Sorry for vanishing at midnight

[TimberWolf]

Sorry to those I was playing with last night for my untimely disapearence. I tried coming back several times but I could not get anything to connect. It looks like my ethernet card just died on me since I can no longer see the house network. Also for some damn reason Windows XP thinks its in an all new system and needs to get a hold of Microsoft to be reactivated withing 3 days. All I dad was put a new processor in it yesterday and all was fine till midnight came around. I have things to do today related into transfering me to a Community College, and then work, so I can't try to fix any of this till tomarrow. Dangit, I was having fun when I lost the connection.

*Note* If you say check your internet connection, I will have to slap you up the side of the head since I am posting from my Fathers computer at the same house, on the same DLS Modem, as my own computer. So I know its not the internet connection.

[Gryphon]

I recently replaced my mobo, ram, cpu, and gpu and windows installed and activated. I then installed a soundcard and then it said your comp has changed too much and needs to be reactivated which then of course failed. Buggy pos :rolleyes:

[SmackDab]

There are tools out there that disable the authorization thing....heh.

Or you could always go corporate key if you got XP-PRO installed.

[TimberWolf]

I have XP Pro installed on my little 17gig Hard Drive. First thing first, I got to get my internet connection working again and I won't have time to do that till after work tonight or tomarrow some time. I will have to pull on old Network card out to replace the one in my current system.

[TimberWolf]

Ok, I have finaly, as far as I can tell, got my system working nicely again. There is one major problem though, it bombs when I try to play PlanetSide. It only takes about 20 to 30 seconds in game before it all locks up. Any ideas of what would cause this? Also, dont know if this is releated but the security patch that Windows says it needs to install wont install. Can anyone help me so I can get back to killing those dang NC and TR?

[Torque]

Hmmm, maybe try to tone down the bios settings for your memory. But first, try running 3dmarks 2001 and see if that works. I always use that just to mark sure my BIOS settings are not too aggressive.

Your problem sounds like a timing thing though. Hope this helps.

[TimberWolf]

The strange thing is, as far as I can see in the BIOS, everything is as they are when it came from the factory minus some of the onboard things have been disabled. By what I can see there should be no problem, yet there is. I am currently downloading 3DMark to run the test. I have done everything I can do to fix it, even going through the BIOS one by one and looking at what it should be and trying out a couple of changes. All I have been able to do so far is get Windows working but games are still out of order. If my Dads hard drive had any room left, I could try and put PS on it, but it only has a couple hundred MB left.

[TimberWolf]

The 3DMark bombs when it gets to the sound test. That does not get me any closer to getting the source of the problem, just reminds me that some how half of my PCI slots are on one IRQ. How can you change IRQ's?

[Torque]

Okay, a couple of things and they both are focused on the fact the planetside really has something hosed up with respect to sound.

1) I had a problem before where 3dmarks was failing and after searching the internet I tried the following:
run dxdiag at the "run" option under the start button
DISABLE and enable all options that it will let you (should be 3 for display and 1 for sound I believe).
run 3dmarks and see if it works
if it does try Planetside and cross your fingers

2) go to device manager and click on computers
change your power management to advance power manager driver. You can do this by clicking on AIPC under the computers menu. Then select change driver and let windows search for a better one. Select the "advance power ....." Other people have used this and it helped the sound problem. I believe what it does is forces windows to re-shuffle the interrupts (IRQs).

Good luck and keep posting.

[TimberWolf]

I would try that right now but I have to head back to work shortly. I am working 9 hours today. :( It would not be so bad if I could sit down once in a wail, but at least I got a few hours off between shifts. Not entirerly fun being a Bus Boy.

When I get home about, 10:30est, I will try it and hope that it lets me play PS. I have ordered a new Mother board with a stick of 512MB DDR memory.

Here is board I am getting for about $83: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=436&MODEL=MS-6570

I miss fraggin! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
I want to kill some :tr: and :nc: ! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
I miss killing so many people so I feel like :buff:

[TimberWolf]

Ok neither worked, and since my system was already on the advance option I could not change it to that. I uninstalled the sound card drivers, disabling the card, and was able to play PS. What sucked was I kept getting killed like I was a newbie cause I can't hear anything. So I reinstalled the drivers and just waiting for my new equipment to come in later this week. I did jack about 7 vehicles before I quite. Still cant find the reason that this all happend.