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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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Tido - Student 
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How effective is the Wine emulation in Linux? |
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Orion - Retired 
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Gradius, go download the newest version of the JavaRE (Runtime Environment). THe java version windows ships with is a giant piece of garbage. Mircosoft took a version of JAva and "customized it" its horrible and EXTREMLY outdated. Ulic, um dunnno try a new peice, or see if u can swap out ur old stick or something Nero, reboot the pc, clean the cds throughly. got 2 cdrom drives in the pc? if so try the other drive Outlook express is crap, just like IE, go get Thunderbird, its part of the Mozilla Project and get Firefox, it will import your settings from IE, and all your bookmarks. I think it can import your settings for OE. _______________ 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 May 08 2004 04:40am. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Hey man I'm having a little javascript problem. It all started on fileplanet.com. Downloading never used to be a problem but one day I went to go click a download link and it never worked. I tried on several others and nothing happens. At the bottom of explorer it just says javascript and a bunch on numers. Now, it happens to about %40 of all links I try to open that have something to do with javascript. I can't even create a stupid cheap free website because of it. Do you know what's up? _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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Still no luck. I have the 512 and a 256 of DDR333 RAM. They were working, but now they don't like me. The board will only take one stick now, and if I place both in (now), it reads my 2500+ as a 3200+, and won't boot. I won't even SAY the errors I get when I just place in the 512 (DDR333) and the 512 (DDR400). I did manage to adjust the timings by percentage, running them at 333. This was working with all RAM in, but then it junked out. I now can only place ONE stick in, so I have the 512 DDR400. The config of the slots is as follows: ORANGE PURPLE (Capacitors) ORANGE PURPLE And the RAM is configured as follows in them: NONE NONE (Capacitors) 512(DDR333) NONE Please help out, and clarify as to this "order" thing. Thanks. _______________ 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. This comment was edited by Ulic Belouve on May 01 2004 05:55pm. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Ulic: some Gigabyte boards don't like RAM of different sizes and/or speeds - I should know, I had the same problem a while ago. Make sure all your motherboard and Windows drivers etc are updated. In the BIOS, go to the screen with the RAM information, and manually set the RAM speed to 333 MHz. Like Orion said, try swapping them. And if it still doesn't work, take it back and get a 512 instead. Not a Samsung one. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on May 01 2004 05:26pm. |
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Nero - Student 
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I'm not sure this is the place I should post this but I do not know another place here we go: Yesterday I de-installed JK3 because my favorite server list wasn't working (every server was named 'bot' and no ping or map was shown). That all went quite well but the sh!t started when I tried to reinstall the game. I started the standard instalation procedure and everything went fine untill 47% where you should put assets1 in your diskdrive. I put the second disk into my dear pc thingy but my pc claimed it wasn't on this disk. I am very sure it is on it because I looked trough the files it contains and assets1 was with them. I've tried to install the game manually but I'm far to stupid for that .So mr Orion, can you help me. ps. I am owning a legal copy of the game in case that matters _______________ -Nero Quote: Curious, Smartass, what else? |
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ClamP - Student 
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Hi there, I have a dual-boot PC, Win98SE+Win2K, I use IE6+OE6 (sigh) and I recently performed all the critical updates via Windows Update on both OS's. Problem: on Win98SE everything works fine, Win2K: OE lost all my msgs and stopped working normally (can't read/send/receive msgs, button toolbar messed up). I have 4 email accounts (1 IMAP, 3 pop3), I uninstalled manually OE as mentioned on Micrososft Support, fixed the necessary registry keys and re-installed. Re-created all accounts and tested: everything ok. Performed update again, OE screwed up again. Any hint would be great... now I am forced to use Win98SE to read/send email, which I don't like at all...  May the Schwartz be with you!_______________ Murphy was an optimist... ...and I am a fat bastard! |
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Orion - Retired
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Um by default the Ram should underclock its self to 333 mhz, dunno whats going on, try swaping the order the chips are in. _______________ 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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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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OK, I'm trying to mix DDR333 with DDR400 on a Gigabyte GA-7N400L Motherboard. I currently have on 512 stick and one 256 stick (DDR333, Samsung Chips). I just bought a 512 Stick of DDR400, also Samsung. I add the new chip, Windows hates me. I take it out, Windows works as best as it ever will (stupid Windows). So, I know I need an adjustment in BIOS, but no luck, even with the Ctrl-F1 unlocking of advanced features, can't find anything to set the speeds of all of them to 333. _______________ 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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R!øT - Student 
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Hey Orion, I dont know whats going on with my PC but when I browse I cannot see any animated gif, and some gif simply never shows up. Im using default browser settings, got macromedia flash player and shockwave player installed but it doesnt help. Do you know what may be the cause of this? Do I need a specific viewer to view them? The PC I use at school works fine, I see the animations but it doesnt work on the one Im using at home. ty edit: Actually I found the problem. My firewall was blocking it. Now my question is......do you know what port the animated gif use? Cause I dont want to take out my firewall just to be able to view these gifs. There has to ba a way to configure it so we can still view the animation.... edit2: Alright nvm this post Orion I fixed it This comment was edited by R!øT on Apr 27 2004 05:46pm. |
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Orion - Retired
