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Helpful Hints
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CD & DVD DRIVES
Bare Drives and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) are terms often used for the fact that we sell products
that although brand new do not come boxed with any screws, fixings, software, cables etc unless otherwise stated.
STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO INSTALLING YOUR NEW DRIVE
To play a DVD film on your new DVD ROM or DVD-RW you require software to do this. Many of our drives are sold as bare drives (see above) and do not come with a DVD film player. We have found a FREE player you can download for your new drive, or write with a CD or DVD to help get you started try some free software from the link below
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FREE DVD Player Software |
FREE CD & DVD Writing (burning) Software |
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If you have a drive that supports labelflash you can download the FREE software and view the step by step guide by visiting the link below.
FREE Labelflash Software
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Similarly, if you have a drive that supports lightscribe you can download the FREE starter software at the link below.
FREE Lightscribe Software
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HARD DISK DRIVES
Why is my hard drive showing smaller than its stated size?
Operating Systems and software utilities define a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes, this is because computers work in binary. Since consumers don't think in binary, manufacturers decided to rate most drive capacities based on the standard base 10 numbers we are all familiar with. So a gigabyte (abbreviated as GB) is defined as 1 billion bytes (1,000,000,000 bytes).
This difference between binary and standard base 10 results in a difference of 73,741,824 Bytes
for each Gigabyte that a drive manufacturer claims.
The best way to show this difference is as a percentage, which is roughly 7%.
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GRAPHICS CARDS POWER ISSUES
As so many people aren't sure how much power a modern graphics card requires MINIMUM,
The following link is a list of various models of graphics cards and their AMP requirement. Obviously it would be better to get something better than what is stated. It is only a rough guide, as it also depends what other hardware you have in your system. It is very important to check the ampage requirements of your system before buying a power supply so to assist our customers we have a lists of popular cards below
Popular Graphics Card - Power Requirements
Click here for Watts & Amps
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POSTAGE & SHIPPING FOR MAINLAND UK PRODUCTS
How Long Before My Goods Arrive?
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Royal Mail Parcel
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1-3 working days AFTER DISPATCH
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Only contact us if your delivery has not arrived after TEN working days.
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Parcelforce
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Up to two working days AFTER DISPATCH
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Only contact us if your delivery has not arrived after FOUR working days. |
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Interlink Express
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Next working day delivery AFTER DISPATCH
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Only contact us if your delivery has not arrived after THREE working days. |
Please note: WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER DELIVERY TIMES ONCE DISPATCHED PLEASE REFER TO YOUR ONLINE TRACKING NUMBER
Please check with all household members there has not been a card through the door.
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