Recent content by mistafeesh

Thanks for looking into that for me! Looks like yet another budget extension... Oh well - it'll be worth it in the end! Cheers, Dan

Thanks, It's IDE If I get a cheapie IDE controller like this will that definitely fix this then? That's probably the way to go...

I tried splitting it into a 5 gig partition, a small swap and then another for the rest, installing ubuntu into the 5 gig partition, but that came up with the same errors when I tried to boot it...

Thanks, The XP is SP2 I don't need to use it in that computer - I just tried it because I couldn't get anything else to work. I don't like letting it upgrade, because then it starts complaining about not being genuine:O It's also a fairly old PC - a 1.1ghz Duron (PS before anyone complains - I...

Hi. I've just bought a 250gig hard drive, with the plan of installing Ubuntu onto it to use as a media centre type thing. After having problems installing Ubuntu on two different PCs and with 3 different install discs, I tried to format it, first with windows XP and then with Mac OS X...

thanks! Will do...

cool. Thanks for the explanation and suggestions.... Will that cable definitely do a different thing to this: as that's what I'm using....? Dan

Hi, I have an S3 savage4 (I think that's right) graphics card, which has an s-video output on it. I've tried connecting this to the scart socket on the TV, but it's not right. I've tried it with two s-video leads, two s-video-scart adapters and two TV's!! On one TV the output was black and...