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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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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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ISP probably having problems in your area i wouldnt worry about it but if it hasnt fixed itself within a week ring your ISP and alert them to you problem, maybe no one has flagged the error in your area yet . _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are 
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Hawk - Student |
Over the last few days my internet connection has recently started interupting my gameplay of JA whilst online with the message 'Connection Interupted'. I have no idea why it does this and it used to be fine. My ping is normal until I get this message, it shoots up to 999 when I do. I was just wondering if anyone knew why this might be happening? I would post this on the link above, broadbandexperts.com but I thought you may be of more use as you know more about the game. I don't know if this problem occurs whilst playing any other game online as I haven't played any other recently. I've also done spyware, adware and viruse scans but nothing has appeared. Any help would be much appreciated. Oh and I'm my ISP is Tiscali with a 512k connection which sucks at the best of times but shouldn't be this bad. It also varies, sometimes it happens often but sometimes not too often. And best 20 mins and worst every 5 seconds (literally) This comment was edited by Hawk on Aug 08 2006 09:48pm. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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Quote: Last year I installed a new graphics card to play Jedi Academy. My computer has two places to plug in the monitor. One of for the onboard graphics card and the other place was for the graphics card that I installed. So after I had installed the new graphics card I had to start plugging in my monitor into a different place. Lately my computer has been freezing a lot. The other day when I tried starting up the computer it kept freezing so I kept restarting it. A lot of times the monitor would display the "power saving will enable the monitor to shut off in seconds" sign and then turn off so I'd have to restart it. Eventually when I tried turning on the computer the monitor just flashed the "self test" screen. Then I tried plugging in the monitor into the place that utilized the onboard graphics card and it worked, but now I can't play Jedi Academy and whenever I try to turn the computer with the monitor plugged into the place that utilized the other graphics card it displays the "self test" screen on the monitor. Well, my computer sometimes displays the same notice at times. If I wait a while, it usually goes away. Do remember to check if the cable is also correctly inputted in your monitor. Our power cable dares to get loose from time to time. _______________ 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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Masta - Jedi Council 
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Koyi, you might maybe want to try out this emulator. It pretty much worked for all the games i tried it out with so far. Installation/configuration instructions should be on the site etc _______________ Find out more about the Jedi Academy Aurochs here and more about Masta here! Married to Kain. |
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Koyi Donita - Student 
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This is a question I asked a very long time ago but never got the answer to work. I have old dos games that I would like to play on my pc which is running Windows XP home edition. The games won't work even when I start them with the command prompt. Does anyone know of any patches, programs, etc. that might be able to get these old games to work? If so, can you please name the cure and give instructions on how I can go about making this happen? Thank you all very much ahead of time!  _______________ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Rom. 1:16 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Rom. 10:17 I love my babyface. Smilykrazy is my baby and I love her. ...Swimming through the void we hear the Word, we lose ourselves but we find it all... System Of A Down.
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Ben Kenobi - Student |
Last year I installed a new graphics card to play Jedi Academy. My computer has two places to plug in the monitor. One of for the onboard graphics card and the other place was for the graphics card that I installed. So after I had installed the new graphics card I had to start plugging in my monitor into a different place. Lately my computer has been freezing a lot. The other day when I tried starting up the computer it kept freezing so I kept restarting it. A lot of times the monitor would display the "power saving will enable the monitor to shut off in seconds" sign and then turn off so I'd have to restart it. Eventually when I tried turning on the computer the monitor just flashed the "self test" screen. Then I tried plugging in the monitor into the place that utilized the onboard graphics card and it worked, but now I can't play Jedi Academy and whenever I try to turn the computer with the monitor plugged into the place that utilized the other graphics card it displays the "self test" screen on the monitor. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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Quote: Have you been around long enough to remember X10 or -- ? I wish. I started with Unix just when people were migrating from XFree86 over to X.org - current release was X.org-6.7. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on Jul 08 2006 01:17am. |
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darkskye - Student 
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Quote: On the plus side it looks like there might be some radeon drivers w/3d acceleration. If you're okay with moving up to X.org 7.0 (the new modular one), then yes, there is a radeon driver with experimental DRI for more recent cards. Good luck if you decide to go that way though. x.org 7.0 and x.org 6.9 share the same code, the only difference is that as stated above, 7.0 is compiled as modules. I'd probably not notice any difference since x.org/XFree have been build in pseudo modules on FreeBSD for ages now _______________ "Out the cat5, through the router, down the T1, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but 'Net." Chevron 1 is lit up Proud donator of the forum's 99000th comment
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Vruki Salet - Student 
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Have you been around long enough to remember X10 or -- ? |
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Quote: X11R6 was a fixture of the heavens like the moon and stars. Yeah, well... eventually, there'll be a SYSVR7, then an X12, and then even a SYSVI... eventually. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Vruki Salet - Student
