Okay, I'm having an installation problem regarding a computer game(s). The game(s) in question:

http://hotfilms.org/games/rs-com-quake- ... 68368.html


Everything---and I mean everything---appears to install and work fine except the second expansion pack, Dissolution of Eternity. I had never tried to open it until I after I gave it to my room mate and he claimed that clicking the appropriately-named file simply opened up the regular Quake. So I tried it on my computer, only it doesn't open at all.


I have done two things: try to run the set-up/install process again, and redownload the 5th rar file listed above. I did the second thing because the one I had wouldn't decompress; the one I just downloaded also won't decompress (actually, nothing at all happens; the file does not appear to respond to any action). When I tried to run set-up again, the entire file directory Rogue (the company that made DoE) gets either an unknown decompression error or a read/write error. Retry does not work, obviously.


I'm using Windows XP. Any ideas?

im currently having a minor problem with Linux Ubuntu 8.10. I'm not getting any sound at all. I dual boot my computer to XP and Ubuntu and the sound is working fine on XP. Any ideas how to fix the problem? I already checked in a few linux websites about it, but none worked so far.

When I get this problem, I go to the sound settings (System > Preferences > Sound), click on the test button next to sound playback, then fuck around with the volume using the volume control in the upper right corner. For me, it's analog front. I find that whacking the volume up to highest while a sound's playing sorts it out, for some bizarre reason. Then, I can turn it back down.

You don't need to have your speakers turned on, so no need to worry about loud noises.

This solution also sometimes solves a problem with sound only coming out of one speaker.

i dont know why it does this its bizarre

You could also check here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449
, but you've probably already seen it

All sound doesn't work or just speakers/just headphone jack? Are you on laptop or desktop?
I had similar issues on my laptop. For me, the problem with older versions of Ubuntu were drivers and getting both speakers and headphone jack to work. I'm on 8.04 now (never got around to upgrading to Intrepid) and the only thing I had to do is make sure that the sound settings for the speakers. headphone jack, and microphone weren't on mute by default. Otherwise, it worked out of the box.
Check ubuntuforums more thoroughly if you haven't yet--any Ubuntu issues I have had were quickly resolved there. If you cannot find answer there, it is unlikely we'll be able to help you here.

I'm having a really specific issue that I haven't really been able to find any helpful information about anywhere online. I guess I have a really odd system that no one else has built. Here are my relevant specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
4 GB RAM
Windows XP Professional 64-bit
nVidia GeForce 9600 GSO

Basically, I think I'm having compatibility problems with my version of Windows and the video card. Games crash on a regular basis (i.e. a few minutes into pretty much any game) and I get BSOD's on a regular basis (usually once or twice a day). I've read that drivers can be an issue, but I keep updating my video card drivers without success. I've thought about going to third party drivers, but I've never used them before and I'm a little wary of using something non-official for a specific piece of hardware like that.

Is it also possible that I'm having power supply or overheating issues? The card has its own fan, plus I have a big case fan as well as a specific vent for the stock CPU fan, and my case is in a well-ventilated area. Not to mention that I get the blue screens when I'm just browsing the internet and not really taxing the video card. The power supply is a Rosewill 550W. This leads me to believe that it's driver-related.

It would really be a pain in the ass to reinstall Windows, although if I had to I would probably upgrade to Vista rather than back to XP 32-bit. Or maybe even give Windows 7 a shot.

Any ideas?

Rosewill aren't exactly the greatest PSU brand about, but a 550w one should be enough for your GSO. I take it you have checked that all the power cables and such are firmly fitted?
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
Download GPU-Z and check the temperature of the card.

It's also highly possible you have a bad RAM stick. That's my first guess.

I used to have a firewall program running (Zone Alarm) that also caused BSODs and sudden crashes due to some driver or update being bad or wrong. I removed the program and didn't have any crashes after that. So if you have that program, that's another possibility.

I know Rosewill is crap, but this was a budget gaming PC. Downloading GPU-Z now (I have CPU-Z but didn't know about this one). Heh, Firefox actually just crashed as I was typing this post.

I don't run Zone Alarm or any other firewall software. How would I know if I have a bad RAM stick? All four show up fine in CPU-Z.

My video card, according to GPU-Z, is running at 45*C but my fan speed is at 0%. That shouldn't be right, huh? I mean, 45*C is a lot warmer than ambient room temperature, which you would think would cause the fan to start running. I guess the card could overheat even from just sitting around without the fan running? If you guys agree that this is the problem, I guess the next step is to crack the case to see if the fan is actually running and if not, to check the power connections.

As previously stated, you may have faulty RAM. A stick may function properly with the exception of small isolated regions that can't handle data correctly. Just a few damaged bits can cause problems like crashes.

There are many free utilities out there, shouldn't be too hard to find with a quick search. Some that I've used:
MemTest, a small Windows-based program. A nice utility but I prefer a second opinion from other programs.
Ultimate Boot CD, contains a wide array of diagnostic tools including a few memory utilities.

The Memtest program is a good one, but can take a lot of time.

The other method is to remove all the RAM sticks and test them one at a time by running the computer as normal to see if crashes.

Yes, run each RAM stick individually in each DIMM slot. If the computer runs normally on all tests, you have more or less ruled out your RAM. I got to do this with 8 RAM sticks this past November when my self-built computer wouldn't show POST!

Ouch...that sounds like hours of "fun".

