WytchDokta 6 Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Woot!! My new rig just arrived at 10:20 AM this morning - a day early..... They sent out the wireless optical desktop last thursday, they said it would arrive 2-3 working days from the 21st October (last thursday). So I'm expecting it arrive on monday (yesterday) or tuesday (today). Guess when it arrived....The wireless optical desktop arrived on Friday 22nd October, the very next day!! Haha, I didn't even have next day deliver, like I said, it should have been here either yesterday or today but it arrived the day fater dispatch. Same story with the rest of the rig. Yesterday they said it was to be dispatched on the 26th (today), and it would be 1-2 days arriving. So I'm expecting it arrive like wednesday oir thursday.... and it arrived this morning, the very morning of dispatch!! Now that is amazing service!! Anyway, I've opened up the boxes and had a look at all me stuff, and damn there's there's loadsa free siftware/games with it!! In fact, "loadsa" is and understatement. Are you ready for this? Free software/games is as follows: Win XP home edition CD + SP2 (and yes it's even got the holo sticker) Doom 3 (free with my GeForce FX6800GT) Xplosive range - Warrior Kings Xplosive range - Startrek Voyager: Elite Force (er...just noticed, this one says for Win 95/98 so it won't work on XP right?) Xplosive range - Ford Racing 2001 Xplosive range - Enemy Engaged: Apache Havoc PowerColor WinDVD4 Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD version 8 SE Microsoft Works Some CD for my TV card, er....I never knew my new rig had a TV card thingy.... ....And I gotta go to work in a mo'. Won't get time to install anything I don't think. I'll have to do that tonight. Then I'll be able to push my AMD Athlon 64 3400+ to the limit! Oh I almost forgot, they sent another wireless optical desktop, coincidently exactly the same one, with the rest of my new rig. So now I have a spare wireless optical desktop. And.... I recently bought 4 new games (not all at once), haven't been able to play them on my current rig. Firstly current rig wouldn't be handle the graphics and secondly it kept telling me I had run out of space on drive CD when I had 14.5 GB free, how it worked that out I don't know. So if you include Doom 3, I have 5 new games still to play. I'll report back in later from the new rig, let ya know how it's going. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Sweet. What are you gonna do with the old rig? Maybe slap linux on there? Old rigs run linux very well. Anyway, have fun with the software. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 Just about to set up new rig now.... I think I know where everything plugs into. So <Arnie voice>I'll be back</Arnie voice> later, probably later at night, once I gots some games and ###### installed on here and played 'em to see how they run. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KRP 56 92 Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 A lot of the older games say Windows 95/98 and usually run ok on XP. If they act up you can always try Windows 95/98 compatibility mode to run them. I had to do that with one of my older games but the rest of the older ones run fine. Let us know how your games look being played through that FX6800GT. The reviews on that card looked very good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 Testing, testing....1, 2, 3..... 31 seconds and we're going for auto sequence start..... Working good so far, I just need to install all the games now. Ahhh....H&D2 Sabre Squadron.... One wierd thing I have noticed: my internet conncetion is now faster! I'm still on 56gay, the modem in the old rig connected at 38.6 kbs, this one connects at 40.0 kbs.... some one explain that to me please. Just gotta get used to windows XP now. Now, I have alot of installing to do (40+ games in all), so bear with me.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I had that happen too with the modem. Probably just a better quality modem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 27, 2004 Author Share Posted October 27, 2004 Now it's connected at 38.6 kbps. Ok, this morning I've installed loadsa stuff, I'm not even halfway through installing my entire game collection. I installed most of the utilities etc first. Then, instead of installing one game, then loading it up and trying it out, I installed one game after another. So when it had finished installing one game, it was straight onto installing the next game. After installing a few games one after another, I finally settled down for a bit Doom 3. And I thought Doom 3 was meant to be scary. Doom 3 doesn't scare me. I been walking down a corridor with no lights, an alien jumps out at me, I can't see him cuz I got the shotgun out and not flashlight, but I wasn't scared. I'm sorry, but I don't find Doom 3 scary. I cranked the graphics to the max....I got a very tiny amount of lag (I mean very tiny here BTW) I was dreading installing stuff. My old rig would take forever to install games etc. Anyway, I began installing Doom 3.... zooooooooooom!! A