Hexen's Hax

Best way to set cpu affinity automatically in Windows XP?

woer — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:09:20 -0400

title says it all

I need hl.exe to run on one core, else i get horrible frame loss. Setting it in task manager isn't persistent (if I quit and start again, it goes back to all cores). THG task assignment manager is all I could find googling, and it doesn't always work

DD-WRT or Tomato..

waterxm04 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:55:15 -0500

Probably going to flash DD-WRT but not really sure if I really need everything DD-WRT will offer. Anyone had any experience with either?

In need of help

Jonobono — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:30:48 -0500

Long story short, i moved out of my last apartment in November, and stored my computer away until now. In spite, my old roommate decided it would be HILARIOUS if she changed the password to log into the thing.

I've spoken with her many times and sadly she has forgotten what the password was changed to.

The specifics:
Using windows 7, 64x
No, i stupidly did not create an admin login
No, i stupidly did not create a password recovery disk
No, there are not other users of the computer
- The scenario is this: Power up computer, let windows load, it then shows my name (Ben) and prompts me to enter the password. This is the part where I am stuck. In a cruel twist, she even changed the hint to: R U Mad?

Yes, i am fucking mad.

I've searched the internet a bit and have found many sites that claim their software can easily bypass it to allow me to again reset it. I've gone as far as emailing one of the companies asking for further information, and 7 days later, i've heard nothing. This would cost about $20. I've also read that Windows can remotely reset it for $80, but have conflicting reports saying that Windows will do no such thing.

I've found a site that seems to be free (albeit it hasn't been updated in over a year) but when I went to put the files on a flash drive and boot my computer from that drive, it informs me that no opperating system is found, which is probably something I'm doing wrong.

In conclusion, I would like to avoid reformatting as losing 80 gigs of music would be devastating. I will if I have to, but a portion of my soul will be wiped clean, similarly as the hard drive.

Any help in this issue would be greatly appreciated.

IE vs Chrome vs firefox

waterxm04 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:46:19 -0500

Interesting debate I had in cryptography today (We got off topic). I was wondering which one is the most efficient and why?(Hardware accelerators etc etc). Which is most secure of the 3 browsers why? Which is the best all around?
I've got the whole history from netscape to IE to firefox now with chrome coming up it's more competitive then previous years. Anyone with knowledge feel free to shed some light.

P.s. Didn't proofread any of that above.. dan

Windows 7 Desktop lock-up?

waterxm04 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:54:19 -0500

For some reason once every 3+ weeks for no real reason; My desktop will become unresponsive, I can use the start menu to navigate around so it's more of a pain in the ass then anything else. However, Something has to be wrong, Anyone have had this problem or know of a solution. I literally just can't select any icons, but everything else seems to run fine.

Heatsink FTL (or me)

Cheezzypoof — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:07:12 -0400

So this weekend I just got done building my i7 setup. After a few days of running I downloaded Prime 95 to stress test and Core Temp to monitor temps. I was a little surprised to see I was idling around 40 and under load hitting high 70's. So I figured I may have screwed up the thermal paste. Redid it, and low and behold idling 40's... but under load was rising way too fast towards 100. So I knew I screwed something up... well I did it one more time.

Idles around 34, and load 66. Phew lol. Not sure what I screwed up both times but good to have it running the way it should be. After the thermal paste cures I'll look into overclocking it in a couple weeks.

Building computer

Evestay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:40:03 -0400

I just bought parts to build a new computer with! I know there are all sorts of guides online about how to do it, but I was wondering if any of you have a favorite guide that really made it easy to build on your first attempt.

Here is the motherboard I am working with if that influences the method of building:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813130249

Registry cleaner

coffee — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:27:04 -0400

Would someone kindly recommend a good free registry cleaning program?

thanks,
2muchlove
c!

Macbook Pro 15"

mungo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:06:17 -0400

Where should I buy one? Apple have the best (/worst) prices?

