i should hand over my geek card.

[andylawcc]

so... my friend lend my his copy of Galatic Civilization, and without knowing, I installed DirectX9.0B on my anicent Celeron 850 rig powered by the Voodoo5 5500 PCI. (PCI video card? oh yeah...)

the PC ran fine until after a few reboots, I experienced some crashes during Grand Thief Auto3. I thought it was just occassional crashes (since I am still using Win98 (SE no less) ) and should paid no mind. After a day or two I cannot even run it (along with Gal Civ). At first I thought it's my sound card that's giving me the headache (Aureal SQ2500), so I pulled it out and the game can run for a good 2 minutes. I played UT and Q3A just fine but not AgeofEmpires2 so I figure it must be a DirectX thing and since those OpenGL games ran fine. So I fiddle around with my registry, msconfig, and after a few more reboots I can't even play those game no more. My last attempt was "scanreg /restore" and the comp just went crazy. Can't load Word, can't even run explorer, can't even click "Start Menu" and "Run" or "Shutdown."

so I reformat HDD and reinstall everything...

that's how I spend my weekend.

 

[Anubis]

you are in the IT business and you are useing win 98SE :shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Anubis
you are in the IT business and you are useing win 98SE :shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

urrr... gotta rephrase my topic title then

 

[Adul]

lol andylawcc. How is it going? Didnt you move somewhere else?

 

[andylawcc]

hey Adul,

yeah, I moved to Missouri, sorry I didn't call, cause I just went pass Arizona (through Flagstaff) in one trip and didn't want to drive down to Phoenix area.

didn't you moved too (that was a while ago)

 

[KingNothing]

So you're saying because you suck at computers, you're considering working in the IT business?

 

[Evadman]

hey andylawcc, you should know this. Please answer once and for all.

Is adul a guy or girl?

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
So you're saying because you suck at computers, you're considering working in the IT business?

sh1t, ... hold on

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Evadman
hey andylawcc, you should know this. Please answer once and for all.

Is adul a guy or girl?

A liitle bit of both!

 

[tRaptor]

DONT REMIND ME. I need to format SOOO bad, its been a year, granted it is WinXP, but still I'm big on formating. I used to do it every 3 months.

I know I should, but i just dont want to

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Evadman
hey andylawcc, you should know this. Please answer once and for all.

Is adul a guy or girl?

[Britney Murphy's voice]I am not gonna tell[/mode off]

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: tRaptor
DONT REMIND ME. I need to format SOOO bad, its been a year, granted it is WinXP, but still I'm big on formating. I used to do it every 3 months.

I know I should, but i just dont want to

why not use Ghost?

since my comp is relatively simple to reinstall, I never bother to learn Ghost.

 

[her209]

Please turn in your c*ck and balls too while you're at it.

TIA.

 

[andylawcc]

dude, what the hell, Adul gave my his (or Her) cell number so I can call for him (or her) to ask for things to do in Phoenix when I drove pass it.


now stfu and go home

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: tRaptor
DONT REMIND ME. I need to format SOOO bad, its been a year, granted it is WinXP, but still I'm big on formating. I used to do it every 3 months.

I know I should, but i just dont want to

why not use Ghost?

since my comp is relatively simple to reinstall, I never bother to learn Ghost.

I second the Ghost idea...that's what I do...> 1hr reinstall with progs

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: her209
Please turn in your c*ck and balls too while you're at it.

TIA.

Turn them in to who? :Q

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: tRaptor
DONT REMIND ME. I need to format SOOO bad, its been a year, granted it is WinXP, but still I'm big on formating. I used to do it every 3 months.

I know I should, but i just dont want to

why not use Ghost?

since my comp is relatively simple to reinstall, I never bother to learn Ghost.

I did think about that at one point., but now I have it set up so that C: is only like 6 GB. All my docs and files and music and programs are on D and E. This way when i format I can just remake the start bar links to the programs. Some of the programs do require that I backup the registry entries, but not that many.

Makes formating a easy job.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: her209
Please turn in your c*ck and balls too while you're at it.

TIA.

Turn them in to who? :Q

To Adul of course!

 

[n0cmonkey]

People still reformat without installing an updated version of their OS?

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
People still reformat without installing an updated version of their OS?

with the specs of my comp, I don't think I need an XP, both my video card and sound card are not supported under XP. Beside, I don't go online with that comp.


Kaido

hey, was Ghost difficult to learn for you? I had trouble using it. I had a Ghost 6.0 that only runs in DOS mode.