FreddysHouse - Techie Discussion http://forums.freddyshouse.com/ For all things techie and geeky... en Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:50:09 GMT vBulletin 60 http://s5.freddyshouse.com/vb3/default/misc/rss.jpg FreddysHouse - Techie Discussion http://forums.freddyshouse.com/ Tegra 2 smartphones before the end of the year http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244722-tegra-2-smartphones-before-end-year.html Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:20:12 GMT Really hoping these have the horsepower promised, Tegra 1 was very nice but didn't gain much traction in the market. Tegra 2 is much more powerful and paired with dual ARM A9 Cortex cores should make it an absolute monster.

LG are going to be the first to ship it seems...

LG Optimus Series Smartphones to Feature NVIDIA Tegra 2 in Q4 2010 - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News ]]> Techie Discussion cHodAX http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244722-tegra-2-smartphones-before-end-year.html External hard drives http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244696-external-hard-drives.html Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:17:32 GMT Howdy Ive got an old WD MyBook that I fear may blow up at any point now (its nearly 4 years old i think). So im looking for something as a replacement. Any recommendations/brands I should look to? 500GB is probably enough (the current external HD is a 250GB deal still with 50gb-to-go). Cheap... Howdy

Ive got an old WD MyBook that I fear may blow up at any point now (its nearly 4 years old i think). So im looking for something as a replacement.

Any recommendations/brands I should look to? 500GB is probably enough (the current external HD is a 250GB deal still with 50gb-to-go). Cheap as possible, but with reliability key.

Danke! ]]> Techie Discussion pcg79 http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244696-external-hard-drives.html <![CDATA[[HELP] Where to (legally) download windows?]]> http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244686-where-legally-download-windows.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:11:34 GMT So my HP Laptop's HDD has died (few years old, out of warranty) and I'm going to go buy a replacement disk. Problem is HP never supplied me with a Vista disk, just a recovery disk for software and drivers.

Is there a way I can download a copy of Vista to install and use my existing product key? I'm loathe to use an image from usenet or a torrent site. ]]> Techie Discussion Rulke http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244686-where-legally-download-windows.html WEP or WPA-PSK or WPA Encryption http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244685-wep-wpa-psk-wpa-encryption.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:44:07 GMT Just reading a bit about all 3 and I wanted to know what you thought were the best for Wireless. WEP seems to be the least secure. WPA-PSK looks like a home version of WPA? However all this talk of Denial of Service is making it hard to decide which I should use. Should I use WPA-PSK or... Just reading a bit about all 3 and I wanted to know what you thought were the best for Wireless.

WEP seems to be the least secure. WPA-PSK looks like a home version of WPA? However all this talk of Denial of Service is making it hard to decide which I should use.

Should I use WPA-PSK or just plain old WPA Encryption? ]]> Techie Discussion Bahumat http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244685-wep-wpa-psk-wpa-encryption.html Chrome 6 http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244678-chrome-6-a.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:56:51 GMT Hmm, gotta say I think Mozilla are in big trouble.

Whilst Chrome itself doesn't have me over a barrel, extension sync is a big + as I absolutely hate the amount of time that it takes to sort out firefox extensions and having to read a stupid page I didn't want to see each time one updates.

Anyone else trying/tried it yet? ]]> Techie Discussion MYstIC G http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244678-chrome-6-a.html m4b ? http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244632-m4b.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:14:38 GMT Anyone know how to turn these into a useful format ? Please don't ask me to install any Apple crapware ! ]]> Techie Discussion Wij http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244632-m4b.html Lenovo s12 http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244626-lenovo-s12.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:53:30 GMT i am right inthinking that there is no difference between



except the colour and its 100 quid more ?

