Does anyone know where I can download new maps for a Garmin Satnav? It's a US Satnav, so need to find somewhere cheap, or preferably free, that I can get UK maps for it. Tried the Garmin website but it all seems to be US stuff its asking me to download.....Cheers

Trying to connect to some streams on myp2p, keeps saying 'server not found', I'm using my gf's laptop at uni, which makes me think it would be a crappy slow internet problem, but on a speedtesting site, it measured at 55mbps download speed, which tells me it's pretty quick. Any help?

Any good sys admin will have blocked them.

Anyone??????

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Does anyone know where I can download new maps for a Garmin Satnav? It's a US Satnav, so need to find somewhere cheap, or preferably free, that I can get UK maps for it. =#800000Tried the Garmin website but it all seems to be US stuff its asking me to download.....Cheers'" This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"Does anyone know where I can download new maps for a Garmin Satnav? It's a US Satnav, so need to find somewhere cheap, or preferably free, that I can get UK maps for it. =#800000Tried the Garmin website but it all seems to be US stuff its asking me to download.....Cheers'" This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/

Quote ="GraftonRed"This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/'" If it's a US device it's possibly coded to only update from the US website.

Quote ="GraftonRed"This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/'" If it's a US device it's possibly coded to only update from the US website.

Quote ="GraftonRed"This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/'" Yeah mate, but when i tried to get the UK map it asked me to pick my device from a drop down list - but my device wasn't there to choose!!

Quote ="GraftonRed"This one? www.garmin.com/uk/maps/'" Yeah mate, but when i tried to get the UK map it asked me to pick my device from a drop down list - but my device wasn't there to choose!!

What is the device model?

because it's a US device, fairly standard in my experience, hardware is "regional" with some manufacturers, it helps keep the price points under their control.

Found this, not sure if it's any good to you or not.... www.talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm

Found this, not sure if it's any good to you or not.... www.talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm

Its a nuvi 1100.

But someone buying this in the US and then coming to the UK or Europe for a holiday must surely be able to get European maps for it to allow it to work here???

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"But someone buying this in the US and then coming to the UK or Europe for a holiday must surely be able to get European maps for it to allow it to work here???'" You'd think so wouldn't you. Have you tried this garmin plugin, https://my.garmin.com/maps/chooseDeviceType.htm? select automotive, it might detect your model and let you know about maps.

Quote ="Mike Oxlong"But someone buying this in the US and then coming to the UK or Europe for a holiday must surely be able to get European maps for it to allow it to work here???'" You'd think so wouldn't you. Have you tried this garmin plugin, https://my.garmin.com/maps/chooseDeviceType.htm? select automotive, it might detect your model and let you know about maps.

Anyone ever ordered off Dell? My Mum ordered a laptop last week, paid by finance, and the order was accepted last Tuesday. The online status of the order still says 'Order processing - waiting for order payment to be finalised'.

Customer services say they cannot get the order up on their system until this stage is complete so cannot offer her any advice. The finance company say they accepted the application the morning after she made it and gave their approval to Dell.

Is this normal? I remember back in the day when i used to order Mesh computers whenever Championship Manager added new system requirements and the long lead times on their orders, but I'd assumed things were a little better customer service wise now that retail stores have muscled in on the market?

yes, from the US website, are the UK maps not listed on there?

Order from Dell all the time, sometimes you get problems, but they've always delivered. Sounds like they're being slow with the finance (Dell, not the finance company) or (as has happened before) they haven't updated the order status and the reality is the laptop is slowly being prepared/delivered.

Next time go to Novatech.

My laptop battery has died after 2 years and looking for replacement. Laptop is dell inspiron 1545, part number GW240. Prices on dell website look dear (£100+), and have found plenty of cheaper options from £30ish on eBay/amazon/play.

Has anyone any experience of buying batteries for this type of laptop? Worried if I go really cheap it will damage laptop, but don't want to pay price for dell branded battery..

Go for a mid priced battery on eBay from a seller with good feedback.

How difficult is it to change the battery? My battery, on a similar/same Dell, has been broken for over a year now. Mine is stuck on 0%, so have to run off mains all the time.

However, my aforementioned Dell appears to be dying on me. I'm fairly sure the HD is failing on me. I've managed to get it on, but I'm not convinced its going to last much longer. Is there anything I can do to keep it alive? The Windows is pre installed, so no disk...

Laptop batteries can just be popped out of the bottom of the case usually I think. Nothing more labour intensive than one or two screws.

usually not even a screw, a spring bound slider, possibly at opposite ends of the battery.

one thing to watch is loss of power to the bios if the laptop battery is failing

I had 2 batteres with a Dell I had years ago, they popped out like Saddened mentioned. Can't see anything obvious with this one though.

Laptops, the same as desktops have a battery that keeps the BIOS going but the worst that can happen is you loose any customisations, time and date.




Piece of cake, two slides to hold open and it pops out, hard drives are cheap and just as easy to install.



No option to make a restore disk?
Dell OEM disks are available on eBay pretty cheap.

PM me the service tag number and I'll check the service manual.

I just picked the thing up to check for the first time ever, and realised it is quite simple. However the grinding noise that occured when doing this wasn't too pleasing