few minutes later it's asking for disk 2, I'm like: Is this right? Surely it should take longer to install (well, it would have on my old rig anyways). ###### me, this new rig was installing them games quick - I managed to install five (yes five) games in about 50 minutes, and all of those five games were like 3-4 GB!! I think I'm addicted to installing stuff cuz this rig is so fast at installing!! Just tried out Vietcong on this rig. On the old rig, VC used to lag out bad, but with this rig, not a sign of any lag anywere. Woooooooo!! I've only been able to very quickly play 3 of the games I installed. I gotta go to work now so I won't have to carry on playing any of them for now. But tonight....I shall be playing them games into the early hours of next morning. And I still got loadsa games to install, too many to mention to be precise.... I'll report in later, let you know how my gaming went.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted October 28, 2004 Share Posted October 28, 2004 You shouldnt be getting any lag... I believe we have the same video card, and I assume the rest of your PC is newer than mine. You may want to look on the net for some of the tweaks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 29, 2004 Author Share Posted October 29, 2004 Ok, to save me opening a new thread (and wrongly get accused of spamming) I'll post this here: yesterday, I got a serious Windows error, but I sorted it out and now I'm back in full force. The rig had been been rinning perfect since then. I don't know how theerror came about, or what caused it. Firstly, lemme explain what happened..... Yesterday, I came home from work. I switch on the rig, loads up fine. I go on the internet. I haul my ass over to GR.net, change my email address in my profile (I have a new email address now) and....whoomp there it is! Blue screen of death. It had some writing on there, explaining that something caused an error or something - before I had chance to read what it was going on about, my rig automatically restarts itself.... fair enough..... I wait for it to load up back to desktop. It won't. Gives me the option to start it several ways - in safe mode, with most recent settings, start windows normally etc. I try safe mode. Loads up, falls short of the loading screen, sends me back to those options again. So I try start Windows with most recent settings. That didn't work either, back to the options again. This time I select start Windows normally....still won't start. When it crashed, there was CD in the drive (PainKiller CD3) those options, I take out that CD, try all of the options one by one again. Nothing. Rig won't start, no matter what I do. Ok, so what now....? I think back, what was the last thing I installed? Hmmmm.... Unreal 2 - that ran excellently, no reason why that was causing the error. Then I remembered, after installing Unreal 2 yesterday morning, I put in my 512 MB DDR ram that I bought a while back (riginally bought it for my old rig, but then I found out my old rig actually had SD ram...so I thought, sod it, I'll keep the ram for the new rig. New rig has 1024mb ram by default). Just so happens, this stick of ram is not the same make as the others in my new rig. (note: the rig loaded up fine after I installed the new ram stick) So I unplug everyything from my rig, pull off the side panel and remove the new ram stick I put in. I then plug everything back in, turn the rig on....and this time it works!! It loaded right up to desktop and told me Windows had a serious error, it told me what the errror was and I wrote it down (I'll write it up here in a mo' too). Now, was this coincidence that the loaded after I removed the stick of ram I previously installed? Or did the new stick of ram cause the error? Should I be using 2 different makes of ram together? Ok, the error that came up was as follows: BCCode: 1000000A, BCP1:A43D5008, BCP2: 00000002, BCP3: 00000001, BCP4: 8051E9EF, OSVer: 5_1_2600 SP: 2_0, Product: 768_1 Whatever the <expletive> that means.... I know OSVer is operating system version and SP is service pack. I clicked on view details for the error and it showed me 2 internet files (they look legitimate) that Windows says caused the error. I did not delete those files, I left them alone. I posted this up so your collective minds can work together to get to the bottom of this. You guys always come up with the answer. I can post my system specs if needed. So, ideas? Phantm, are you able to help on this one too? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Gut instinct is that your motherboard's RAM timings are set for the timings of the stick it shipped with, and the 'other' stick you have isn't capable of running at those timings. You'll either need to determine the timings for both sticks, and set your CMOS to the lowest settings (well, technically numerically highest numbers) in each category. Alternately, your 'other' stick has developed some errors, which happens, especially if it's inexpensive memory (and I don't know if it is or not) over time. The main reason I suspect it IS the 'other' RAM is the problem happenned after you put it in, and sorted after you removed it, AND the BSOD under XP is almost always a hardware problem, at least on reasonably clean systems. I recently had a nightmarish bout of BSOD's that I resolved by pulling a stick of RAM out. Again, it's just my gut feeling. