Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[J-man]

Does anyone know how I can (legally) emulate an older, slower computer?

I have the Kings Quest VI CD-ROM and everything runs incredibly fast, making the game completely unplayable. This game is from the very early 90s.

I it works under DOS, which I assume it does because it's from the early nineties, try dosbox: http://www.dosbox.com/

You can set the amount of cpu cycles it uses.

 

[Atticus]

Someone told me that you can put SATA-II hard disk in a MoBo with ordinary SATA-jack. Is it true? How about SATA-III?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Yes, the SATA standard is explicitly made to be backwards compatible, It will only work at up to the max rated speed for that SATA revision, but it will work. Some drives may need to have a jumper set though, but thats not generally needed.

 

[Atticus]

Excellent. Thanks!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is a 192 kbps considered good for MP3? I cant recall what bitrates considered Good or Not Good.

 

[Turner]

320 is the highest. 192 is okay.

 

[Zelig]

192 is borderline transparent, particularly with PC-level speakers/headphones.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

I kind of like my music to be transparent myself.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I dont know what it means when audio is transparent

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It means the mushrooms you ate are probably safe.

 

[cardgame]

192 is fine imo, it's when it goes lower than that when it becomes kinda sketchy

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It means the mushrooms you ate are probably safe.

I dont eat mushrooms.

 

[Turner]

Moderator Action: Less spam please.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have two RTF files with identical contents. Why are they different sizes? Ones abour 50 KB the others 20. I dont see any different formatting or anything.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Without actually seeing the files, it could be a million different things.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here are the two files in a zip:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jxwwfe1b0f5u47r

 

[KaiserElectric]

I'm having internet problems with my computer. Some pages that I go on (facebook, deviantart, etc.) have not been fully loading, and I can't go to my inbox on AOL, wich almost killed me in a school project. I know this has to be a problem with my computer, since my other PC has the internet working just fine. Any ideas?

 

[cardgame]

One thing you could try is using a different browser. No guarantees or anything, but it helped me resolve a similar issue a year or two ago.

Have you rebooted since you had this issue?

 

[Quackers]

I have bad internet.

I appear to connect to the WorldWideWeb but I can't access any sites. After running "troubleshooting" I get an explaination: the computer cannot comunicate with the DNS server.

What does that mean and how can I fix it?

It happens every week, not cool!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have bad internet.

I appear to connect to the WorldWideWeb but I can't access any sites. After running "troubleshooting" I get an explaination: the computer cannot comunicate with the DNS server.

What does that mean and how can I fix it?

It happens every week, not cool!

The DNS server is the server that turns web addresses into IPs so the computer can find them. Ive found thats just a generic error for "its not connected." However when I got the same errors i changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8 (thats a public one) and it worked... you can look up how to do that I think its slightly different for other operating systems...