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Heya Clutch, I'm in kansas, just outside of Kansas City. For the first month i had RR my IP changed a couple times. Then for about 6 months straight my IP remained constant and i started to notice the same problem Bursar is having. After i figured out that an IP address change was the easiest fix, i started to change my IP about once a month. I don't think it ever changes any other time because i run a game server and must send out an email to my clan mates with the new address for our server. If my IP changed with out me changing it, i would hear about it very quickly (and loudly!) I do know that KC is a product testbed for TimeWarner, we get all their new stuff first (HD cable & video on demand rox!), and that KC is not typical of TimeWarner's service. i Run a smallish 10 person BF1942 server on my rr...(with pings around 30) with only 384kbps up that is supposed to be impossible on cable. (bf1942 is a major bandwidth hog). i know guys with a dedicated t1 who can only do 12 people on a good day, so something is definately UNUSUAL about my Cable modem service. Of course, the fact that my computer is about 10 feet away from the fiber to coaxial junction box outside <might> have something to do with that. Bursar? have you used Kazaa or any other file sharing program? I have found that even weeks after i have used Kazaa i still have ALOT of incoming traffic.

i think the whole WWII game thing will pretty played out by the time they start making other games with Doom3 tech. At a guess, i think Vietnam era games will be the next vogue in FPS gaming. A Doom3 engine Vietnam game could be very kick @ss.

With Road Runner they assign you a semi-static IP depending on your NIC's MAC address. The only way to change to a diffierent IP address is to change your MAC address. So I change the MAC address on my linksys firewall (thereby changing my IP address) on a fairly regular basis to combat this. i have found that different IP's have different amounts of incoming port scan traffic. usually the longer i have an IP directly reflects the amount of unwanted traffic.

from what i understand, it will behave like a single cpu when a single thread is consuming near 100% of its time, but with multithreaded apps and lower cpu utilistaion the cpu will run multiple threads, thereby speeding up multi-threaded apps a bit, and multitasking a bit. something like that? cr@p, been too long, don't remember quite right. i can't remember if that was the OS that was controlling that or the chip... probably both to some extent. I Don' think the intel rep specified. Multithreaded apps written with HT in mind will run much better on the new p4 than multithreaded apps that were really written for 2 cpus.

With Win2k you lose performance in many things with hyperthreading, it (win2k) can not tell the difference between 2 processors and 2 virtual processors. SMP wil always be "on" and always try to distribute the workload accordingly. Supposedly, Winxp will auto toggle between using the cpu as a single proc, and using it as a dual proc depending on the application. (100% resources to a single thread, or break up multiple threads between the two virtual processors... err something like that. The description i got was a little over techno babbly.) It will be completely transparent to the user of course. Plus various other OS level optimizations for virtual multiple processors.

Quote: Then get "ownzed" by somebody who has downloaded the latest cheat so they can see through walls, kill you from the otherside of the map or set fire to your cat. i hate it when they set fire to my cat! that burned kitty smell just lingers... :x

So is your name Really Butternuts or is that an alias you hide behind? If it is, is Butter your first name and Nuts your lastname? Could you let me know why you chose Butternuts? Does it have to do with having your nuts licked by a dog while they are covered in butter? are your nuts naturally buttery? or do you dip them in butter? :x ;(

Quote: kinda the reason why intel has such high clock rates and amd can run processors at lower speeds and get similar performance... umm kinda... because the p4 has a very deep pipeline, if it messes up in its branch prediction it has to throw away everything in the pipline, with a pipeline 20 ish stages deep, that can quickly cost performance. athlonxp's are faster at a lower clocked speed through effiency and intelligence of design. they do MORE per clock cycle. p4 were made to do a little less per clock cycle but run at mutch higher cycles (IE higher "speed") in other words: Athlonxp = Made to run programs fast. p4 = made to run chip fast. i am NOT saying one is better than the other, they both have their design benefits and flaws.

