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MIS_Jay

I would use NTFS. Much more stable. The problem is, If you have any other harddrives in your computer that are formatted using FAT32, you wont be able to see them. But it will see a networked FAT32 drive.

Defraggin an NTFS partition takes like 3 minutes. It must defrag on the fly so to speak, cause ...

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COX Cable: 1024kbps dn - 128kbps up ; 24.95/Month

Wireless: 1.5 mbit up/dn ; $120/month

Wireless is cool for uploading to my FTP site and for downloading stuff, but for gaming, its not as stable as cable. (Hehe- Kinda poetic huh?) Have not had wireless long enough to really give a good or bad ...

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In the last 12 months, I have only paid for 2 months of internet service. If my ISP was not having extreme packet loss problems, they were out of IPs to assign, or the signal to my house was too weak to keep the connection alive longer than 5 minutes. It was always something. I once called into Tech ...

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Your raw speed was 838747.67 bits per second.
There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:

Communications

838.7 kilobits per second

How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet
Storage

102.4 ...

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I came to the forum today to find out if I can find a program to run in the background while I'm online gaming. I have the exact same problem. CS or TFC games and I have a ping of 40-50 then it spikes to 400 then it goes back down. All this over and over again. It takes me 10 tries to get thru one ...

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I have that problem sometimes. Usually I can reset the cable modem, then reboot computer, and I will get an IP. Other times, there is a problem on the ISP end, so I just have to wait for them to fix it. I also have a weak RX signal at the modem. The cable company told me that they would replace ALL ...

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I played TFC for months without a SINGLE freeze until I installed CS. Now every HL game freezes. CS and TFC freeze now. I think I'm gonna try getting rid of the entire game and reinstalling HL and TFC, BUT NO COUNTER STRIKE!!!!!!

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When you guys up your FSB, how do you keep the AGP bus down around 66. I know how to keep the PCI bus down. The AGP bus runs 2/3 of the FSB. If you OC to 133, the AGP bus is now at 88, too high for alot of Vid Cards. Mine wont work with a FSB of 133. I do have a seperate line in BIOS to up the FSB ...

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I was just reading another post and someone said Win98SE will use more than 128 megs of ram. That is the opposite of everything I have read and heard. I was under the impression that W98 would not utilize memory over 128mb. Some applications will under the W98 OS. Like the better photo editing ...

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If you pulled the card out without going into Device Manager and removing it first, you need to go to BIOS and DISable onboard sound. THen boot in safe mode and go to Device Manager and remove the sound card you pulled out. Then restart. Enable onboard sound again and it should work.

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While he's at it. He can buy two of everything and send me half. I will gladly post my address.

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RAID is cool. But the downside is, you have to have two identical hard drives. Or 4 drives if you wanna do RAID 1,0. Getting 2 ATA 100 hard drives can get expensive. But I am happy with the performance. You can set up RAID with 2 ata 33 or 66 drives, but if you can, get some 100s.

To quote someone ...

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It should work. Just copy image to Hard Drive then copy to CD. If not, try CloneCD. I cannot remember where I got it. Just search for it. It works too.

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You need 2 NICs in each machine. Bind one NIC to the TCP/IP protocol.(For Internet access) BInd the other NIC to the NetBuei protocol.(For use on the LAN) I had the same problem with my lan.(Before I setup the Linux server.) Once I got the protocols straight, everything worked much better. Using TCP ...

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Use Netscape... I dont use IE for much. Although I do use it to access this site. And a *FEW* others. Everyting else is with netscape. Just my personal preference.

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Anyone installed the latest VIA drivers? THe 4.28. I'm still using the 4.25 cause I heard bad things about the 4.26. Just curious as to how they seem to work.

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If you build your own, its already a better computer than that HP your friend bought. It may have a p4, but I will not be as fast as yours, unless he formats his drive and tweaks everything. A friend of mine bought a P3 800. My *homemade* AMD K6-3 400 would smoke his machine. His came preinstalled ...

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MusicMatch works well. I use audiocatalyst too. But I haven't had any problems.

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ATI video cards have trouble with the VIA chipset. VIA chipsets come with virtually all AMD based mobos. You may need a different video card. I got an ATI Rage Fury Pro to work with the Abit KT7A mobo but it doesnt work to its ability. Lower framerate and such. Check VIA and ATI's websites and look ...

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I have the Abit KT7A mobo. I have heard that the 4in1 VIA version 4.26 update is CRAP. Try going with the 4.25. WOrks much better. THe only driver you need from the 4.26 update is the USB Filter Driver. The rest, go with 4.25. But then again, we are talking about different mobos. Try that and see.