Or did i miss something

cheers ]]> Techie Discussion Moriath http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244626-lenovo-s12.html <![CDATA[[QUESTION] TV's]]> http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244625-tvs.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:13:28 GMT Any suggestions on good TVs at a reasonable price? i.e £350-450 Any suggestions on good TVs at a reasonable price? i.e £350-450 ]]> Techie Discussion Furr http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244625-tvs.html new gfx card http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244624-new-gfx-card.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:08:41 GMT Right, been looking at the Radeon 5770 series cards, I've got no idea what the nvidia offerings are like. It looks like the ati cards have been out for nearly a year now. Is it worth me buying now, or are new cards imminent that will force the price down? ]]> Techie Discussion Ch3tan http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244624-new-gfx-card.html <![CDATA[[HELP] MSN Messenger Issues]]> http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244623-msn-messenger-issues.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:04:51 GMT Hi My wife and I have a pc each On the same network and wired to the router. #Its been like this for years. however just recently in the last week or so MSN has started randomly not working. Hi

My wife and I have a pc each

On the same network and wired to the router.

#Its been like this for years.

however just recently in the last week or so MSN has started randomly not working.

It will still show her logged in on her pc and still show her logged in on my msn but when she types anything in it wont send and bounces back after a long delay.

The same thing will happen if i try and send to her .. it will bounce back too

if she quits and re logs into msn then it will start working again for a while and then rinse and repeat ...

Any ideas why this is suddenly doing this ? Have tried reinstalling and all btw. ]]> Techie Discussion Moriath http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244623-msn-messenger-issues.html GFX card noise thingy. http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244579-gfx-card-noise-thingy.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:23:39 GMT The gfx card is making a whirring, whizzing?, loud noise at times.

According to cata center, temp and speed of fan are ok(temp at 60C, speed between 50-80%). Activity is at 0% atm as i'm not running anything.

Not really sure what's the problem.

Cata overdrive settings(factory really) are in the image below.

Could it just be that it's a noisy gfx fan? :eek7:
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]]> Techie Discussion old.Tohtori http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244579-gfx-card-noise-thingy.html <![CDATA[[HELP] pc shutting itself off (yes, another one)]]> http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244568-pc-shutting-itself-off-yes-another-one.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:00 GMT right:

graphics card is runnign at around 60 degrees
cpu is running at around 50 degrees

whole thing has been cleaned, compressed air'd, etc

cpu had heatsink cleaned and new thermal paste

and its still shutting off


so either its doing odd spiking temps, which im not sure , or something else might be causing it


any ideas from the monkey gallery ? :(

/edit

E6850 cpu
gtx 260 gfx card

both are within tolerance levels for temp apparently ]]> Techie Discussion Mabs http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244568-pc-shutting-itself-off-yes-another-one.html Netbooks http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244562-netbooks.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:41:56 GMT Looking at maybe getting one of these babies anyone know whats good whats not etc etc any advice welcome :) Looking at maybe getting one of these babies

anyone know whats good whats not etc etc

any advice welcome :) ]]> Techie Discussion Moriath http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244562-netbooks.html a quick question ... http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244554-quick-question.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:59:59 GMT I've got two 500g seagate hard drives, both of which i've been using for a while. Recently my primary drive with Windows 7 on has had some problems so i'm about to send it back for a replacement. Therefore i need to reinstall windows on my second hard drive which until now has had loads of music and videos etc on it.


If i install Windows 7 on the hard drive, what will happen to all the files on there? Will they be wiped or stuck in windows.old?

I don't have enough space to back it up having just copied loads of stuff from my first drive. ]]> Techie Discussion megadave http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244554-quick-question.html <![CDATA[[HELP] Meta-Tags]]> http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244553-meta-tags.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:46:56 GMT Hoping you guys can point me in the right direction. I have built my company's web site and it looks ok, but i want google/yahoo to pick up certain words when people do a search

Am i correct in thinking they are called meta-tags and how do i make them buzz words so they can be picked up, do i have to pay google and such to register them or do i tweek the html so that they are highlighted?

Cheers

Ed ]]> Techie Discussion Edmond http://forums.freddyshouse.com/techie-discussion-3/244553-meta-tags.html