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In XP just right click on any .exe file and properties there is a tab for it. _______________ 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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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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happened to read that where can I find this emulation feature, exactly? _______________ 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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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Is there some way to get QuickTime 6 and an older version (1.2 I believe  ) to co-exist? Case in point: I want to play Myst (Windows XP, 98/ME emulation enabled), but Myst doesn't know about QT 6.Also, thanks for the stuff on lerping. And Nobel, I ran into the same problem with LEGO Island (the first one ) a while ago with Windows 2000 - which, by the way, runs games faster and more smoothly than XP, even with XP's visual themes turned off. Older games that were designed to run specifically on 95/98 and NOT NT 4 won't run on 2000/XP unless you use XP's emulation feature. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on Apr 24 2004 05:48pm. |
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Orion - Retired
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Nope, windows2k has no emuation support like XP, Windows2k was ment for servers and workstations, not home PC's like XP _______________ 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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Is there someway to get windows 2000 to emulate windows 98? I'm askin 'cause i have a game (OLD ) and its build for windows 98when i had windows 98, it worked fine, now i dug up the game,and it wont work! I think its because of the OS change. I searched High and low for updates and pachtes for the game. Cheked out ALL the tech support, Nothing. THe game is called "Rock Raiders" its made by the "Lego Interactive" (Yeah i know, its a childish, 5-year-old kinda thing. But its mighty fun Edit: THanks in advance _______________ Quote: Fizz: Omg, one of aratans paddies Bro to: Jacen Aratan, D@RtHM@UL, Sednox And Bail *w00t* !Quote: Darkwood: There is no luck in JK2, only when Jacen wins a duel
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Orion - Retired
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Lerp: Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for the operation. "Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the two endpoints of the line." Its also probably used in the BSP Tree generated for a level, to tell which node a player is in, or is about to be in for rendering pruposes. _______________ 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 Apr 24 2004 05:59am. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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I've run into it twice so far: once in the JKA source code: "[stuff] // to prevent client from lerping", and something about it in a description of the BSP format. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Orion - Retired
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Never heard of lerp cVar i assume stands for Client Variable, or C(something)Variable _______________ 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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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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What's "lerp", or possibly "lerping"? What about "slerp"? EDIT: if they're acronyms, more than just the words that make them up please And as a follow-up to cHoSeN-oNe's post: what does cVar stand for? _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on Apr 22 2004 12:14am. |
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Fate - Student 
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You could also try the card in an alternate PCI slot. Though rare, ports do occassionally go bad. That or you might not have completely gotten the card into the slot. Or... you know.... 56k could just SUCK!!! I'm such a lucky boy... _______________ 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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JamesF1 - Student 
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No workie! I'll return the modem for a different one next time I go to the shop... _______________ Website |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Quote: HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? Your problem is you bought the cheapest modem you could find. Send it back. Don't listen to the sales people. All they know is Grunt grunt. Scratch scratch. 56k is good. Your phone lines weren't built for 56k data connection. The best modem out there is one of the external serial based modems. Those things are solid as rocks. Its all hardware based. None of this software based PCI crap crap. You should pay at the very least $50 for a modem. Anything less is asking to get a bad connection, period. I'm not saying that you can't work at all with a cheap ass modem. Hey you can technically drive a car with 4 flat tires, right? If you decide to keep you modem there are a few things you can do to fix this. Lower your com port speed to 38400baud. It's probably somewhere around 128kbaud or something. Disable error correction. Make sure there's no conflict form you modem with another device. Delete and re-create your dialup networking connection. How to do all this is dependent on your OS. Call your ISP as well. They may have something fancy set on their modem that messes with yours. Tried the baud to no effect. I'll try the error control thing... Oh, BTW, I wanted to get something cheap as I've just spend a large amount of money (for me) on getting the PC actually working. Thanks for the advice, if it doesn't work I'll take it back and change it. _______________ Website |
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Quote: HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? Your problem is you bought the cheapest modem you could find. Send it back. Don't listen to the sales people. All they know is Grunt grunt. Scratch scratch. 56k is good. Your phone lines weren't built for 56k data connection. The best modem out there is one of the external serial based modems. Those things are solid as rocks. Its all hardware based. None of this software based PCI crap crap. You should pay at the very least $50 for a modem. Anything less is asking to get a bad connection, period. I'm not saying that you can't work at all with a cheap ass modem. Hey you can technically drive a car with 4 flat tires, right? If you decide to keep you modem there are a few things you can do to fix this. Lower your com port speed to 38400baud. It's probably somewhere around 128kbaud or something. Disable error correction. Make sure there's no conflict form you modem with another device. Delete and re-create your dialup networking connection. How to do all this is dependent on your OS. Call your ISP as well. They may have something fancy set on their modem that messes with yours. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Orion! I just wanted your opinion on this. I was reading PC World magazine, and I came across an article telling you about something you could install between your MB and processor that allows you to use a faster processor than your MB supports. They recommended it for P4 systems that came out in like 2001 or so (like mine). Dell's site says that my MB will support up to a 1.8Ghz, yet this place says they can boost it up to 2.6Ghz. Is this something you recommend? Here's the link to the site. I posted this here so others could benefit from this info. Thanx man! I promise I won't play Hacky Sack with your head on IRC anymore. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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JamesF1 - Student
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HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? _______________ Website |
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