Recent content by NickTheBubble

Hi everybody, I am extremely frustrated since for the last couple of days I am unable to enjoy HL2. Following Steam's latest platform update the game crashes once Gordon follows Alice on their way to Dr. Klein's lab. There is already a thread on Steam Forums and surprisingly people blame it...

Hi everybody, I'm sure that the majority of you have completed the game ages ago but my student status on my degree year really limits my available time. Anyway to cut the long story short, through thick and thin i reached chapter 11 "Follow Freeman" and i got stuck in the room with the...

Merry Christmas everybody, I know that quite a few of you have already finished the game therefore i would creatly apreciate any tips to conclude chapter 3 and move on with the rest of the game. I suppose i'm close to conluding the chapter but i have no clue how to get out. I do have a...

Hi guys, I got stuck at chapter 3 "Route Kanal" and i don't know where the next exit is. I get my hands on the first pistol, come out of the building, jump on top of the train in order to move across and then smash the box in order to get the amo that is as far as i get. I've been walking all...

Hi everyone, I've read elsewhere and certainly experiencing problems with my SATA and PATA/IDE drives on my system. Initially when i put my system together with just 2 Raptors of 36GB each and no IDE drive everything went fine and bootup was a matter of seconds. When i recently added and...

I think it is save to say that GRUB is installed on the PATA HDD but when i reset the BIOS to boot from it nothing happed!!! I haven't created a boot disk but i suppose i can go for a repair installation. Could you please tell me what exactly do i need to do and most importantly how to tell...

Hi all, Last night i installed FC2 on a PATA drive while WinXP SP2 sits on a SATA drive (no partitions here each OS is given the entire drive). I did pass the CHS parameters in order to bypass the "disk geometry problem" and continued with the rest of the installation to completion. On reboot...

Hi all, First of all i'm not quite sure whether my problem is hardware, software or even a combination of the two related so if you think i should post it under another category please let me know. My problem is: ************************************************************** I've already...

Thanks Blue Weasel for the comprehensive answer. I don't have EAC or CDex but i do have Creative's PlayCenter (latest version) and Windows Media Player 9 Series that have WAV burn capabilities. Also Nero can produce WAV files therefore which one would you recommend to use? Regards,

Hi all, Can anyone tell me how to create an Audio CD (not MP3 or WAV) from a number of different source disks. I'm using Nero Express 5.5.10.53 that came bundled with my LiteON combo drive. Many thanks, Nick the bubble.

Hi everybody, I'm not a newbie to networking since i already have a wired peer-to-peer network for ICS and printer sharing purposes but LAN gaming is a novelty to me. My situation is that i recently got an RTS game (Cossacks: Back To War) and i wish to play it over the LAN with my brother. I...

Hi everybody, I've been having a slight problem with my single drive SATA Raptor (see topic SATA Raptor 36GB on ASUS A7N8X - E DELUXE, posted 07/09/2004) therefore i ordered a second 36GB Raptor so that i can create a RAID0 set. My aim is to setup a dual boot system with WinXP and Fedora Core...

Thanks for your time again Mark, I tried your suggested boot order but to no avail. As Western Digital correctly say however i can' change that neither in the Pheonix nor in the SIlicon Image BIOS. Moving on i am seriously considering purchasing an additional 36GB Raptor and create a RAID0 so...

Many thanks for your reply Mark, I think you're spot on in everything you said although i haven't resolved my issue yet! I have posted the exact same message to ASUS and Western Digital alike and the replyies i got are: ASUS Enter RAID utility and delete array or change it to RAID0 ---> I...

Hi everybody, I did manage to attach a 36GB SATA Raptor to my newly purchased ASUS A7N8X - E DELUXE and also clean installed WinXP but i have a couple of questions since i've been using IDE drives up to last week. 1) POST does NOT display the SATA drive yet it gives the one beep all clear; is...