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no, unfortunately. However you try to add it it recognises it as another hotmail account and will only let you link it. I really can't understand their thinking behind their decision though - reducing functionality with their own products, usually companies strip usability from competing products.

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hooked up my new computer to my TV and tried sims 3, won't play at a resolution that fits on my 720 tv, every other game doesn't have this issue, but Sims 3 does. I can't seem to get the resolution to fit. Duke gave me some suggestions to make it work, but sims doesn't fit. What can I do?

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Every ISP I've ever had would supply me a modem for a monthly fee, but buying one on my own pays for itself after about 6 months. Don't know about TFG's ISP though.

 

Also never had one that would supply an all-in-one modem-router.

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Well Virgin threw one my way (at zero cost and I still have it actually, no fucking idea what to do with it, only works with Virgin Media anyway) and my mum has a Talk Talk one too and my aunt a BT hub too. I assume other ISPs throw on in too, it'd look pretty weak if they didn't. And yeah they're all modem-routers (apart from my initial Virgin one years back which was just a Netgear router plugged into a Virgin modem..which I also still have knocking about).

So I assume TFG can ring up, say his router is dying and get a replacement.

 

p.s kinda stupid to charge for the modem used by your customers to access your services.

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I don't have cable where i live, so would need a combined modem router, and that's what's normally supplied by ISPs here as most places don't use cable in the UK - it's just in the big cities and only one supplier though our ex-nationalised provider is rolling cable out to more areas but we'd be way down the list here.

 

I have a bt homehub from my last ISP, when I moved to my current ISP they sent me a mother-hubbarding wireless g heap. It's my homehub that needs resetting half a dozen times a night at the moment.

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UAC provides another layer of security against shit doing shit without your permission. Don't know why Steam would need to run in admin mode though, and that's the main reason something would have the UAC shield on its icon.

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My graphics card just updated, which set my aspect ratio all out of wack. I have an older 32 inch 720p Vizio TV, my current resolution is set at 1280 x 720. I had this problem before but the next morning I turned on my PC and the problem went away before I could figure out what I did to fix it. I cannot control the overscan/underscan on my TV, changing the overscan/underscan on my Nvidia control panel does nothing. What am I supposed to do?

 

UPDATE: I just bought a VGA (maybe DVI, I can never tell which is which. 3 rows of 5 prongs) cable and hooked it up to my tv. After a little messing around that seemed to fix the problem... somewhat. The font isn't as clear it seems, but its now running at 1366 x 768 resolution, which is higher than what my HDMI cable would do.

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Yeah, VGA/SVGA etc are 3 rows of staggered pins, where HDMI is a grid layout, often with a wide flat pin on one side, sometimes with two blocks of 3x3 pins beside it.

 

I also ran into the same problem with my Samsung TV. It displays 1366 x 768, but takes signals up to 720p or 1080i. On HDMI, the image is scaled, and the edges of the screen aren't even visible (to which I say "what the hell? It's a digital signal and nothing else cuts it off like that. It's not like the 'tracking' is off or something...") So I used a VGA cable and got native resolution. Silly.

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After some though, I'm replacing the mobo despite Memtest86+ showing nothing. If the mobo doesn't do it, I'm replacing the RAM. I'm reasoning that its not my SSD because dskchk shows up nothing. Also it shouldn't be the SSD fault that my mobo cannot detect the SSD at times, even in the middle of Windows install.

 

My wallet will be damned to hell. The only thing right now is if it is a good idea for me to replace the stuff now. I hardly got time to play any games but I do need a computer. I got a laptop back at my folks which can be shipped...

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Also it shouldn't be the SSD fault that my mobo cannot detect the SSD at times, even in the middle of Windows install.

 

That could easily be the SSD's fault if it's intermittently failing, and thus stops responding to the mobo which stops "seeing" it.

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At this point, I just don't know since none of the tests and checks tell me anything of value. So I'm taking a stab in the dark. I can't be dicking around with my time running tests so I guess I'll choose the SSD to replace first since its my main suspect... if not the SSD, mobo. If those two doesn't fix it then this: fuck.

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Just got my first ever BSOD on my PC. Looking at the event logs, it was caused by something called AODdriver4.1 failing to start because the system couldn't find that file. Some googling did me good, seems its related to AMD drivers past version 12.1.

Showing hidden devices in Device Manager shows an error with AODDriver4.1 and no problems with AODDriver4.01. Don't know why, but you can fix the error by uninstalling AODDriver4.01 from device manager and before rebooting bringing up the Registry Editor and deleting the AODdriver4.01 folder entry from HKEY LOCAL MACHINE/SYSTEM/Controlset001/services.

 

rebooted and now AODDriver 4.1 is working fine in device manager.

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