jmmijo

Yeah I can still hear the line: "Did somebody just step on a duck ?!?" Also note that Janet Leigh died on Sunday. I always liked her, not just because of Psycho either And also another death yesterday, astronaut Gordon Cooper also passed away http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/10/04/gordon.cooper/index.html

Well it could very well be the onboard RAID is not functioning properly. I've never really liked ECS boards, they are the parent manufacturer for such brands as PC Chips, Amptron, Matsonic and my personal favorite, Fugu Tech The only other thing you could try would be to test out the drives on a Promise Fastrak 100 TX2 card and see what happens. If it works then it's the onboard controller.

The other thing you may need to test for is swapping out both the data cables just in case and of course (2)Two different HD's to test out with, just in case one or both of the current HD's is not working properly. Also note that I've seen weak power supplies cause random issues like this. When you disconnect the drives from the onboard raid, do you also disconnect the HD power cables(s) as well ?!?

I think for the standard user you have to change the shorcut properties to Run-As and then select the local admin account. It will ask for the password for that local admin account as well Just right-mouse click on the desktop shortcut and select Run-As and make the change there. Retest and I bet it will work

Originally posted by cumbiamo: Quote: jmmijo How do I find out waht version of NTFS I have? Have you had problems with PM 8? If you installed XP (Pro or Home) on a new drive/partition then it will be NTFS v3.1. If you installed XP as an upgrade from Win 2k then it will be NTFS v3.0. No problems using PM8 so far

Well I don't know about that because I personally only use PM8.xx due to it's support for NTFS v3.1. It's possible that earlier versions would work but only on the older NTFS 1/2(NT3/4) and NTFS3.0(Win 2k). Plus there is support for the Linux EXT1/2/3 filesystem in the latest release

Try this: Put the card in analog output only and see if the same thing occurs. This will mean connecting the analog output cables too if you have not done so already Also try changing the speaker config from 4.1 to 2/2.1 and see if the same thing occurs, either in digital output or analog output modes. Let us know what happens

Originally posted by Pride: Quote: I FOUND THE SOLUTION! Finally. Though everything has been changed in my system - hardware I mean - the memory (2x 512MB Twinmos PC3200 CL2.5-modules with M-Tec memory chips) wasn't compatible with my motherboard. Memtest86 (v3.1a and v1.2+) didnt find any errors on normal test run, but when I picked ALL tests instead of default tests, it found multiple errors on test #10. After this I picked test #10 manually and it drops an error each 90 seconds or so. Changing my memory modules (going to check the memory chips) to ones that are surely supported by my motherboard... VIA is like trillion times better than nForce2 for instance... You can't imagine the amount of memory errors and compability problems with nForce2... This is great, glad you resolved the problem @Defector, I wasn't trying to be nasty or anything with my reply, I think you see that The idea here on this forum, it to provide some alternatives to issues some others are having with a given situation....

Originally posted by defector: Quote: Via blows. This is why I switched to an Intel D875PBZ mobo in my main pc. It's ancient sidekick, an Abit BP6, is a model of stability, too. Well this is really not a proper answer in that you're just saying, in your opinion, that *any* mianboard with a VIA chipset is junk. Hmm, I've used many brands of motherboards over the years and it depends more on the design of said mainboard from a quality manufacturer like Asus, Aopen and yes, now even Intel, then on the chipset. I've owned and used many boards based on VIA chipsets and they've all been fine I also have owned chipset boards from basically every vendor on the planet, Intel, SiS, ALi, nVidia, ATi, you name it I've either worked with it and/or owned it...

So have you tried using an Intel or SiS based chipset motherboard yet ?!? Obviously using an Intel based board negates using an AMD cpu, however, SiS does indeed make AMD cpu chipsets too. This is just to rule out some weird compatibility with VIA chipsets and/or motherboards. Please advise....

