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quote:Originally posted by Marvin: quote:Originally posted by ShoHashi: ...does the the Cybermen, Mary Jane and K-9 ring any bells? Indeed. Sometimes you just gotta take a break from all that "realistic" sci-fi and go with what's fun. Like a Time Lord taking on half-a-million androids (Daleks) all by himself. Not much of challenge that is them Daleks are pretty dumb.

quote:Originally posted by Remo Williams: Thanks guys, my wife is standing here at my side reading your replies, she thanks you as well. You guys are the best friends anyone could hope for in this ugly world. Peace be with you all. If you or your wife or even the other kids ever need an ear or shoulder to lean on, you know where we are. I for one can speak from experience on this and how I coped with it. I Took up smoking for one. The only thing I still beat myself up about is how I could have done something different to alter things. Silly, I know like we have any control over fate. As I have stated, it's not going to be easy for some time. However, it is true that time is a good healer not a perfect one but a good one. Just hang tough.

Wow, just wow. Sorry to hear about that. Nothing I can say that can take away the pain and grief. But all my best to you and your family.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I don't see why nVida wants the ULi chipset when they have their own nForce which does just fine. So, I wouldn't be surprised if their intent is to in fact bury the brand and cause ATI problems. I'v read a few good reasons why'd they want the company and that a zing to ATI is just icing on the cake. Don't know concretely about the killing off ULI but if past moves are any indication they could just very well do that. Silly when companies do that just to spite the competition. In the end, they are only hurting the consumer. They need to tread lightly though when they do this because I'm seeing more and more anti-Nvidia attitudes cropping up. Seems to be spreading too.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: 1: Yeah, that too. 2: Anyway, boot problems are usually related to PSU issues. That person having boot up problems may have an underpowered PSU. 1: Hmmm, I've been reading quite a few articles and forums concerning thit Nvidia and ULI issue. At first some didn't seem concerned and this was back in december: Pure overclock: Though a worrying message for ATI, the takeover date of 2007 should not cause ATI's current chip sourcing strategy any worries, and I doubt Nvidia would be crazy enough to limit supply after 2007 to ATI. Money is money, after all. But now it seems things are a bit different: Pure Overclock: NVIDA seems to have buried the Voodoo brand after its acquisition of 3DFX and looks set to be doing the same to the ULI brand. At least that's what HEXUS has been told by two of NVIDIA's 'nForce chipset' customers. We'll have to wait and see. However the concensus is that ATI really hasn't anything to worry about in the long run because of it's SB600 South Bridge shortly. 2: Yeah, I never did give that a thought. It's hard to tell what these guys have in terms of hardware and one would assume they would be properly powered. I looked at the overal review score for this board and it far out weighed the bad. So, I came to two conclusions about the bad reviews: 1 - They just happened to get a bad board 2 - They just don't know what the heck they are doing

Oh wait are you referring to the Nvidia purchase of ULI? I just noticed those comments about that and did a quick search. Looks like Nvidia is trying to put the screws on ATI. http://digitimes.com/mobos/a20060327PR206.html

