tsonta101

The MSI one is my second choice (my first one would be the Gigabyte one). I don't have anything against Asus, from my experience yes, they may produce problems (which are fixable in the end). As for the Soyo one, they do have a KT600 mobo (firewire, gigabit LAN are nice) but it is hard to get a Soyo mobo over here in Greece (i know i can shop around, but i am too bored for that and the 3 large online retailers don't do Soyo mobos).

Wow, just got back from work and already there's a debate on it's own! Thank you everyone for your input - I have been over the websites you have mentioned many times - so far I have own mobos by Intel (with my first P75), Abit, Gigabyte, Asus, PCChips (regretted that!) and Elite, plus I have worked on many Chaintech and Soyo ones. I was just hoping that someone would have already bought one of the mobos I mentioned, so that I could get a more personal view of the product (likes and dislikes etc), but this is a good start already! ....keep' em coming

What abou the ending of Half-Life? You find yourseld in a train car, the notorious guy in the suit BESIDE you, babling about, and not even a kitchen knife to kill him... it just let me down... ditto, Half Life: Blue Shift was way shorter and relatevely easier...

and does anyone know any UK based online computer merchant that would ship to Greece? Overclockers.co.uk do, but not Dabs.com, Simply.co.uk, Jungle.co.uk and neither Komplett.co.uk. Others??

I have somehow managed to lose the Compatibility Tab (when you see the properties of an application type file you have General, Security, Compatibility, Summary, right?). So now the Compatibility Tab doesn't appear at all. Do any of you know a way to bring it back? thanks in advance

Well, what do you know! The slayerui.dll file doesn't exist (isn't XP lovely!)... i am getting tired of it. But i have found a work around, bringing up Help & Support, searching for 'compatibility' returns a couple of results, one of which is the *Compatibility Wizzard" which let's you search for the .exe and alter its compatibility options. This used to be a reason to reinstall windows (back with win98), but I am getting to old and too bored for such minor things now.... thanks for the help adamvjackson, much appreciated.

It returns a LoadLibrary ("C:\windows\apppatch\slayerui.dll") failed. The specified module cannot be found. Any idea what this might be? thanks in advance

ditto here - everything is running smoothly.

I have been using Norton Internet Security 2001, 2002 and 2003 and I haven't had any pop-ups ever since. You have to tell it specifically to block pop ups though (in the main program panel, just click 'ad blocking = on' - the default is off) One happy customer here!

try going to Control Panel/Power Options. You should see a 'APM' tab, go there and enable Advanced Power Management (i think there is only one option there). It will ask for a reboot and after that your machine should shutdown completely. If this is not helpful, I will assume that the tip screwed your windows and you had to format, reinstall, setup everything just to come back and curse me! lol

ditto on the PCchips mobo. I remember owning (and having paid for it ) one, it had a 440VX chipset, sporting a lightningly fast 166Mhz Pentium. The VX chipset was out in two varieties, with 256 or 512 kb of L2 cache memory. Mine was the faster 512kb (yeah!) version, only to my disappointment to discover later (using some diagnostics utility - can't remember the name) that it was a 256 kb version with a BIOS that reported 512kb of cache!!!.....no comments after that.... But, on topic, it's a low price and his parents only want it for a year (strange?), so probably it will boot 365 times (not counting restarts). That should be a record on its own for a PCchips mobo, right? Off topic, a friend's 48x Plextor CDRW failed to recognise all kinds of discs yesterday (blank cdr and cdrw, pressed data discs, audio cds). He's covered by the Plextor 2 year warranty, but he's only gotten it only 3 months ago, and the brand name was the decisive factor for that buy....oh well

Everything is sorted now! and here's how.... double clicking any of the 'unmovable' mp3s would bring up winamp, but it would start playback, so I thought what on earth? I went to see the permissions tab, it wasn't there (had to uncheck simple file sharing in control panel/folder options). Finally I saw that no user/group had access to the 'unmovable' files, so I added my account, checked on full control and voila! everything works as it should now.... one happy audiofile here!!!

Yes, this is on a NTFS partition and I (my account) have read/write permissions. I did restart several times but i still get the 'Cannot move xxxxxxxx: Access is denied. Make sure you have access to the folder and that the disk is not write protected' message. Could it be something else?

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simple problem, complex troubleshooting there is a number of things you should check: 1. Latest chipset drivers from via 2. Get any updates from windowsupdate 3. Just to be on the safe side, get DirectX9 4. Get the latest drivers for yor AC97 soundcard Another idea would be to disable sound (Start, Run, dxdiag and on the Sound tab drag the slider all the way to the left) and see if you can actually play the games. Also check out this link for your modem http://www.pctel.com/support.htm (hehe) if not try these ones --> http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/shiva/modem/driver.htm http://members.cnx.net/reboot/modems/ http://www.vee90.net/vblite/showthread.php3?threadid=128 (this is another forum where people have posted links to pctel chipset modem drivers) Get back to us and report any progress, good luck

no idea what it is, but take a look at this http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25592&highlight=

is NFS4 the Porsche Unleashed one? If it is, it was working in W2000 (SP2) and it is working in XP straight out of the box. sorry, my mistake NFS4 is the High Stakes one.... and I couldn't get it to work either

from my experience, it must be the AC97 codec. I have seen it produce echo effects and/or clicks pops in some games (Ghost Recon, Colin McRae 3). Have you got a spare soundcard or can borrow one from a mate and see if the stuttering continues? PS: I am guessing that this only happens in games and when you watch dvds, divx movies, listen to mp3 in winamp or wmp the sound is ok, right?

try up[censored] the game from http://www.ghostrecon.com/patch.php. At the bottom of the page get patches 1.3 and 1.4 (weighing 46.8 and 5.8mb respectively) and see if you get lucky.... off topic...one of the most realistic combat games i have ever played...never ever be careless and always look around...the enemy needs only one shot at you...

Yes, check 'Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device' under your cdroms properties. Even if you don't have an audio cable attached to your cdrom, you should be able to hear music fine.

my geforce 2 mx (older version - slightly slower core/memory) from Creative did not have a heatsink or a fan either. It's specs where (if i remember correctly) 175/175 - core/memory, while your MX400 should be 200/175. If you are going to overclock the card, buy an appropriate fan/heatsink and put it on. Mine would go to 230/255 MHz before displaying bad colours/textures without a fan/heatsink.

Might be the stupidest ;( question on the planet at this moment... but is there a way to count how many copies has the cdr device done? Does anyone know of an application that does that? Or even worse :x , does anyone have the know-how to write that application? I am just curious if this kind of information is/isn't stored somewhere (not in the recorder, imo).... thanks, tsonta101

a network bridge enables two (or more) networks (of same/different kind) to interface. ICS does what is stands for, it shares the bandwidth of your internet connection among the computers of a network.

as far as i am concerned, the Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information folder holds the files that are needed when you uninstall programs, games etc. You can delete the contents of that folder, but some/all entries under Add/Remove Programs might no longer work... ...and absolutely no clue about Windows\Downloaded Installations

try this.... go to Setup and deselect T&L (select Multi-Pass instead)....that did the trick for a friend of mine with a 7500 and Cat3.1....