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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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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
Basically the only odd thing I noticed so far is not being able to join IP's (like /connect ,,,.,,,,.,,,.,,,) and printing but ill reinstall it |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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Rei: Are there any other problems you've noticed since switching networks? It looks like you'll have to reinstall your network printer, since your old one is bye bye. Talk to your net admin for the path to the printer. Icco: Make sure you have some kind of public routable address assigned to you or your router. Open TCP port 80 in NAT or your Firewall to let web traffic through. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Orion - Retired
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it usually ends, in the networkin chain, with your modem. As for setting up web servers, no idea, all the isp i have had do not allow for end users to run a server. _______________ 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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Icco - Student 
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hey orion, havnt been to the forums in ahile, great idea to set up a help desk I know alot about networking but i really dont know much about setting up a webserver. I'm behind a linksys router. Got any tips? o ya here are my choices for gettin onto the net computer ->hub->switch->modem->router computer->802.11b->wirelessAP->switch->modem->router computer->switch->modem->router im not actually sure if the modem is there. Im not quite sure where my dsl goes between the router and the switch. It goes into the wall and comes back out :p _______________ "this is Icco. Icco is old. Icco is lost. Icco is cool, but Icco doesn't know what the meaning of 'macrophageal sex'." - Vaughn /Icco This comment was edited by Icco on Nov 01 2003 12:05am. |
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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
DJ:, I moved it to another Hub in another building in another work group or something? cuz it was a LAN, and now I dont know how to set it back  |
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Orion - Retired 
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um from what ive seen. xp doesnot really like it when you replace a motherboard, some times it works some times it doesnt. mainly on intels if we replaced a motherboard even with the same exact model. we would get the xp blue screen and it would nto boot the os forcing us to reinstall. now from what i have seen this is not as frequent on amd chips, why? hell if i know but i have seen it happen and your probably going to have to reinstall the os. _______________ 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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Hey, I installed a new motherboard, and as of current, I keep getting random reboots whenever I turned it on, inside of 2 minutes. I DID see where it had an error with a driver under "Motherboard Resources" stating that there were currently two instances of it running, that this one could not run. I could'nt uninstall it without it coming back again, so I disabled it. That seemed to work, but then I ran Windows Update (had to get all the updates from a fresh install after the new board). During install, guess what? A reboot. Now I just have no optioon for starting up windows. I may just reinstall again, that would most likely fix it, but my question here is: What IS the random reboots? My thought: I have an on-board LAN that didn't like to function, and I had a LAN NIC installed as well, that WAS working. Perhaps it just did not like the additional LAN. Who knows. I'll post more as I know more. OS: WinXP Chip: Athlon XP 1800+ RAM: DDR333, 770 MB G-Gard: Radeon 9700 Pro Sound: Audigy So, whatever pointers you might have will be nice. I'll check back here when I can (my compy broke) _______________ 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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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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Rei: When you say you moved this to another network you do you mean physically to another hub or switch? In another building? etc etc. Is your printer plugged directly into your network with an ethernet cable? (ethernet cables look like fat phone cables at the ends) Or was your printer plugged into a computer on the network? Since you can at least get to some servers out there (like wireplay) then you may have a router or firewall keeping you from connecting to hosted servers. How does your network look? eg: cable modem -> router -> switch -> all my computers. ^^^ something like that. What happens when you try to ping a computer hosting a JA game? Go to your start menu -> Run. Type in "cmd" and click "OK". In this new window type "ping <ip.address>" minus the ""'s and <>'s. Have you npoticed anything else going on weird since you switched? _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
TY orion, wow, you really know a lot, cools  I have another headbreaker for you I have a LAN at home which connects all PC's. (2) and it used to work perfect but I think its cuz I took my PC out of this network and into another network that its not working correctly. Cuz When I press print on my and the other pc is also on it is supposed to just go print but it doesnt. Also. when I want to log in a server (jka) using /connect .....ip it doesnt work when its hosted on someones PC (like when I tried to join a server that eclipse made) But it USED to work and that is what annoys me but when I try to join a dedicated one like wireplay or Home, it works perfect.. WHat do I do??? This comment was edited by Rei D'Kana on Oct 28 2003 10:18am. |
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Orion - Retired
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well it really doesnt matter if u have the same kind of pc and same kind of modem. each computer is still different and takes on different personalities so to speak.. and quite frankly it probably is that the modem died on your pc _______________ 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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Auron - Ex-Student 
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Auron returns! Ok, this time it's my ISP. I'm on Vanidar's computer. When I try to dial up on my computer, it says "Could not establish connection with remote computer", all of a sudden, out of the blue. I've connected and played in there countless times, but today, it stopped meh. I brought my comp in here, used vanidar's phone line and cord, and it still said the same thing. I think it's my modem, but he has the exact some model (same comp), and he has no problems. I also didn't download anything right before it happened, so I dont know why it would just stop wanting to connect. I chatted with tech support, I did a few things to my modem settings, but still no go. Just double checking with Dr. Orion to be sure I have to replace my modem. If I do, what's a good one? I've been wanting to replace that Lucent Win forever... I need a quality one if I'm going to replace it.  Well, what's the prognosis Doc? _______________ -Auron I've got l337 rock-paper-scissor skills, boi! Ok,ok.. Who wants to touch me? |
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Orion - Retired
