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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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Doppelgänger - Student 
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Maybe this is one for DJ but just how much better is FreeBSD? I have only 3 programs that were converted to Windows from Unix or Linux or whatever they were originally and I'm really happy with the way they operate. They have a few incompatibilities but there're nothing compared to the trouble I've gotten from programs written for Windows. I've visited the site for FreeBSD and it talks allot of jargon that's just a bit too deep for me and never really says what might make it better for people who are used to Windows. So what makes it better? Is it worth moving to and why if so? Us Windows people are so stupid! _______________ "Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness." Ross Hersey |
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Jello` - Student 
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off topic: 200th post. On topic: Good job orion  _______________ Brady Brothers: Orion-Greg, Furi0us-Peter, Me-Bobby. Long lost cousin to Flash. Midbie Council #007. Ex-JAK. |
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Acura Belouve - Student 
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K i have a bit of a problem I recently bought a GeForce FX 5900 for my Pc. I have a Dell Dimension 8300. Wheni installed it i find out that i dont have enough power supply to run it properly so i decide to buy a new PSU 500wt now wt i want to know is if the PSU will be able to fit in my PC bc's im not sure if Dells make teh own PSU's. this would rlly help if u could tell me thx _______________ |
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Orion - Retired 
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2k _______________ 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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Hi, Orion I'd like your opinion on the following: I can't decide what version of Windows to put on my next computer I currently have Windows ME (Millenium) I like XP, but I'm afraid to use itsince a lot of programs aren't compatible with the XP version. Second, I also use a lot of programs like GtkRadiant for mapping, and I'm planning to start Skinning with Photoshop and I'm also starting to use C++ programs... Anyways, I'm not really sure what version I should get, hence my comment What advice can you give me? (btw, I'm not really sure, is JK2 compatible with XP?) Anyway, some help here would be hot Thanks in advance and many greets Bail Hope Belouve _______________ 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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Orion - Retired
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Death: sure why not.. Zertz: Well since you plan on upgrading, if you plan to update to close to the latest and greatest, you are goin to needa new motherboard and cpu, and most likely ram _______________ 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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Stimpski - Student 
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Dunno about the Chipset *forwards that question to Orion* As for the (unnamed console broadband adapter) question, it all depends on whether you have 2 network cards in your computer. If you don't, you can go out, and buy a cheap 4 switch hub, and hook i t all up. Hey orion, quick question, does this forum go for software questions too? _______________ Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.) JA Forum ID - 3988 <insert generic &/OR witty tagline here> |
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Zertz - Student 
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Two things, I have a Via Integrated Chipset which is getting antiquitated, when I replace it (which might be soon) with what and how should it be done. Secondly, if a certain console would start churning out Online MP games, I'll be getting its network adapter, do I need a router for this, and if so do you have recomendations. _______________ Some friends wear pants, some don't. |
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Orion - Retired
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ill be here this weekend, im stuck home alone at my apartment. _______________ 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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Stimpski - Student 
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Heh, orion. I'm having one of those feelings where the PC Help Desk will be running short on customers this weekend . But, I'm always here to throw some random blurbs of information for those people . _______________ Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.) JA Forum ID - 3988 <insert generic &/OR witty tagline here> This comment was edited by Stimpski on Nov 26 2003 09:47pm. |
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Achilles - Student 
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Alright thanks Orion _______________ Padawan to the great Katan JA Brother to D@RTHM@ULR.I.P. Vladarion, may he find peace in the afterlife. |
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Orion - Retired
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Well if you have a Router then you have a NAt, The Manuel that came with the router has all the info you need _______________ 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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Achilles - Student
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Noones got any help at all for me?  _______________ Padawan to the great Katan JA Brother to D@RTHM@ULR.I.P. Vladarion, may he find peace in the afterlife. |
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Doppel: First If you plan to get a brand new AMD mobo and Duron CPU, your gonna need new RAM, since with the ram you have right now the motherboard slots wont take it, but if you get an older, around the 1ghz mark you will be fine. and to the other thing your gonna have to get a small hdd to back everthing up. Windows can get really bitchy and complain and moan when you install a new motherboard and try to boot the OS. Rei and Wolfwood: Try either getting newer network card drivers, or reinstall your current ones, sounds like a problem with your TCP/IP Drivers. but if none of that works.. might have to reinstall to fix that. _______________ 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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Wolfwood - Student 
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Hmm, I have a similar problem to that but I know what is wrong. My computer doesnt detect my network card somehow but when I restart it 6 or 7 times, it does. Anyone knows how I can fix that? _______________ ~ Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead ~ |