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: You need to follow this link I posted and change your registry settings to alleviate the PIO mode drop. Yeah, I bookmarked it for when and if I need it again. Thanks again and also thanks to soback.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I've been thinking of getting one of these for the heck of it, but the comments on the Newegg site and the boards, have been a tad nervous. I read them also before I bought it. I don't know why the ones that are having problems are having the problems. My hardware installation couldn't have been easier. I could see if it was an earlier bios version board but the boards out now have the verson 1.5 or higher. I have bios 1.5. Can't comment on the SATA2 issue since I have just the SATA1 drive. I see one guy, a few reviews down, gave it two eggs. quote: Pros: Loaded with features and sounds very promossing with all the reviews other then below it runs great but a few problems Cons: doesn't always post boot all the way during windows boot...and doesn't always find the raid/0 drives that i got set up...it worked alright when i first set it up other then the boot problem....the games played well and no problems other then the boot but now my games wont load the visial but i can hear the sounds of the game and hear my mouse go over the menus but didn't load the graphics Other Thoughts: i know this motherboard sounded way 2 good 2 be true when i bought thie MB, i guess im a little Optimistic next time i'm going 2 buy a name i know and don't go with a small brand....stupid me!I don't know. Mine boots everytime. I mean everytime real fast too mind you. All I can add is that I'm very very very happy with it. I didn't think I would be because I was an MSI fanboy. But this one really surprised me. If you only knew how many hours I've put on this board already and it's still kicking strong. I bought the artic silver but haven't gotten around to pulling out the cpu and cleaning off the original stuff so I can do a little overclocking so I can't comment yet on the overclocking aspect of the board yet either. People were also complaining about this particular maxtor SATA hard drive I bought with the ASrock about the noise from it. It's been quiet. In fact too quiet for my tastes. I like to hear something going on so I know it's still going.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: 1: uhm, shouldn't that be the ASRock you discussed over here? I just posted to that thread too btw. 2: Yep. Read 2-3 of my posts here and you'll see why that is. Your drive has probably dropped down to PIO mode. 3: Yep. And thats why, even though I too use SF in non-D2D versions of UCG and UCAWA, we don't experience those problems. The drivers are the same, but we don't use the CD-ROM for authentication. Instead, it is done online using Starforce ProActive. SF intentionally embeds bad sectors on a CD-ROM during the burning process. Only their program can read it. Windows just sees that as an error and drops down to PIO mode. Hence the problems. But don't try telling that to the anti-SF camp. 4: "...UCAWA broke my BF 1942 install!!!Derek Smart!! Die beeyatch!!" 1: Yeah, heh, bloody typo. I actually had put Asus originally and changed it real fast to Arock also known properly as Asrock. 2&3: Yeah, been reading up on some of the stuff. You would think microsoft would have written in a warning flag that pops up in XP or at least an option that pops up leaving it up to the end user what to do about it. Something at least to let the end user know what the heck is going on. But then again it's microsoft. I'm really starting to feel like Scotty when he was giving the once over for the first time of the U.S.S. Excelsior. What was it he said? Oh yea: "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." 4: Heh, that made me laugh. I wasn't expecting that. Like I said, I was trying to go out of my way and not blame Starforce. Case of circumstantial evidence. I feel sorry now for the many people that are probably in prison because of it. I should have realized that it was micrsoft that was the culprit here. Thanks guys, you've given me the confidence to re-install the games with starforce on it. If this issue crops up again with my DVD burner, I'll do the above issue fixes and let you guys know one way or the other.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Bah!! Didn't I invent that already? I think your critics killed your invention by saying tbe invisibility graphics were outdated.

This is wierd. Is this thread closed? I only see a folder icon but when I right click on it and select properties: closedb.gif. I thought it was suppose to be lock?

quote:Originally posted by Prez: quote: Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I dunno man, reading that whole Rennes business gave me a massive headache. As I got to the code part, I felt my - otherwise high intellect and IQ - slowly ebbing away. In other words, I felt stupid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the club. Feh - cry me a river. You guys only felt stupid after watching a movie. Try walking around feeling stupid ALL THE TIME like I do!!! I have never read the book or seen the movie. Let me guess: The butler did it I bet.

quote:Originally posted by Soback: Like that article says. The reason it coincides with installation of some game is becaues winXP is trying to read the disk, while receiving an error, and then trying to compensate by downgrading read/write speed . Since a lot of games use Starforce as their copy protection, uninformed users blame Starforce for their cd/dvd drives becoming slow or un-usable. Since they don't know this "feature" of WinXP, and can't track it down to read/write error because of a scratched or blemished cd that windows is trying to read. And once the cd/dvd speed has been downgraded, it stays that way till manually reset. To prevent this, make sure the disk that goes in your drive is free of blemishes/scratches. If the drive does start performing at a slower speed, fix the problem by following directions here or here depending on your system , and clean your cd/dvd disk. I'll read up those links and stuff a little more later on when I get a chance. However, all my CD's are pretty much in mint condition. I don't mess around with them and I'm the only one that handles them.

quote:Originally posted by Soback: People blame this on Starforce all the time. In fact, Windows XP does this. Whenever there's an error in cd writing/reading, the speed is downgraded by windows, so for example 48x goes to 24x, if the error persists it goes to 12x, and so forth. I think there's a way to reset the speed in the bios. Anyhow. Search for starforce threads from last year. SC explained it in one of those threads. Yeah, I tried not to blame it on Starforce. However, it just seems funny that after I installed a starforce laden game, it did what it did. Usually, I never have any complaints about software stuff. I usually find ways to fix issues but this one had me stumped. Also, the only burning program I use anymore is nero. Well, what I guess I'll need to do is keep my eye on the burn speeds for next week or so then install Silent Hunter 3 and see what happens.

I'm going to revive this old debate. I do have an issue with it. As you all know, I upgraded my computer back in January. The Arock PCI-E/AGP with an Amd 3700+ 64bit with a 250gig maxtor Sata drive. Everything was fresh on the hard drive such as the OS install. SC, this motherboard and the entire system is kicking butt just thought I let you know. However, I had to do a reinstall of the OS about a week ago, the reason why I haven't been around here lately. Spent the time reinstalling the software. I didn't put any games back on yet. wasn't the fault of the hardware, I did something that messed up the windows install. One thing that was happening was that DVD burns were taking about 45min or more each to burn a 4gig disk. It should only have taken about 10 minutes. This all started happening when I installed a game with Starforce. Silent Hunter 3 to be exact. I did that little trick of disabling the two resident programs with no results. Now, since the refreshed OS install and no game has been installed with starforce, the burns are back up to speed. I just did a 3 disk 4gig each backup the other day and each took about 6+ minutes. I really thought my DVD burner was crapping out but I had just bought that back in november so it shouldn't be dying just yet unless it was manufacturing issue cropping up later in it's life. Is it my immagination or is it the starforce? I'm almost too affraid to install Silent Hunter 3 again to see if it is because I don't want to have to do another OS install to get rid of it.