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umm is your pc a intel or amd system? if its a intel system go here: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816 if you have a amd system and its a VIA chipset: http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300 its probably a device driver tahts for your motherboard and you dont have the lastest chipset drivers _______________ 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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ack double post _______________ 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 Oct 27 2003 07:39pm. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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I got a question for ya: The last couple of times I reinstalled Windows, there was always one "unknown device" in device manager. I tried reinstalling the driver for it with different driver CDs to no avail and I can't for the life of me figure out what it is. My system works fine otherwise, so I just always left it and had no problems. Is there a way to figure out what exactly it is? I'm planning on reinstalling Win again probably next week sometime and would like to take care of it b4 then. Thanx Orion, you rule!!! edit: Rei, I just bought a Radeon 9200 for $100(don't know how many Euros that is) and I'm really happy with it. It made a BIG improvement! _______________ 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! This comment was edited by Battlin' Billy on Oct 27 2003 07:25pm. |
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There is a difference but you will probably not notice 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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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
TY for the help BUt omg I looked at the prizes, an ATI radeon is like omg omg omg 300 euros (290 dollar or something) and that Geforce is on the internet for 350 dollar but I can get it for 140 dollar. Is the difference in quality very very big or is it just small? |
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Orion - Retired
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ack i forgot i changed the title, gota get a jac to make it perm again  _______________ 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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Battlin' Billy - Student
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I'm bummed that this isn't a permanent thread 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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Orion - Retired
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ok done with the game and im bored so time to answer a lot of questions. First: Ryder: Have you changed anything right before this started happening? If not you could have either a virus or some sort of spyware, to get rid of spywear get this program, http://www.lavasoftusa.com. If you dont have a Anti-Virus i highly recommend you get one, heres a good free one. If its none of those it could be a problem in Windows somewhere that could either A) be fixed. or B) Require a format of the pc and reinstall of the os, ie lose everything and start over. Rei: The Nvidia cards are good and so are ATI cards. Right now if you want a really good card, as much as it hurts to say ATI is the best right now.. The GF FX Cards are dissapointing. I am not very happy with Nvidia at the moment. I believe they have shot themselves in the foot, but anyway. A ATI Raedon 9600 or 9700 is the better quality equevilant of the nvidia 5600, can't remember which card .Jedi Jenko: heh just re-read ur post. and umm you got a really old video card there. with that kind of card you probably have 2x AGP, if you have a AGP slot at all. i know those cards also came in PCI Form. Not really sure what could be causeing your problem. _______________ 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 Oct 24 2003 04:51am. |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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Janus: You you shouldn't need to check your router. Apache most likely things port 80 is in use on your computer. Are you running IIS or the Microsoft personal web server? Check your porcess list and also run "netstat -an" in a command prompt to make sure port 80 is really in use. VB.net may have installed some dumb web server. If you wish you can always run Apache on another port and foward port 80 on the router to that port on your system. The outside world wouldn't know the difference. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Jenko - Student 
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OK hey, i haven't been on JA.net 4 ages lol. anyway umm im runnin on XP and i have a problem with my gtaphics card, when i go to play Multiplayer (JK2) it says 'GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem' so i looked in the troubleshooting document and it said how to sort it out. so i tried it, i downloaded a driver for my Rage 128 card. I tried to install it but it said that the driver wasn't suitable for the adapter or something. Gives us a hand! I tried all the drivers and looked on the LucasArts website but no luck so far. Oh, how do i find out the AGP speed on my computer? Cheers _______________ Wyt ti'n siarad Cymraeg? rhyw ar y traeth! |
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underhill - Student 
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Nevermind. I fixed the problem. Ignore me. Thanks anyway! _______________ "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." |
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Janus - Retired 
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Do you know alot about Apache HTTP Server for Windows? I've tried installing it and it gives error messages that port 80 is already in use. Checked my router and port 80 is listed for HTTP. What application uses it though I'm unsure. HTTP obviously stands for something web related, I have a feeling its Visual Basic.NET on my comp, but not exactly sure how to check it. Any help on this would be awesome. Thx! _______________ Be honorable, be friendly, be trustworthy. Show respect to all whom you meet. Don't forget you learn when you win AND when you lose. Be the first to admit mistake AND the first to correct it. Be the shoulder for someone to lean on. Always remember those that sacrificed time to help you. Thank you Odan Wei, Vladarion, 3th, Moridin, n00b, Motrec, Faded, Leif, and Tido, you will not be forgotten as the ones to make you remember, it's all about fun... |
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underhill - Student
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After 6 months away I sit down to play JK2 multiplayer and lo and behold the damn thing won't start. I get a "recursive error after: user interface is version 7, expected version 6" message. When I try to start single player I get "bad parameter in external weapon data 'firing force' message. While I was away directx 9 was installed on my computer so I figure that might have something to do with it. Please, for the love of God, help me! _______________ "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." |
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Rei D'Kana - Ex-Student |
Orion I need your advise. I want to buy a new 3D card and someone said I should buy this one (dont look at the prize, just give me advise on weither its a good one ) http://www.sydneymetrocomputers.com/prod1171.htm |
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