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    O Mother, Where Art Thou?

    Personally id be tempted to get a new motherboard..Motherboard + 2.2 dual core cpu from Asrock cost something like £100 from my local shop. Please remember that with the new motherboard you will POSSIBLY need Power supply unit (due to the connector port) and R.A.M as well. Yep you could...
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    Frequent lags in everything

    Its alright trying to guess but this could be a number of things... 1) Video card could be over heating causing problems 2) RAM chips could developed faults if the system is old 3)......the list goes on If you can i would do a complete reinstall of the OS...as i find that no matter what...
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    Annoying Malware wont go away

    Right then.... Get avast antivirus and Adaware on your computer....(both free) Restart and boot into safe mode (this makes sure that only the basic system is running) Then run both adaware and avast and get rid of everything they come up with. Reboot and see what happens. If...
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    internet connection fails.

    This could be one in a million things. Do the normal things like stoping all of the process's that you dont need running and running antivirus and anti spyware. I tend to find that the problem will normally keep coming back...and the only way to get rid of it completly is to reinstall windows
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    Only safe mode startup successful

    While in safe mode try.... Start menu, run, type in "msconfig" (no " in there...lol) and click the box that says "diagnostic startup" Apply and try to reboot as normal. If theis fails then its likely that your boot file has become corrupted and that mean reinstalling windows on to the...
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    Win32 having to close

    Take it youve ran the norm.....antivirus, defrag and anti spyware..... Also try shutting down as many un-needed bits of software cause it could be a conflict in some of the software you are using Hope that helps
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    HP Office Printer

    Just a quick question. If anyone has an HP office Jet 6310 All-in-one printer....can you please tell me how i can make a scan and make a multi page pdf file from it using a minimal amount of software Thanks in advance
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    how do i get my nokia phone to talk to the computer

    Some times the cable can be dodgy...but try this first Start the nokia suite and then plug in the phone end of the connection...plug in the other end to a DIFFERENT USB port and then your phone should ask if you want to PC SUITE or DATA TRANSFER. Select PC SUITE and the computer should then...
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    Itunes Track Ratings

    Is there any way to back up itunes star ratings? I know that itunes doesnt support the rating field in an mp3s ID3 tag....so you carnt perminatly store your star rating for the track that way...... Is it just a case of saving the itunes folder in with the music?...i really wanna knowe...
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    My computer disconnects from my network...

    another thing just qiuckly is to check if you can still connect to the routers ip address after it disconnects. It could be the bot......stranger things have happened
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    My computer disconnects from my network...

    Try these things Right then im assuming that your using the most uptodate firmware for the router (and the wireless card that they offer)....if not update that. Also have you tried putting in a wired ethernet connection in for the night and see if that stays connected to the network...
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    Belkin Router IP

    Simple on to sort really........theres the route above (just incase you didnt know the ip)...or if its still geving you probs theres a thing at the back of the router commenly known as a reset button Hit that and use the old ip address...simple
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    Possible Computer I may build. Looking for Advice.

    I wouldnt recommend you build one yourself unless you want a really powerful system.... your best bets to find a mid range tower and buy monitor seperate. That way you only really need to consentrate on the GHz of the chip and not things like the graphics card which i would upgrade when i...
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    Library Removed?

    With all those the ONLY way you are going to get any data of the ipod is to send it off to one of the data recovery companys for examination...had a quick look on the net and it seems like its going to cost from about £90 (depending on the amount of data recovered)
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    2 problems with my windows xp

    Try installing internet explorer 7....cured my problem when i had it.. as for the other run spyware check and probly best to run something like ashampoo winoptimizer through the system and see if that helps
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