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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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Steinin - Student 
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Whenever I play a file ending with the extension .mpeg in Windows Media Player I can't adjust the brightness. It has worked. It works for other extensions. I tried "reinstalling", no change.  _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Dark Lurker - Student 
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okay thanks! _______________ The Force is an enemy only if you use it unwisely. |
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Orion - Retired
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Its probably your cpu, and the 64mb is probably shared ram. which means of that 256 MB of ram u have 64 of that goes to the video card you could upgrade your ram could help. either way video or ram will help, u got the cpu just need to beef one or the other. _______________ 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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Dark Lurker - Student
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I have a 64 MB Dell Extreme Integrated Grpahics card (yeah it's the one that came with the Dell). Processor is 1.8 Ghz Pentium 4. Dell Dimension 4500S. _______________ The Force is an enemy only if you use it unwisely. |
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Orion - Retired
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What video card do u have? example: Nvida GeFore2 MX400. and whats you Processor name/speed _______________ 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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Dark Lurker - Student
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hi Orion. I have a problem running new and modern games like Battlefield Vietnam etc. I have 256 MB RAM, and a 64 MB video card. The min. requirement for for BF: Vietnam is 64 MB vid card and 256 RAM. Should I bump the RAM up to 512 MB, or increase memory in vid card, or both? _______________ The Force is an enemy only if you use it unwisely. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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it's not for free; i only can get a demo :/ _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Stimpski - Student 
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I think W32Dasm disassembles/assembles programs. Try googling for that. _______________ Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.) JA Forum ID - 3988 <insert generic &/OR witty tagline here> |
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Fate - Student 
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Hi, I'm kinda new to programming and was looking for a little help. You see I kinda wanted to create a revolutionary new program, but it's a little beyond my skill level. You see, this program would output the text "Hello World" but it wouldn't accept input or otherwise have conditional modifiers that would alter the run time result. I know this is kinda crazy, but I was considering neglecting graphics or extranous colors. Email me if you can help!!  Ha ha ha! Just kidding. Anyways, check this out for additional laughs. http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/evolution BTW, cmad X! Give me the cookie! It's our only hope! Unless I get it the nuclear fisson reactor will overheat and obliterate us all! For the love of God man! Give me the cookie! _______________ 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! This comment was edited by Fate on Mar 23 2004 12:18am. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Quote: for that you need whats called a crossover cable they are more expensive than regular network cables. You use a crossover cable to connect two similar devices (like 2 computers or 2 switches). Make your own. It's cheaper. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student
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Hey orion: I disassemblied a program with PE Explorer, and I got an .asm file, and edited it ok. Now I suppose I need an assembler to make it a .exe again. Which one do you suggest? BTW: Maybe you suggest some other disassembler? (which also assemblies?) _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Orion - Retired 
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for that you need whats called a crossover cable they are more expensive than regular network cables. _______________ 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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Mune - Student 
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Alright, I want to hook up two XP computers to a 'network', per se, via an ethernet cable for a little one vs. one with a friend. No HUB. Would I do this just by the wizard Windows gives on starting a network or is there some trick? I ask because another friend said he was able to do it with just the cable, but he said he had some trouble... So, any advice? _______________ Captain Barkeep. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student 
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NEVERMIND THIS POST === k i was just about to start a thread but i figured i should post here... I use thunderbird (0.5) to read newsgroup posts. Yeah well the newsgroup posts are in thread style but in message style so it's confusing. Here's an example of what i mean thread style and message style: thread style: Writing a C++ program ++Re: Writing a C++ program ++++Re: Writing a C++ program ++++++Re: Writing a C++ program ++++Re: Writing a C++ program Compiling a C program ++Re: Compiling a C program ++Re: Compiling a C program Message style: Re: Compiling a C program Re: Compiling a C program Re: Writing a C++ program Re: Writing a C++ program Re: Writing a C++ program Compiling a C program Re: Writing a C++ program Writing a C++ program You see that if there are many messages that gets confusing... How can I make them show in a thread way? BTW: I tried the View | Messages, and View | Threads menu options but it didn't help. Some replies were still away from original post... Thanks in advance, - cmad EDIT From what I see this problem only is on SOME newsgroups (seperate reply threads). Nevermind the post then... _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. This comment was edited by _cmad_ on Mar 15 2004 09:06pm. |
