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Orion PC HELP DESK and Programming Help

Sep 08 2003 06:06am

Orion
- Retired

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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 .)
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This post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am.

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Oct 24 2003 04:46am

Orion
- Retired

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

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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.

Nov 20 2003 01:50am

Stimpski
- Student

Actually, it does. I tried it before I posted that comment yesterday, and I just tried it again. I'm telling you, it works in a command prompt. If you don't believe me, ill give you a screenie to prove it!
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Nov 19 2003 06:04pm

Orion
- Retired

that doesnt work in a cmd prompt though

Nov 19 2003 01:24am

Stimpski
- Student

Fate: first off, you kinda need the character map for this. First, look up the keystrokes for the characters that you will use frequently (for example, the ç is keystroke Alt+0231)

To type it in, hold the alt key, then type in the number in the numpad (numbers above the letters dont work for this).

Hope this helps!
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Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.)
JA Forum ID - 3988
<insert generic &/OR witty tagline here>

Nov 18 2003 07:31pm

Orion
- Retired

umm suing the terminal font in cmd prompt dunno
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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

Nov 18 2003 07:27pm

Fate
- Student

Anyone know how to type characters like ≡ ç or ª without using character map and more specifically in Dos?
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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!

Nov 18 2003 03:44pm

Fate
- Student

For all to know, I program in VB.NET so if you got questions about programming in that; drop me a line.

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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!

Nov 18 2003 03:42pm

Fate
- Student

In responce to the below:
Yeah, seems to be a bug present in JK 2&3 that makes it somewhat incompatible with the NT based OS's. Not much you can do about it except /reconnect

I used to have this problem a lot myself but it just went away.

Hey Orion. I'm having some weird trouble with JK2, but I think it's more related to my PC. I'm running Windows 2000. All of a sudden, whenever I'm in a multiplayer game, I get the server disconnected message and my lagometer goes green...however I can still send and receive chat messages. If I try to go to spec mode, I'm ok for a few seconds and then it goes green again...but my ping is still around 70. If I type /status I get "The server is not connected" yet I can still surf the internet.

I've tried reinstalling. Reinstalling JA mod, cleaning up the folder, everything...

any ideas?

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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!

Nov 17 2003 09:02am

Zoro Kakashi
- Ex-Student

Yo! my ddr 2100 256 MB RAM shrunk down to 128, even bios reads it 128, could you diagnose it O Mr. `Orion?

Nevermind

i got it fixed. its probably the ddr voltage is on auto, i set it to 2.6 v now

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This comment was edited by Zoro Kakashi on Nov 17 2003 09:12am.

Nov 16 2003 03:05am

Orion
- Retired

Kow: umm not really sure what it could be, it might be a issue with your isp, or make sure your not running kazaa or something in the backgroud

umm try updating your network card driver
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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

Nov 13 2003 08:46pm

SaberWeildinKow
- Student

Nov 12 2003 07:55pm

Xipkell
- Student

Hello again Orion. I took your advice to upgrade my computer and installed 512 MB of RAM and a Radeon 9200 128 MB card and JK:JA runs and looks amazing. On to my current problem. 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 changed 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.

This comment was edited by Xipkell on Nov 13 2003 08:21am.

Nov 12 2003 03:24am

Vaughn
- Student

Um... hi everyone, i know it says C++ programming questions ONLY, but i have some experience in Java Programming (well, im taking a credit course in it, and were doing objects now). So... if anyone knows any Java, can you gimme a buz on my profile, because im having alittle difficulty with my program

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Nov 08 2003 05:28am

Orion
- Retired

ah ya those damn manufacture keyboards with all those buttons will do it

Nov 08 2003 01:10am

Battlin' Billy
- Student

Hey Orion,

I just wanted to say thanx for the advice, it fixed my problem!!! (Unknown Device in Device Manager).

However, after I installed the drivers for the chipset and rebooted, it still came up with "found new hardware". Turns out, that some kbds (especially ones with the extra buttons) will cause that if you don't install some stuff. In my case, I have a Dell kbd and I had to install the "Dell Solution Center" in order for it to go away. Luckily, I can disable it without the "new hardware found" crap coming up.

