Way late Rio, but WX was waaay slow for me at times today, so it could also be their servers. (Though I always got in eventually.)

I need help~!!

Mom's tryign to hook up her tv, vcr, and dvd player. Neither the instructions for the dvd player or vcr have information on how to hook up the three things. I don't know why I would think more homes hook up those three than hook up wit surround sound and antenae. But I digress.

Mom has a Apex tv, Daewood vcr, and a Toshiba dvd player.

The dvd player doesn't have any place to plug in a coax cable, it's three plug thing (I can't remember the technical name). The tv has a place for those to plug in (red, yellow, white) and a place for a coax cable. The vcr has a coax cable, bbut only two places to plug in the prong things not three (yellow and white).

We want to be able to have all three hook up and be able to tape/record with the vcr.

Any suggestions?

any more information needed?

I'd say screw it and get an RF Modulator (converter) from Wal-Mart. Jensen brand is under $20, sometimes. Maybe Phillips.

Basically you plug the DVD player and the cable into it, and then it into the TV.

When you fire up the DVD player it overrides the signal coming from the VCR and presents the movie.

I have an RF converter at home. It's just .... I don't want to admit defeat damnit.

Her tv switches between video 1 video 2 video 3 video 4. Three is the dvd player, 4 is the vcr.

With the set up I have now it tapes, but it tapes static, nothing.

I'm floored that vcr and dvd directions don't explain how to hook them up together.

Plug the DVD player into the TV directly using the connectors that fit.

It should appear on one of the "blank" Auxilary channels when playing.

Plug the cable into the VCR, then the VCR into the TV. That should play on Channel 3 or 4, depending on what you have it set for.

ETA, Huh

Daniel gives the exact advice I would have, skye!

Followup: I should note that Askye and I got together on IM and at least the Cable to VCR to TV is working, which was important so she could tape Sci-Fi Friday. I have a feeling the DVD will work but it was untested last night.

Dan helped Mom and I get everything hooked up. She and I don't work well together hooking up stuff, it's one of our weaknesses.

But Dan's help got us through. Also, the dvd player works. Well, we didn't put in a dvd, but you could see the dvd player was hooked up and waiting for something to be put in.

Mom was very grateful declaring "Dan's the man!"

Help me. This is driving me insane.

My computer shuts itself off, spontaneously, for no apparent reason. Sometimes it turns itself back on. Sometimes it won't (unless I smack it, which I discovered in a fit of pique).

I've taken it to Best Buy twice. The first time they wiped the hard drive and reinstalled the OS (Windows XP). They ran a system diagnostic and found no problems. It's not a virus. Both times, they ran it for hours, they say, with no trouble.

It never did this at my old apartment, where I had it for about a month before I moved here.

I bought an APC battery backup unit. It made no difference. The unit reports only two brief power interruptions, which it handled. I tried moved the unit to a different wall plug. No difference.

After it comes back from Best Buy, it runs fine for a couple days, then starts shutting itself down again.

It doesn't matter if I'm on the internet or not. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. It doesn't matter if the central air conditioner is on or off, or comes on or goes off while the computer is running.

I'm running Norton Antivirus. I was running McAfee for a while, between the trips to Best Buy. Neither made any difference.

Nothing that I can think of to do has made any difference.

This has been going on for months. I would just chuck it and buy a new computer, but if this is caused by something in the environment here, I'll be wasting yet more money and possibly not fixing the problem.

Does anyone have ANY idea what the hell is wrong?

and cereal...

Theodosia, I have Virgin Mobile pay-as-you-go, and I like it a lot. It's easy to use, doesn't require a damnable contract, and the people I've talked to have been very helpful.