Desktop

mungo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:43:08 -0400

Friend of mine wants to buy a desktop for 700 or less; wants to just unpack it from the box and use it.

No monitor necessary.

What should he get?

CPU Fan Weirdness

Gmnotutoo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:56:57 -0400

When running a game and the side panel to my case is on the fan instantly beefs up in speed and workload to cool the computer. When the side panel is off, it runs normally.

Is this a case of the fan breaking down if I have had it for longer than 5 years? I've also had my hard drive and power supply for just as long.

Also, this only recently started to happen.

dont upgrade to vlc 1.1.0

woer — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:40:01 -0400

The new version has the awesome feature of using your GPU for processing instead of your CPU so that super hd stuff doesn't rape your CPU anymore, but it is full of bugs.

--When I open CS, it crashes.
--When full screen, when it moves to another item on the playlist, it doesn't stay maximized (adds a window title border to the top and part of the start bar shows up)
--When not fullscreen, it doesn't resize the window so that the next file on the playlist opens at its true resolution if not maximized
--It won't disable the screensaver when the option is on (though I had this problem in other releases, too).

do yourself a favor and wait for 1.1.1

PC Inquiry

Governor — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:55:06 -0400

I might be looking into getting a PC over the next couple of weeks. I'm probably looking for a prefab from newegg or something, but I haven't ruled out building my own again either.

I know it is kind of a generic question, but what sort of technology should I be looking into? Are there notable processor changes or graphics card changes that I should read/look into? Any information you can provide would be excellent.

Router is assinging wired IPs to wireless clients

woer — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:09:51 -0400

got a new laptop so i reset my modem to defaults because i'm an idiot and forgot the password i set to log in to the config

Anyway, i wanted wireless working, so i got in and didn't change anything from default except to put encryption on and change the ssid to cuntykiddyporn to troll neighbors

When i connect to the router on the wireless network, my computer gets a popup saying there's another computer with the same ip, and the laptop can't access the internet. I tried setting the ip address to the wireless card on the laptop manually to 192.168.1.101 since the computer is .100, yet the same thing happened when i tried again (how does that even make sense?).

i looked through the settings but couldn't find anywhere to specify different ip ranges between wired and wireless--which i suppose makes sense because the router should know not to assign the same ip to the only two computers on the network lol

Has anyone had this trouble before or have insights into how to resolve the problem? Much thanks!

btw it is a linksys wrt54gs2 (http://homesupport.cisco.com/en-us/wireless/lbc/WRT54GS2?referrer=www.linksysbycisco.com)

WinXP woes

woer — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:03:48 -0400

Every night I leave utorrent running, when I wake up, I close it and then stumble blurry eyed over to reddit.com, but it won't work. I can't access any webpages. This is despite utorrent still downloading/uploading fine at the time it was closed.

I've tried ipconfig /release and /renew, pulling the cable, and right clicking the network connection to disconnect and then reconnect (though I believe that's the same as ipconfig). None of them help. After restarting, it's fine.

Anyone have any idea why this happens? Is there a way to fix it without rebooting? Many thanks.

W(tf)indors 7 sleep corrupts MBR?

woer — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:02:39 -0400

I installed loonix on my new laptop yesterday, but before going to sleep I rebooted into Windows 7 (home premium, if it matters). I woke up to see my laptop off, so I hit the power button only to have it say there was no bootable disk.

I plugged in the flash drive I installed linux from, reinstalled grub (linux boot manager), and booted into Windows only to have everything that was running last night be open, so it must have went to sleep. Why would sleep corrupt the boot manager? Or did it not corrupt it, but then what would cause grub not to load when powering the laptop on? This seems very strange.

edit: lol windors

edit: it was hibernation, not sleep. sleep works ok.

Nvidia Drivers

Governor — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:57:58 -0400

I seem to remember back in the day talk of really good third-party drivers for Nvidia cards. I haven't owned an Nvidia card other than a geforce2; which drivers should I go with?

Keyboard?