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It's been a year or two since I've seriously tinkered with that kind of stuff. I doubt I'll invest much time & effort into it considering that the old HD my FreeBSD installation is on could crap out at any minute and make for a big waste. When I can get my hands on a drive with a better life expectancy I might go for it. Problem with sorting out these kinds of things on *nix is it makes working with the comp too much of a hobby. It's fun but the system becomes an end in itself. Gotta put a PS here: I didn't realize by 7.0 you meant "X11R7.0"! I can't believe my eyes! It never occured to me that an X11R7 was even possible. X11R6 was a fixture of the heavens like the moon and stars. Yes my driver's in there: 9500 and above. This comment was edited by Vruki Salet on Mar 04 2006 05:21am. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Quote: On the plus side it looks like there might be some radeon drivers w/3d acceleration. If you're okay with moving up to X.org 7.0 (the new modular one), then yes, there is a radeon driver with experimental DRI for more recent cards. Good luck if you decide to go that way though. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Vruki Salet - Student
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From what I read Cedega ia broken on FreeBSD though that was for 5.x and I don't know if it's been fixed yet. I was afraid the card was going to be a problem. I had a nice Nvidia card that that worked great with Linux but it's fried and I'm stuck with this one. On the plus side it looks like there might be some radeon drivers w/3d acceleration. Thanks TM. This comment was edited by Vruki Salet on Mar 03 2006 01:15am. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Quote: Is it possible for me to run JKA, as a playable game not just a server, on FreeBSD? I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 SE vid card. I'd prefer not to do it in Linux compat mode but am willing if necessary. WINE will run it quite nicely without Linux compat; however, due to your choice of video card vendor, your video settings will have to be quite a bit lower than in Windows. I have a 9600 XT and have achieved decent results on Linux with WINE and JKA at mostly medium settings. You may also have to "work around" some copy protection issues in the WINE driver. If you don't mind using Linux compat and paying some money, Cedega provides a slightly better gaming experience than WINE. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on Mar 02 2006 09:47pm. |
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Vruki Salet - Student
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Is it possible for me to run JKA, as a playable game not just a server, on FreeBSD? I'm using an ATI Radeon 9600 SE vid card. I'd prefer not to do it in Linux compat mode but am willing if necessary. |
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Takaru Averre - Student 
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OMG Its still there!!! >< _______________ Joined at about Apr 19 2005 12:52am Echuu's 600th comment, Mindrith's 500th comment, Piccolo's 99th commment, Mindrith's 1400th comment, Sazabi's 3500th comment  gomgom
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Takaru Averre - Student 
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Fixed by reinstalling windows _______________ Joined at about Apr 19 2005 12:52am Echuu's 600th comment, Mindrith's 500th comment, Piccolo's 99th commment, Mindrith's 1400th comment, Sazabi's 3500th comment gomgom
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Takaru Averre - Student
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Quote: I have a problem, im thinking of reinstalling windows, cant fix this :S At random times, firefox pops up with different domains, with html files that are called yyy102.html or yyy65.html or something like that, they are basically different advertisements. i've tried spy-bot(I use it regulary), it didnt help, so i tried ad-aware, still nothing.. Do you guys have any ideas? try reinstalling firefox. you wont lose any info other than 'cookies'. Lol, nope, that wont help, its only doing it through firefox because firefox is my default browser. Its this spyware on my computer that is at random times opening websites, nothing to do with the browser itself S: _______________ Joined at about Apr 19 2005 12:52am Echuu's 600th comment, Mindrith's 500th comment, Piccolo's 99th commment, Mindrith's 1400th comment, Sazabi's 3500th comment gomgom
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SaZ - Student 
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Quote: I have a problem, im thinking of reinstalling windows, cant fix this :S At random times, firefox pops up with different domains, with html files that are called yyy102.html or yyy65.html or something like that, they are basically different advertisements. i've tried spy-bot(I use it regulary), it didnt help, so i tried ad-aware, still nothing.. Do you guys have any ideas? try reinstalling firefox. you wont lose any info other than 'cookies'. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Quote: Does the Windows Update history (on the Update site) list SP2 as having been installed? Any errors? Warnings? Yes, No and No respectively _______________ Website |
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Demon - Student 
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Ditto, got the exact same problem that Takaru has  _______________ 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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Takaru Averre - Student
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I have a problem, im thinking of reinstalling windows, cant fix this :S At random times, firefox pops up with different domains, with html files that are called yyy102.html or yyy65.html or something like that, they are basically different advertisements. i've tried spy-bot(I use it regulary), it didnt help, so i tried ad-aware, still nothing.. Do you guys have any ideas? _______________ Joined at about Apr 19 2005 12:52am Echuu's 600th comment, Mindrith's 500th comment, Piccolo's 99th commment, Mindrith's 1400th comment, Sazabi's 3500th comment gomgom
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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Does the Windows Update history (on the Update site) list SP2 as having been installed? Any errors? Warnings? _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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JamesF1 - Student
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Right, well, whilst attempting to install Microsoft Visual Studio (for the C# and J# compilers) I was informed I had to upgrade WinXP to SP2. No problem, I thought, I'd been lazy up until then and hadn't installed SP2. So I went through everything, installed SP2 - great, rebooted. Ran the installer again and it said I still needed SP2. Checked the version info in My Computer properties - and it still said SP1. So I reinstalled SP2... same problem. I've tried it several times now, and I can't get it to say SP2 (even though all the SP2 features have been changed/installed). Any ideas? I really need at least the C# compiler to work. _______________ Website |
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LoneWolf_ Mintaka - Student 
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Hey all I don't know much about programming becuase I'm still learning. But Microsoft Visual Basic Studio has been a real help to me. I forgot where the link was so I will have to find it. But here is something really neat I found while learning www.LearnVisualStudio.net _______________ Honor, still counts for something. Loyalty, is hard to come by. Integrity, is something to strive for. |
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