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Orion PC HELP DESK and Programming Help

Sep 08 2003 06:06am

Orion
- Retired

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Your PC not acting well?
Is your PC Making you pull out your hair?
Do you want to learn more about computers?
Well have no Fear!
Welcome to the Offical, yes thats Right I said Offical Orion PC Help Desk!

Ask any question you wish!
Noo question will be ignored! No question is to "dumb." (trust me I've heard them all)
If your having PC troubles ask away, please note I need as much info as possible to help diagonose or solve the issue.
Want to learn some PC tips? Go and ask away!
I will try to respond to your problems and questions as soon as possble.

Sorry I cannot answer any Mac question I haven't touched a Mac in years..

Edit: I have now expanded into helping with programming issues too

(C++ stuff only though)

(This has been a Paid Service Annoucment.)
(Please Note any "dumb" question from Jello and Jacen Aratan will NOT be answered in a timley manner :p .)
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This post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am.

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Oct 24 2003 04:46am

Orion
- Retired

Ok Here's a post with some usefull links. I will keep updating this as needed.

If you don't know about this site and you are a Windows User you need to know about this. This site will patch your os with any of the bugs in any Windows OS.
http://www.windowsupdate.com

A good piece of software to have. This will scan your computer for any kind of spyware that any freeware or shareware program that you download and install.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com or you can try spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*NOTE* Don't have both installed or they will say each other is spyware. I like spybot better.

A good free anti-virus program.. If you don't have a anti-virus I recommend you do.
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

This site is good for information on ISP's(Internet Service Providers). It alos has a great little toolset for testing your internet connection and the forums are helpful for tweaking your pc to get the most out of your connection.
http://www.broadbandreports.com

Do you have windows XP or 2000 and a great video card? Seem to be stuck at about 60FPS, even though you say like com_maxfps 120? Simple fix http://www.ryanmh.com/files/reforce.zip is a fix for a Windows Bug that locks your frame rate at 60 fps when you can get higher. All you do is unzip that run it, click auto populate, hit Apply and reboot and boom FPS allover the place

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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 25 2004 01:44am.

Dec 24 2004 04:49am

Rage-Ball
- Student

hey do u no how lower the ping on the servers

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Dec 22 2004 08:03pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

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Dec 22 2004 12:40pm

Everybody
- Student

lol i meant plugged into the graphics card...
Thanks anyway... dunno about the power ratings, we sent it to a shop to replace the power supply...
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Dec 21 2004 07:27pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

[qoute]DONT CALL ME STUPID the power supply IS plugged in

if is want plugged in the computer wouldnt even turn on

when you replaced the power supply, what power rating as the old one, and what rating was the new one?

also what other peripherals draw power through the pc.

the most likely answer is that the PSU cant supply enough power to your system and you need to replace it with a moer powerful one.
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Dec 21 2004 06:32pm

Everybody
- Student

Errr.... Graphics card problem...
When i start up my pc/restart it, a thing comes up saying my nvidia graphics card is not being supplied enough power. It also says that it has lowered its performance to prevent a crach or something... This is annoying me, although it can still play HL2 fine... It's been like this for ages. DONT CALL ME STUPID the power supply IS plugged in, I have opened the computer up several times to check. I suspect a faulty power supply (lol the last one blew up while playing KOTOR, the one before that didnt have enough leads to power my new hard drive). Any suggestions?

Oh yeah... System specs: 1.5GHz processor, nVidia Geforce FX 5600 Pro, 512mb RAM, etc... and a power supply. I think thats important.
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Dec 09 2004 08:15pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

indeed, check to box not to show th utility wehen u start, then reboot. and all will bre normal again

Dec 09 2004 07:29am

delta
- Student

Once you're done making any changes, and the system starts up fine, yes, check the box to make it not show the message and start up.
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Dec 09 2004 01:57am

Koyi Donita
- Student

Okay. I did as you said and removed all of them. I didn't see a CTFmon.exe there either. Only ones I left checked was the firewall and

Only problem is now my pc takes awhile to close on the restart and when it does, I get a popup letting me know that System configuration utility is currently running in diagnostic or selective mode. There is a button I can check not to view that message. After closing that box, without checking the option not to display the message again, the system configuration utility opens again on the first tab with selective startup being checked. Under that, all of the other options are selected. When I click okay, it asks me if I want to restart the pc again to let the options take effect. I click restart and it keeps doing the same thing in a loop. Should I check off that little box telling me not to display that message again? Will that stop the popup message, system config utility, and finalize what I have selected?

Sorry about all these questions.

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Dec 09 2004 12:35am

solitude
- Jedi Council

well, the only thing hard to remove is CTFmon.exe which monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies. you need a bit of time and effort to remove, and it doesnt really do much harm. everything else can go. the only things that stay are your antivirus and firewall. hope that solves it

EDIT: no point calling support. costs a fortune, and they're trained in incompetence

Dec 09 2004 12:09am

Koyi Donita
- Student

Yes, I am running XP Home edition. I also think you hit the nail right on the head with the msconfig. Only problem is, I'm not sure what is critical or not. Is there a way of knowing what is needed and what is crap? Maybe if I call the support center, they can tell me what should be there on a standard pc install and I can take it from there. Thank you very much for the quick response and I hope you know what I should keep and what I should remove. Thanks again.

