottle necks in the internet will let you have. Nev.

There is also the other end of the stick, where an image may not open because you haven't either enabled something or haven't got an add on or application for viewing the image. Add to that, if on a slow connection for instance a dial up one, the image may not load due to a time out, that also will give the square box and red X in it. On that last note, what type of connection do you have, and what is the top speed of it if a broadband one? Nev.

Hi, Welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. A lot now depends on if it was a faulty PSU, or something else on the rest of it caused the PSU to fail. The only way of course is to try another PSU. I do hope it didn't happen because of a water leak from the cooling as that could mean a new motherboard needed as well. If it all works OK with another PSU though, then you can at least get a replacement from Corsair or money back. Nev.

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. Daft as it may sound, it could still be a power supply fault as you only get those lights you mention and no fans. The only real way is another known to be OK power supply. If however a different power supply still has the same result, then it may be the motherboard itself. Try either another power supply, or that power supply in a different computer if possible first, and let us know the result. Nev.

I doubt any answer will be forthcoming goonsnoopy, this thread is well over three years old and the original poster has obviously long since gone. Please check date before posting on old threads in future. Nev.

I doubt any answer will be forthcoming goonsnoopy, this thread is well over three years old and the original poster has obviously long since gone. Please check date before posting on old threads in future. Nev.

No doubt they will catch up, but hopefully MSSE should work on it, there would a large amount of egg on face for Microsoft if it didn't. Nev.

I don't know, perhaps not, but look round the Corel website and see is all I can say. Some makers do a sampler type thing or trial period before buying if a download, but not all. Nev.

Hi if you have a cable network in your street or area that uses the fibre optic, then changing to the ISP or operator of that network will certainly improve your speeds, many many times over. Nev.

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. Can you please explain a lot further, we have little to work with at the moment. What exactly do you see and even hear happen from when you first push in the start button, if you can explain it part by part will be a help. Also please tell us what the make, model, and type of computer it is as well. Nev.

Hi Bazza, from what you say, it is a dial up connection and not broadband? Considering you have now tried a different computer, and therefore I assume a different dialler, providing the correct account password and user name was used, I think it is now an ISP or connection problem. Are you using the ordinary telephone line? If so, lift the telephone receiver and listen, is there any crackling noises on the line? If there is noise, and the line is a BT one, you need them to fix the line, but check all internal connections in your home first. If the line is perfectly quiet with only the normal dialling tone, then get in touch with your ISP. Nev.

We are getting to the point where it can only be the mother board. One of those odd times when whichever component it is at fault, will not work until it has warmed up a little. Just once only, to prove that or not, try directing some warm air from a hair dryer onto the motherboard, not hot and not for more than a minute, just a matter of getting the motherboard components aired and not stone cold, then try to boot up. Edit to add, just seen Ken has posted while I was writing, he may well be right about the BIOS too, but give my idea a try also, you never know with these things at times. Nev.

Corel products are usually good, so if that appeals then give it a try, that one you link to is the later version than my Video Studio 2010. It sometimes crashes, but I put that down to running it on Windows 7, so it may well be perfectly OK in XP. Nev.

Hi, OK, I know sometimes it seems a good idea to try different forums and hopefully get a lot of different advice, however it can conflict, with one person saying do this, and the next on a different forum says to try something that is the exact opposite, leading in the end to total confusion for you, the member asking for help. having got that out of the way, are you sure it says JPG? also what is the size of the file in either KB, MB, or GB? I ask that as JPG is not a video format, but is normally an ordinary single photograph, and if so, hence why it will not play as a video or movie. Do you no longer have the original video files stored in the video's folder? Now back to the actual video editor, have you tried the Windows own Live Movie maker? It is free and can be downloaded from Microsoft. It will do simple editing such as removing a short unwanted clip from the middle of a video, and of course join several short clips into one full video. You can place various types of interlacing between clips such as a fade from the end of one and fade back up into another, plus quite few other neat tricks. Windows Live Movie Maker will handle HD, though earlier versions such as the ordinary Windows Moviemaker, which came bundled with XP will not. To download and try it, http://www.tucows.com/preview/753874 or you can search the Microsoft website to get it direct, though you may get the whole windows Live essentials such as Messenger and a few other things bundled in that download, Live Mail as an example. One thing I am not sure about is whether it will run on your XP machine, though I cannot see any reason why it shouldn't. Other than that, I have tried quite a few other free video editors, and to be quite honest, those I tried were poor at best, and in a lot of cases reduced the quality of picture. So if for any reason you don't want the Microsoft one and prefer the greater options available in paid for software, the Magix one I linked to earlier, seems a good bet, not too expensive at the moment, offers quite a lot, and has good reviews. The software company in general are good and I do have two of their other programs, one of which is a music notation program that I have had no trouble with in the near six years of use. Which actually means I am tempted to give it a try myself perhaps. Any problems with HD video in general please let us know, and as much information as possible about the XP computer you are running it on, as it may be due to general slow performance of that machine, we can advise about that if needed. Nev.

