OT: Computery-related stuff (firefox and wireless related)

L'homme d'AstraVan · 2008-07-25T21:07:53+00:00

Thought I'd ask here as chatting about computers isn't something I can be bothered with enough to make finding a more relevant newsgroup worthwhile, and there's probably plenty of expertise on here.....Bit of background first - my PC's quite old and shite - P3/450, 384MB RAM, couple of 12GB drives (and a 250GB USB2 jobbie that's virtually full), running XP SP2, with all of the updates bar the "genuine advantage notification" one (make your own conclusions), and a Belkin wireless card picking up signals from the BT HomeHub.Anyway, recently it's been playing up - basically the green "LED" thing on the system tray has gone to red, and it says it can pick up two other homehubs but not ours. I tried System Restore to a random date in the past couple of weeks as it was working fine then, and it works fine - green LED, MSN logs in fine, OE gets stuff fine (mail and news), but within seconds of loading firefox it just goes red and refuses to do anything.For a good few days it's been like this - any streaming stuff (youtube/iPlayer pretty much) has just ground to a halt, and the wireless has come on and off *very* sporadically.Does this sound familiar to anyone in the know? Is it just that firefox is actually shit, or do I just need a later version? I've always let it do the auto-updates as and when.Stumped, but back on IE6 for now, and so far fine.....

Jul 25, 2008 45 Replies

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Tim S Kemp 18 years ago

Ever heard of Lan Parties?

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Tim S Kemp 18 years ago

That would be physically dangerous to use on your lap.

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Depresion 18 years ago

The 7400 in the 1210 can get a little warm next to parts that I don't want to get warm.

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DanB 18 years ago

Bingo :-) I've never been to a LAN Party, they strike me as scarily geeky. I quite fancy trying one hehe.

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DanB 18 years ago

Alienware do it, and Dell do it SLI'd in the 17" XPS - although that's not for lap use heh.

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Tim S Kemp 18 years ago

Adam (remember - ginger one...) is your man for that.

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