Recent content by RossAdamBaker

Hello everybody, This forum is helpful beyond control, so I'm gonna go all out and try throwing an oddball into the mix. Here goes: I've got two mice, one Logitech MX500 optical, and one *gasp* Saitek GM2 joystick/mouse combo type thing. (Hey, it's got a 4-way hat switch on it. A mouse...

Confused - what's the deal with mouseware? Bugs and such? I just like it so I can remap the extra buttons on my mouse - I've just given them keystrokes so they work in games and in general use. (Such as page up, page down, backspace to go back in IE, f5 to refresh, et cetera. I can then use...

Thanks guys, Crazy SOB - I'm running an Athlon 3200+, DFI Lanparty NF2 Ultra B, ATI Radeon 9800xt, Onboard audio, Western Digital Raptor, some DVD burners, and a bunch of joysticks and gamepads and such. I downloaded my drivers as of last month - but did actually become a bit confused as far...

Hello everybody, I have two quick questions for you all - really more of a set of nuisances than anything. You see, when I'm playing some games, one of two things can happen: First, in some games - Unreal Tournament (All the time,) Battlefield 1942 (When in the menu gui, not while playing)...

Hello everybody, I just installed ghost recon today, and was playing through the tutorial when all of a sudden, my speakers go full blast and out comes this horrible hissing/static/crazy noise. My heart stops because its so loud, but I eventually muster up the courage to reach up and turn my...

Hello everybody, I am experiencing two issues with my system starting up, if any of you have heard of these problems or know of anything I can do to fix them, I would be very greatful! Thanks! 1) Every once in a while, when I power on the system, all the fans and whatnot come roaring to...

As I feared. Bummer! I'll try to get a new disc... and maybe even have him check it before he sends it to me. I just couldn't resist the price. That'll teach me. Do you think the disc is a pirated copy, or just a one-in-a-million legitimate bad burn? Are there counterfeit XP cds floating...

Hardware, eh? I was sent an antennae thing... nothing fancy, I think it had to be included so I could get the software at OEM price. Why do you ask? And an update, I downloaded "CDCheck" and am running it now... it's found 34 of them "Data Error (Cyclic redundancy check)" things on the disc...

Hello o gurus, One more question on my struggle to build a new computer, this time hardware related. It all started while I was feeling noble and decided to actually purchase a real, full version of Windows XP Pro. I have a academic version from my local college, but wanted a good version...

Hello all, My new problem is that I cannot get PartitionMagic 8.0 to work with my SATA WD Raptor drive. I have it hooked to the DFI Lanparty Ultra Rev B motherboard, which picks it up in the RAID BIOS, but from there on out no luck. I'm waiting for a copy of Win XP Pro to arrive in the mail...

Heck yeah! I can remember the epic railgun battles as my friends and I scrambled from cover to cover, until someone would score the nuke. "3... 2... 1... nuclear missle armed!" >>BOOM!<< Sigh, I think I'm going with Windows XP. Just ordered me a copy. (I like to do it legally. Now to wait for...

Let go of the past? *drives a De Lorean, watches James Bond every night, listens to disco* Nooooo! Well, whatever must be done I suppose. The only reason I dislike Windows XP is because in my earlier tests... this was years ago... I couldn't get any DOS game to work worth a darn. When they would...

Alright, now I'm really confused - I had originally thought that SATA was an OS-transparent interface... which now I'm hearing that it may or may not be! I just scored a floppy drive so I can load some drivers and such, but the only thing I'm finding is that you can use a PATA cd-drive and hit...

Sounds like a plan! Score one cd-rom, and one floppy drive/card reader device. I'll give it a whirl and let you guys know what comes up. Oh, by the way... are there generic SATA drivers? Neither my mobo manufacturer nor the manufacturer of the optical drive have them on their motherboards. (DFI...

Thanks for the quick replies! Still no luck with experimenting on my own. The computer does see the drive... right after post, it does its SATA-read thing and sees both the DVD drive and the HDD. I hope that means my motherboard works with it! I was under the impression SATA was just like IDE...