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Excellent suggestion; just checked out the specs and the Asus board looks brilliant. Comes in at a very good price too (65 pounds). As for the speed increase, I'm really hoping to get a real difference with games. I'm sure my P4 is holding my 9800XT back a little. Nice one jmmijo

A bit late perhaps, but my Friday the 13th was as bad as all the other days in the week.

Driverguide.com has an Deskjet 720C driver and lists NT 3.51 as supported. Might be worth giving that a try. http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=117157&action=summary Good luck!

Originally posted by packman: Quote: Ross, BT themselves might offer that 'outside box' service, but an ISP-affiliated-to-BT would not. The user would have to pay for its installation, I suspect. Yes you are quite correct. As I said, the local telecoms company [in this case BT] will offer this to you as a 'product' which you will of course have to pay for. Before the days of self-install ADSL this is what everyone would have had done regardless of ISP. Quote: The purpose of each microfilter is two-fold, as I understand it. First-and-foremost, to buffer the speech signal from the ADSL signal and, second, to prevent spurious electrical noise (spikes and other disturbances) on the line from getting through to the phone. Presumably, more noise can ensue from an ADSL-enabled line than otherwise? It seems to me that the requirement will be particularly stringent where the user is situated a long way from the local exchange. Note that the ADSL line itself does not require, nor should it have, filtering. So you're saying that you only need to use microfilters if you would like to make voice calls over the same line? Interesting, I've always thought (perhaps wrongly) that the data and voice 'channels' (right word??) operate at certain frequencies and the filters ensure that the different frequencies are kept entirely seperate, and thus don't interfere with each other. Quote: In MY case, I AM a long way from the exchange and it remains to be seen if both my modem and my telephone can be successfully used on the same line. I've organised the telephone wiring in the house to be as near-ideal as possible. In MY case, I AM a fair distance from the exchange. You asked for experience with microfilters, I gave you mine. You can take it or leave it.

I have 4 phone points in the house. I have placed a microfilter into each one (even though one isn't currently being used) and have never experienced a problem at all. I've never had a voice call breakup or crackle once. Plus my filters were also bought off eBay on the cheap - for a couple of quid each. Perhaps I should count myself lucky and whilst I'm no comms expert, maybe the quality of the telephone cabling has to be pretty good to start with. BTW - Your local telecom company may offer a service to install a master filter (at your home's junction box) to have the same setup to what theefool had. I know BT does it here in the UK.

Originally posted by theefool: Quote: What sp (service pack?) do you have? There was a bug where Windows XP would suspend and thus stop polling USB ports for new devices. Here's the KB Article about it. This was fixed in Service Pack 1.

My money's on The Sims 2.

Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: Now if we're talking PC which really means Personal Computer not just an acronym for IBM and compatible boxes, then my first was the CBM Vic 20 followed closely by the C64 and a 1541 Disc Drive. Exactly the same here, the Vic 20 and C64 were fantastic computers. Always wanted one of the new fancy Amigas though; I envyed my best friend for his A500 something chronic. Instead, we jumped straight to our first 'proper' PC, the Amstrad PC1640. With an 8086 4.77MHz (IIRC) CPU, 20Mb 'winchester' disk drive and EGA graphics it was the mutt's nuts (and also quite cheap for a PC in those days). Along with WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3 it got me through school... plus the odd game of Crystal Caves! I miss those days .

I use the wireless variant of the Netgear DG834. It's always been rock solid with my ADSL line (it has never dropped the connection once). It's modem is currently capable of up to 8 Mbps downstream and with a forthcoming firmware upgrade will be able to support ADSL 2+ for speeds of up to 24 Mbps. It's got a very good stateful packet inspection firewall, supports UPnP and advanced VPN pass-through, all wrapped up behind a very slick interface. All in all, I'm very pleased with it.

All versions of Shadow Warrior have CD audio tracks for the music... so no original CD, no music. Out of interest, what did you do to get it working under XP?

Out of the bunch, UT wins hands down IMO. But the others are quite right... you've missed a load of contenders.

I currently use a Netgear DG384G wireless 802.11g router (it also has an ADSL modem) and I'm very happy with it. It has always provided me with pretty good network speeds and range and IMO has the best web interface. As for a wireless card, I just bought a 'no-named' brand from a UK retailer and it has had no problems with the Netgear. When I'm downstairs (with the router upstairs, perhaps 15 metres away in total) the signal never usually goes below 30Mbits/s. All-in-all, I'm very pleased. Recommendations for wireless kit is always a funny area. I found that for every person praising a certain manufacturer/router theres always someone putting it down...

