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Dark Bard

Are you trying to host a game or just connect to a game in progress.

Dark Bard

I always leave mine on but I do worry now about lightening storms. A few years back we had a tree strike in the yeard, the bolt bounced of the tree and hit the pole, found the cable line and came in the house. It fried the tuners of every TV connected to it.

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I've built both AMD and Pentium systems. I like the AMD's myself and think the Athalon is the way to go, but. And this is a big BUT. It's been my feeling that windows is optimized for intel chipsets. That's not to say that you'll have problems with AMD cpus and non-intel mobo's but I just found them ...

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I have an athalon 1 gig system too. It has 4 fans in it. One is in the power suply, one in the front part of the case, one on the VIA bridge chip and one on a rather large heatsink right on the CPU. It stays plenty cool with that. It sounds like the system your're working on could use another fan to ...

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This is an good Tech support story. I've been having a problem with the surround mixer that came with my SB Live. Every time I try to run it I get a plug in error. So after exhausting everyhting I could think about I called thier tech support line. It's automated and eventually I got to the choice ...

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Honestabe, the problem doesn't occur that regular. It's most likely to occur while streaming a vid or sometimes when I play UT especially between levels when I'm downloading a map that's not on my HD. It's very wierd in that it almost seems like it's what it says it is the CPU is just too busy to go ...

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DannJR, your suggestion was close, I think. I made the change to my registry, rebooted and tried the same file, actually it's a stream of the Halo movie for Xbox. It did stop again but it did not BSOD me. I was able to shut it down and go back to browsing. Wierd but I'm still certain its a win98 ...

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No, I haven't. Could a bad NIC behave that way. Everyhting else is working great, just once in a while with a really large file the system hangs up.

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Has anyone ever encountered this little problem. I'm running an Athalon 1 gig, Abit KT7ARaid with 128 MB ram under Win98SE, what is happening is this. Some times when downloading a very large file over my @Home connection I get a BSOD "system busy" warning and I have to reboot. This usually happens ...

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I'm going to try relocating it, my BIOS or WIN won't cooperate. I'm just affraid of it reverting back to having my video card and NIC on the same IRQ. That was a pain.

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My NIC and SB Live share IRQ 11, everyhting works fine and Win98SE says there is no conflict. But once in a while I'll be playing UT when the system will hang and I get the BSOD "system busy" message. It usually happens between levels when I'm downloading a map ubt it also happened in a game. Could ...

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The problem with the look of PC gmaes is developers have to scale the game so it'll be playable on the majority of systems. So right now DC or PS2 games might look on par with the likes of current PC games. I haven't seen anyhting on the PS2 that blows away what I've seen on the PC or even DC for ...

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I'd save some money on the RAM and only go with 256, since that's all WIN 98 and ME cna use. Unless you are using NT or Win 2000.

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I would check your NIC's IRQ and the vid card's. If they are sharing the same one that could be your problem. I had a simillar one with IE5 locking up. Though I was able to play UT online it did lock up when I went to switch levels.

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Is there a way in WIN NT to run telnet full screen?

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One thing I noticed since getting broadband is how differnt some servers can be. Some web sites I struggle with 30KBps where others I'm up around 380 KBps. For the most part my dl's have been right aorund 300 KBps and my speed between 1560 kbps and 2200 kbps. I've been happy this far (after one ...

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No, I know the NIC is okay because this only started this week when I changed motherboards and I've had the NIC for almost 2 months. I think I have it fixed now. I turned of the windowscaling by setting the Tcp1323Opts=0. I maybe so far I've just been lucky so I'll cross my fingers.

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I'm sorry I should have said. I'm using Win 98 SE. The my sys manager says there are no conflicts. Either way the general consesus seems that if there was a conflict the NIC wouldn't work at all and that's what I needed to confirm. Thanks.

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I'm still having problems with IE but I think I'm closer to solving it. I noticed that my NIC is on IRQ 10 and so is the ACPI controller on my mobo. Could this be the cause for me IE halting? Should I try putting the NIC into a different slot? It doesn't occur with any regularity so I'm reluctant to ...

