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In article <bc0p01$ica$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mdh23@deadspam.com says...
> Dom Robinson <murphyisamuppet@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The other problem is that the TV output via s-video from the graphics card 
> > exhibits some RF interference in the form of equidistant horizontal lines 
> > going either up or down the picture (the direction varies, but there's always 
> > about 12 lines) and occasionally some diagonal lines of interference that are 
> > closer together.
> 
> I'd be interested if you kept us updated on this as I am seeing the same
> (vertical, in my case) stripes with my TV card, which admittedly is a
> pretty ancient 3dfx Voodoo TV FM.
> 
I still need to phone them about the graphics card as they emailed back today 
to confirm that, yes the side panel does slide off but needs a bit of force. 
My fingers nearly bled trying to get the bloody thing off!

One step at a time though, and tonight I've moved the ADSL modem from the old 
PC to the new one, which thankfully turned out to be a more painless process 
than I was expecting but whenever I'm delving inside my own PC to change 
things I really do find it very unnerving :(

I've also hooked it up to the Xbox for Xbox Live which is working fine, except 
that it's been nearly four weeks since I've used it since I've spent too long 
faffing about with the new PC and I can't find my disc with the Moto GP online 
demo on. Gotta be here somewhere.

Since rebooting though, I left the PC untouched for a while and some kind of 
screensaver kicked in which switched the display off on both the monitor and 
the PC. I thought it was a reappearance of the keyboard shortcut I seemed to 
access which switched off the monitor display only (although there's no reason 
why this should happen and if I didn't have the PC hooked up to the TV as well 
I'd never have got it switched back on!)

I've cc'd this post to demon.tech.pc as I mentioned the keyboard shortcut in 
there a while back but my question for this time is - how can the PC decide to 
go to sleep when I haven't set any kind of sleep mode or screensaver? Gave me 
a right shock when it did this just now. Is there a 'sleep' mode menu 
somewhere?

TIA,
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