Your 'Startup Diskette' will probably create a 'RAM disk' when it's booting your system up, so be aware your CD drive letter might be one letter further on to what you're used to.
I can remember clearly walking into a pub in Perth in the early 1970s and seeing what was the weirdest looking pinball machine I'd ever seen. It was called 'Pong'.
I stuck a coin in the thing and sat down to it with a mate, and several hours later I was already 'hooked'. Through the 'consoles' and 'personal computers' that followed, I kept up an interest, and I can fondly recall hanging out for the next months issue of my favourite mag, so I could type in the code for the games that were included, and check them out on the Vic20 and later the c64 :lol:
There have been lengthy periods since when I've been involved with other pursuits, but I've always come back to them. PC games are my option of choice, and with work responsibilities I find myself watching my children and grandchildren playing them more than I get to sit down to a session myself. But not always.
I've got 'Half-Life on the go at present (I missed that one on the way past :) ) and Max Payne 2 is sitiing right there waiting for me to get to it. Maybe I'll just lock the doors for a couple of days! :D
Best way is not to have game consoles. Those things in the house and every kid that comes there ends up crowded in front of the TV. Having games on the PC makes it a lot easier to keep that activity for when kids are on their own, without others around for play.
Of course, it depends on the guidance you give to the kids as well. Leave them with Technology as a 'babysitter' and you've got no hope!
I've been lucky enough (or smart enough) to get the kids all involved in outdoor activity from the outset, and now that my kids have kids of their own, they're passing on the same guidance. Involvement in regular sports activities helps, but actually getting out there and playing with them is the most important factor of all.
Oh yeah, that's right! Having Grandparents involved heavily with the kids is pretty crucial to it all as well!
You know you're getting old when your grandkid turns up, beats the living bejeesus out of you at multiplayer, and you know that no matter how much you practice, it ain't gonna change!
But the point is, you don't have to be old unless you give up, and adopt some stereotypical lifestyle based upon the expectations of others. I had one of my grandkids turn up on the weekend, and he gave me the irrits sitting down to a 4 hour session of Grand Theft Auto 3. I couldn't ecven get near my own games rig! But I beat him in the end. Put 'Jah Rule' on the stereo and cranked it up loud! That shifted him, because he hates listening to 'Jah Rule'! :D
I've been having a lot closer look over the past week than I've had time to do previously, and there certainly is a lot of 'lurkers' who view and don't sign up, isn't there?:eek: :eek:
And you know what? This 'Geeks Lounge' is about the emptiest 'get-together place' I've seen in an Internet forum! That's a surprising thing, because it's set up so that 'Guests' can post replies here as well. ;)
The only topics under discussion, apart from a couple of contest or word game thingies, seem to be about bloody computers! What's wrong with people over there? Have you no lives? Isn't there something you're passionate about, or even interested in?
Seriously, start posting interesting stuff in here for discussion, people. I'd like to see what catches people's attention in Pommyland! :)
The 'H' in that identification most likely indicates that the memory chips on the module are manufactured by Hynix.
It's possibly just a BIOS identification problem. Try downloading and installing the latest BIOS update for your motherboard and see if that fixes things for you.
You haven't really provided enough information for a more specific answer than that.
luckydude, I'd suggest you use both on your system. Have Spybot set to immunize, and run AdAware as a manual scan every so often.
Each picks up stuff that the other misses, and they don't chuck 'hissy-fits' and conflict the way Virus Scanners do if you have more than one installed.
Is that Windows XP you have? Are both the floppy drives you've mentioned older ones?
I've found Windows XP to be problemmatic with older floppy drives. Tear your hair out in frustration trying to get one to work, but if you pop a new one in the machine it works fine!
I'd advocate using both in tandem. No single utility will detect everything, but I believe AdAware and Spybot between them keep abreast of any new Malware that crops up.
Have a good read, work out what you want to disable and what you need to leave, and feel pretty confident about using Black Viper's 'Safe' configuration. You'll end up with a leaner system afterwards. ;)
Those figures correct there? A 300 GIGABYTE partition? :eek:
If that's correct, despite theoretical limitations, I'm sure you're way beyond what Windows will efficiently handle, and you're certainly beyond what a Windows disk scan can handle accurately.
I'd suggest you repartition that thing. Why on earth do you need a partition that big?
You gotta format that thing and load up again. But before you do, I reckon you better grab a new hard drive to use. Those file0000.chk files are file fragments left over after scandisk has found bad sectors and unreadable files.
You've blue screened and switched off a fair bit, haven't you? Formatting and reinstalling might fix things up, but if your problems crop up again, it'll be because your hard drive is heading for it's resting place ;)
I came across your site a while back whilst searching a few discussions for hints to a solution for one of our readers at Australian PC User http://www.pcuser.com.au I never found quite what I was looking for at the time, but I loved the place!
I'm online a fair bit, because I need to keep my finger on what's happening in IT, and I also moderate a Gamers Forum for PCPowerPlay magazine. I drop in here now and then, because as well as being a wonderfully informative site, you've got the cheeriest looking IT forum I've found yet. :)
My grandson's claimed my gaming rig for an overnighter, after bailing out on his Mum for the weekend, so this is one of those times. And seeing's I've dropped by, I've signed up so I'll be a member rather than a lurker from now on.
