luckily my vista showed 4gb of ram! it's definently the 32 bit as well. I'm thinking microsoft must have fixed it.

every day??? you need to install windows every day???

oh, is that every time you use the computer or does it mean you install windows, turn the pc off and for th enext few start ups it works fine?

I'd contact your pc's manufacturer and get some support

i did have the cable goign from the router tot he pc. I checked all th usual stuff and its still not working. oh yeah, the tech support guy told me to do something to BIOS and the pc wont start now. a tech is dropping by monday to replace the motherboard and cpu...

i don't know, it seems to be quite a popular topic on google and there's alot of people saying with 4gb ram in their laptops it comes up as 3.5gb in system properties.

I wouldn't mind if the 512mb went to the graphics card.

Okay, next problem. I was thinking of increasing the laptops memory from 2GB to 4GB. BUt I'm hearing that 32-bit vista will only recognise 3.5GB of installed ram. it's something to do with the 32-bit environment.

So, where does my extra 512mb ram from the memory sticks go then? is it just idle or does my graphics card use it? If so how do you check it's using it???

I know the title sounds like a joke but I've got connection problems.

I'm with Virgin media and I connected their broadband box to my pc and then connected it through a netgear router to my pc. It all worked for about 2 weeks. Now I cna only access the internet with my laptop wirelessly through the netgear router but my actual PC won't connect

I get the error message "network cable unplugged" in the winXP network area, even though it's definently plugged in. obviously the modem is connected to netgear and netgear is conneted to my pc.

any ideas on how to fix it?

lol yeah but they cost like £1000. you really have expected too much of me lol It's nice to see that you hold me in such high regard though.

So how do you stop things running in th ebackground apart from using task manager to stop them every time? Anyone also know how to make a game run on "high" priority all the time without using taskmanger every time th egame loads?

well, I needed a laptop due to it being portable for business reasons. I was hoping to be able to play new games on it well on low/medium settings. after all for £450 I could get both an xbox 360 and a ps3!

cod4 worked on my old pc very well - and this laptop beats it hands down.

do you think if I get another 2GB ram that would greatly increase game performance?

what do you mean a core2 duo is old news? we're just into quad cores in new desktops only?

is it a text based game? i tried one of those once. you buy squares and build up an army one night and then the next day the whole map's changed and you've been wiped out. why bother playing if you can't play all the time.

Hi,

I recetly bought a new acer laptop from Amazon for £449.99 .

Acer Aspire 5920G Notebook Laptop, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0Ghz, 15.4" Display, 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard-drive, DVD±RW, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M Dedicated Graphics, WiFi, Vista Home Premium.

I thought that was a pretty good deal for a laptop with those specs. The trouble is some games play okay on it and others play soo slow as to be unplayable. I wasn't expecting the games to play soo badly.

Alone in the dark (the new one) is way too stuttery on lowest settigns to play.
medal of honor airborne plays fine on medium settings.
Bioshock plays well on medium settings, vista makes loading and quitting the game difficult though.
space siege plays badly even on lowest settings, but it's still playable.

I wasn't expecting any games problems straight out of the box since my laptop meets most of the recommeneded requirements for the games. so what's up??

Amazon laptop link:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-5920G-Hard-drive-Dedicated/dp/B0010X94O4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1221510446&sr=8-1

fuck estate agents. that's still 10% commission on a £100,000 property (£10,000) a week minimum.

I can't afford to get on the property market with house prices so high. they've screwed he lot of us. why? they pushed house prices soo high for greed. now everyone took out large loans on their home, and the credit crunch has taken effect.

I wish I could get finance collectors to chase my £100 debtors. 

beleive me, they're not gonna do anythign for £12.

Hi,

Well, what type of jobs are you looking for?

I think everyone's tightening their belts with petrol prices, food prices, credit crunch, can't get a loan, the minimum wage is also rising to £5.72/hr in october tp help people meet the prices of the above.

The trouble is Russia sees eastern Europe as it's territory and dreams of one day getting it back. never mind that Eastern Europe was ALWAYS eastern Europe, it was only the last 50 years the the Soviet union stole it.

Say what you want about the Americans, at least they don't claim land. In 10 years there'll be no troops in iraq/afghanistan and the US won't have any land there. in 10 years Russian troops will still be in S. ossettia, and arkazia.

I really thinkt he russian attitude to old empires is really a 20th century one and they need to snap out of it.

go to www.freeserifsoftware.com  you can get a decent photshop like program for free there