jmmijo

Yeppers, like a mixed bag o nutz for me I tell you what, if you really want to see how AvP should have been, get the entire series of AvP from Dark Horse comics, they will rock your world I would also recommend Superman v Alien as a fun departure along with the Earth: Alien Hive stuff too http://www.darkhorse.com/comics/title.php

I know a few blokes in the UK that have BT xDSL as well and they have on occasion had issues like this. Basically they called BT and raised hell concerning it. My other suggestion is did you receive the turtle shaped xDSL modem/router that connects to the USB ?!? If so I'd highly recommend getting something else as these are known to have all kinds of issues, some of them include random reboots of the OS I fell like I maybe raining on your parade but you need to start with BT and see if indeed it's just a matter of line noise or something else on your premises that is causing this to happen

I find it best to get a gateway for broadband use, I personally still use an old Linksys but there are so many out there now and if you have the extra money to spend then perhaps a SOHO Watchguard or Sonicwall firewall would be great to have along with the Cisco PIX boxes. Anyways, I've also used in the past a software based firewall from Zone Labs, called Zone Alarm. There have been some users complaining of issues using this app but I can't say I've ever run into any of them myself. The nice thing about this is that it will work for both broadband and dial-up users and by default closes the ports and you have to allow what ever app is trying to use said port(s)...

Just wonder if there is a way to change the default cursor color under XP or not, mainly when using some forums, especially vBulletin ones, that allow you to change the styles/schemes and such. Some of them look great but the cursor basically disappears and I can't change the color. I bet this is going to be a reg hack as nothing in IE nor the control panel seems to have this option. Any help would be appreciated, thanks

So I take it this is not something that is exclusive to Charter, I would Imagine that Comcast does something similar ?!? Interesting in that I initially was on ATTBI in my area until they sold out to Comcast. I wonder if ATTBI just never cared about this or what ?!?

Originally posted by personapazzesca: Quote: Can I keep my 40GB h/d as my main system drive and configure two 120s in RAID 0 as a slave drive? So far every time I read about someone setting up a RAID 0 drive, it is being used as the only drive. Sure can, just make sure that you don't partition the RAID array with any ACTIVE partitions as these are the only bootable kind Just configure the RAID array as a primary partition or an extended partition, it should work either way under the Disk Management control panel applet. @APK, only the Raptor's have the extended 5 year warranty period. This is because WD based the design on their older Enterprise class 10K SCSI mechanism's There standard desktop drives are still only a one year warranty and their SE drives are 3 years. Seagate basically said, hey, we're so sure of our quality that *all* of our drives manufactured since a certain date are now warranteed for 5 years, regardless of wether or not they are enterprise class or consumer class drives

To clarify some things that APK posted, Windows XP Home does not include any RAID functionality, I do believe is one of the differences between it and the Pro version. XP Pro does indeed support software RAID 0 and JBOD/SPANNING. For video editing this is not recommended. I would suggest the following configuration for XP Home: The Promise FastTrak S150 TX2 and (2)Two WD or Seagate 120GB SATA drives. Remember now that Seagate offers a 5 year warranty across the board, desktop and enterprise HD's

Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: Thanks, I'll have a looksee jmmijo, IF I am understanding you correctly, you just want diff. cursors than the 'stock/oem' ones MS provides? Actually no, basically as I'm typing this reply the default background color is a white/off-white and the default text and cursor color is black. Well black on white or white on black is a very good contrast in colors so I can see it very easily. However there are a couple of forum's I belong to besides NTcompatible.com and when I use one of the non-default color or style themes everything looks great except when I go to reply or post a new thread. Instead of the background color being white and the text/curso being black it's a darker blue, a couple shades lighter then NAVY blue and the cursor and text are only a few shades darker then this. This is what I'm trying to change, I just need the text and cursor colors to be lighter like say a yellow, a bright canary yellow would be nice

Thanks, I'll have a looksee

I've been living with this problem since I first puchased Dungeon Siege. I just figured out what's causing it now I want to see about fixing it. The issue is that EAX starts to lag and do all kinds of strange delayed and phantom sound effects during gameplay. It takes awhile for this to occur, 10~15 minutes or so and there it is. I finally decided to turn off EAX in the game options and it worked properly. Of course I had to also turn the speakers back to 5.1 again for some reason in the Speaker Control Panel Up[censored] all the device drivers has not resolved this now has a clean install of XP Pro. Here's my system specs for my gaming rig: Aopen AX4C Max II motherboard with bios v1.12b P4 3.0c with a Zalman Copper Bloom Apacer DDR400/PC3200 CL3 (2 x 512MB) NuTech 8x DVD-RW TDK Velo CD-RW Segate 80GB SATA (2 drives in a RAID 0 Array on the ICH5R) Celestica Radeon X800 Pro Aopen H600 Chassis with extra case cooling fans Channel Well Tech ISO-500D Power Supply Any tips and suggestions would be appreciated thanks

