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  1. Posted

    The easy part:

    I am leaping to an Athlon 2500+ (from my ageing Thunderbird 1.3GHz) in September.

     

    The hard part:

    Choosing a new mobo! Now, I have been reading EVERY review on zillions of sites and I have almost maden up my mind. My canditade list has been shortened to this:

     

    Abit NF7-S v2.0 nForce2

    MSI KT6 Delta-FISR KT600

    Asus A7V600

    Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 / Deluxe

    Soltek SL-KT600-R

    Gigabyte GA-7N400L1

     

    well all of them have USB2, some of the have Firewire, 5/6 PCI slots, LAN (the MSI has gigaLAN I think) and sound on board (I will be getting an Audigy though). Now if you have one of the above mentioned mobos, tell me about overclocking and stability issues, configuration issues, something you liked or disliked about it, anything.

     

    Moreover, any other of you who is really satifsied from their mobo, please do post your opinion. I will make my final choice according to pricing/availability and your posts of course.

     

    Thank you for your feedback!

  2. Posted

    What abou the ending of Half-Life? You find yourseld in a train car, the notorious guy in the suit BESIDE you, babling about, and not even a kitchen knife to kill him... it just let me down...

     

    ditto, Half Life: Blue Shift was way shorter and relatevely easier...

  3. Posted

    and does anyone know any UK based online computer merchant that would ship to Greece? Overclockers.co.uk do, but not Dabs.com, Simply.co.uk, Jungle.co.uk and neither Komplett.co.uk.

     

    Others??

  4. Posted

    Well, what do you know! The slayerui.dll file doesn't exist (isn't XP lovely!)... i am getting tired of it. But i have found a work around, bringing up Help & Support, searching for 'compatibility' returns a couple of results, one of which is the *Compatibility Wizzard" which let's you search for the .exe and alter its compatibility options.

     

    This used to be a reason to reinstall windows (back with win98), but I am getting to old and too bored for such minor things now....

     

    thanks for the help adamvjackson, much appreciated.

  8. Posted

    I have been using Norton Internet Security 2001, 2002 and 2003 and I haven't had any pop-ups ever since. You have to tell it specifically to block pop ups though (in the main program panel, just click 'ad blocking = on' - the default is off)

     

    One happy customer here!

  9. Posted

    try going to Control Panel/Power Options. You should see a 'APM' tab, go there and enable Advanced Power Management (i think there is only one option there). It will ask for a reboot and after that your machine should shutdown completely.

     

    If this is not helpful, I will assume that the tip screwed your windows and you had to format, reinstall, setup everything just to come back and curse me! lol

  10. Posted

    ditto on the PCchips mobo. I remember owning (and having paid for it :() one, it had a 440VX chipset, sporting a lightningly fast 166Mhz Pentium. The VX chipset was out in two varieties, with 256 or 512 kb of L2 cache memory. Mine was the faster 512kb (yeah!) version, only to my disappointment to discover later (using some diagnostics utility - can't remember the name) that it was a 256 kb version with a BIOS that reported 512kb of cache!!!.....no comments after that....

     

    But, on topic, it's a low price and his parents only want it for a year (strange?), so probably it will boot 365 times (not counting restarts). That should be a record on its own for a PCchips mobo, right?

     

    Off topic, a friend's 48x Plextor CDRW failed to recognise all kinds of discs yesterday (blank cdr and cdrw, pressed data discs, audio cds). He's covered by the Plextor 2 year warranty, but he's only gotten it only 3 months ago, and the brand name was the decisive factor for that buy....oh well

  11. Posted

    Everything is sorted now!

     

    and here's how.... double clicking any of the 'unmovable' mp3s would bring up winamp, but it would start playback, so I thought what on earth? I went to see the permissions tab, it wasn't there (had to uncheck simple file sharing in control panel/folder options). Finally I saw that no user/group had access to the 'unmovable' files, so I added my account, checked on full control and voila! everything works as it should now....

    one happy audiofile here!!!

  12. Posted

    Yes, this is on a NTFS partition and I (my account) have read/write permissions.

     

    I did restart several times but i still get the 'Cannot move xxxxxxxx: Access is denied. Make sure you have access to the folder and that the disk is not write protected' message.

     

    Could it be something else?

  13. Posted

    Here's is the situation: I brought the removable hard disk from work, and copied over some mp3s to a folder I call 'Unsorted MP3s'. When I actually found the time to move the mp3s to other folders, I got a nice little message saying 'Cannot move xxxxxxxx: Access is denied. Make sure you have access to the folder and that the disk is not write protected' .

    So I did the obvious, checked that the folder was not 'read only', scanned for viruses, and i STILL cannot move (copy works fine) a single file from that folder OR the folder itself. Any suggestions what is happening and how can I beat the crap out of this Windows imperfection?

     

    thanks in advance,

    tsonta101

  15. Posted

    simple problem, complex troubleshooting wink

     

    there is a number of things you should check:

    1. Latest chipset drivers from via

    2. Get any updates from windowsupdate

    3. Just to be on the safe side, get DirectX9

    4. Get the latest drivers for yor AC97 soundcard

     

    Another idea would be to disable sound (Start, Run, dxdiag and on the Sound tab drag the slider all the way to the left) and see if you can actually play the games.

     

    Also check out this link for your modem

    http://www.pctel.com/support.htm (hehe)

     

    if not try these ones -->

    http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/shiva/modem/driver.htm

    http://members.cnx.net/reboot/modems/

    http://www.vee90.net/vblite/showthread.php3?threadid=128 (this is another forum where people have posted links to pctel chipset modem drivers)

     

    Get back to us and report any progress, good luck

  18. Posted

    from my experience, it must be the AC97 codec. I have seen it produce echo effects and/or clicks pops in some games (Ghost Recon, Colin McRae 3).

     

    Have you got a spare soundcard or can borrow one from a mate and see if the stuttering continues?

     

    PS: I am guessing that this only happens in games and when you watch dvds, divx movies, listen to mp3 in winamp or wmp the sound is ok, right?

  19. Posted

    try up[censored] the game from http://www.ghostrecon.com/patch.php. At the bottom of the page get patches 1.3 and 1.4 (weighing 46.8 and 5.8mb respectively) and see if you get lucky....

     

    off topic...one of the most realistic combat games i have ever played...never ever be careless and always look around...the enemy needs only one shot at you...

  21. Posted

    my geforce 2 mx (older version - slightly slower core/memory) from Creative did not have a heatsink or a fan either. It's specs where (if i remember correctly) 175/175 - core/memory, while your MX400 should be 200/175.

     

    If you are going to overclock the card, buy an appropriate fan/heatsink and put it on. Mine would go to 230/255 MHz before displaying bad colours/textures without a fan/heatsink.

  22. Posted

    Might be the stupidest ;( question on the planet at this moment... but is there a way to count how many copies has the cdr device done? Does anyone know of an application that does that? Or even worse :x , does anyone have the know-how to write that application?

     

    I am just curious if this kind of information is/isn't stored somewhere (not in the recorder, imo)....

     

    thanks,

    tsonta101

  24. Posted

    as far as i am concerned, the Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information folder holds the files that are needed when you uninstall programs, games etc. You can delete the contents of that folder, but some/all entries under Add/Remove Programs might no longer work...

     

    ...and absolutely no clue about Windows\Downloaded Installations

    smile

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