Recent content by Strontium_Dog

Go for a 'truepower' type of power supply, if you can stretch to it. These use a seperate supply for each of the cables, and are much more stable than cheap ones, which can start to mess about when you drag a lot of power from them. My comp' is built almost entierly of parts I bought at...

It crosses DOS with an old childerens book, which goes something like See Spot (a dog, by the way) See Spot run Run Spot, run Anyway, as for standups, I've been watching them for years. I admire them, to stand there, all alone, and try to make the audience laugh. Takes some nerve...

Your computer is not a 'Linux computer' as such. It's a computer that happens to have Linux installed on it. This can be changed, or modifyed. You need to identify your video card, soundcard etc etc (the make and model) and get hold of the Windows drivers for them. Did you get any disks with...

Have you installed all the neccersary drivers in Windows? Things like the graphics card drivers, soundcard and so-on. I have heard that installing win98 on a dual-boot system (one which has multiple os's) can be a bit of a sod. Chairman Bill doesn't like other os's :rolleyes: I've...

There's no msconfig, but the way I stop things starting up is this... In control panel, open 'Administrative Tools', then 'services'. From here you can see all the services that are installed, and select whether you want them to start automatically, manually or disable them. This is a usefull...

You could have a supply problem, yes. Try ripping without the peripherals you dont need plugged in. You might look at how many processes you've got running in the background too. Shut down those you don't need. I've got mine down to 22 processes (stated by task manager), and 3 icons in the...

Played SS1, thought it was great :goodjob: Stopped gaming for a while though, needing to more ingredients into my life than work, games and beer. They're slipping back in though, hence my presence on these boards :lol:

Should be fine, I know someone who does it with an Athalon 900 and 256 sdram. They're running XP too, which hogs more resources than 2000. What software are you using? I've ripped a few with DVDDecrypter, under 2000, never had a problem.

Funny stuff :lol: I had a quick look at some of the comments, there's a scary amount of people who think it's a legitimate article :crazyeye: with rather a lot who, after stating their credentials as some sort of IT pro, go through each point one by one, pointing out it's incorrectness...

It's a good game. Fun and none too serious. There's nowhere near the amount of thinking and planning that Civ requires, although there are some tricky bits (I'm struggling with dancing :crazyeye: ). I certainly don't regret getting it :) As for your system, I'm using a 2gig P4, with 1 gig...

I had a similar problem, it would work and go through signing up with someone, then crash when the game itself started. I fixed it by downloading the latest drivers for my graphics card. It works fine now. :) You need to identify which graphics card you have. Then search out the site for...

I know the parts well, as it was built with a specific purpose in mind. P4 2ghz Northwood cpu A-Bit BE-7 RAID mobo Hercules Radeon 9000 128DDR gfx card 1gig DDR2700 RAM WD Caviar 80GB 7200 8MB cache HDD Maxtor 40GB 7200 HDD (x2) Lite-on 52x CD-writer Pioneer 106 DVD-writer Antec P160...

Ooooops, haden't seen that :blush:

This thread inspired me to have another go at getting Frontier to run. I did some messing with scripts, with alternate .nl files, but could'nt persuade the game that I had extended memory . It needs it, but win2000 doesnt use it. But I've solved it, :D and it may work if the game will run in...

I would agree, it does sound like you have picked up a virus. You need to run some anti-virus software, making sure it's fully updated. Deleted files haven't gone anywhere, they are still there. All deleting does is remove the flag that tells the OS that the file is there, untill that...