Elliot Walls

I really think it depends on what kind of mood you are in. NWN is ALOT slower paced and requires a TON of reading and roleplaying (Online). Dungeon Siege, on the other hand, is VERY fast and gives you rushes of adrenalin, but as stated before is lacking in the hardcore roleplaying element. Personally I enjoy Dungeon Siege more, but I think thats just because I have a very low attention span. :x

I have a computer system at work that I just inherited, but I cant log into it becuse the previous employee who owned it set passwords on all the user and administrator accounts and didnt tell anyone what they were. Does anyone know how I can either bypass the log in screen or delete all the password info? There is some serious data that I need to get to, otherwise I'd be more than willing to just format the darn thing and reinstall 2k. Thanks guys.

As much as I think it sounds like a good idea, I believe it would just end up promoting some young forum go-ers to spam the boards just to get high post counts.

*Cough* 6 million versions of the Detonator Drivers *Cough*

Like I said, it depends on far you push it beyond it's factory spec. An extra 16 mhz is almost a laughable overclock if you ask me, however.

My Favorite game has got to be the original Doom. DOOM - The game that inspired a generation of slackers.

Overclocking can seriously reduce the life span of components from dozens of years to only a few, or possibly even less than a year - It all depends on how far beyond spec you wish to push your component. A few years back it was more feasible to overclock than to buy new coponents, but today it just more safe (And in some cases more cost effective) just to upgrade, however.

Theoretically, under normal conditions, longer than you.

Just doing what I can for the English Language, thats all.

Just because I am bored, here are the specs of my Baby I just built. I gave her her name because she's seems to assimilate every piece of hardware that comes into close proximity to her. lol. Assimilator Windows XP Home AMD Athlon XP 1800+ MSI KT3 Ultra ARU Motherboard 350 Watt Antec Powersupply 512 Megs of PC2100 DDR Ram Radeon 8500 64mg DDR Video Card Turtle Beach Santa Cruise Soundcard with Creative FPS1500 4.1 Surround Maxtor 40 gig 7200 HD (All drives on seperate IDE Channels) Maxtor 60 gig 7200 HD Cendyne 16x DVD Drive Iomega 12x10x32 CDRW NEX FE700+ Flat Aperature Grill Monitor NCR 15" Secondary Monitor Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro Microsoft Intellimouse Optical Saitek X45 HOTAS System Sony Clie PEG-N760c with 128 meg Memory Stick Media

lol, good call.

1 - Check your Bios extensivly to make sure it is configured properly. 2) Run the Add Hardware Wizard in Windows and see if it picks your drives back up. IT's possible they got "lost" when you installed the new drive. 3) Recheck your Jumpers again. 4) Check with HP and make sure that your Motherboard supports mutliple drives per IDE chain. Its been a long time since I have seen one that would only support one, but it HAS been known to happen. 5) Try swapping the Master/Slave relationship on the two drives using the Jumpers. 6) If it picks both drives up in your Bios but not in Windows then try to update the driver for your IDE controller. 7) Make sure you have the IDE and power cables to the drives seated correctly and that both drives spin up when you power on. 8) Be innovative.

I use Microsoft Intellimouse Optical's on my primary systems exclusivly, all the rest of my systems (Servers, render boxes, and my media box) all use Logitechs just becuse they're durable and inexpensive. The Intellimouse Optical is the Best mouse I have ever used by far. Comfortable, easilly programable in games, and the extra buttons on the sides function as the back and forward buttons in internet explorer. BTW - McBane, its "ironic" that Your companing about a little "Built for XP" Sticker, especially considering that Microsoft MADE both the Mice and the Operating system. I kind of like the idea that I dont have to install any drivers to use the advanced features of my Microsoft mice in XP, can all Logitech owners say the same thing about thier Mice?

Since 3DFX has been out of buisness for sometime and support has been lack from the 3rd party community you are pretty much stuck with the latest WickedGL Drivers. Theres not a whole lot else to tell you except to make sure the rest of your drivers on your system are up to date and are functioning properly. In all honesty, though, you may want to consider upgrading to a newer card soon if stability and performance is that much of an issue. Oh, and I believe the word you are looking for is Crash, not "crush".

1) Unless you have found some way to physically modify your monitor you CANNOT run it out of spec. Like it was said in an above post, if you even TRY to run it at a hertz above its upper limit then the monitor will basically "shut down". If it is an older monitor then it will probobly not shut down, instead it will more likely just display some gobley-gook on the screen. There will be no damage done in either circumstance. 2) Powerstrip cannot run your monitor above specs. If it says it is then it is LYING. Also : See point 1.