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Hi the graphics card on this link Click Here will fit your pc and is within your given budget, hope this helps. Dave

Just wanna add my two cents to this and I know it's been mentioned but anti staic bands or grounding yourself is a must , I forgot I had a wooly jumper on when blowing out the dust etc from one of my machines one fizzling sound later and bye bye motherboard now if I had remembered I wouldnt have had to replace the motherboard and rebuild

Hi Richard am guessing you ordered you card online , then under Distance Selling Regulations you are entitled to a refund on your postage , and good luck with getting it replaced. Dave

Hi Pete for what I read after a bit of research , I-Play search engine is a pain to shift like something similair called mywebsearch , luckily a couple of quick scans using malware removal tools should do the trick. Please follow the following Instructions and post the logs on your next reply Step 1 Please download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and save it to your desktop. Make sure you are connected to the Internet. Double-click on Download_mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings. When installation has finished, make sure you leave both of these checked: Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware [*]Then click Finish. [*]MBAM will automatically start and you will be asked to update the program before performing a scan. If an update is found, the program will automatically update itself. Press the OK button to close that box and continue. If you encounter any problems while downloading the updates, manually download them from here and just double-click on mbam-rules.exe to install. [*]On the Scanner tab: Make sure the "Perform Full Scan" option is selected. Then click on the Scan button. [*]If asked to select the drives to scan, leave all the drives selected and click on the Start Scan button. [*]The scan will begin and "Scan in progress" will show at the top. It may take some time to complete so please be patient. [*]When the scan is finished, a message box will say "The scan completed successfully. Click 'Show Results' to display all objects found". [*]Click OK to close the message box and continue with the removal process. [*]Back at the main Scanner screen, click on the Show Results button to see a list of any malware that was found. [*]Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. [*]When removal is completed, a log report will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to restart your computer. (see Note below) [*]The log is automatically saved and can be viewed by clicking the Logs tab in MBAM. [*]Copy and paste the contents of that report in your next reply and exit MBAM. Note: If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts. Click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process. If asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately. Failure to reboot will prevent MBAM from removing all the malware. Step 2 Download and Install Supaantispyware from here SupaAntispyware let it update and run a scan and reboot after completion. Hope this helps Dave

Hi Alimay take a look at the following link Click here the second half of the page explains how to run the recovery and provides instructions. Dave

Hi again Alimay do you know how to run the factory reset ? if you provide us with the make of the laptop we can help , and secondly make sure you run whats sometimes called a "destructive" restore basically a fancy way of saying return to factory default , and not just recovering the operating system , best of luck let us know how you get on. Dave

Hi again Alimay since the laptop is only a few weeks old , and was demo model i'd suggest a full return to factory settings reset , the software used by the shop to create the logon etc will then be gone , ( this is what the shop should have done before selling it to you ) if you want to go down that route get back to us we will be happy to help .

Hi Alimay do you know if your parents got a pop up saying do a system restore or just managed it by accident , or was the laptop playing up and a system restore was a attempt at fixing it , sorry to be asking a lot the more info we have the better Dave

Hi just to follow on of the possibility of over heating is it possible for you to download and run speccy http://www.filehippo.com/download_speccy on one of the occasions you get it o9n for more than a few mins this will give us the temps of the motherboard etc and give us a starting point to help further Dave

Hi Patrick I have multiple screens pc's one of them been 2 dvis and a hdmi monitor i run them on on a quad core with 6 gig of ram , as far as the graphics card itself its a 1 gig AMD card that cost me £50 , so if your willing to invest £250 on a graphics card personally I don't think you'll have any problems. Dave

One of the many Linux distributions I use is Linux Mint am currently running Mint 12 with the Clementine desktop environment , and I was wondering are any other forum users using it , and what are their thoughts ?

Hi Brewster and welcome to freepchelp , could you provide us with the make and model of the printer please and are you connected to the printer via usb ?

Hi the following is a link to download the Asus update utility to update your BIOS http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/System-Tweak/ASUS-Update-Utility.shtml hope this helps Dave

Hi Bob does your router have a little pin hole on it to re-set back to default settings ?

Hi the following are the recommended by the game and the player recommended specs for your game i think you may have to consider a better processor Recommended: OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7 (We recommend a 64-bit operating system for the best experience) Processor: 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad or equivalent Memory: 4GB RAM GPU: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX 512MB or equivalent Hard Drive: 15GB Sound: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio Card Broadband Connection Required Player Recommended: OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7 x64 Processor 2.4Ghz Quad Core or better Memory: 4GB RAM GPU: nVidia GeForce 9800 1024MB or better Hard Drive: A SECOND stand-alone (Not C:\) hard disk with at least 20GB Sound: Dedicated Audio Card (Not Chipset) Broadband Connection Required

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1741584125.png Should interest KenB

You could run Recuva overnight yes due to the size of your drive , as I said earlier it may not recover anything but I have used it on many occasions and always managed to recover something , just make sure you recover any files to the laptop hard drive you can always move them back

Hi again am glad you got your photos back , and as far as Ubuntu not running on your Dell am guessing it was your graphics I have encountered same problems , now as to getting the rest back after you have formatted the drive you could try a program like http://www.piriform.com/recuva and run that on deep scan it may or may not work and will take hours but its worth a shot

Hi Jay and welcome to freepchelp only thing I could suggest is you downgrade Java to Java 6 update 30 , as I see your running Java 7 even though Java 7 has reached update 2 it's still in development stages , give that a whirl and see how you get on

hi mtnbiker have a look at the following link this explains how to move your files etc to the new user account before you delete the corrupt one http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

Hi again all you have to do is boot from that disk and wait when it comes up try or install ubuntu click on the try this will run ubuntu in "live" mode when its up and running plug in your drive wait for it to be recognised to access your files , when you have done that and removed what you need , unplug your drive press the laptop power button once this will shut ubuntu down remove the cd when it tells you and restart your laptop boot back into windows plug in your drive go back to disk management and reformat your drive

I have a old Dell 1.5 gig dual core 12.1 inch screen netbook/laptop that I dual boot with windows 7 ultimate and Pinguy OS , and the only time I get a problem with streaming is if the dongle at work is slow , the rest of my pc's/laptops are at a spec where I don't need to worry

ok do you know how to set your pc to boot from cd/dvd ?

hi re your drives (D) drive contains your recovery and a saved restore point thats the folder with all the numbers , on © you have two program file folders one is for 32bit programs and the X86 one is for 64bit programs

Hi again personally i'd suggest linux mint or zoriun os you can google there websites and download the operating system then burn to a dvd then boot up from that dvd (live) this wont effect your windows in anyway , then plug in the usb drive and move your data to your harddrive before reformatting any problems get back to us , and zorin os looks very much like windows so its easy to use