Governor — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:57:38 -0400

Along with my new PC, I'd like to get a new keyboard. Hands down, the best keyboards I've ever owned have been MAC keyboards, but that isn't really an option for a PC. That being said, I would very much like to get a similar low-profile keyboard that can handle many buttons being held down at a time. I would _love_ it if the keyboard had USB slots like the MAC keyboards have as well. Beyond that, volume control, play/stop/forward/backward keys would be a bonus, but I could certainly live without them.

Does anyone have an idea as to where I should look for this? I've glanced through Amazon briefly, and I was surprised to see how terrible the keyboards were there.

Retarded External HD question

mungo — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:37:03 -0400

So, I have an Alienware laptop, which is absolutely retarded. I'm going to sell it because I have no use for it. I do, however, have use for my 1TB mybook external HD which is most than half full.

If I get a mac, will I be able to use my HD without formatting it?

Which CPU for a laptop: C2D-SU7300 or I5?

woer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:04:03 -0400

I <3 my HP tx2500z tablet, except it gets so hot that it shuts down, so I'm going to replace it.

There are two versions of the one I want for basically the same price, one with a C2D SU7300 CPU (1.3ghz and can be OC'ed to 1.7ghz) and the other with an I5 520UM (1.066-1.866ghz). I'm having trouble finding benchmarks comparing them. Does anyone have suggestions on which to get? Is there much difference?

edit: to throw it out there, it's also available with a I7 640UM (1.2-2.266ghz) for $150 more, but it doesn't seem worth it at that price

Any good monitoring software for Comcast's BW meter

woer — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:43:28 -0400

I found a ruby script, but ideally I'd like something that sits in systray.

I'm having a bit of trouble staying under the cap, so I end up viewing it like every day.

I signed up in March (hence it's way under the cap). I was up over 200gb like half way through April, and I'm already 10% to the cap only one day into the month....

Shot in the Dark

Nunes — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:50:34 -0400

Anybody know of a (purchasable) adhesive that maintains sheer and tensile bond strength at temperature of -160C (-256F)?

Anybody?

You'd be more help than Dow Corning and 3M combined. I've got a couple feelers out in the industry, but maybe some of you engineering jerks know of something, eh?

So far, I'm pouring through this...

Anyone use DD-WRT?

woer — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:31:37 -0400

I'm wondering if I should install it on muh WRT54GS2. I don't really see anything in the documentation that would be better than the included OS, though.

So my sister got an iMac for Christmas...

Brian — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:55:49 -0500

Take a look at this:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/

See the part where it says that it even runs windows? And that installation is easy and safe to your files?

Bullshit.

Ran bootcamp, partitioned the disc space.

Inserted XP disc when prompted.

Windows install begins, I format the partition using NTFS (The ONLY option available).

The system now continues to restart, and prompts for a new XP install each time. Repairing nets the same results. I do the mac bullshit and when its in its restart (not during any writing of files) and eject the disc by holding the mouse key.

Now I get an error with simply a picture of a file folder with a question mark in it, which is SO useful. Thankfully, google on my other windows machine tells me that the error picture I see means the computer cannot find a system folder. A little odd since I only touched the windows partition. Google also tells me that I should have created a mac drivers disc for windows. Another thing bootcamp didn't mention at all.

Oh and, what's this? Google also tells me that I was supposed to install using FAT 32... which I did not have the option for.

No biggy. I'll restart with the boot disc and reinstall OS X. Oh wait, when I get to the install, and it tells me to select where I would like to install the OS there are NO AVAILABLE OPTIONS.

The disc utility shows me that I have my partition, as well as the rest of the drive. It shows the rest of the drive as being OSX compatible. It also won't let me re-format or do anything similar to said drive, or do anything AT ALL to the drive because it is "read only".

So now my only option is to boot using my windows install as my boot drive, which only boots if I have the windows install disc inserted, and then only boots to the windows XP install screen AGAIN.

FUCK MAC.