Thanx again, Orion! You da MAN!!!

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Nov 05 2003 07:09am

Ulic Belouve
- Student

Yeah, fixed it. The manual says it was already set to auto-detect, but it WASN'T. THE MANUAL LIED. I should have know. Feh.

But the problem is fixed. I knew I needed to bump it up to 133, but my old Mobo just had those settings inside the BIOS. This one had a series of switches on the board. Needed to set that. But the switches will help for OC, but I will do that later on.
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Nov 04 2003 01:03pm

Fizz of Belouve
- Student

well, Ulic, u gotta set the Front Side Bus (FSB) up to 133 MHz. I have the same CPU, it should run at 133*11.5, urs looks liek it runs @ 100 x 11.5
either u gotta jumper that, or set that in ur BIOS.
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Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04

"Renfield, you idiot!"

Nov 04 2003 05:17am

Orion
- Retired

yeah linux and modems = not go together well. The reason, since most PCI modems that you buy now adays are called Winmodems. what does that mean you ask? well it means that Windows handles most of the stuff for the modem. all the modem does is send and recive the info. While windows does the majority of the processing of data. Well what does that mean for linux? I'll Tell you. It means that the drivers for the modem are ment to work with windows and are not ment to work with *nix. Unless some one ports the driver/software to linux to work and the majority of modem companies do not. But there are ways to get them to work.. How? i dunno i have never delt with linux and a modem but there are tuturials online that have them.. try www.google.com/linux
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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

Nov 04 2003 04:57am

Muad'dib
- Student

Um, hi. So Linux won't recognize that I have a modem. It only sees the NIC. I've got Red Hat 9 if that helps.

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No. It's because I love you"
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Nov 03 2003 04:49pm

Orion
- Retired

I think you might have to flip the jumpers if i remeember correctly, been a while since i messed with a AMD

Nov 03 2003 05:56am

Ulic Belouve
- Student

Matlab?

Hehe. I learned Matlab. Hehe ho ho.

But seriously. I can't get my AMD to run at the right speed. Problem detailed below. Look at that and help if you can. I may have to flip the jumpers, but I don't think so.

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
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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.

Nov 03 2003 01:25am

Fizz of Belouve
- Student

Im also always happy to help u guys out with l33t programming skillz, be it Basic, pascal, C, C++, java, assembler, matlab whateva

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"Renfield, you idiot!"

Nov 02 2003 11:02am

Rei D'Kana
- Ex-Student

Yeah I know, I use whatismyip.com to see my external IP but when people try to join it, they cant. and that goes the same for me, when people create a server I cant join it :S

Nov 01 2003 07:40pm

Ulic Belouve
- Student

As for the mobo problem, yes, yes you do need to reinstall Windows. That was a given, and I knew of it. Did that no problem.

As for the random crashes, it was because it was waiting for me to put on updated drivers. I guess it would crash because I did not update them, but was finicky in giving me enought time to INSTALL them properly.

I have everything up and running now, EXCEPT....

It thinks my processor is built to run at 1.14 GHz, when it SHOULD be something like 1.53 (or 1.74, as I like to OC). So, if you know where I MIGHT find the change in this new BIOS, then let me know. I KNOW what the problem is, but I don't know quite where the fixing location is.

As for the mobo info:
K7 Triton Series
nForce2 Motherboard
GA-7N400-L

Oh, I can't get the onboard LAN to work, but, er, I still can work it through another card. I'll figure it out. Just a bunch of new settings.

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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.

Nov 01 2003 07:00pm

DJ Sith
- Jedi Council

You can still set up a server on a dynamic IP, people will just have to change the IP they connect to periodically.

There are services like dyndns.org that prvide DNS for ppl with dynamic IPs. Just make sure your ISP isnt assigning you an ip in the 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x, or 172.16.x.x range.
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Nov 01 2003 06:21pm

Icco
- Student

Dj im not quite sure about the public address. It's possible that i might not be able to set this server up because my IP's are usually dynamic.
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