Hi: I know nothing of the modern cable and connection standards as I am deliberately staying with CRT. That said, this sounds like a shielding issue with your connections. If you are using scarts (prob not) buy proper shielded ones and the same applies for all other connectors. I am feeling around in the dark yet am almost certain that this is what

Hi all: Thanks for your advice thusfar. This might be a stupid question in as much as there is not really an empirical way of finding out the answer. However, why do these break? I understand that my Avant is twelve years old etc and that prior to me having it, it probably had quite sustained usage. However, I am thinking that if I go to the hassle

Hi: Thanks, I guess I could but that seems like a bit of a bodge - i.e. wiggle it in and hope that it works. Also something would have to be done re powering the unit. That is an option but if there are any "proper solutions" I would like to explore those first. Graham

Hi: On my 28", '96 Avant, the VHS has given up the ghost. I am looking to replace it as I hate having stuff that is half broken. I am fairly good with electroncs. However, if I were to source a replacement unit (I don't want to bother with soldering and fault finding), is it as simple a job as undoing the back of the Avant and pulling the

Hi: Thanks for all your help. I have arranged for someone at the IT department at work to take a look at it. I don't want to risk breaking it any further if it is broken. At least if they look at it there, they can probably swap out components and isolate what the problem is. So much for just throwing something together!

Hi: No problem, thanks I will do this - would this account for it switching itself off though?

Scrap that it is a 450w supply - is that still too low and likely to be causing the problem? Thanks Graham

Have taken the power supply out. On the side the highest value in watts is 225. Is this underpowered for the size of processor I am using? I really do not know about what would be a decent power output so any help would be great. Thanks Graham

Hi all: Thanks for the help so far - the board is an Asus atx motherboard P4PE-X/SE with a intel pentium 4 1.8ghz processor. The manual is on this site: http://www.asus.com/search.aspx?searchitem=1&searchkey=P4PE-X%2FSE + When the speaker is attached it emits a loud, long beep for about 3-4 seconds then there is a break of about 7 seconds and the

Hi: Please feel free to move this post if it is in the wrong place. I know it is off topic but I guess someone on here might be able to shed some light on the issues I am experiencing: I assembled a PC so that there is the mainboard, graphics card and RAM all in the case. Heat sink, cradle etc are all in and the power supply is connected. The board