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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 .) _______________ 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 post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am. |
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Orion - Retired 
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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 _______________ 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. |
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Anakin Skywalker - Ex-Student 
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well at least it's not a memory problem, ive run a memtst86 test and nothing showed up (Errors). Ive scanned my pc with Spyware and only 3 files found infected, wich were MSN cookies, not a problem, related to it. So I don't really know what this is. _______________ I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too! They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM! One day I will be the strongest Jedi ever, I will even know how to bring poeple back from death. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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I agree, but I don't think that a broken mouse can stop a hole system a few seconds every minute right? _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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Nah. Ditch the hard drive idea for now, with the mouse problem. First, try another mouse. If that doesn't work, try a different type of mouse (if you are using PS/2, us a USB, and vice-versa). If you STILL have problems after that, to where the USB mouse will not work in ANY port, and the PS/2 mouse won't work either, then you have issues. Then come talk to us again. But the seems like the mouse is dying, or the port is just going bad. _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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mmm, depends... Try doing a HD-scan first (right click on hard drive, Properties, Extra, first button, tick two options and make him scan) ... Does it complete? _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Anakin Skywalker - Ex-Student
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If thats the case, then i need to buy a new HD?  _______________ I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too! They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM! One day I will be the strongest Jedi ever, I will even know how to bring poeple back from death. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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Anakin: when your computer stops for five seconds, I've had the same thing My computer had a broken hard drive, but of course your case can be completely different  _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Anakin Skywalker - Ex-Student
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Ok, this is really pulling me out of my nerves! When im playing, my pc stops responding for 5 seconds every minute, and when i get back in action my mouse doesn't work at all, sometimes it does, but most of the times it doesnt, I get back to Windows and my mouse does not respond aswell, only after the 3rd reboot it gets working again.I made a format, just in case that this was hapening because of all the trash i had on the HD, but no, still hapening! Do you know what this is? and how to solve it? Please any help would be very usefull! Thanks in advance. _______________ I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children, too! They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I HATE THEM! One day I will be the strongest Jedi ever, I will even know how to bring poeple back from death. This comment was edited by Anakin Skywalker on Jul 07 2004 05:14pm. |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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This program pwns! Works good in conjunction with Spybot _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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Henkes - Student 
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Orion: add Spybot S&D to the spyware section, it picks up things Ad-Aware doesn't Greetings From Holland _______________ Get on your feet and do the Funky Alfonzo! |
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thedestroyer - Student 
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my problems fixed but if someones jedi academy or outcast game won't work for any reason just do this: take our the jedi academy file in cprograms/program files/lucas arts/jedi academy. then reenstall it and it should work just fine. |
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Antares - Student 
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Thedestroyer: I happen to have this problem too, and though I do not know what causes it (I have the retail version btw), nor do I know how to fix it, I actually found a way around it. Just look around in your gamedata folder and you should find two files named jamp and jasp. Double-clicking the first one starts up multi player and the second one, single player. For convenience, make a shortcut to those on your desktop. I hope this helps _______________ "only two things are infinite: Human stupidity and the universe. And i'm not sure about the latter" Albert Einstein Proud padawan to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Brother to Tido, Setementor, Jalune and Jana-Johauna This comment was edited by Antares on Jun 21 2004 09:29pm. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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thedestroyer: try a reinstall, perhaps, or else describe the problem way better, like what does it do? and stuff like that Oh, and are you owning a downloaded version, or a version bought in the store? Since those usually give some errors too (Those = downloaded versions) Jarhok: You asked in the forums, I replied _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Jarhok Belouve - Student 
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i dont uderstand which files to download and where to put them and why i apparently have the rong password and could u make it an idiots guide please???!?!??!?!??!? _______________ -JARHOK BELOUVE- Unofficial Paddy to the great Squibit Belouve and Solitudes snog machine! |||||||||||||||||||||||PRONOUNCED JARHOK TEH S3X3H by Alexander D'kana||||||||||||||||||||||||| Loves Liso'sia! Uber new Belouve boy! My special people: Squibit Belouve,Roan Belouve,Bail Hope Belouve and of course the lovely Liso'sia! |
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Mune - Student 
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How about some slow login times with Windows XP pro? Any way to fix that? EDIT: On another note, I am happily on the internet on Mandrake. I'm liking it so far, but there is one small annoyance: Everytime I try to get in, my mouse doesn't want to work. But, if I unplug it and let everything load and boot, then plug it in, it works normally. It's just a standard PS/2 mouse, and it's weird. Any ideas? _______________ Captain Barkeep. This comment was edited by Mune on Jun 15 2004 08:34pm. |
