Recent content by Qwestman

WTF???? JUNE 2007? gahhhh!!!!!! That is half way through 2007, so what's the point of making it? Just change the name to Unreal 2008.

funkyfish77 are you sure about that? If so, then I am going to get the upgrade DVD to the home extended edition or whatever it's called.

Had a GeForce 3 tTi200 video card, ran Half Life 2 fine, no problems. Upgraded to a Geforce 6800 BFG with 256 RAM, and now when I try and run Half Life 2, I get massive texture flashes. Game is unplayable, and I want to download episode 1 that just came out, but will not until I reslove my...

Could be SATA controller problem. Check mobo web site, see if you can find answers. I had a Gigabyte board do something similar to me, nad to upgrade to a new BIOS. Had another board do same thing to me, was a memory problem. You said you already did memory testing, so sounds like that is...

Why disable QoS? I don't understand.

Hello all, I am looking into buying a wireless antenna and a wireless PCI card for my other computer in case my main computer on cable goes down. I have tried using a regular PCI wireless NIC but was getting very bad connections to local AP's. I was thinking if I got a larger antenna I might...

Tested my Comcast cable last night. 5.6 megabit down, and 350 ish up.

Well it was not in Network Connections. I fixed it by doing a System Restore to the point before I installed the wireless NIC card, and all is well now. ;) This is one time where system restore came in handy. Well there was another time and it worked then too, so I am a true believer in...

I installed a Zyxel G-302 PCI wireless network card in my second computer that has Windows XP Home Edition. I installed the software that came with the adapter. Then later I uninstalled the software using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Then I did reboot, and now I have nothing in my...

What are you boot times with your 64 machine? That is the main reason I would upgrade is to get much shorter boot times if that is what happens. I am tired of waiting up to 30 seconds for desktop. 10 seconds would be nice. ;)

I am in Washington State like Geef01, and I am on Comcast 4MB. That is cool they are going up to 6 MB. :) I was one of the first to get cable internet in my neighborhood because it was all new lines laid down in the street over 2 years ago. Not many on my liine, whiich I like. Anyhow, good...

Ok guys I will try the registry thing and see how that works. And to the others who suggested pulling the plug out of the wall, ROFL :p

I think I will too. I will report if I have any problems.

Hello everyone, When I had Windows ME on one of my computers, when I clicked shutdown, it took about 5 seconds and the comptuer was off. On my Windows XP machine, it takes like 20 seconds or something like that. WTF? I was wondering if there is any program out there that can shutdown my XP...