ok. i thought you can use fdisk to delete ntfs partitions, it just see's em as NON-DOS partitions. I think it depends alot on what version of fdisk you are using. I had the same problem with my pagefile. i grabbed a copy of tweakxp, and set the option to delete the pagefile on shutdown. now i can put any size pagefile on any of my drives with ease. i think part of the problem was that windows see's a pagefile in the old location and just continues to use it, even though you told it to use a new/different one. so if you set your windows to delete your old pagefile at shutdown it properly creates the new partition where you told it too. for some reason tho you can't just set pagefile = no for all hard drives reboot then set it to the hard drive of choice. That doesn't properly get rid of the old pagefile. it just keeps it and keeps using it... wierd. but tweaking to delete the pagefile at shutdown worked great for me and solved my problem, try it.

aight, i got 2 hard drives, C & F, The OS is on F. i am trying to configure my pagefile to be on C. F is smallish and dedicated just to OS, C is Big ass fast as hell SCSI raid... winxp will only put my pagefile on F... if i set it to 1.5 gb pf on C, it puts in on F. if i set up a 100 mb pf on c, it puts a 1.5gb pf on F if i set a 100 mb pf on F i get just that a 100 mb pf on F... if i set it up for no pf anywhere, it puts a 1.5 gb pf on F... very frustrating... i can't make it NOT put a PF on F... wierd & annoying... any thoughts/questions?

FLAME ON: lets take this one at a time shall we: Quote: As for blaming it on LS-120 drives, sorry, but that theory doesn't fly either, unless it has some sort of jumper for setting what drive letter it uses, & then it's your fault [or the fault of whoever built your PC] for not checking it's set correctly. My mum has an LS-120 in her PC & it performs as drive A [both in DOS & Windows]. Even if you have another normal FDD in there, you should be able to set either that or the LS-120 as B. Your an expert on ls120 drives because you "mum" has one? In some systems, your hardware will see ls120 and zip drives as a removeable hard drive. this can cause problems installing xp and 2k because it will write the bootloader to the ls120 or zip thinking it is the C: drive. Remove the zip or ls120 disk and suddenly you can't boot. Wich is what Aleecstar was kinda talkin about... remember he said his system saw his ls120 as a C:. It happens. And it was a valid question as to where the bootloader was installed. having your bootloader on an ls120 disk sux pretty bad. Quote: As for those who said that XP must have a pagefile [even of a minimum size] on the same drive/partition as windows is installed, I'm sorry for being blunt, but that's utter BS, & I suggest you have a "chat" with whoever told you that. The only time my page file is ever on C [where Windows is on my system is between the time XP finishes installing & my 1st reboot after that. no, you weenie, we are saying that you DON'T have to have a pagefile on the same drive as your OS or bootloader, what we are saying is even tho we have set the pagefile.sys to be on a seperate drive it WILL NOT create and use a pagefile on that seperate drive like it is supposed to. THIS IS WHY WE ARE CALLING IT A BUG! ;( if you are going to TRY to help, try reading the posts fully and understanding what we are complaining about. wait, i just realised you said all your partitions are fat32... whatever... ;( found a fix to my problem tho (if any one is still interested): grabbed a copy of tweakxp, and used it to set the pagefile to be deleted when you shut down. BOOM, works perfect, pagefile goes exactly where i tell it too, with exactly the size i tell it to... even across my striped raid array. wahoo! :x oh, and: Quote: In the little Virtual Memory applet, click on any of the drives that have anything listed in the Paging File Size (MB) column, then click on No paging file, then click Set. Then click on the drive you want to the paging file to be on, click Custom size, & enter the min & max size you want, then click Set. ummm... DUH! what do you think we have been doing? ;( fat32 partitions... you are too funny. i am normally not a pr1ck like this but alien really crawled up my @$$. he comes in and attacks us without completely understanding what we are talking about. mind you... he IS using fat32 still... flame off.