I'd recommend BT Yahoo! broadband any time. They are in the process of upgrading all accounts to 2mb and they have dropped the price by a couple of quid. They are introducing a 30gb monthly usage limit in the Spring though (and charging a pound or two for every gb over that limit). The usage limit aside, everything has been great from day one. I've been using them for well over a year now and the service has never gone down... not once.

I'm assuming that your LinkSys has a built in modem here. Many ADSL/Cable modem Routers do not support what is called NAT loopback. Most routers will only forward port requests [to a PC behind the router] if the request originates from the WAN IP of the modem (ie, from over the Internet). NAT loopback gets around this and forwards requests from machines on the local LAN as well. If your LinkSys doesn't support loopback you can check by accessing your web server from outside your LAN, if it works then you'll know. Plus a non-loopback router will usually display it's web interface when you reference it (by WAN IP or domain name) from inside your LAN. If this is case for you, you should reference your web server using it's LAN IP (ie, 192.168.0.1:82). If you have a public domain name forwarded to your WAN IP, you could either modify your HOSTS file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) on each LAN machine to include the required mapping, ie; 192.168.0.1 mydomain.com 192.168.0.2 myzone.mydomain.com or otherwise, run your own DNS server (this is how I got round it with my Netgear ADSL router). Hopefully I'm on the right track, if not ignore me .

I'm 99% sure that you can delete the old Half-Life installation. Try renaming your old HL directory and then running it from within Steam. If all is well then you can proceed with the uninstall. Don't think that any existing savegames will transfer over to Steam though.

Originally posted by retaksoo: Quote: Hi i'm new here, and I don't know what to do O_O.Whenever i would try running the setup for vb6 it would give this error saying , C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.if i click close it just freezes, i click ignore it just stops entirely and installation fails. please someone help me! theefool's answer is correct in this case. An AUTOEXEC.NT file (and a valid one at that) must reside under the \system32 directory for certain programs to work. You may as well copy it to the root as well while you're at it.

APK is on the right track (EDIT, and kasandoro who beat me to it ). When you create a new query in Access the criteria for every field you wish to filter should read Like [Field 1 Value] & "*" Or Is Null. You should modify the [Field 1 Value] text for each filtered field so you can easily see which field you are supplying a value to. The beauty of this is that the query will allow you to supply filters to some fields and ignore others (simply hit enter on the dialog box). Here is the SQL for an example query working on a simple table (YOURTABLE) with 3 fields (FIELD1, FIELD2, FIELD3). Quote: SELECT YOURTABLE.FIELD1, YOURTABLE.FIELD2, YOURTABLE.FIELD3 FROM YOURTABLE WHERE (((YOURTABLE.FIELD1) Like [Field 1 Value] & "*" Or (YOURTABLE.FIELD1) Is Null) AND ((YOURTABLE.FIELD2) Like [Field 2 Value] & "*" Or (YOURTABLE.FIELD2) Is Null) AND ((YOURTABLE.FIELD3) Like [Field 3 Value] & "*" Or (YOURTABLE.FIELD3) Is Null)); You can paste this code into the SQL view of a new query then switch back to design view to get a clearer picture of what's going on.

Have had a 1Mbit ADSL connection for a year or two now, there is no way I could go back to dialup.

Does this happen only when you are pushing your video card to the max? What rating is your PSU? And a longshot, but has your ATI 9800XT got it's power cable plugged in?

Hi All, Firstly, NTC doesn't have a general hardware forum, so I posted here. Basically what the subject says; recommendations on a 4 port switch with a wireless access point and ADSL modem. The important thing is that it NEEDS to support local loopback; ie.. Router Internal IP: 192.168.0.1 Router WAN IP: 195.265.254.125 (made up) If I enter the WAN IP address in my browser (on a LAN PC), I should see the sites that I'm hosting on my LAN's web server (forwarding on port 80 having been setup). This would happen with local loopback... without it I would see the routers web interface! I checked out Netgear's DG834G which was perfect for me, but it doesn't support loopback (most, if not all of Netgear's routers are like this). Anyone know of another product which would fit the bill? TIA

*Bump* Anyone?

LOL. There's 'nout wrong with your post Scintex, just covering all the angles.

Hi seeheng, What is the status of the drive in 'Disk Management' (Start Menu, Run, diskmgmt.msc)?

When the XP machine is multi-homed you can enable routing/IP forwarding with a little registry hack. Here is Microsoft's KB article about it.

Copy the AUTOEXEC.NT file from C:\Windows\repair to C:\Windows\system32.