Mr.Guvernment

Quote: Anything serious or just script kiddies port scanning? it is just script kiddies, trust me, back home when i was on cable i had well over 100+ attempts a day. As well, "rogers" had a "legal" trojan scanner scanning their networks for trojans, and they kept nailing me, so i called and complained, and it stopped, - as it was causing my internet connection to drop for hours on end they were hitt'n me so often. it is norton, as it is super sensitive to any "port" scan, i could sit here and do a scan on your IP right now and norton would go nuts. not worries, just norton doing it's job.

If formating is an option, do it, and put in your vid card drivers first formating eliminates alot of posible problems.

try an 28.*** driver. i had some what the same prob, on 2 diff, mobo's, alwasy said the nvdis something .dll in the blue screen, so i went back to a 28.* driver and never had the problem again. but also recently i formated my comp, and put back in the 30.87's and it has not crashed.

well are your games lagging now? of not don't worry about it. a 64mb card can still do a good job. Also, if you can wait till Jan of next year, there will be a few new cards likely coming out before X-mas which will drop the price of all the 128mb cards now to an affordable price ($100 - $200 range) (the GOOD 128mb cards) So if you can wait, wait,

^^^^ was aboutt o say, often in XP when u burn a cd and it fails, XP thinks the drive is in use (thx ATAPI!) and it won't open the drive until you reboot. Does this only happen with certain cd's? or even with no cd's left in it it happens?

Did you eject the cd, then put it back in? As above, have you tried the CD in other cdrom drives? u get all of win2k's updates (sp3) check for new fireware for your burner Update Nero Update roxio Does it physically look like anything is on the cd? Sure you did not have it JUST on simulate, and not actual burn?

mmm i got an old p133 / 148mb mem Latop here (2g HD) shall start reading....

Current: Work - P!!! 933 New work comp - either a p4 2.4 or a 2.66 - not decided yet, could go with a 2.8, but then i have to get dual 17' instead of 19' monitors Home - p4 1.8 Home toronto - p4 1.4 (was o/c to 1.7 but took it down as i don't use it much)

Hey m8, authorized u, forgot to add you..lol

Quote: THe Army takes it a step further. After wiping the drives of sensative data, they get run over by an M1A1. Just to be safe :x What a waste of gas, just put a sledge hammer to it

Quote: There is also always the route of setting up a Dual NIC Linux box and using its NetConfig tool (easy to use) to make a homemade NAT "firewalling" hardware based router too. Hey m8, can u point me in the direction to some reading and learning on this? I will soon be the sys admin for a breif while for my company, and want to set up a secure office network, and will be using 1 box as the gateway / inet sharing We will haev a cisco router - but got alot to learn about it, so wanted other options to assure a VERY VERY tight set up....

Hey all Backing things up has become something i will begin doing here @ our work. I tried the windows back up system, but, it just don't run or work.. and i would like something a little more "powerful" Was curious what suggstions you may have, something for a small sized buisness, that can back up maybe, 3 or 4 -= possibly 6 computers a day automatically to a main server or even backup, then automatically burn the information to a medium...?

Quote: Theres also the space it would need, aditional bandwidth for the images etc.... Also this site isnt run automtically, all the news is added by good old Phillip. u can solve that issue by not allowing custom uploads, and only links, which means u got to host it. but it also get into as mentioned the loading speed of the page, now the majority here are likely on high speed, and would not notiev, but the 56kr's (like me @ home) would, but then again i post on alot of forums with like 40 - 80Kb sigs on em.

Who ever has the software, let me know, and u can upload it to my ftp and who ever needs it can grab it from there, or i can put i on an HTTP server, one or the other, but someone needs to send me the files. hit me up on ICQ - 65361937 or msn - mathiau@hotmail.com

logs nope, and yes, i am the admin, only account on the computer shall check out the logs... wherever they are?

i got the same vid card as you @ work. (see the PIII 933 specs) i have used alot of drivers and have not noticed any gain with any of them, as the card itself is fairly old, and most new dets. are made for the newer cards to be really effective. I don't think it will matter much for your card at all.

thing is compaq often has custom made mobo's from intel and such, there fore the only bios updates you can get are from compaq. When i first got my vaio (sony) luckily they used an asus board, once i flashed the bios, i had all the options back, where as sony had a special one in where u could not change anythign!. u may be stuck with that mobo - is it possible to maybe buy a new mobo?

Quote: I would try a video card from a company that doesn't have a 7 + year track record of completely horid drivers. Matrox and NVidia make quality cards. -Christian i hate reading this, just considering i have had a few ATI cards, never had any problems, O/S 's ranging from 98 - XP and not ONCE had a performce issue, bad dirver issue, NADDA! - as well my uncles lives by ATI - again, no issue since his first p 233. really makes we wonder.....

perhaps the win2k drivers just aren't up to snuff?

Quote: You can't go wrong with Veritas (the NTBackup is actually a stripped down Backup Exec). Go with Backup Exec. i tried the built in backup in Xp, got it set up to run at a certain time everyday, and back the files up to a network drive (which is always availible) but it doesn't do anything... nadda.. no back up. i even set it to a time, sat there when it was supposed to run, and it didn't do anything........? was i missing something.. i will check out veritas.

did u buy all the sims games, are any of the illegal? i know i got em all downloaded (later bought them, got sick of them gave em to ma sister) and often that was the case due to cracked exe and such. try a fresh install of just The Sims, then put in Unleashed see if that works..... could be the order you are installing them in....

Quote: if ea supports their games for xp why is it everytime i ask for a soulution the only reply i get is to send the game to them and they will send me a sealed game(same one) so I can return it to the store that I bought it from? what games have not worked under XP for you? i know there newer games all work fine under XP, the ones i have tried.

i know of a good app, well hardware,....................... pen + paper u install the pen into your hand, and then apply the settings to the paper in a "writing" fashion, this causes your password to be recorded to the paper surface... LOL! - sorry , i am just jok'n, but had ot throw it in..lol

Quote: Some drivers at this site, old & new: http://alive.singnet.com.sg/drivers/ I recommend the current windows update drivers. Seem the best now, IMO. he wants the full package, that has the bar across the top of your screen. It seems u can only get the play senter and a few other things, but not the full package. u may be able to order from soudn blaster, but of course U have to pay for th shipping, liek WTF! is that. i just spent $200+ on your product and u want me to PAY! to send me drivers, if i lose mine or something..lol

^^^^^ hehe, that is only 3 m8 Welll, ezcd - not stabe, i mean they release a version that would kill your comp and look how long it took to address it? - to me that is BS and all they wanted was your money. I now use nero for cd-2-cd, images bin/cue, anything. And look how often Nero has updates and such, cause they want to be stable. Basically nero is now my app, as well sometimes cdrwin. CloneCd - i don't make copies of protected cd's and the ones i do got, i have been able to use Nero to copy.. Use Lame as your ripper / encoder, from what i have *heard* (from dj's mainly) it is the best. period.