:x YES! i made it to senior member status with a minimal of fluff posts (besides this one) (dancing in circles at work getting wierd looks from other techs) sorry, i just had a moment there... end of silliness. please resume normal technical support procedures... Oh, and in case if anyone has noticed my funky typing is cause i am dyslexic and stopped caring along time ago about my rampant typo's. koHn!

man... what the freaking heck was wrong with butterynuts? :x (besides the obviously moist genitalia). Clutch answered the question clearly, concisely and correctly. I don't get it. ;( oh wait.. i get it... butterynutz is an 11 year old from a foriegn country and english is like his... 6th language? anybody know what culture likes to butter up their nuts?

your memory (if your memory is DDR) and you cpu FSB are running at the same speed. 133 mhz, but that 133 is double data rate, meaning it sends and recieves data on the rise and fall of the signal... single data rate sent data only on the rise of the signal, DDR effectively doubles the amount of data transmitted. it is commonly referred to as 266 mhz FSB, but that is actually erroneous, a marketing gimmick to indicate data throughput equal to that of a 266 mhz single data rate bus. want another fun one? everybody seems to think that pc800 rdram has an 800 mhz bus... but that is not so. pc800 runs on a quad pumped bus at 100 mhz (100 x 4 = 400) but the chip INTERNALLY moves data equivalant to 800mhz. it has to run at sutch a high clock rate to make up for the inherently high latency in the design.

for games, i would say xp all the way, not all games, but ALOT of games (especially older ones) run better and faster on xp. case in point gta2 ran ALOT faster on my friends winme box with a 500 mhz processor and 128 meg of mem than it did on my 1 gigger with 512 mem on win2k... but now that my old 2k box is xp, it runs blazingly fast. if you play alot of games, XP is well worth it, even if it does eat a few more resources. BTW, all the programmers at my work that are transitioning from 2k to xp say there are substantial differences in how 2k and xp treat programs that are running. I don't really understand what they are saying specifically... but i'll try to break it down as best i understand. 2k is more like a proof of concept OS, they threw it out and said lets give this a try, 2k maybe an NT OS but it isnt like any other OS internally before it. a revolutionary jump rather than evolutionary... XP is based off of the same Kernal as 2k, but it is NOT the same kernel. XP is not just a cosmetic change, MS went back and said... "ok, here is what we did wrong, lets optimize this and take it to the next level". hence better game performance and other whatnots. Alot of drivers that are win2k and xp compatibile is because it is rather easy with these two OS's to have slightly different code in the driver package for either OS. programs that were specifically tailored to run on win2k however sometimes need some redesign to work on xp, they are different enough to cause some difficulties for SOME programs and programmers... at least that what my programmers here at work claim. anyway, i ramble too much. for home use AKA games and internet, XP definately.

i wanna include all me systems in my sig, but i don't wanna take up 3 pages doing it. help? ;(

do you have a firewall running? what type of net connection? 56gay? dshell? cable?

ahh... i am too lazy for dat.

cool thanx!

Thats Upnp, a new network plug and play protocol. basically it allows programs that support it (like messanger) to get through your firewall and allow people to send you files/whatnot without you having to manually open the ports up. nothing much really supports it yet however. hopefully games will in the future making it easy to run a server with no firewall configuration required. i would UNCHECK all those boxes unless you are running a ftp, pop3 whatever server. no reason to open those ports if you aint running a server.

if you can find a copy of nvmax around i used to use the amd2x settings it had when i used those boards. BTW jdulmage, only real difference between the 71xe4 and the 71xe is that one is a slot and the other a socket... otherwise practically identical.

have you tried booting into "safe" mode or a USB keyboard?

i think you got either: A. a virus. B. a trojan. C. a psuedo spyware program that allows people to download off of your system. (very trojan like) that came with kazaa for a while and may still. D. a broken explorer.exe (least likely) www.kazaalite.com for all kazaa goodness. its kazaa without da crap.

i am pretty sure there is a winamp plug in for 5.1 actually... i used to DJ with winamp, and there were plug ins for everything else. be worth looking into. Don't know why i didnt think about that before. :x

you be needing the latest patch and no-cd crack i believe. or maybe just the no-cdcrack. i had the same prob, one or the other will fix tho. i forget.