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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Id just buy a new CPU cooler heatsink and all (remember you'll need to apply a new layer of thermal compund I suggest Arctic Silver). _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Kayngi wrote: | The file that's missing or corrupt is
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
Does that change anything?
Thanks so much for all these ideas! |
Arrgh! The registry!
Is this a Dell, HP, Acer, or other brand name unit? If so the following won't help. I found this, right from M$ themselves;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545
This info helps only if it was a full or upgrade install from a XP disk. A branded (HP, Dell) have a different procedure to recover the registry. What brand/model, in case some others here have that same one?
Kellan _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, Weather it's slot 1 or a socket 370 that will be very hard to find these days. I think your best bet is to find a local shop that sells the fans and take the bad one in with you to show them they should be able to get you a replacement. I'm not sure but I think you would measure the radius of the fan blades. _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Mike-
More info needed here. Version of Outlook you're using and are you using windows Live! hotmail or the basic hotmail?
It looks like there are some issues here just by trying my Windows Mail with my Hotmail acct.
Kellan _________________ "Старый боевой конь, Кeллан" |
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Nicolai Borovskaya Registered User
Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 464 Location: Wherever the fictons carry me
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Mike, your best bet for generational archive storage is still tape. Get a decent tape drive and back up that stuff there. Be aware that you will need to have a compatible tape drive when you want to recover your data/images/etc. So buying an extra and storing it with the tapes might not be a bad idea. Loading the software for the drive (then) will be another issue entirely.
Nothing else will last anywhere near as long as a decent magnetic tape properly stored. There are tapes from the 60's that are still perfectly readable, if you can find a drive that works.
I have no idea of the storage life of thumb drives. Any one out there know? I'm curious, too.
Nicolai _________________ Nicolai
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Asalis Registered User
Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 2020 Location: Fort Worth, Tx
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Those things usually last for years. Though I'd personally reccomend an SD card reader. I've seen some SD cards with some pretty impressive storage capacity. Though they're a lot smaller than thumb drives and you could carry it in your wallet. :3 _________________ Asalis: (uh*sah*lis)
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Okay I am try to find a way to install older versions of windows on my system I mean older win 98se or Me. Why you ask, because I would very much like to play some of my older games that will not play on vista or even XP. The thing is the newer motherboards will not support the older versions of Windows. Anyone got any ideas? _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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anthony Site Owner
Joined: 12 Nov 2001 Posts: 1304 Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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The biggest hurdle is usually that modern PCs have SATA drives.
That and you can never find a good video driver for them.
My suggestion is to either get an old clunker, or to look into some virtualisation SW and run on your PC. _________________ "My name's Lion, Anthony Lion"
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | or to look into some virtualisation SW and run on your PC. |
Any suggestions for little or no money? _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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anthony Site Owner
Joined: 12 Nov 2001 Posts: 1304 Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I think MS gave away Virtual PC for free for a while, and you may be able to find it on the net if you search a bit. (They have now made it a part of W7, so there's no download on their site anymore... )
If you run an older PPC Mac, though, the best bet is Guest PC.
(This costs a bit of money, but my iBook 1.33GHz is capable of running an older Windooze at a fair speed) _________________ "My name's Lion, Anthony Lion"
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Styx Site Owner
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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AAAAAHHH! You made read the word MAC *Gouges out eyes* Ahh! I typed it now have cut of my hads nuuuuuuu! _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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anthony Site Owner
Joined: 12 Nov 2001 Posts: 1304 Location: Norway
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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You want sick?
Listening to the W2K logon sound on my 1999 Psion netBook(190MHz StrongARM CPU/32MB RAM) as I log into a server at the office.
(Only did that once. Dialled in with aGPRS-enabled GSM-phone and used a Citrix ICA-client)
I have a PC emulator for that one, too...
(Rumours have it someone once got Win 3.1 running on it)
What's wrong with using a Mac?
I also have a 'PC' card for older NUBUS-based Macs, and even a similar card for SUN SparcStations...
BTW:
'MAC' means Media Access Control and refers to the HW address on your network card.
'Mac' on the other paw, is short for Macintosh, and was the name used for the line of computers launched in 1984, to replace the aging Apple ][ series.
(Search long enough, and you'd probably be able to find a PC emulator for the ][. Never mind that the original IBM PC was far more powerful than the ][ ) _________________ "My name's Lion, Anthony Lion"
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing I guess, I just hate Macs _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Kellan Meig'h Administrator
Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 2045 Location: Just East of Indianapolis, Indiana
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Styx wrote: | Nothing I guess, I just hate Macs |
There's nothing wrong with a Mac. Especially an iMac.
Great ammo for a trebuchet!
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Hawke Registered User
Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 175 Location: Hickory Hills, IL (Near Chicago)
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Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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For the older games, I assume you have tried compatibility mode, you can look into VMware... which is not free as far as I know, or http://www.virtualbox.org/ which is both free and supposedly really good. I havent used it but its got good reviews... and supports pretty much all of windows OS's. _________________ "It's kind of like if you combined The Wizard of Oz and Reign of Fire...and Jonathan Livingston Seagull."
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