Was not this the time when having a USR v.Everything modem was da bomb

And I for one applaud your work APK, here's hoping to a quick fix and/or acceptable work-around for this issue

Originally posted by Waffler: Quote: P.S. Anyone remember 14.4k connections? 8) Ah, try an old acoustic modem running at a paltry 30, 60 or 110 baud and you'll see just how speedy a 14.4k connection truly is

Use the term that Hercule Poirot always uses, little gray cells

I vote depends on your situation because I do think you can pretty much do all the things that SP2 would give you by just running Windows Update for the current hotfixes and security patches and by using a personal firewall like Zone Alarm and any number of both free/share/commercial software packages The partial noexecute switch seems like a step in the right direction along with the AMD-64 CPU's having this in hardware. That being said there are some known issues with compatibility when using the noexecute switch as well as some known SP2 specific issues and running about 50 different apps. I do however think most of these are games and the specific issues seem to be related to multi-player gaming and specific ports that the MS firewall closes on you. Again, this is something that can also be taken care of when using SP1 along with a personal firewall, you would still have to open specific port(s) for online gaming

Suffice it to say that it must meet the requirements or how else would italiangirl been able to play it a couple of times before all these issues started to occur

Correct, I always refer to readme files if/when apps or games misbehave themselves However, and again this is my opinion, I think there are a lot of users that would just rather be spoon fed and told what they need to do rather then empower themselves with just a little bit of reading and knowledge

Since you mentioned that your new Dell machine is not working, in general, I would suspect the issues with the Sims 2 game was most likely related to this being a problem with the computer rather then the game itself. Of course you will not be certain of this until you get your replacement box and reinstall the Sims 2 once again

Actually IMHO, it's more likely that 60~75% of the issues could be resolved by reading the README text files I say this because of experience, it either has some of the issues mentioned in the text file and how to resolve them and/or work-arounds and one or more web sites for support in getting the issue(s) resolved if the readme file didn't help...

Originally posted by ds3circuit: Quote: Well I can most definitely say that my experience with computers does not go back as far as the two of you. It began with a tandy rs80 that then jumped to a NEC 166 Ready 9702 Series PC. I remember messing with PCs in school that were 486 DX running WFW 3.11 What actually pulled me into computers was programming for zilog processors on the TI-85. I needed a machine to dump the roms and the NEC is what did it. Guess you could say I have been doing PCs for about 9 years. Ah yes WFW 3.11, I remember my first 486-DX2/50 came with that OS along with MS-DOS v6.xx. I already had copies of v3.3, v4.01 and 5 to mess about with as well Well I started back in High School, which is the mid-70's. The high-school I went to had a computer department filled with TRS-80's and Apple. I liked the CP/M DOS that came with the trash 80's and really didn't get along with the Apple DOS/ProDOS or what ever Apple called it at the time... Also, there was one or two acoustic modems in the computer lab, they ran at either 30, 60 or 110 baud, now that was smoking at the time. Since the pricing was so damn expensive I never could afford to get one myself, however I was one of the lucky ones to get one of the first Oddysey game consoles with paddles Then we graduated to the Mattel Intelivsion and soon the voice cartridge to go along with B-17 bomber I really liked what CBM was doing at the time because they made some really nice business class machines for not a whole lot of money at the time. Atari also had some interesting home micros with the 400/800 series of boxes. @APK, no I never found a fix for the security hole(s) in that Color BBS app, I just stopped running the free BBS after that As to what had happened, well the jerk that hacked the site basically reformated the floppy disk that I had the app and other support software running on. Since the C64 was primarially disk based for storing the temp data and program data onto, this effectively killed the BBS. Users would just a endless ring on the phone line with no app to pick up the modem

Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: BUT, give up images? (Heck, I might as well load up LYNX (text mode Unix style web-browser)))... APK Yeah I know how you feel but hey, lets all go back to command line browsing via a dial-up/slip connection so I can connect with my C64 once again In the meantime, get prepared

Man you guys bring back some memories, I remember when I first joined a local ISP back in the day. One of the nice extra features of said dial-up was that you received telnet access I was fascinated by what you could do sans a gui, PINE was my choice for both email and news, why, because It's Not ELM :lol I even played around with connecting my beloved and by then dusty C64 with just a 1200 baud modem, telnet access worked liked a dream, picture the old 40-column display and see what I mean... I went so far as to even reconnect my first modem, a 300 baud, pulse-dial, Taiwanese made POS, it even worked Back On-Topic, Yes I second your opinion about Philip there, he's a very cool sysop, hey, can I still use that term now a days

I guess the next line should read: "Make your time. Hahahahahahahahahahaha."

Soon we shall start seeing the return of: 8)

The three hardware based firewall's I recommend are the following: Sonciwall, SOHO Watchguard, Cisco PIX. Nice thing about all of these is that they support VPN as well, although you usually have to pay extra for xx amount of VPN connections I personally use both a Cisco PIX and the SOHO Watchguard at work for our local firewalling. Since I work for a system integrator/reseller, we've sold many of these to businesses along with the Sonicwall too...