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KitMitsu: I got that error too. Apparently it's a copy of rundll32 trying to run a non-functional bridge32.dll. The only fix I know of is to run regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Microsoft->Windows->Run, and remove the rundll32.exe entry that points to bridge32.dll. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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So I'm playing around with my power management settings (Windows XP Pro), setting up my own schemes and all that. It all works fine for several months, but then suddenly one day I turn it on and my settings are gone. All of them. Even the XP default ones. When I bring up the "Power Options" Control Panel box, the drop-down list won't drop down, the Save As and Delete buttons do nothing, and the current scheme's settings (current scheme listed as "Unknown", btw) are all greyed out. The other 3 pages in the box (Advanced, Hibernate, UPS) all work fine. I checked regedit, and all my schemes are still there. The global scheme seems to be set properly to the last one I was using, but I can't change schemes unless I copy and paste throughout the Registry. Any help would be really appreciated, because I have a ton of stuff on here right now and I really don't feel like formatting and reinstalling again. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Orion - Retired
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it sounds like either a memory issue, swap around those sticks of ram, see if any of them cause the issue, if its not that, its probably a power supply issue. gota get a new psu then  or maybe some how your motherboard got a small shock and a capasitor on it got fried. _______________ 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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Ancient - Ex-Student 
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i have an very critical problem with my pc.....My pc is a costum build machine with AMD 1800+, PNY GF4 Ti 4200 64mbddr 500Mhz(overclock to 600mhz), PNY 768 PC 2100 DDR RAM (actually is three 256 pc 2100) shuttle KT 266A motherboard VIA chipset(fucXing cheap set), 350W max powersupply(dont know what band), IBM 80gb hdd and western digitial 160gb hdd with 8mb cache, magic spin DVD+-RW 8X, k-hypermedia 48*24*48 seamless link cd writer. The problem i have, is i cant turn on my computer after a night of sleep....I didnt do anything special to it or add anything new thing.... after i press the "power" button, it just freeze there with nothing show in the moniter with the hdd light (the red light) and the power light (the green light) light up and hold still. The hdd light is not beating as usual....just light up and hold still  . I have try to replace my video card with my old video card (radeon 7500) and i still got the same problem.... I also try to remove one of my hdd, one of my dvd or cd drive and i have even tried to reflesh the BIOS but the problem is still there. I tested it by removing my video card [nothing in my AGP slot, and you know that if a normal computer got no video card....the motherboard will have some sound like....beep...beep..beep, right?]but my machine dont have those sounds....and just freeze with red and green light on.... Plz orion....help me out of this nightmare......THX _______________ -THE ONE WITH THE "STAFF" -BROTHER TO FROSTY -Admitted to University of California, San Diego(UCSD). YAY! This comment was edited by Ancient on Mar 14 2004 07:43pm. |
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Hey Ive been searching for help for ages for this error but ive had no luck Everytime i logoff or shutdown my PC an end now box comes up with rundll32.exe. i dont know what to do :S Help please |
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Demon - Student 
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Well, tell ME it's strange I can't even join Smilys Tourney, and I WANT to . Damn, gonna try one more time. _______________ Quote: Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me. -The Code of The Sith
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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Hey, I'm thinking of doing striping with a RAID. Since I don't need anything big, I'm just going to try the striping built into WinXP pro. However, I can't split my drives easily into unallocated space for the striping. The way I got it to work on my secondary drive was to put on Linux (which made a partition) and then delete Linux (leaving unallocated space, but only so much). No luck on splitting the Main Drive, my boot partition. I have plenty of free space all around. OK, so questions: One, I wish to be as cheap as possible on this. So something free to split the partition (not Partition Magic, demo won't split, and I won't shell out for it). Two: Am I better off using a hardware RAID? I think so, but still, I don't want to drop a lot of cash on this. Which leads to.... Three: What hardware RAID should I get if I want to? I've heard lots on Promise, but if I can just get a generic and get it to work, that'd be cheaper/better. But I heard of all the headaches generics cause. So. Let me know. Post here, and again, if you want to REALLY get ahold of me. Feel free to e-mail me (thanks C-Mad for the e-mail last time.) _______________ 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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_cmad_ - Ex-Student
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oh sorry the site has a different IP _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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_cmad_ - Ex-Student
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are you sure you did ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and it didn't work? it's really weird if there's no firewall or proxy and it doesn't work :/ that means that you can't even reach the site, but that's impossible since you CAN post here :/ _______________ Your friends of today, are your enemies of tomorrow. |
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Demon - Student
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Nope, I've got a 512/128 ADSL modem with no routers or other crap. I even ran ad-aware but it's still the same. God, it's annoying _______________ Quote: Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force will free me. -The Code of The Sith
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Stimpski - Student 
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Demon: Are you behind a router? _______________ Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.) JA Forum ID - 3988 <insert generic &/OR witty tagline here> |
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