If anyone has any ideas, aside from taking it back and saying "It doesn't fucking work." PLEASE, hook a brotha up.

Buying a Laptop

cutchins — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:45:49 -0500

Just finished bootcamp. I'm now down in Pensacola, FL. I'll tell you guys more about it after I have my own laptop and internet connection. I've got a 30 min limit here.

I need links/suggestions for a laptop around $750. I'm looking for value and reliability. Gaming isn't a priority for me anymore, though I will definitely still be doing it. Any help is welcome. I'll be back tomorrow to check this so help fast! I'd like to buy it this week. Worse comes to worse, I may have to just stop in at Best Buy and pick one up there. But can't I find better deals online?

Thanks guys!

New Comp

hexenwulf — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:44:44 -0400

What I know so far (just got it)

4 each Western Digital velociraptor hd's WD3000GLFS

Intel Q6600 quad core

Gigabyte mobo. Not sure of exact model yet.

Kingwin 700 watt power supply

Unknown ATI video card

Currently running windows server 2003 with unknown passwords so I cannot do anything yet. Trying an Ubuntu install RAID 0. Just for giggles.

Overall cost to me ZERO DOLLARS!!!

Seemed like a good deal to me. Hopefully I don't mess things up with the linux install. What is the latest on Windows 7? anyone with real world experience? How about a RAID install, will it support it?

Audio Software

Magic — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:59:00 -0400

Anyone know of a good sound editing program that's free? I'm not looking for anything too fancy, but would like to be able to edit (splice, spped up, slow down, etc) audio files I alreayd have. The only stuff I've found have been trial versions that insert the name of the software every 30 seconds upon saving the file -- would like to avoid that.

Anti-Virus

Pheylan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:17:14 -0400

What Anti-Virus/Spam/Malware would yall recommend as top of the line, no matter the price? I need to get a new one and I'm curious on what to get.

Troubles in the past reoccuring

azn mike — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:40:07 -0400

So i thought this lag spike that I had every moment was because I lived in my old apartment. My roommate recently made a change to his DGL - 4300 two weeks ago. Everything was fine for two weeks but within the last week, the huge lag spikes returned and I have no idea what the fuck is going wrong with it. This is what I've done so far (I know all of you are CS related so I hope you can help, I've posted in the gOf forums but I figure I'll try to reach out my resources).

QUOTE

I get massive lag spikes every moment or so and I know I'm lagging because I can feel it in CS and in vent I spike up to 5000 - 25000... I know it's the router because my old router a Linksys never did this to me and the moment my roommate changed it to his D-Link DGL-4300 I started having these spiking issues (I had these before but i'm too lazy to look it up...)

So is there anything I can do to fix this annoying problem? Because I can't have conversations in vent and I can't play in any games...

I recently made my change from XP to Windows 7 in hopes that would solve the problem but nope, it didn't...so any thoughts? HALP!

QUOTE

so...let's see...

Tried to do the whole port forwarding by using the site portforwarding.com

I created a static IP address, figured out my primary and secondary DNS go my MAC address and all and made sure that I created ports for Ventrillo and counterstrike...yet I'm still spiking to 15000 on ventrillo...

I'm pretty much lost at this point. When I create a static IP it doesn't work, when I'm using dynamic IP it doesn't work...go me?

Edit: 9:55pm

Changed it back to dynamic IP, portforwarded everything to my IP on the router...still nothing. ARG!

Any enlightenment? I am so confused right now lol...

Reinstalling Windows on a laptop

redbone — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:11:00 -0500

I have an about 2.5 year old Compaq laptop that I want to reinstall Windows on. My question/problem is that I don't have any of the drivers etc to go with it. I just have a windows xp disk that I would use to reinstall windows. Will the wireless networking, or networking in general still be able to work? I know with my desktop I have to install the motherboard drivers, graphics drivers, etc, for any of that to kick in. Are these things I can just download off the internet if need be, or for some strange reason because its a Compaq they wouldn't be available? Thanks for any/all help.