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First you have to make sure that your BIOS is set up to boot off your CD before Hard Drive, when the PC starts up press your correct key to boot into BIOS, it depends on what PC you have, its oither one of these ESC/F2/F10/F12/DEL, if I can remember correctly DELL uses F2, but I might be wrong:) Then look for the boot option and make CD the first boot device and hard drive the second, save and exit the BIOS. Put the WinXP CD into the drive and start the PC, at some stage it should ask you to press any key to boot from CD, do so. Then the windows XP install starts. Foolow the instructions, its very easy. When you get to the part where you have to select with Hard Drive partition you want to install it on you should see a list of all your hard drives and partitions, then you can delete them and create new ones, that way when you start the install it'll format that partition.

He's not really a nice friend if he does things like that. Ask him for the password, or are you acually trying to get onto his PC? hmmmmmm There is a way to do it by resetting the BIOS, but that resets the whole BIOS, try to get the password from your friend first.

Originally posted by dosfreak: Quote: Seen any Sims 2 posts lately? Muahahahahhah! Hee hee, Dr. (Evil) Dosfreak Well, its true, I've not seen any lately, but its better not to speak to soon:)

Originally posted by theefool: Quote: Try copying the VCD to the hard drive. Try resizing the video smaller. If all else fails, chip in the $5 to upgrade your processor and motherboard. I use to have A P2 300 that was bad at playing dvds. If it makes a diff. to copy it to the hard drive it will be next to nothing. If you had a P2 that was bad at playing VCD's why would his P1 be sufficient?

Originally posted by theefool: Quote: Another thing to try is to partition the drive in small 5 mb or 8 mb sizes. See what happens. If the BIOS can not see the hard drive then he will not be able to partition the hard drive, and what are you gonna do with about 5000 8MB partitions, that will be useless.

I've got the Gainward FX5900 256MB card and I'm extremely happy with it, I play HL2 and Couter Strike Source at 100% full graphics, everything on high and then I get between 130 - 170FPS

I read somewhere a while ago that its because they are still in a testing phase, I think I read it on Google's GMAIL site or something

Originally posted by FOOOD: Quote: Wow, it works fine now! Thanks a lot! Its a pleasure Enjoy Originally posted by ScinteX: Quote: Is this the same FOOOD as in the icon man? 8) LOL:)

Leave your PC's on automatic IP, then you set up the router to specify static IP's to the PC's, it uses the mac address to give the PC's static IP's via the router, so the router will always assign those IP's to those mac addy's (PC'c)

There should be a ".exe" file, somthing like "setup.exe" If not, right click "My Computer" and click "properties" Click the "Hardware" tab at the top then click the "Device Manager" button. Under "Display Adapters" you will find your graphics card, double click on it and then click the "Driver" tab and then the "Update Driver" button. Select "Install from a list........" and click "next". Tick the box next to "Include this location in the search" and click the "Browse" button. Then you need to point it to the folder where you've got the 88 files, it should find the correct file automaticaly. Then you just click all the "OK's", "Next's" and "Finishe's" and so on, your PC should ask to restart, click "OK"

Cool site and clip there ScinteX :)

Well, if you have more that one Hard Drive or partition, eg. a C: drive and a D: drive (excluding your CD/DVD-ROM Writer) then you can do the following: 1. Right click "My Computer" that should be located on your desktop then click "Properties". 2. Click on the "Advanced" TAB. 3. Under Performance is a button "Settings", click it. 4. Click the "Advanced" TAB. 5. At the bottom of this window you will see "Virtual Memory", click the "Change" button 6. If you have more than one hard drive or partition you will see all of them in here. If you only have one hard drive/partition skip to step "9" 7. By default the paging file should be on C:, click on one of the other drives and click the "Set" button. 8. Click ok and so on then your PC will restart. Then you can redo all these steps to put the paging file back on drive C: if you want. 9. Only do this if you dont have more than one hard drive or partition. 10. Select "Custom Size" if not already selected. 11. Take your amout of RAM (lets say its 512MB) and times it by 2.5 (so, it would be 1280). 12. Enter "1280" in both the white blocks, "Initial size" and "Maximum Size" 13. Click OK and so on and then your PC will restart. You can change you settings back to what it was after the restart by re-doing these steps if you want to, but it is not necessary.

Yes, jmmijo is right, if a CD spins fast enough it flies apart, I've seen this lots of times. The reason for this is because the fastest a CD can spin (according to tests and all) is MAX 60x, and this is the best of the best, that is why you dont get CD-ROM's faster than 52x. If a CD has a deep scratch it means that the CD is off balance and spinning at 52x cou spell disaster (not always, but it happens). Out of all of the CD-ROM's I've seen this happen about 70 - 80% of them was toast, the rest just needed a very good cleaning and it worked again (not worth the trouble and time if you can rather get it replaced or buy a new one).

Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: Well I had to flash the BIOS with an old Northwood CPU first anyways because it wouldn't post without the latest BIOS installed As for the Q-Fan option, I never use it or any other Smart Fan type of BIOS option. Just a sure way to over-heat your CPU and case cooling IMO Ah ha, as long as you got it going:) luckily for me my mobo ran with my CPU, so I could update my BIOS with no problems. The Q-Fan, I only mentioned it:) I dont use it either, even if I wanted to, cause my fan dont plg onto the mobo, it uses the standard power plug and runs from Power Supply:)

Originally posted by jmmijo: Quote: Hmm, I just recently upgraded to the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe mobo and the 3.2E CPU. I'm using the stock, copper core heatsink/fan and just ran a couple hour stress test with 3D Mark 2001-SE in looping mode. The max temp so far is 50.5c and I did notice that the thermal CPU fan was speeding up to around 3800~3900 RPM. This is what it should do as the CPU temp rises. I wonder does either of your machines show the fan speeding up at all or does it stay at the slower speed of about 2500 RPM ?!? I want to run my box for awhile with the stock cooling and then try again with my Zalman copper bloom and see what the difference is I've got exactly the same mobo and CPU (boxed), and with the sink and fan my temp reaced 60°C on idle and a lot more when I stress my PC. but the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe has a feature called "Q-Fan" in the BIOS, it controls the fan speed. Another thing, make sure that your PC reads your 3.2CPU as 3.2, cause the P4C800-E Deluxe has a problem with the 3.2 prescott CPU, you have to update the BIOS to be able to read the CPU correctly, I think it only reads it as a 2.8 without the update. That could also be why your Temp is so low imo. Wicked

This could be a couple of things, Bad PAGEFILE bad block on hard drive bad IDE cable bad RAM Virus (sometimes, but possible) My money goes on the PAGEFILE, but first lets try to eliminate some of the others first. Update your virus checker and run a check on your hard drive. If that doesn't find anything try to run a thourough scandisk and derfrag after that (try to get the software called DISKEEPER, there are other ones but I like this one :)imo) OK, if that dont work you can try to set your PAGEFILE manually or move it to another partition (if it comes to this and you dont know how to do it let me know). If none of this worked try to get other RAM and IDE cable, then you test it with that. Wicked

Originally posted by SupermanInNY: Quote: Hi y'all, I don't understand something: I just turned the machine on, still in the BIOS, the case is open and all I have is the standard Intel CPU cooler and fan. I have P4 3.2Mhz Prescott with the 1MB cache. P4P800-VM with 2GB Kingston RAM (4x512). 500W PS 2x 80GB SATA. Just with power on.. still in the BIOS, the temp readings are: CPU Temperature: 65 Celcious / 149.5 Far MB Temparature: 36 Celcius / 96.5F How is it you are all getting lower readings than that? I mean.. this is on the first 120 seconds of the Power on, still just looking at the BIOS. With the chasis closed and after 20 minutes, the temps inch up (still in BIOS screen) to CPU Temperature: 72 Celcious / 161 Far MB Temparature: 41 Celcius / 105.5F What am I missing? -Alon My temp was the same with the same processor as yours, thats why I went over to water-cooling

Nice idea there, thanks, but let me fix this for you quick. Optimize XP - A Windows XP Optimization Guide CIAO Wicked

Originally posted by Jasbo: Quote: i don't condone downloading movies or music from the internet but is downloading tv shows really illegal? I am not trying to provoke a big discussion here but what is the difference between downloading a tv show which was broadcast free or recording it with a vcr and sharing it with your friends? i am not talking about pay per view just your normal tv broadcast. Honestly, believe it or not, but downloading TV show is illegal. My wife's studying law so I have to try and stay on the good side of the law and there they said that you are allowed to make a copy of an original, but you are not allowed to make a copy of that copy, that is illegal, and downloading a TV show is making a copy of a copy. If you buy a music CD you are allowed to make a copy, well, I think its something like 7 copies (not 100% sure about that but I know its something close to 7 copies), but you are not allowed to make a copy of one of those copies. There, that is right out of the mouth of the horse (Law horse that is:))

I just borrowed SIMS2 from a friend to install and see why so many people have problems with it (I have absolutely no intension af playing this game at all, I hate the little buggers). I installed it on both my PC's and my father-in-laws PC and it worked fine on all three PC's, whats the problem, dont people read the README or Minimum specs (thats also in the REAMDE)?.

Originally posted by thatsteveguy: Quote: Yeah it would have to be something simple, and don't get me wrong because I do think it is a good idea and all it's just that if they aren't reading the side of the game box to check specs I don't think they will bother to check the side of the PC.... I don't know why this seems to have suddenly become such a big problem. Is it that alot of people have been sitting on PC's for a while (except us Hard Core Gamers that have been up[censored]) or is it that games have suddenly jumped so far ahead that you have no choice but to have the latest gear?? S They should say on the game box in the front, together with the name that the people should look on the side or top of the PC to see the specs before byung the game, if they had the sticker syste, going with the specs. Most of the private people I help here with their PC's all have small spec PC's, they dont know of any better, they still think ahhh, my PC is 5 years old and still working, why should I buy a new one.

Yeah, thats a great idea, label the PC's, but with only numbers the user will still need a legend or manual to read up what is what. I think they should label the PC's like they do with all the new laptops, like: AMD/celeron/Intel P4, 3.0 512MB RAM 128MB Graphics DVD/CD Rom/Writer Win XP Home build 5.0.blah blah Then they stick it on the side or top with the XP Serial.

Hmmmm, Dosfreak, you have a point there, we tend to forget that we're not that helpless when it comes to a computer, like a couple of weeks ago I had to show a brilliant doctor that lives about 10Km from me how to read and reply to emails. We specialize in this field, other people specialize in something else, if someone had to ask us to name every bone in our body or every part in an airplane we wont be able to do it, well, not without the help of net of course:).

Lets spice this up a bit, dig deep down and think about it. If you had all the money in the world and you were able to buy any PC component that is avail. at this stage and build it up yourself to have the fastest and most powerful PC ever that will have any BENCHMARK for breakfast, what would it be. Explain in detail every piece of hardware you will get