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Back home after an overnight stay at H's parents house. Had a nice time there - the girls tested the local playgrounds, and Kathy (H's mum) spoiled us with delicious food. Tomorrow I want to try to fix my media centre PC - I bought an Acer Idea 510 a couple of years ago and it's generally been pretty good - I have a lot of music, photos and video loaded onto it, and it means we can watch IPlayer and other streaming video on the TV rather than on a laptop. However, it apparently has a fairly predictable problem involving the power supply and the external display on the front. I've seen various hackery suggested on the boards but I think the simplest answer looks to be to fit a new power supply. I haven't tried this particular bit of PC surgery before, but it doesn't look too bad - I'm going to take a photo of the cabling before I start, just in case I get in a muddle.