quote:Originally posted by Prez: I don't care if it's butt-ugly. It's a spiritual successor to SYSTEM SHOCK!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!! I'm just going to QFT: quoted for truth. I couldn't have said it any better.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: I dunno man, reading that whole Rennes business gave me a massive headache. As I got to the code part, I felt my - otherwise high intellect and IQ - slowly ebbing away. In other words, I felt stupid. Welcome to the club.

quote:Originally posted by Kalshion: ....... How can you guys NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?! It's been in the Drudge Report, wall street journal, and at least two other specific sites for the past YEAR!!! That all might be well and good but where's media blitz that accompanies the other immigrant issues such as putting the screws to them that gets played over and over on local news channels. To be honest, haven't been reading much news as watching the local stuff and I can tell you, being NYC news, someone's keeping this low key because I've yet to see boo about it other than this thread.

Personally, I haven't read the book nor seen the movie. I refuse to spend a single dime for this garbage even if it is mostly fiction. My nephew did see this past weekend and he said it was okay nothing to write home about. After much discussion over it, He and I still prefer the real deal: Rennes-le-Château. The Real Mystery There's one thing I would love to get my hands on and read: 17th Century manuscript detailing the genealogy of Jesus Christ

quote:Originally posted by echo: Well I was sifting through this area (which I love since I don't get to see too many movies, and it helps me decide what to rent) and I noticed something. I watched a movie this weekend and was curious to see what you all thought of it. I can't find any mention of it. Now we all know sometimes it's me and I can't find my way out of a paper bag sometimes, nevermind and old thread, but I was more curious. Did no one see it, is it too controversial to mention, or do guys just not discuss this movie? Anyway everyone I had heard from prior to seeing it said it was a great love story. I disagree, it was a great representation of how it was in the 70's and 80's but those two had no chemistry to speak of. Then there were 2 of the funniest scenes ever but I am not sure if I can mention them. But really did anyone see it? xoxoxo This is a very cryptic thread. Are you sure you aren't caught up in the Da Vinci code frenzy. Pretty much no one discusses this movie as much as makes fun of it. Rightly deserved too. Just another movie with a political agenda motive is all it is. One word: Hollywood.

Funny how the vast news media hasn't picked up on this story and made a hooplah out if like they've done every other immigrant issue. This is the first I'm hearing anything about it. If it was about the language or other immigrant issues, they'd be harping all over it.

Honestly, this measure was long overdue. Now maybe the government can save loads of money on applications that are printed in several languages using up more ink and paper. Applications such as welfare. They way I look at it, much like Rush Limbaugh, if you can't read or speak the language you shouldn't be entitled to anything this country has to offer. Even voting, you know how much paper is wasted. It should all be in english and none of this foreign language crap. Learn the god damn language. I'll give you another example of why this measure should pass. I work in a doctor's office. We have tons of spanish patients, mainly dominican, the phone calls I've gotten are jokes. I have had quite a few spanish people call el stupido because I didn't speak spanish. So, in conclusion, it's about time to put the screws to this easy pass these aliens have recieved. Why we've bent over backwards for them is beyond me where other past immigrants weren't give the same treatment.

Hah, that was pretty funny. Don't think I've seen it before.

I love it. About bloody time someone said it. But wait OMG he's smoking!!! Wait 'till you read this. I had seen something on the local news a day or two ago about this but couldn't find it on their site: The Telegraph: Washington, April 29: President George W Bush led American conservatives in condemning a new Spanish version of AmericaÔÇÖs national anthem and declared that Latino immigrants should learn the English version. --------------------------------------------------------- WHOSE NATIONAL ANTHEM? By Michelle Malkin :No one, anywhere, has ever thought that about "The Star-Spangled Banner," whose tune started life as an unpretentious British drinking song. The intent with "Nuestro Himno," or "Our Anthem," is quite specific. "We decided to show our solidarity with the undocumented migrants," says President Adam Kidron of UBO Records, which is releasing the track to coincide with a U.S. Senate debate on an immigration bill whose carrots and sticks could change the lives of maybe 12 million immigrants, documented and otherwise. The song tries to say in music what millions of immigrants have argued in recent street demonstrations: America's tradition is inclusion. Let the rockets red glare.

I'd like to know what the heck is going on in the business world. It's becoming a pirate's plunder fest. Don't know if you've heard about Computer Associates top two people getting busted for cooking the books in their favor to soak investors.