Dec 08 2004 11:20pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

when a pc runs, several files are executed:

autoexec.bat
this kind of loads devices and system preferences (if i remmber right, this was small things like numlock)

config.sys
this is used to load device drivers onto conventional memory

io.sys
the original purpose of IO.SYS was to
provide a io hardware compatibility layer for msdos. So IO.SYS messes
around with some of the bios interrupts, overidding them when necessary.
MSDOS.SYS uses the interrupts provided by IO.SYS for disk io as well as
the bios interrupts and provides msdos services to
applications.

win.ini
loads windows settings

(command.com, which you mentioned is the interpreter for dos which lets it understand your input)

there are lotsa things that you can do

the easiest and most beginner friendly is msconfig. go to the start menu, the run command and type in 'msconfig' (no quotes) and click on the last tab, the startup. enchect all the boxes which arnt critically necessary. Are you still running Win98 or have you shifted to XP? if you email me the win.ini, autoexec.bat, config.sys, io.sys and win.ini ill be happy to look over them. its a lot easier and faster when you've done it before

thats all i can think of for now, but theres prob quite a few other things that you can do, none come readily to mind tho. ill tell you if i think of something else

btw, if you computer is running slow:

run a freshly updated antivirus, use the NOD32 demo if you are unsure about the reliability of yours
www/nod32.com

then an anti spyware, spybot S&D is the best around, and its free

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

spyware blaster prevents that nasty spyware from returning

also free
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

always run a firewall that goes double for anyone with an always on conenction like broadband. sygate ones are good and free
http://www.sygate.com/

and finally, empty the recycle bin and do a defrag of the hard drive, youll be surprised at how big a difference it can make

Dec 08 2004 10:34pm

Koyi Donita
- Student

Okay, I have a little question for all of you PC wizards out there. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I had a Packard Hell...err Bell PC. Anyhow, this pc game me so many problems and was really horrible that one of my friends at that point in time came over and without showing me exactly what he did, he deleted some lines of text or commands or something and my pc opened 100 times faster. The PC ran Windows 98 I believe and I think he did all of this through the DOS prompt or in DOS.

Now it is my belief that PC's as you add and remove software/hardware, it creates these lines of text in the autoexec.bat or command.something which prepares you pc for the hard/software. Is this true? If it is or if anyone has an idea of what he did to speed up the loading of the pc when you first turn it on, could you please let me know? If you can write the answer here and drop me a quick, "The answer is there for you", on my profile, I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you guys very, very much for all of your help in this matter.

Dec 05 2004 01:20am

solitude
- Jedi Council

/me steals the helpdesk

MINE ALL MINE, my precious...cackles

/me runs and laughs

Dec 04 2004 10:52pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

delibrately? on my big tower i installed an old 2x cdrom as a joke cupholder..but it broke after i put a jumbo milkshake on it

Dec 04 2004 10:38pm

Orion
- Retired

Quote:

...urban myth

i swear that person called to prank you.

No its not a urban legend/myth, I know some one who uses their CDROM as a cup holder.
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When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u

Dec 04 2004 08:22pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

...urban myth

i swear that person called to prank you.

Dec 03 2004 07:00am

Janiriki
- Student

OK, No question is too dumb ... heard them all eh? well My friend and I both service PC's in our respective towns and he got asked this one ... personally - no urban myths here - Quote:

can you get us a new coffee cup holder - ours broke.

Upon further questioning and descriptions of the coffee cup holder that popped out when you pushed on the button -

yep, a New CDROM was required.

Some mothers do ave em

posted just to brighten up your day - stupidity IS universal.
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Nov 29 2004 04:16am

Derek the Deranged
- Ex-Student

Thanks for the help. I updated to version nine instead of ten, and it's running smooth, so far. God knows it'll explode soon. Thing is, I would love win XP but I don't have the cash. I could set up a fund and say it was going to a worthy cause... For the greatest gaming PCs on the planet, check out this place: http://www.falcon-nw.com/ I once customized with four hard drives that could probably run NASA on 1% system resources. It was 11,500 some. Thanks all!

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Nov 27 2004 03:23pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

np, anytime

Nov 27 2004 01:18pm

Phantom
- Student

Nice thanks.
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Nov 27 2004 12:48pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

unzip them, pop then into the jedi academy folder, in gamedata, base. you can select teh mod in teh menu options under mods.
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Nov 27 2004 12:04pm

Bail Hope of Belouve
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Hey, I d/l all the , maps and skins and stuff but they dont turn up on my comp when i play. HELP!!!

did you place them in your base folder?
and did you unzip it?

if so, hit us back

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Nov 26 2004 10:46pm

Phantom
- Student

Hey, I d/l all the , maps and skins and stuff but they dont turn up on my comp when i play. HELP!!!

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Nov 25 2004 10:46pm

solitude
- Jedi Council

Its windows Millenium, dont be surprised no matter what the prob. get xp, or 98. if you want to stick with me tho, to mix media player, a reinstall is the only easy* (lol) way to get it woorking again.
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Nov 25 2004 10:00pm

Fate
- Student

Ways to fix media player:

-Update to newest version
-Reinstall
-Download Media Player Classic instead
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