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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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underhill - Student 
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Hey, just an idea, but how about DJ or whoever making this thread (or a thread like this) permanet. So people can post their computer problems and the community can reply with their suggestions. Would lower the computer instigated suicide rate remarkably. (gosh darn I'm clever ) _______________ "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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synia did u rebind over the c ? sometime this can happen :-\ maybe i dunno im a dumb english guy  _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are 
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Hector Thrawn - Ex-Student 
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well this is kind of a PC question: one of my few friends has a mac and i made the mistake of touching it. now my computor displays: "your are unclean get away! AWAY I TELL YOU!" any time i get near it and then when i start typing it screams and the monitor starts bleeding and the keys i touch turn black and fall off..... |
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SaberWeildinKow - Student 
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Hey Orion, I'm recently getting a ton of lag, don't think I've changed a thing, I have cable modem. windows 2000. there a site or tutorial on tweaking for internet performance?? |
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Sniya - Student 
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HELP i think i worked out why my keybord s messed up,thres about a head of hair under there.How can i clean under the keys??????????????????????????????? _______________ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Bertrand Russell http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=970 |
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Orion - Retired 
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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 |
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Mune - Student 
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Well, I did that. And here we are, back. Now, I'm scurrying to try and find enough money for XP. _______________ Captain Barkeep. |
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Orion - Retired
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Well there inlies your problem windows me. From what I remeber from working with Windows ME. Which is very little, lucky me That is once you get to something like that you are pretty much screwed and will have to reformat the pc and reinstall windows. Simply the OS is hosed and nothing you can do. Except try to install Windows98 instead of me :/ _______________ 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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Alrighty. Try this. My better computer is acting crazy. It tries to freeze when booting up, or within 2 minutes of Safe Mode. Last week, this was cured by a simple rebuilding of the registry. Well, this week, I try to restore the registry again in safe mode, and it freezes. Now, when it freezes during that, that can't be good. EDIT: Forgot. If I try to load Safe Mode or Windows regularly, I get a blinking underscore, and I guess it freezes or the registry's reaaaally screwed up. I hate Windows ME. Hep meh? _______________ Captain Barkeep. This comment was edited by Mune on Sep 14 2003 03:15pm. |
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Orion - Retired
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Video card and ram are good...but there might be a problem with your CPU if u wanted to upgrade that. You might have the first generation Pentium 4 chip. What I mean by that is when the P4's were first introduced the chip was bigger, now the chip is real small. Meaning that there were dfiferent motherboards made for the two different chips. That also meaning the First Generation P4's are no longer produced and are VERY hard to come across. The only way to upgrade your CPU is to get a new mother board and CPU heh. _______________ 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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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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Upgrade both... At least get 384MB of memory and a radeon 9700 _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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I got a question for ya: OK, here's my system: Dell Dimension 8100 P4@1.3Ghz 128MB RDRAM 40GB 7200RPM HD Radeon 32MB DDR (for Dell) Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card (also for Dell) I'm thinking about upgrading my memory or my video card. Any reccomendations which I should do? Memory I'd upgrade probably to 256MB (RDRAM is expensive) and a video card I'd like to have a "video in" port (RCA). I've also thought about upgrading the CPU(MB supports up to 1.8Ghz), but I think I'd get more "bang for the buck" if I upgraded memory or video. Any suggestions? Thanx! _______________ 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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Who knows theres probably some use for 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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Bubu - Hubbub 
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ahh i see... then why do they keep producing keyboards with a damn scroll lock button if its use is so ancient? _______________ make install -not war |
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Orion - Retired
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Good question.... I used to know but now I forget. I think it was used back in the pre-GUI OS days, ie DOS and unix. _______________ 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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Bubu - Hubbub
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question: what the *beep* is the scroll lock button for?? _______________ make install -not war |
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Orion - Retired
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hmm strange...not really sure why it would stop working like that all of a sudden _______________ 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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Sniya - Student 
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ok for some reason i cant move forward while pressing c so i cant roll or lunge.And reinstall does not work.But tnhe wierd thing is it wasnt always like this it used to work. _______________ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. Bertrand Russell http://www.thejediacademy.net/forums_detail_page.php?f_id=970 |
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Bubu - Hubbub 
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thanks man! i spent an hour tweaking my machine according to that site and it's real nice and smooth now, especially those much sought after fast startup times! _______________ make install -not war |
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underhill: AMD's are good they are cheap and fast. Their only draw back is the heat but, if you dont overclock you are ok. Bub: Try this link http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm it has a good guide to tweakin your system, and has links to a few programs _______________ 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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Bubu - Hubbub
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hello o great orion! me gots a question for you: me has Win XP Pro on a Intel P4-M 2 Ghz with 512MB RAM and a Nvidia GeForce FX Go5600 and 80gigs of HD me wants to know if there are any good windows-tweaking progs out there or any good ways to do it manually. i want to squeeze more juice out of my machine without taking too much out of my system's appearance or hindering some processes. lemme know what you think and if you need more info, tell me. _______________ make install -not war |
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underhill - Student 
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O mighty Orion, this lowly subject has a question for thee. What type of processor would you recommend? Celeron, AMD or other? I ask because I recently bought GTA3 only to find that it runs as smoothly as international judicial proceddures (that is, not at all) on Celerons. _______________ "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." |
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Orion - Retired
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hehe i need a new hdd, but no $$  _______________ 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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DJ Sith - Jedi Council 
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bah.. soon it will be gentoo.. hmm.. while I'm at newegg I think I'll get a new hard drive.. my file server is low on space. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Orion - Retired
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And I recommend getting a Gig of ram if running windows XP or 2k there is a performace boost with 1GB _______________ 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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