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Oh, to be able to just nip out and get a new one..lol...what a life!!

You ned to RMA that one to the supplier - should still be under warranty as they haven't ben available for a full year.
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Hi again,

Its definately a strange one if it only locks when entering full-screen. I haven't come across this problwm before so am a bit lost. I'm hoping someone with more knowledge can step in...

Hi Valhalla,

When you say lock up, do you mean the whole PC freezes? Was wondering if the games were trying to run in a resolution your monitor doesnt support. Probably not the case, but worth...

Hi -

Probably unrelated but I had a similar problem and tracked it down to the my Firewall asking for permission to allow the game to access the 'net. Trick was to find the executable and add it...

Hi all,

Many thanks for the replies - all greatly appreciated.

I took my SB Live 5.1 out on Saturday, enabled the Nforce and installed drivers (vers: 5.10 from the Nvidia website - system...

Thanks Guys -


Looks like my SB Live is going to a new home - someone just offered me £25 for it so he can use it for music recording.

I'll post back here once I've set up the NForce sound...

Hi all,

I have recently built a new system using an AMD 2600 and an MSI K7N2-Delta L motherboard. I used my trusty old Sound Blaster 5.1 Live card thinking it was bound to be better than the...

I've had no problems at all with SP2, with one exception.

Unreal 2003 now hangs randomly - screen freezes but can still hear some sound. CTRL-ALT-DEL and END PROCESS gets the desktop back again,...

Thank Archer - will try it....I have a feeling I've had a go at that combination, though...

Gav

Thanks ILTU,

I was thinking that I had missed an obvious key-combo that took you out of anything.

I sort of found a solution last night - press Windows Key, UP then ENTER. Sends my PC to...

Hi all,

Having a running problem while using games and my LAN.

If I play a game and try to start a Multiplayer game, it will freeze. This is because my Firewall has detected the game trying to...

No replies needed for this one - its information only.

I was installing XP Home via CD onto a customers PC. With 34 minutes remaining, it asked for the XP CD to be inserted even though the CD was...

Hi Chaseums,

The message is not from Windows, but from your Monitor. It means it cannot display the current output. The game you were playing asked to change to a resolution your monitor can't...

Hi jerswerve,

I had a sort of similar problem a while ago - after playing a badly scratched CD in XP home, my CD/DVD drives slowed right down. I checked the setting and they both showed a setting...

Here's a link;

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Click the links, sign up, wait for email, download from the link, install, enter key, and away you go!!!!!!!!


Gav

I've had my copy for a few weeks - its a life-saver for me who deals mostly with dial up customers. It installs all Critical Patches, as well as updating IE and Media Player. It also includes DX9,...

Hi Noo Noo,

Sorry it took me so long to post...

Right, nothing you suggested helped although I did not try to hook the drive upto the Primary IDE channel. I eventually tried an over-install of...

Thanks again for the quick reply.

Will try your suggestions tonight - I never thought of disabling DMA in BIOS!

Will let you know the results.

All the best


Gav

Hi Noo Noo,

Thanks for the quick reply!!

Ok, the current system is an Athlon 1300 on a PC-Chips board (nasty, I know) running Win 98 2nd Ed (fuly updated with MS's great update CD).

The CDRW...

Hi all,

Here's a strange one for you.

Twice now, I have installed a CD-RW drive into a Win98/ME pc alongside a DVD-ROM drive and the DVD looses its functions. It first happened about a year and...

Hi deggial,

I had a similar problem with Jedi Knight 2 - turned out to be my joystick. If you have one, remove it if its USB, or disconnect it if its the older D-type connector before loading up...

Thanks for the reply Edball - Here's what I did in the end:-

As MSCONFIG would close after 5 secs, I copied the MSCONFIG file and renamed it. Same for REGEDIT. I un-selected all suspicious files...

Hi all,

Win Xp Home - completely updated
P4 2.4Ghz
Broadband connection
EZ Armor suite - Firewall (Zonealarm pro rebadged) and Antivirus.
No other significant apps, as Recovery CD was only...

Hi Stompinne

I had a similar problem with my XP system - there are TWO Messenger programs which basically can perform the same tasks - Windows Messenger which is included with Windows, and MSN...

Just to let everyone know - a re-install fixed the problem!

Once installed, I checked that setting, Archer, and Lo, it was there. Something to store for later use, I think.

Many thanks, all,...