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Yea--tying to explain to someone new at it, how to edit the registry is hard. I just prefer to make the changes myself. Who knows, I may actually learn something while I'm in there editing.

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I know I cannot get mmore that 100 fps in HL based games. What is the command to up the max fps in Q3A? Is it "fps_max 200" ? I just wanted to know. I'm only getting 100 now, but I know I can get more.

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On what game??

Half-Life engine based games you can bring down console and type : net_graph 3

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And this place is for those of us trying to help people with slow download speeds for free. We dont charge $3.95 a minute to fix your problems.. These generous people come here and help people for free. FREE I say!!!!!! I don't like what the internet is turning out to be. You got money?? We got ...

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In order to run a good server, you need to be able to upload a MIN. of 5 K/S per player. Most cable providers limit you to around 16K/S upload. THats only enough for 3 users. To run a good server, you need to serve it on a T-1 or better.

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Also, the thing to remember about Napster is that just because the user your connecting to shows to be T-1, doesnt mean he is. If you are getting sub 20K/S, you may be connected to another cable user that is uploading as fast as he can. Dont use Napster as a speed test. I've downloaded from people ...

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Never mind. I forgot to put in the PMTUDiscovery=1 line. Is it just me, or would most of you rather edit the registry yourself instead of letting some program change things for you. Not that I dont trust the programs that make the adjustment for us on this site, I just like doing all the work when ...

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RWIN still show to be 65535 on this analyzer even after the patch. I've checked the date on the file in C:\windows\system\Vtcp.386. Its August '99. Which seems to be correct date of latest file. I have changed it in the registry, many times. And i reboot after each change to see if this analyzer ...

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Get Norton AV. Thats about the only one I have ever used. Norton had a problem with its email scan. If you ran the auto configure email scan, it would add a character to the end of my username. Therefore, I could not recieve any emails. Kept getting Incorrect User Name. Try to manually configure it ...

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Yea--sometimes if the card isnt seated correctly the machine will beep at you. Mine did that to me when I put in my AGP card and didnt seat it quite right. THe set screw kept lifting the rear of the card just a little bit. I finally held the card in place with one hand then screwed it in with the ...

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I was wondering that myself. Why not use 32-bit true color??

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Go with the GeForce2 MX. It puts out framerate in Half-Life engine and Q3A engine games at the games max. 100 FPS. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I cannot seem to set any parameter to acheive anything higher than 100 fps in Q3A or Half-Life. Things like "fps_max 150" still yeilds 100 fps. I know ...

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I havent had any issues with Falcon 4 since installing it on this new machine. It had problems with my old VIA chipset. The MVP3. But it works fine now. I was also using an ATI vid card. That may have also been the problem. With my new setup, everything runs fine. Sorry man. I know ALOT of people ...

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OH YEA--Get rid of the Orb. I have a Copper bottom Alpha heatsink and fan. Works really well. But when you go to overclocking, you will need MAJOR cooling. Several case fans and a good CPU fan. That thing *HAS* to stay fairly cool. Under 115 degrees F. You can run warmer than that, but I would try ...

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Get a new nVidia dual head vid card. Like the Geforce2 Dual Head GTS or MX. Support for dual monitors with one card.

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I would go with an AMD. Just my humble opinion. I will *NEVER* buy another Intel processor. Its just a name your are paying for. AMD is just as good (better in all of my experience) then Intel. And cheaper. Don't buy into the name. I will admit, that the AMD K6-3/VIA MVP3 chipset that I had, had ...

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I had that problem with an ATI video card that I put in a friends computer. The updated drivers didnt help. The memory on the video card was bad. ALL buttons would start looking funny the longer I was on. But hopefully this is not the case with yours. Try reinstalling the drivers. What brand of card ...

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I get 92% free on a frest start. Hard to do with Norton AV running. Almost EVERYTHING else has to go. I am at 90% with the other stuff running. Hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and see whats running. Then go to start > run and type in msconfig, then OK. Go to startup tab and uncheck everything you dont want running ...

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StillImageMonitor is also used for Digital Cameras. I have a Toshiba camera I plug into the USB port to upload images. Without the StillImageMonitor a connection with the camers cannot be established.

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I updated the firmware on my Creative Labs 4224 burner and it no longer works. I tried reverting back to the old v. 1.36 firmware but that didnt work. Now that burner is just an extra drive to keep my Q3A cd in. I've tried everything I know to get it working again. Creative is NO FREAKING help ...

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WIN98se using over 128mb RAM

Abit KT7A - New VIA driver v. 4.28

Frame Rate in Q3A and Half-Life

RWIN still at 65535 after Vtcp.386 patch