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 Gut instinct is that your motherboard's RAM timings are set for the timings of the stick it shipped with, and the 'other' stick you have isn't capable of running at those timings. You'll either need to determine the timings for both sticks, and set your CMOS to the lowest settings (well, technically numerically highest numbers) in each category. Alternately, your 'other' stick has developed some errors, which happens, especially if it's inexpensive memory (and I don't know if it is or not) over time. The main reason I suspect it IS the 'other' RAM is the problem happenned after you put it in, and sorted after you removed it, AND the BSOD under XP is almost always a hardware problem, at least on reasonably clean systems. I recently had a nightmarish bout of BSOD's that I resolved by pulling a stick of RAM out. Again, it's just my gut feeling. ← Ok, so would be safe for me to get another stick of ram the same make as the ones that shipped with the rig? Or, should I just determine the timings (however I do that) of both sticks? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 For performance, get a matched stick. For all I know, your motherboard might also support dual channel DDR, so a second identical stick would add even more performance than just any old other stick. As for determining timings, that's more or less something you need to determine from the RAM manufacturer. You could experiment, but it's tedious a process, and if it's a defective stick, not just a timings issue, pointless. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted October 30, 2004 Author Share Posted October 30, 2004 My mobo is "ASUS KV8-" series (when my rig loads up, it saus KV8-X, I've heard of KV8-D not KV8-X. Or is it "x" where "x" repreents a number etc, i.e Windows 9x) I'll have to find out what make of ram it is in here. Is the only way I can by opening it up by taking off the side panel? Or is there some neat trick I can do in XP where it tells me what make my ram is? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chef-Scott 0 Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Here is a program that will let you see what your computer and components are: Everest 1.51 Home Edition Gives you all the nitty-gritty info on your machine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
supasniper 0 Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 3dmark03 has a good tool for telling you what's in you box Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WytchDokta 6 Posted November 6, 2004 Author Share Posted November 6, 2004 I installed H&D2....I wanted how the best game intro ever (H&D2 intro) sounded on my new speakers.... So the squad is moving through a appartment block in Poland. The move up to the top floor, the firt guy goes out on the balconey, covers left, the next guy goes out covers right. As the other 2 guys move past the guy covering the right, that guy (covering the right) and the guy covering the left joing the other 2 squad members who have just walked past. The guy formerly covery the left is now the last man in the formation so he walks backwards for a little while, covering the rear.... One sets up cover at the corner here, the other moves to the other end of the balconey here and covers that direction. The third guy in the squad covers the closed door. Then the sqaud leader kicks the door down and him and the guys covering the doorway move inside. Nothing. Whoever/whatever they were looking for is not here. Then.....one of the guys covering outside signals (with his hand) to the squad leader that he can hear the enemy. The squad leader comes outside....the Germans are moving in on the appartment block. There's loads of them. The squad leader signals for the two guys covering outside to outflank the Germans from the left. The squad leader and other guy take the right. The guy following the squad leader covers the stairwell.... The Germans are running upstairs to the top floor where the British squad are. The squad leader throws a grenade down the stairwell..... At this moment I cranked the bass to the max. I pumped the volume to the max. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!! The grenade explodes wiping out about 10 Germans....Jeez, this sub kicks out awesome bass....I kid you not I was almost blown off the computer chair from the full force of the bass!! The bass was shaking my house apart! So anyway, a firefight breaks out...bullets are whizzing around the room. It sounded so real that I had no other choice but to take cover under the computer desk for the rest of the duration of the firefight.... Ahhh....awesome speakers.... I say let the bass kick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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