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posted December 05, 2008 04:15 PM |
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It's a boot CD, should run like DOS. That is, you boot with it -- no installers or anything, just in memory (RAM), like some form of advanced BIOS 
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posted December 05, 2008 05:18 PM |
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Do you live in Iasi, Ash?
Because if so, I'm gonna be there between Christmas and NYE, visiting some drunktard friends of mine there (long time since I visited my "college" town). I can come fix yer crappy comp if ye need.
No need, I bought a new one (I needed an update anyway), and now connected the old Hard Disk as well so that I can copy my files to the new one.
So far Windows installed successfully, the other programs and games are left and I'll finally have no more problems. 
If you're curious, the new one is a lot better in performance, I'm curious how games will run on this one.
ASUS P5K Pro (motherboard)
Intel Core Duo 3 Ghz
2 GB Ram
Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT 512 MB
Hard Disk with SATA (I had an IDE one before)
... considering I had a Geforce 6200 before, I'm really curious how it will run on this one.
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posted December 05, 2008 05:22 PM |
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Wow, nice PC Asheera. Hope you have fun with it.  
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posted December 05, 2008 05:57 PM |
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So they are installed in the CD. So you can just run them from it.
You will find that the improvement to the old one will be immense. 
I have something similar in power except the GPU:
cheap Asrock board with AGP and PCI-E, ddr and ddr2 for recycling stuff
intel dual core clocked @3GHz
2 GB ram ddr 2, slightly raised latencies
Ati Radeon 1600pro 512MB clocked @600MHzcore and @450memory
Old IDE drive 150GB recycle FTW! 
My friend bought 9600GT, at least King's bounty runs damn well. Crysis and Farcry 2 too but those are not really worth playing that much.
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Weird stuff happening to my C: partition now.
The Free Space lowers each time I enter Firefox. It got from around 4.7 GB to 4.46 currently. I cleared all temporary files, history data, cookies, etc, and still no result in free space (with CCleaner)
The weird part is that if I select all files on the C: drive (and by all I mean including Hidden & System Files, and protected OS files like pagefile.sys), it shows that they are 8.10 GB. If I check the Used space on the entire partition in My Computer, it says it's 8.61 GB used.
From where does that difference come? I'm pretty sure that without this weird stuff meaning if the entire Drive's used space would indeed equal all the files' size, I would get the original free space without this strange thing that happened (my free space lowered every day, and still continues)
The point is, I checked the size of my files since it looks suspicious, and I can tell you they do not get higher. The size of the files stays the same, but the C: drive's used space increases every day for some weird reason which is beyond my understanding.
First I thought it's something related to that System Backup function of Windows (does it save it somewhere where it is not considered a file?), but the decrease in free space just doesn't stop... and that system backup has a limit...
I'm worried I'll run out of space in some weeks this way, if it doesn't stop. What can it be? How can the C: used space be higher (and getting higher each day) than all the files' size on that partition?
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posted December 16, 2008 07:11 PM |
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That all files together don't make up for all the space used is pretty common.
But if your HD fills up even if you delete all temporary files, add-ons, patches and such then there's something not quite right.
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posted December 16, 2008 08:40 PM |
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You got what people call: "Ye old shadow copi problem"
Some setting somewhere random in your controll panel should manage to kill it. Also if you select clean up, click on the tab to the right and select the option about shadow copis.
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First I thought it's something related to that System Backup function of Windows (does it save it somewhere where it is not considered a file?), but the decrease in free space just doesn't stop... and that system backup has a limit...
If I'm not mistaken, you can set the limit yourself or view it. So what's the limit? For now it ate up 500 MB it seems.
Files in the "System Volume Information" are not accessible normally and backups are usually stored there
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posted December 27, 2008 03:32 PM |
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Hmm I have some weird thing happening. Sometimes (rarely) when I start up my comp the BIOS stuff doesn't appear anymore with all those tests on the black screen. However, it still goes normally, I think, because, there's a phase when it says: "Press <Esc> to boot" and when it came (I didn't see it because nothing is displayed, but I got the "pattern" and I know when it comes), I pressed Esc and then Windows started to load (yes, after the BIOS, Windows is displayed and everything goes to normal)
Should I be worried? Is it something connected with the Motherboard (an error?) or the Video Card has a "bug" at startup at times? Or is it something normal?
My Motherboard is ASUS P5K Pro and my Video Card is Geforce 9600 GT.
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posted December 30, 2008 07:46 PM |
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Hmm could be both the motherboard and video card, in the sense that they are not fully compatible. The motherboard you have is optimized (kind of) for ATI chipset and with possible crossfire mode but you have nVidia. ASUS are known (at least from what I've seen on googling) for compatibility issues especially if you don't do it "by the book".
But could be something else too, like a real 'defect' in the video card. I have had this defect that, when booting up, the image is slightly a bit more "down" and it gets centered after a while (10-15 minutes), it's because of the video card (because switching the monitor off and then on does not change it, so can't be the monitor), but I've lived with it.
Unless it's a real problem though I wouldn't worry. The troublesome thought is that you don't know until it breaks apart totally.. 
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And it propably will break down. Tommorow or in 2 months, but it will. If you have a spare graphic card try booting a couple of times with it. If everything looks fine then plug your graphic card into an another PC (but make sure that the motherboard is compatible). Then you'll know what's the problem.
Googling is also an option
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posted December 30, 2008 08:13 PM |
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It happened again today
How can you be sure it's the graphic card? Couldn't be the motherboard as well?
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posted December 30, 2008 08:41 PM |
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i dont think u should be worried about it,whenever i reinstalled to xp,my XP logo on wondows startup was all blurred and moved a little,but i know the reason for that,my video card is overheating.Not long ago it fixed itself somehow,myabe a new video driver or a regular windows download.
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posted December 30, 2008 08:44 PM |
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And it propably will break down.
Mine didn't break for 4 YEARS and is still functional (I mentioned a "different" problem with it, but I live with it)
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How can you be sure it's the graphic card? Couldn't be the motherboard as well?
If your graphic card will produce the same problem on a different motherboard (a compatible one that is) you know it's the card.
If your motherboard produces the same problem with a different graphic card, you know it's the motherboard.
If both of the above combinations work fine then it's the compatibility between them.
i use this method all the time with my hardware
@Death - frommy experience things break down at most 2 months from when the first problems appeared
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Unfortunately I don't have any other video card or motherboard that I could test with.
And would updating my bios have any chance to fix this?
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posted December 30, 2008 08:59 PM |
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Hard to tell for me what could fix it but I'd place my money on either drivers for your card or as you mentioned - Bios. You'll never know untill you try
I'm no technician, I usually do lots of stuff untill it works again properly or the damn thing dies on me
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posted December 30, 2008 09:01 PM |
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Drivers? in windows you mean? lol, her problem is before Windows even gets the chance to boot up
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posted December 30, 2008 09:03 PM |
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Yes, can't be any software from the Hard Disk since when Windows boots it actually starts to display normally, so if anything the software fixes it
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So if you say that software fixes it afterwards that means it can fix it from the begining, yes? Then the problem is if that software exists. In doubt.
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