Really odd issue today, any help gratefully recieved.

Got a home LAN with one PC hard cabled & 2 laptops via wireless.
Pc has decided to play dead, although it powers up ok, there is nothing on screen and no amount of F1/F9 etc will break the boot cycle to get the bios on screen, in fact nothing on screen at all ever.

Both lappys connect fine to router and internet as before, but mine running XP and Outlook is hanging really badly on send or recieve of e-mails via Outlook. For the life of me I cannot understand how the two issues can possibly be connected, but it's making working a real pain.

Anybody got any ideas over either issue please?

Both lappys connect fine to router and internet as before, but mine running XP and Outlook is hanging really badly on send or recieve of e-mails via Outlook. For the life of me I cannot understand how the two issues can possibly be connected, but it's making working a real pain.



Doubt they are connected, try pinging your email server see if it at that end.

So the laptop has the outlook issue? A the PC (another Desktop?) has the appearing dead issue?

Well, what does the 'dead' pc do when you turn it on? Does it make all the usual noises and the power LEDs light as expected? In other words does it appear to be on even though nothing is being displayed? In which case, there's several things you can do.

First check it's connected correctly, I know this may sound obvious but check the video cable is tightly connected to both the PC and monitor. If it is (and I assume it is) check the monitor still works, by connecting another, known to be working PC or laptop. If you get a picture, nothing wrong with monitor or vga/dvi/hdmi cable. If it doesn't work, change the video cable. If the monitor does not appear to be on, check the fuse/change the power cable. Still no joy the monitor is dead.

If your monitor works with another PC, you will need to check your graphics card, presuming it's not onboard (if it is, and it's fried, you'd need a new card), if it's not, open up the PC (whilst off, obv.) and check/reseat the graphics card, close it up and try it again. If still no joy, try a different graphics card (if you have one to hand, if not you can buy a cheap one for less than £20, just to test with), I would expect this to solve the problem. If if doesn't chances are the motherboard is borked.

If of course you're referring to the laptop screen being dead, that could be something as simple as a loose connection, to a dead screen (these can be simply replaced) or a dead graphics chip/motherboard (new laptop).

Cheers for swift reply.

1 The outlook issue is on the laptop which connects to the lan via wireless, and [in theory has no connection with the desktop PC, all other apps on the Laptop function correctly, just Outlook hangs.

2 Desktop, monitor fine, checked on 3rd laptop so cables/monitor TWOK.

3 Desktop fires, fans operate, but nothing on monitor such as boot screen to interupt, no input at all, gut feel is not graphics card though may well be wrong, and will look to get another one in the check that.

So the major issue causing pain today is just the Outlook operation on the wireless laptop, which I cannot fathom having anything to do with the dead PC, have removed the Cat5 cable connecting the Desktop to the router with no change in status.

Haven't read the whole thread, what happens if you remove your account settings and try to resolve the account and exchange server again?

Me either mate, pings fine and mails will send and recieve just a massive hang each time of probably 4-5 minutes, wierd reason I feel they are connected in some way is that similar happened about 3 years back when the then desktop fried it's HDD. When I replaced the HD at that time, Outlook on the lappy worked fine again........got me confused to say the least.

Sorted

BG wins the prize, too many damn USB connections, although nothing added for around 14 months, so why decide today to not work ?

And the wierdest part.................Outlook on the laptop is now working fine again, coincidence? i think not but have no frikking idea why it should be so.

Then I'd be looking at having a new PSU on hand, that one is failing.

Laptop works fine everywhere else (besides the RLFans page not loading issue), not changed router recently. Am running on Vista (groan) but until recently everything was ok, seriously baffled. Will try an uninstall on all browsers and check firewall settings (even though they have not been altered in ages).

You're not running any kind of proxy software on the desktop are you? It looks like the laptop is using the desktop to route traffic?

BTW - I get the wont boot with USB attached about once a year - weird!

Having a bit of a problem with my laptops wireless.

It is connecting to the router, with full signal, but with no internet access. All other wireless devices (phone, iPod etc) work fine so I can only assume it's a problem with my laptop.

The internet works fine on my laptop when plugged into the router too.

Any ideas what I could do?

Is the the laptop being leased an IP with the correct details?

cmd > type ipconfig

Well, that didn't work so am still open to any remedy.

I've got a new laptop and I want to sync my Iphone music etc onto it, but I have afeeling if I get it wrong it's going to copy a blank library onto the phone instead, anyone got any links to how to do it? (I have googled and can't find anything that straight forward)

tia

Manually copy everything over from your old computer. Including the iTunes Library file. It should then think it is your old library.

Is anyone else having problems with Twitter when using Google Chrome ?

When I go to the Twitter sign-on page everything seems ok, enter my details and then a blank page appears, its a Twitter page because it has the background colour and a small Twitter header across the top but nothing else.

I upgraded Chrome with a service pack when prompted to do so n Friday.

I can log onto Twitter using Firefox.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

I used the built-in iTunes [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819Home Sharing[/url function. Worked a treat. You'll need to be able to get both PCs onto the same network to use it.

Thanks Kosh, I've already copied the files and it appears to be working fine, I don't know how much longer the old laptop will reliable switch on!

Never worth the risk. I upgraded to this current model as I needed a better spec, not because the old one was failing. In fact I hadn't had one single problem with it in 3 years of pretty strenuous usage. Literally days after I transferred the last of my files over it died without warning - total HD failure.

Made me finally get around to implementing a backup policy.

Yup, always gotta be careful with your stash. Years and years of downloading can be wasted and some of the movies/pic/videos can't be found again

The wireless problem with my laptop just fixed itself, unless I did something without realising it!

Wish all technical issues would just fix themselves though!

You are Gary Glitter and I claim my £5...

I prefer the more morally acceptable genres, can I just place that on public record.

EXCEL Help!

I have a data extract from payroll in Excel which I've recorded test scores against. I know there are some leavers so would like an up to date payroll extract to compare against. I'd like to delete any rows (from employee ID column) that exist in the original document but are not in the new one.ie. leavers.

It sounds like a VLOOKUP situation but i haven't got the foggiest where to begin.

Any experts out tere can help me step by step?

Cheers