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Tridae - Student 
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Help! I am completely inable to play any Quake 3 powered games.(eg JK outcast). During play my PC comes up with that error reporting message that says the program has stopped responding and as soon as I click anythin it restarts This happens on Call of Duty as well as Quake3A and SOF2. I know for sure that it is not a virus for I have formatted and re-intalled WINXP pro in a vain effort to resolve this problem. Please help or I will never be able to play JK again. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student
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ok, so the weirdness started with the 'Search screen', see below. Now it's gotten even worse An alarm went off inside my computer... like a fire-alarm kind of thing, loud, annoying, and so on... It happened while I was on a server. My brother (and he should know) says it's a virus which is doing something terrible, and the computer picked it up... you know, the option you can set in BIOS (I think) for Virus-scanning or something like that. well, I went to Safe Mode and tried scanning my computer, only to find the message: "Your Virus-DAT Files are corrupted, please re-install." So I reinstalled, and when I was about to download the latest Virus-DAT files, the Virusscan which was downloading them caused a fatal error, and closed down the program. No matter what I did, another install, downloading manually, it just didn't take... I have no idea what's causing this, but you know, since I had just downloaded the skin-pack (JJ's) from the Server page, my thought immediately went there. So I went to security.semantec.com and scanned my computer online, and it turned up nothing. No malicious programs or virusess found on my entire system. I tried another online scan (can't find the site right now) and it also turned up nothing. So, this might be some clever virus shutting me down, or this is just some hoax... maybe a program that triggered that alarm? Oh btw, I also tried scanning through DOS (Virusscan-CD in Disk Drive and then starting up your computer with a boot from the CD) It asked if it could scan my Hard Drive, and then proceeded. It was done in less than 5 seconds, since the summary said it found no data on my hard drive. Freaked out, I started up my computer normally, and found that everything was still there ... I'm flummoxed right now any ideas on what might cause this? EDIT: I have successfully installed the McAfee VirusScan again, and now it works... The scan turned up nothing... I also had Ad-Aware scan my computer, and also turned up nothing... _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
Want to know Vladarion? Read the Article about his life here. This comment was edited by Bail Hope of Belouve on Jun 09 2004 03:25pm. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Hey Orion, I have a weird problem When I double-click a map, or a folder to open it, instead of opening the map, the map 'Search' opens, in which you can search the Hard Drive for items. So each time I have to right-click the map and select Open or Explore to get into the map I've checked my settings and none of them seem to be causing this. Btw, I'm using Windows XP. Can I do something to stop this? _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Mune - Student
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I would just like to take this moment to remind everyone about the dangers of overclocking, at least on the graphics card side of the game. A couple weeks ago, I sorta trusted AtiTool. Well, when I was testing to see how high my memory could go "safely", apparently it decided to betray my trust. It gave me an error. Well, I still have my Radeon 9800 pro, and it still works wonderfully for some games (i.e. KOTOR, JK:JA) but on others, you can just take a look. http://www.geocities.com/mune42/ First screen is BF:V, the other two are Halo. Needless to say, I'm going to be wary of OC'in anything in the future unless I am sure I'm getting new hardware to replace it soon, not to mention work on getting a new card. So, here ends my warning. Stay careful! _______________ Captain Barkeep. This comment was edited by Mune on May 31 2004 05:25am. |
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ClamP - Student 
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Hi there, I found the solution to my Outlook Express problem: it was a strange interference (only on Win2k) with the Java/Javascript/ActiveX filter of my McAfee AV program (version 4.5.1). I turned that feature off and everything worked fine. Beware, that combo is deadly, it literally destroys your email database, leaving you with empty folders. Compliments of Mr Fatty.  May the Schwartz be with you! _______________ Murphy was an optimist... ...and I am a fat bastard! |
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Fate - Student 
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I got a 400mhz, 256 ram, 10gb HD box running Mandrake. But, the harddrive isn't really enough for what I do (school computer club site & forums.) I recommend more ram (512 is nice), and mabye 40 gb of HD instead. Then you'll never ever have to worry about running out of space and the ram just makes things run a lot nicer. _______________ I must not fear . Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear . I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Gom gom gom gom gom! |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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What are the recommended/mininum hardware requirements for a server running *NIX, preferrably FreeBSD, and has the following: - httpd (prolly apache) - ftpd - sshd - eggdrop note that I don't want no GUI. - cmad of tha X  PS. Hardware requirements = RAM, CPU, HD space and w/e else you think you should include  EDIT: I want the server to have fundamental apps like pico or nano (or both), vi(m), gcc, g++ and umm.... lynx. EDIT2: It's gonna be a personal server, i.e. only I am gonna use it; not a public one _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. This comment was edited by _cmad_ on May 16 2004 09:17am. |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Quote: what kinda mic is it? usb? Nope, jack. _______________ Website |
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Orion - Retired
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what kinda mic is it? usb? _______________ 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 |
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JamesF1 - Student
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Old comp: Mic works like a dream. New comp: Mic won't work - even adding it manually, etc. No detection of it at all... Any ideas? _______________ Website |
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Orion - Retired
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it works good, if u wanna run games try winex _______________ 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 |
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