Jerry Atrik

that brings up a ton of questions DF... what is the holdup? lack of paid resources working the problem or inability of the kernels?

and there are some post DX6 games that run very well on linux. i play call of duty on mine. i believe linux is getting very close to being a viable alternative to MS for the average user.

xp has been the most fire and forget ms system i have had. my laptop goes everywhere and logs onto any domain without a problem. my workstation doesnt get rebooted for weeks at a time. i do follow certain rules to keep it running correctly. most notably i never install a service pack or program updates on top of the running system. i always slipstream install.

it sounds like you tried to install XP after it was already booted. boot from the cd rom

i had the same problem awhile back. 2 different wireless cards connecting to a motorola wireless access point in an apartment complex with many different wireless routers in the area. (properly setup with WEP, shared key, and it's own channel) the cheap 12$ netgear card never lost connection and was the furthest computer away with the most walls to go through. the 40$ linksys card always lost connection for no reason and was only 15 feet away. so i switched the linksys card with a dlink card and the problem was solved. furthermore... i brought the linksys card over to my house which is very remote and put it in my neighbors computer 300+ feet away from my dlink wireless router (with the same settings). over a couple of weeks time it never lost connection or lost any connection speed. i think it's possible that linksys cards get confused in a noisy wireless environment.

could there be an "unattended" install file on the original disk which defaults the install directory?

how long do u play before it locks up? (i'm thinking heat here) also... the readme said something about 800 meg swapfile. my computer was unhappy until i changed that

did u cut and paste the commands? i did that first and realized that the folder name is different. i had to delete the symlink and type it in using the correct folder name i believe it's 1.5."something" instead of just 1.5.0

pretty sure your missing the sym link. read thru http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml#rpm go down to the "enable and configure" it shows how and where to put that link.

i have a 5 gig system partition. system restore is at 200meg (the min), and the swap is 512meg. also ie sets aside some ungodly amount of space for the dang cached pages. if u got broadband set that to about a meg.

http://www.msicomputer.com/support/sup_tshoot.asp this contains troubleshooting for your motherboard including the tone codes

the long steady beep is usually a hardware failure somewhere like power. it would help to know what the equipment is. in the old days we would put the battery back in BACKWARDS for 2 seconds. thats how u used to clear the cmos.

what service pack of xp do u have? was sp2 added on top of an existing install? since xp is usually pretty good with usb devices i would check the printer on another computer 1st. ps: i had a lexmark not work spanky new out of the box. they had great customer service and replaced it the next day

are u root for everything? the first mistake i made with wine was installing the game as root then trying to run it from a user login

hmm acrobat 7 pro, and quicken 2005 are the 2 main pc anywhere would be nice photoshop7, call of doody and that stuff works fine. im just not too sure how wine works and how to tweak it. still reading all the documentation. any insider tips would be much appreciated