Did you do an upgrade install of XP rather then reformat the drive and a new OS installation ?!? I've seen weird things like this occur when doing upgrades rather then a new installation. The only thing you should try is to get the very latest chipset drivers for your motherboard, not from the manufacturer of the motherboard but from the chipset vendor directly. If you have an Intel chipset motherboard then go to intel.com and d/l the latest INF drivers. If you have a Via chipset board then get them from viaarena.com. See what happens after this driver update and let us know

Along the same lines as what APK suggested, try another power connector from the power supply, the larger 4-pin Molex connector. I would also swap out the ribbon/data cable that connects the HD to the motherboard IDE connector just to be sure. These cables are UDMA 100/133 ribbon cables and are very cheap now a days The only other option is to get a new HD and jumper it as MASter and the old drive as SLAve and install a new OS onto the new HD. Then if the older HD still can't be accessed, I would try using a data recovery product like R-Studio, they have a demo version to let the user try it out first to see if it even works for them before purchasing the full-version

Well like I mentioned initially I think a repair install is in order. Boot with your OS media in the CD drive and press any key when asked to boot from CD. Follow the prompts as though it was a new install instead however it should find your existing install and ask to repair this one by pressing the R key

Great, glad that worked

I recommend using your OS install CD and run thru a repair install and then install all the latest drivers and updates

I read over at Cnet that both Symantec and McAfee are patching there current Corp Editions of their Anti-Virus to work with SP2 systems, oops I say

Well, I'm looking to upgrade my server to some of the following item: Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) Dual Opteron Motherboard Tyan Tiger K8W (S2875) Dual Opteron Motherboard (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 250 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 248 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 246 CPU's (2)Two AMD Opteron Model 244 CPU's (4)Four 1GB, ECC-REG DIMM's, PC3200/DDR400 (4)Four 512MB, ECC-REG DIMM's, PC3200/DDR400 (1)One ATi Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, Retail Box (1)One Sapphire Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, Retail Box (1)One Celestica Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, Retail Box (1)One Asus Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition, Retail Box (4)Four Western Digital, 250GB SATA HD's (1)One Promise Fastrak S150 SX4 SATA RAID Controller (1)One Supermicro SC942i-550 Tower Chassis (2)Two Supermicro Mobile Rack, CSE-M34T I'm thinking of dual-booting with Windows XP Pro(32-bit) and on a separate partition/drive installing Windows XP (64-bit). I realize it's only a BETA currently but I've messed around with a few test installs to see how it works on some Opteron systems here at work. I've also installed it on a test Athlon 64 box too. The only thing I can't seem to find drivers for is the onboard Intel Gbe, figures that Intel wouldn't code a driver to run on a Athlon only flavor of this OS Another possible problem is the Promise controller. I'm going to check their website out for more info on this as well.

I'll let you know on the fan db level for sure. I wonder how it compares to the old Teleport NOC in the Pittock Block when I used to work for that ISP? It was pretty loud to be sure due to all the netapps and terminal servers running I've built a few Athlon 64 boxes now and they do seem to be a bit faster even with the 32-bit Windows flavors.

This is what I get 66.35.250.150

Originally posted by SCV@RCL: Quote: THe 942i is a good case but be sure to pick up some quieter fans for it . Thanks for the info however I don't really require quiter fans, in fact I'd rather have the white-noise, it put's me to sleep

or from Realtek's website directly...

Perhaps you maybe able to recover some of that data afterall

Since payday is tomorrow for me I will not know until then. I'm hoping my P4-3.0c with Radeon X800 Pro and 1GB of ram will work with Ultra-High mode I'm thinking however that I may want to do a nice comparison between my current CRT and when I pick up my 19 flat panel

Originally posted by felix: Quote: 2. specific featured of each format Analog audio could be scratched, bent, broken, heat & pressure damaged but had fantastic sound quality for the first few playings. It came in tube form, 33rpm disc, 45rpm disc and the older one which I can't remember if it was 72 or 83rpm. Digital audio is read by laser and I'm not sure what speed it spins at. The original Sony-Philips spec is 150k per second or 1x speed. However I'm not sure of the actual spin rate either other then you can hear high-speed CD/DVD readers slow way down if you're using the analog playback function rather then the digital audio extraction method

So have you tried to clone/image this drive to another HD and then try a repair install of 2k ?!? See if this works because it will not take as long as a recovery app trying to locate all files/folders on this disk, orhphaned or not