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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
I have a new problem. Sometimes when I start my PC, my network connection fails on me. When I go to the configuration screen it does not show any network connections installed on my pc. but if I restart my pc, its there again (sometimes it takes 1,2,3 times till its back) and thats very annoying, any of you know what could be wrong? )btw I use that connection to acces my internet so I cant live without it ) plz help me cuz now it sometimes takes 10 times till I get internet and I dont know whats wrong |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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er... Doppleganger, I don't THINK you have to reformat. I changed out motherboards/processors less than a month ago. You just need to reinstall Windows. Just make sure you have everything backed up, including all the stuff in.... MY DOCUMENTS MY MUSIC etc.... If you move stuff to a folder called C:Backup, it shouldn't be harmed. Everything else should be there, like the JK:JA save files, it's just that you have to install the actual program again. You settings and save games should still be there. It's like that with all proggies. You'l just have to reinstall things like you games/apps, Microsoft Word, etc. Bu datawise, all the files are there, just that your registry/windows forgot that you have them installed, since you made a new one. Well, I gotta go. Later. This is just what I did, and it worked. But make sure you make a CD with all the updated drivers. It does get tricky to do it without reformatting the whole hard drive, but it can be done. _______________ 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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Fate - Student 
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Dopleganger: Time to format. Sory but you need a cleared HD and to reinstall the OS to run it in a different computer. Also gotta set up the BIOS and such. Buy another HD and you can save yourself the trouble. Just pop in the new HD and install an OS on it. Update the BIOS and then pop in the old HD. Then you can access the old HD without a reinstall. But you do have to buy the new HD. Go to a computer store or buy online a 10 gb HD for like $25 _______________ 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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Ulic Belouve - Student
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Xip: I've reconfigured my computer, reformatted, or reinstalled Windows countless times. The drivers are what you should need for your computer, so I'd suggest just uninstalling the driver for the CD-RW. Just do this in device manager. Then, reset. Windows XP should have the drivers loaded, so you'll boot up, it will say "new hardware found", and hopefully add the right one for you. In addition, you can get a driver off of the internet, and see if that one is an update. But that's what has worked for me. Just uninstall it, and let the Windows auto-install put it back in for you. Unless, of course, WINDOWS puts it back on as a CD-RW. Then, I know how to fix it, but not really how to describe the process. You can try that, or wait for Orion to post a response. _______________ 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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Achilles - Student 
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Where can I find the place to configure or find out if I have a NAT? I'd really like to put my server up, but I need to get this done first , any help would be great _______________ Padawan to the great Katan JA Brother to D@RTHM@ULR.I.P. Vladarion, may he find peace in the afterlife. |
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Doppelgänger - Student
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I have an old PC (PII350) and I was going to upgrade to an AMD motherboard with Duron processor and just reuse the memory and what not. My question though is aside from just snapping the parts in their place is there anything I'd have to do with my hard drive that I have now? I don't want to loose anything on the hard drive that I have because it has my wives school work on it and I wanted to just give it to her to use just for that. We've made back ups of everything important but that would take allot of time to find and upload so I'd like just not to have that hassle. Thanx! _______________ "Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness." Ross Hersey |
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Xipkell - Student |
My CD-RW is no longer recognized as such by windows. As well as it no longer autoplays when I insert a CD. It indicates that I have a CD-ROM and to access a CD I must right click on it in explorer, double clicking only tells me that I must insert a CD. It began doing this when I installed Alcohol 120% and Daemon tools. Well, I uninstalled both and the stupid thing still tells me that I have a CD-ROM not a CD-RW. I've searched all of the onboard help files and can't seem to find a solution and I don't have the installation disk for the hardware. It came preinstalled. I have a sinking feeling that this is a super easy fix but I can't seem to find it. Should I just uninstall it and get the drivers from the website? I haven't done this because I don't know if all of the correct files will be included or just the updates. Any help will appreciated. Thank you in advance. Almost forgot to tell you I have Windows XP with all available updates  |
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Fate - Student 
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What is the alt + #### for ß ? _______________ 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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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
I have a new problem. Sometimes when I start my PC, my network connection fails on me. When I go to the configuration screen it does not show any network connections installed on my pc. but if I restart my pc, its there again (sometimes it takes 1,2,3 times till its back) and thats very annoying, any of you know what could be wrong? )btw I use that connection to acces my internet so I cant live without it ) This comment was edited by Rei D'Kana on Nov 20 2003 09:13am. |
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Orion - Retired
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i tried and it doesnt, maybe its just my laptop, but i cant try it on a desktop keyboard, i dont run windows on my desktop _______________ 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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