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Zhaine

Well. . . I got Avast on CD from a mate's PC, uninstalled AVG, installed Avast and rebooted to complete the install (all from safe mode). My PC then booted into Windows fine (I forgot to press F8, lol). I updated Avast and set the resident protection (or whatever it calls itself) to high, then scann...

Zhaine

Many thanks, will try Avast first and have a look. Then the other options if that doesn't work. And can anyone confirm deleting winlogon is safe/possible?

Zhaine

Sorry to bother y'all but I've run out of ideas here Something calling itself "Flooder.AKE" has infected my PC and is stopping me booting normally (safe mode works). The virus (well, trojan) has infected the "winlogon.exe" application, which now gives a "Windows Logon Process system process terminat...

Zhaine

Usually its safer to flash your bios thru the utility supplied on the cd that came with your board. It saves the boot blocks in case of failure so you can revert back to the old bios without difficulty. Aye but given a choice between bending pins back and swapping out CPUs to get into windows or us...

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Well several hours, a lot a stress and tedium and one bust floppy drive later all is well, the X2 is purring and task man has a process-gasmic extra graph on it. The flash worked fine first time, windows booted up fine and just required a restart to get the second core detected. Just a shame the Eve...

Zhaine

Cheers guys. A mate has a floppy I can use. It's gonna be a pain but all should be well and I deserve it for doing a half assed job, wish me luck ;p

Zhaine

Guess you did not read JAE's first sentence of his post then. :( I did, I'm just stupid. Like I said in general the less important stuff you change the less will go wrong (stupid attitude, I know), and I've been busy, so as people were saying it would work anyway I gave it a miss. I know doing thin...

Zhaine

Well having very little free time atm and figuring that the fewer things I changed the less likely things were to do wrong I didn't update the bios. Put the proc in today and it's not being recognised. The first startup screen (where is says memtest and stuff) is calling the CPU something like "AMD ...

Zhaine

Firstly: I had a quick look about google and these forums to see if this was posted anywhere else but I couldn't find a clear guide, so appologies if this is somewhere obvious, feel free to mock me. Secondly not sure if this needs to be in AMD asylum or here, so sorry if it's in the wrong place. Rig...

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Hmmmn cheers, I'll look for some kit then. . . And no it's definitely not possible over the Uni network (don't think we're on a network, we just get a restricted broaband connection to each room).

Zhaine

Ok I just moved to University and want to set up a wireless network for LAN only (mainly gaming) with a mate's computer a few flats away. However I'm totally clueless as to whether this is possible (given the distance) and what equipment we need to set this up. To reiterate: we don't need a net conn...

Zhaine

Errrrm, hi. Ok, it may be kinda hard to tell where this is going for a bit but bear with me. . . I play Eve Online rather a lot. Perhaps even more than I thought if something I've just seen is to be believed. I also have a £280 19" TFT monitor which I rather like. . . I noticed some odd anomolies on...

Zhaine

Ok, much thankage all :) EDIT: Installed and working fine without complication or complaint. . . And it sounds lovely, everything's much fuller and more bassy. I'm sure there are better cards but it's such an improvment over integrated that I just don't care. Now excuse me while I go listen to some ...

Zhaine

So my new, cheap OEM Audigy got here today, and I realised I'm not really sure how I should be installing it onto the my PC, built about 4 months ago. While I'm quite capable of cracking the thing open and shoving the card into it's comfortable new PCI slot, the order I should do things like (un)ins...

Zhaine

Well I spend most of my spare time on my PC playing Eve online while talking to my girlfriend on msn, which is a strange mix of the very sad and the fairly sociable. Meh. . .

Zhaine

I'm running 2x1Gb stick of corsair XMS3200 on a DFI nf4 ultra and I've had no problems. . .so far :s. . . where did you hear this stuff?

Zhaine

This is very very silly, isn't it? Option A and B both give a 1/3 chance of winning $500 Option C and D both give a 2/3 chance of winning $500 Both pairs are different ways of phrasing the same thing. . . people seem to be treating the "probability of picking an [inser colour] from bag" and "probabi...

Zhaine

Well I've got me new rig (specs'll be in sig in a sec) and Far Cry is looking mighty fine at 1280x1024 with everything else maxed out on the 19". . . However, a couple of days ago I started having trouble booting. About 19/20 times (at a guess) the computer boots as far as the "Windows XP Profession...

Zhaine

We're up and running! The drivers from DFI did the trick, so thanks especially to JAE and also to anyone that gave advice. I'm posing from the beast now. . . So far I've run the BF2 demo on full settings (offline) with no hint of a slowdown

:D:D.

Zhaine

Double-check that you downloaded the files for WinXP rather than the 64-bit version or the Linux version. DFI lumps all of their driver files together in one big list rather than sorting by operating system. I do not know how you need to have the directory structure set up on the floppy for the Win...

Zhaine

Try downloading the SATA drivers from the DFI website and making a new floppy diskette? Ok, I did this, and put the files on the floppy. Still can't use F6 to install the drivers. However, when it comes to disk 4 of the floppy installation procedure, and diplays the "SETUP WAS UNABLE TO LOAD SUPPOR...

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The only partition available is 131MB in size. I haven't got a clue what this is or what it means at all, except that I find it very unlikely thjat it's my H/D. I didn't risk choosing this partition for install. That's not a RAM disk created by the floppy boot process, is it? Probably. . . ain't go...

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I know using the CD would be easier but it simply doesnt work :(. I've been jabbing F6 like a mad **** the whole time :(:(. Thanks for the manual link. Love the way I didnt get that with my mobo at all :(:(:(. There are 4 SATA connectors on the mobo, the H/D is in No1. . . I can play around putting ...

Zhaine

OK, went with the boot up floopy idea, it didnt work until I enabled "boot up floopy seek" (or something) in BIOS. After that, the PC booted to a winXP set up screen. At the bottom, a "press F6 to install third party drivers" (or similar) message appeared for a few seconds, during which time I press...

Zhaine

Hmm... did you get a "Press a key to boot from CD" message when it is booting with the CD in the drive? If that message is there you do need to hit a key. However I assume your HD is empty so that shouldn't be the case. Sanity check: are you sure that XP CD is bootable though? Well I tried it in an...

Zhaine

This is kinda silly, isn't it. . . arguing over who's best based on rumours and what might be released. It's fun to theorise, but it's silly to have a debate based on pure conjecture. At the minute, the Green team rules the high end, no debate, while ATI is beset by delays. . . who knows what the fu...

Zhaine

Update. . . My machine is up and running, and all the hardware seems to be working fine. . . the problem we are having is installing XP. . . I power up, insert CD and. . . nothing, just a "SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENDER" message. The DVD drive is detected in BIOS, and I've ...

Zhaine

That's ok... sometimes i have problems too. About the monitor cable... if it's 250V then it's European (I know cause i'm european :)) 16A on one side means the outlet must be rated at max. 16A and the blow fuse must be the same (i have blown a fuse plugging my 25A washing machine in a 10A rated out...

Zhaine

Reading the CPU and motherboard manuals will be a good start. Nowadays almost all of them have nice colourful pictures for you to reference. :) I know roughly what I'm doing Give me some credit here, people :D. OK, thanks JAE. I'm gonna be majorly pissed of if that monitor doesnt work, being as I o...

Zhaine

not sure I've ever been this exited. Too excited to spell excited I can tell 8) Yes. . . well, thanks for that :D. Anyways my excitement has been raised further by the arrival of all the components this morning. . . a couple of things, however: The monitor. . . 19" is BIG, isn't it. Like, offensive...

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