Charnel

Yah, I like using windows media player the most. I only really use winamp to rip the vocals off of songs. All you need is this great tool from tucows.com. It's made by anologx, and it's called vocal remover... I suppose that kind of went without saying, though. But I definately prefer the windows media player. I'm downloading 10 right now, but I've been using 9 and can't think of many improvements they could have made. I've never had a problem with it... except for not playing wmv's from kazaa.. that pissed me off... downloading a 600 meg movie... ON DIAL -UP!!! and not being able to play it :-/

More than just a couple people would put a bullet in my brain for saying this... but.. ME! I know I know, it sucks, it's unstable.. but not if you configure it properly. If you spend a few weeks fine tuning it, POSSIBLY underclocking your computer by just a FEW Mhz, it can be pretty stable... and have a bit less load than the newer windows. Besides... the task manager kicks the shit one they have in win XP now, anyways . It's a lot harder for someone to hack you on, and lets you have more input as to what's going on... not so much crap the computer does on it's own without you wanting it to. Now, this next bit I haven't confirmed, but have heard by a lot of people... that windows ME itself only allocates 64 megs of RAM. Yes, you can have more, but that surplus is used for games or other programs.

Yeah... screw you guys... I've only got a seagate 40 gigger. But hey, it runs at DMA mode 5 :-/... but then again, I'm only 17 and haven't bothered getting a job :-D. Anyhows, for some people have this happen because they use a boot disk for another operating system when formatting their drive, and formatting it with a different type of file system (Fat32, NTFS). But that really shouldn't be the case here... because Windows XP recognizes all of them. Now, this may seem like a really stupid question... but try a different power cable. I've had a friend who had something like this happen. A pin was severed on the power cable. The system's BIOS recognized the new driver, and he could use it in DOS for one reason or another... but in windows it wouldn't work. He tried a different cable and it fixed his err right away.

A:\>Format C: lmao Okay, I know this is probably the first thing you've tried, but it is something that is really important. In the games, try going into the graphics menu, and turn everything wayyyy down. Try running the game in 640X480 resolution with 16 bit color, turn off all the uneccesary details. Then, see how the game runs. Play it for about 5 minutes to see how choppy it gets. If it's a lot better, then just experiment with different graphics settings until ya get what you like. I'm running an AMD T-bird 1.2 gigger, with 384 megs of SDRAM (PC133) and Geforce4 MX440. The graphics card is the PCI edition. And I get pretty good speeds in most programs. I can run GTA3 at full detail just fine. Unreal Tournament 2003 can have most graphic options fairly high. Every game I try runs pretty smooth. You might also want to try screwing around with the system paging file. Go to control panel/system/advanced/performance settings/advanced/change. In there, select the box that ays specify your own amount or something. Set the minimun amount to about 10-15 megs less that the amount of RAM your comp has, and the maximum can be about 100-150 megs above that.

Yah, for a long time I've been plagued with ugly colored streaks whilst playing games on my geforce4 mx440 (PCI interface) with windows XP and Abit KT7A-RAID mobo. It looks like a huge chunk of the wall would just be sticking out in some games, while in others these colored squares would just appear out of nowhere. I know that I've searched through about a gross dozen of websites, browsing through countless forums, trying to find other people who might have a solution. I've heard that with the AGP interface they could change the voltage settings to fix it, (but you can't do that for PCI interfaces very easily), that some people even went so far as to cram a piece of wood (yes, from a tree) into their computer to change the shape of the card. I tried overclocking, underclocking, over 20 different drivers (leaked, official, WHQL, Omega, Forceware/detonater) to no avail. I flashed my mobo's bios to the newest version, didn't work. But finally, FINALLY, I found a way. It is a pretty simple solution, but yet a lot of people haven't done it... just flash the video card's BIOS! http://whitebunny.demon.nl/hardware/chipset_nvidia.html That link conatins all the tools you need. Any questions about how to flash video BIOS... ask someone else, this post is long enough as is.

Well, I'd reccomend checking out some prices on www.compgeeks.com. See, I've had trouble with both ATI, and Nvidia... Mind you, it was ATI Rage Fury Maxx, and Geforce4 MX440 SE with a PCI interface... on top of that, I'm running windows XP on an AMD system (Abit KT7A-RAID mobo). I think compgeeks has a load of 128 MB DDR AGP video cards, all for under $100. Take a look there, then maybe do a yahoo search including the video card name you're looking into, your operating system, and your motherboard. (The yahoo search will tell you if anyone has problems with the card before you buy it).

I've had a pain getting mine working. I'm running win XP pro, on an abit KT7A-RAID, with a AMD T-bird 1.2 GHz. I've got a Geforce4 MX440 SE... PCI interface... yeh, yeh, PCI graphics cards suck.. but I got it for free (My dad has an old 500 MHz prebuilt with onboard video, he has no aGP interface, so he got this card... except it didn't work for him, so now it's MINE!). Anyways, I get a crapload of ugly wierd colors flying across my screen in some games. It's like a part of the wall in GTA 3 just decides to stick out into the middle of the street. Or, in Unreal Tournament 2003, wierd colored specks just appear on the walls. I've tried a dozen different builds of Nvidia's Forceware drivers, including the newest leaked one (62.20), the newest omega drivers, the drivers that came standard on the CD (a really old forceware), windows XP default drivers, the upgraded windows XP drivers from windows update, and I even tried NVHardpage program to edit some crap with it. I think it's something to do with the opengl function. I've read that this has happened to a few other people, althout they've had the AGP interface.