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Last night my Ordyno (custom building with Asus parts) desk-top pc smelt of burning and then stopped working.

I bought it in Aug 2008 and never had any problems until now, apart from a noisy fan which becomes silent when the wall of the tower is tapped a couple of minutes after start-up and that from day 1.

It came with Intel E4700 dual processor, 320Go disk with Windows Vista business and a 2nd 160Gb disk with Linux and 2 x 2Go of RAM. There is also a dvd RW player.

Last night my daughter (who has the pc permanently now) was watching a dvd film when the burning and crash happened. She has watched many dvd's over the last two years without problem.

She and her friend have taken the side off and given the insides a good dusting and tried without success to find a re-set switch.

Tomorrow they are going to take the pc to a shop they know but I would be interested to hear any ideas here on Rootschat. At least with the machine being built by the shop where I bought it, each component can be replaced separately (if they still fit)

cheers, falcybe

Hello all,

I live in Belgium and I am going to visit family Thursday, for how long I don't know, one to four weeks. What I want is a cheap "dongle" connection which I may perhaps pass to my mother afterwards as she is not yet connected to the web.

Amongst others, I have seen O2 which boasts being able to support VOIP usage (which other ISPs say not to use) and the price appears to be reasonable, even if the web-site is not too clear.

However, O2 is not the only one and I would like to hear from Rootschatters who have one or other mobile and know what you feel about the different services available,

Thanks, falcybe

Hi,

Just 3 weeks after cleaning my daughter's laptop, she has another problem. Unfortunately I cannot get to her for a few days so I am wondering if anyone has any knowledge they could help me with before I go: ideally someone will recognize the problem and say what she has and how to deal with it.

my daughter's pc is an Acer on XP and she has Avast installed. Her e-mail provider is Yahoo.fr. Ironically she had to change her Yahoo password this weekend because she had forgotten the old one. The mails started (and stoppped again! Why?) on Monday.

The Problem
Monday my daughter's Yahoo email sent out variations of the following message to many people in her address book but not always to the same people:

heading1:
FWD: this has been your time to shine.
heading2:
no regrets after doing this venture

The body:
Hola friend
nothing seemed to work now I dont feel bad about spending my money now theres no looking back you should consider trying it
http: // adalmv.ad.funpic.org / JohnScott78 . html
goodbye.

the body in the second mail:

hello...
nothing seemed to work now I dont feel bad about spending my money now theres no looking back you should consider trying it
http: // montraf.pl / JohnMacdonald66 . html
c ya

I put the spaces in the http links just in case anyone reading this tried to click on them 

thanks in advance,

falcybe

Hi,

I know this is the 3rd topic this week on this subject but I am about to buy a new camera and for one possibility I can buy a Sandisk 6gb SD card for £6 from Tesco or I can buy a Sandisk SDHC 4gb card for £20. The shop says the latter has 30mbs write capacity. The camera I'm looking at, the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ45, can shoot 10 frames a sec at 3mpix. And I see there are also SDXC cards available.

I cannot find the speed for the SD card so does anyone know if it is worth spending 20 instead of 6 pounds for less capacity?

Thanks, falcybe