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TonyT thanks, I'm running the latest drivers for my video. I'm going to head over to MS and get the latest java machine. It's really wierd because I can't duplicate it or anticipate when it happens.

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I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this. I'm browsing along when all of the sudden I come up to a site where IE will freeze. My mouse still works but the pointer remains in the same spot. I can still move around the web page with the keyboard or even the mouse just not the pointer. However ...

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I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this. I'm browsing along when all of the sudden I come up to a site where IE will freeze. My mouse still works but the pointer remains in the same spot. I can still move around the web page with the keyboard or even the mouse just not the pointer. However ...

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Storm90 thanks for your input. I've been through my reg and startup files with a fine toothed comb and it looks like everyhting there is there for a reason. It seems the trade off would be a speedy boot for the functionality of some of my devices. It's just funny my first machine was a 12mhz 286 and ...

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I tried those and I downloaded a bootlog analyizer from ZDnet. It shows that some of my devices, my net card & USB camera in particular load twice, both with delays. Also the biggest delay is for a tape controller detection. I don't have a tape drive but I do have a zip. I've found the key in the ...

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Storm90 I'll try that. I already have my virt mem sttings for 3x my RAM and I went through my sys tray and took out a few things that were slipped past me.

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I was just wondering how long is too long. I have a 1 gig Athalon system with 128 MB of ram and it takes 2 1/2 minutes to fully load win98 SE. Is there anyhting I can do to speed things up. I've cut back on the number of programs that load in my sys tray. Is there anyhting else I could try or is ...

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Yes you have to verify the IRQ for the new slot. Another thing that might happen too is Windows will reinstall the NIC in the new slot and keep the one in the old, they'll conflict and you won't get any service. Mine did that, scared me too for a couple minutes until I figured out what happened. On ...

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Lobo, if you turn off everyhting when you run your speed test how relaistic is that number? I know that when benchmarking a system you need to isolate anyhting that can influence that benchmark but at the same time it's good to get some real world settings too. What do you think?

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To me that 512 kbps cap is kind of low. I hope that's not where cable is heading. Myself I'd rather have an open pipe that may rise and slow but atleast the potential is there for speed.

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The good or bad of what Napster does is a debate for another board. I do think there may be some benefits to shutting napster down but it may be too broad to reall effect a noticable change. At the same time who is to say that one use of the net is better than the other. Is downloading MP3's a worse ...

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Well, I've had my cable modem for seven weeks but have only had the service working for 1 week. That should tell you what I think about @ Home. Sure when it works it works great, but when it doesn't it's like a roll of the dice to get someone competent enough to help you. Plus they seem to pass the ...

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I think I have this right but just want to make sure. Many of the cable modem tweaks are string value additions to the registry. For example MaxMTU="1500" My quesiton is, I create a key MaxMTU= then, do I need to put MaxMTU=1500 as the full valuse or just 1500?

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Thanks for the input.

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I've noticed a running app, PTSNOOP.exe, which I think is some sort of web checking program, on my system. Does anyone know how to get rid of it or keep it from loading? What does it really do? I can't find any documentation about it and it is something of a memory hog.

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I was wondering why, when we pay good money for our various services, does it seem to be a crap shoot when we need to call customer support? When I couldn't get my @ Home account up I must have spoke to 20 account reps, of those 5 were helpful and the rest varried form no help at all to making ...

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Right Lobo it was the home office. My location is pretty much equal distance from the two head offices so some how my account wound up spread between the two of them. I was on a node in Dover but a head-end in Harrington. Very odd. It does explain why no one could find anyhting.

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There's no way around that because while your downloading the file the browser is actually estimating the rate. Once it's done it gives you the final rate which is nothing more than the size of the file divided by the time in seconds.

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And on the 43rd day the Gods have smiled on me. My @ Home account is working. Turns aout the head-end was wrong and after a couple rebuilds of the account I was off and running. What worries me is has this been the problem all along? Could I have been up a long time ago if I happened across a rep as ...

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IndyOST, the MAC addr. does show up and if they do a search under it my account shows up. However, I thought that since my account had been pushed so many times there were 2 accounts under my name. I think replacing the modem should have taken care of that. I did get a call back telling me that ...

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