Hi, I have now seen and answered in another forum, here, http://computerhelpforums.net/topic/42124-hate-cyberlink-director-is-pinnacle-studio-better/#entry168628 I also found you were answered as far as Pinnacle is concerned, and I have every reason to think Arctos is correct about it on here, http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/hate-cyberlink-director-is-pinnacle-studio-better.141188/#post-902337 It will be appreciated if you stick to one forum or the other, it helps us all in the end, including folk who may find something useful for themselves out of these threads. As for the question of being able to view the files that can no longer be read by your program, what format are they in, WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4 or other? There may be another program or at least a viewer that can play them. Nev.

By COA, do you mean a product key? if so yes, as you will probably need it to activate it I would think. Having not yet used the on line upgrade system though, I only assume that is the case. I upgraded this Windows 7 to pro from home premium by buying the upgrade from a store, which is nothing more than a product key code on a card which you then use on line. That of course is a different procedure to directly buying on line. Nev.

If you mean drag and drop a video file into the editor, yes you can with the Corel, I don't know about the Magix one, best to look at what they say and any on line instructions they may have for that. Nev.

Hi, I am afraid you won't be able to use that disk as it is specific to 32bit systems. You will need to get in touch with Talk Talk and ask for a 64bit version disk to be sent to you. They may tell you you need a router if on ADSL only. However, If you have a router connection for the ordinary desktop and not ADSL, you should be able to connect through that. If only an ADSL unit, then unfortunately you will not, and Windows7 does need a router for most ISP's anyway. Nev.

Hi, I don't know Pinnacle myself, however I also have been looking for something that will do at least a reasonable job and found Windows live movie maker being OK, not the best I know but does work and is free. However I did invest in Corel Video Studio about a year and a half since that does a reasonable job, but like you found with Cyberlink, does freeze sometimes. Also I have been made aware of an editing studio made by Magix. Links to both Corel video studio, and Magix Movie editor consecutively below. Both are around the £60-00 mark GBP. http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4650075 http://www.magix.com/gb/movie-edit-pro/ Nev.

Also remember an upgrade will wipe your previous system, as I stated on the other thread, post *4 http://extremetechsupport.com/threads/14326-Welcome-to-Windows-8 Nev.

May I add for everyone's benefit that if installing Windows 8 as a straight upgrade from Windows 7 or other operating system that you will lose all traces of your original Windows system. I strongly recommend you create full backup of that system before upgrading, just in case you wish to go back to it. The best way is a complete image created and stored on an external hard drive, as even recovery partitions are wiped out. Nev.

Hi Adam and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. Can you please tell us the make and model of your motherboard, or if not the computer. Also the full details of the new RAM and also graphics card you have fitted, it may help us to see if there is some incompatibility or other problems. Nev.

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help. I am not a gamer or even have much knowledge of graphics cards, but one thing that is important is the size of your present power supply, it needs to be big enough to handle whatever card you get. Do you know the present power supply details, especially the rated watts it can run? If it isn't big enough for the card you choose, you will have to replace it with one that is. Nev.

Wishing all the best in the coming days for all our American friends who may be in the path of this storm, and hoping you will all be OK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20109125

Hi, Basically he meant that nothing should get in the way. Vr5fx looked at the specification and all dimensions of the card, and your motherboard. In other words, it should fit. Nev. Edit- Great thinks mind alike Ken.