Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Friday 11 November 2011 18:07:34 Rob Malpass wrote: > Out of interest while on the subject, can anyone recommend a good keyboard > vendor? I really hate HP and Dell keyboards - though I must admit the > Dell ones from around 12 years ago (the beige ones which went with > Optiplex models) were

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 11 November 2011 19:36, jack horsfield wrote: > On 11/11/11 18:41, Ian Park wrote: > >> On 11/11/11 18:07, Rob Malpass wrote: >> ... >> >>> >>> Out of interest while on the subject, can anyone recommend a good >>> keyboard vendor? I really hate HP and Dell keyboards - though I must >>> admit

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread jack horsfield
On 11/11/11 18:41, Ian Park wrote: On 11/11/11 18:07, Rob Malpass wrote: ... Out of interest while on the subject, can anyone recommend a good keyboard vendor? I really hate HP and Dell keyboards - though I must admit the Dell ones from around 12 years ago (the beige ones which went with Opti

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread Ian Park
On 11/11/11 18:07, Rob Malpass wrote: ... > > Out of interest while on the subject, can anyone recommend a good > keyboard vendor? I really hate HP and Dell keyboards - though I must > admit the Dell ones from around 12 years ago (the beige ones which went > with Optiplex models) were quite nice

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread Rob Malpass
Thanks to all who replied. On the extra connectors, thankfully my graphics card doesn't need one - there are no connections on it for power. On the ps2 situation, as I say the mobo only has one ps2 so what I've done is buy a "ps2 splitter" - the sort of thing we used to use for laptops i.e.

Re: [Hampshire] KVM and Num lock problem

2011-11-11 Thread Tim
On 05/11/11 13:37, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:53:44 + Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: Hello Mike, I've used a few KVMs in different jobs, and have one here at home. It's always been double scroll-lock then up or down arrow to switch. One of the reasons I always preferred the mecha

Re: [Hampshire] Help please - Rusty on building a PC

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Dwerryhouse
On 11/10/2011 06:41 PM, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all My "mean machine" arrived today (Intel i7 2600, 8Gb DDR3) barebones and I need to build it. The thing is, I'm seeing a huge bundle of unfamiliar connectors - can anyone help? My main concern is keyboard and mouse - there's only one ps2 on