Well, I was up really late last night working on the problem. My girlfriend's brother, a programmer for Microsoft, was helping me out. Basically, he was telling me that blue screens are caused by memory errors, and that these same memory errors could be responsible for the random program crashes. He took a look at the .dmp files that windows creates every time you get a blue screen, but the default setting is to write only partial (128KB) .dmp files, rather than making a dump of everything in RAM when the BSOD occurs. He analyzed some of the small .dmp files but couldn't find anything useful, so I have it set to copy everything from RAM to a big .dmp file next time it blue screens. It hasn't actually blue screened since then, but next time it does I'm going to send him the file for analysis. So far, though, all things point to a driver issue, especially since the vast majority of the 133 blue screen dumps I have saved are from after I installed the new video card.

I'll also give MemTest a shot before I start checking all of my RAM, as that sounds like a royal pain in the ass.

There's a program that analyzes dmp files for you and can give you insight into what might be causing the crashes.

I *think* you can find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ ... fault.mspx

It's been awhile since I had to deal with anything like this so my memory is a bit foggy on the procedure, but I was able to successfully isolate that Zone Alarm was in fact causing my crashes. Finding a bad driver is much easier to deal with than testing a bunch of RAM sticks.

Well, the other day my computer was working great. Then my roomate fiddled around with it and now i have a computer that is separated into about 15 ziploc baggies in my closet. I need a new one, and must wait until I get paid next month. Fortunately, I broke nothing and should have some viable parts to upgrade the new tower. Anyone know how to piece these things back together? Maybe some tutorials on youtube, I'll try there one of these days.

One of my RAID0 drives failed today FFFUUUUUUUU. At least I'll only lose a couple weeks of data at most =/ but it's still a HUGE pain in the ass. Not buying from Seagate again, probably.

Hi, I have a computer which is connected to a wireless router and then I have 4 computers that run off wireless connected to that

Now all 4 worked then I installed that musicip mixer thing, turned computer off and for some reason the computer with all my music on it won't connect to the internet (when I turned it back on later) but all the others still do

Any help would be appreciated

I'm having an issue with Windows Movie Maker. Sometimes when I import a song into the program, the track length changes rather drastically. For example, there is a song I want to use that is roughly 7:30 long, but when I add it to movie maker it comes out over 11 minutes long. I'm doing this for youtube, which is why it's a problem (unless you have a special account, you can't upload videos longer than 10:59).


Removing the song and then re-importing does nothing. I've had this happen with another song too. Is it a file problem or a movie maker problem?

I've had some problems with incorrect track lengths in my music player (Foobar2000) which were caused by incorrect VBR headers. The only suggestion I can think of is to try re-encoding the file or converting it to CBR if it isn't already, or a different bit rate.

Hello all,

Could anyone please recommend to me CD ripper software that:
[a] is free;
[b] is of good quality;
[c] converts ripped tracks to MP3 format (either by default, or as an option)

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

I've used CDex. You can easily configure the default output settings, and it can also identify the songs before conversion from the Internet, and place them in the folders you want with the naming convention you want. Like <Artist>\<Album> - <Year>\<0#>-<Track title>

I downloaded and installed it, and have just ripped a CD with it. I found it to be just what I need. Thank you, sir.

Something weird just happened to me with Windows Media Player 11...

I was using the volume equalizer for a couple of days now, and everything was fine... Even the latest Metallica songs didn't make my speakers blow up from useless loudness.
However, the song 'Promises' by Megadeth, for some reason, played REALLY loud, like if you take the Equalizer and put everything to the max. Distorted sound and all that, it was awful. This is just weird because I don't remember that song being particularly loud, it was even ripped directly from a CD. By turning off the feature the volume was normal.

Anyone has any idea what could cause the volume equalizing feature to ridiculously raise the volume of a particular song?

Right, I use firefox, but as of last night my computer occasionally decides to open Internet Explorer on it's own accord with some long complicated url which starts http://url.urtbk or something like that.

I've set my firewall not to allow IE to access the internet but it still does it. I did a virus scan which came up with a trojan called a.exe which was in the Mozilla folder in my Program Files. Virus scanner moved it to the virus vault, but it's still doing it every so often. I'm not sure what's causing it.

Make another virus scan, and get Spybot or MalwareBytes to search for spywares. It's definitely a virus/spyware messing with you.

If you have all your data backed up I would just reformat.

google for vbrfix, usually this means the VBR header is messed up and needs to be recreated.

Evening! I did indeed have to reformat my PC.

I'm currently struggling to get my Line 6 Toneport UX2 up and running smoothly, and apparently it's to do with my SM Bus controller.

Now unfortunately, the appropriate drivers are not on the supplementary CD that came with my computer. My computer's an AMD and the CD has Intel chipset drivers.

Anyone know where I can get the drivers for my particular computer? I have CPUID CPU-Z to read out my specs if that's any help.

you need to find out what company makes your northbridge/southbridge chipsets, and download the chipset drivers from them. this should be in the manual of your motherboard.

Nevermind.

Just some followup to my earlier problem:

I could never get drivers for my video card that helped the problem, so I finally decided that there was just some fundamental incompatibility between the GeForce 9600 GSO and Windows XP 64-bit.

So, I took a leap of faith and formatted my computer and installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate. It's quite nice but it didn't solve my constant crashing/blue screen problems.

Next I redownloaded that MemTest program and gave it a whirl. Well, holy fuck. I had about 2,500 memory errors with under 5% of my memory scanned. I then realized that I had put in the two new gigs of RAM at the exact same time as I installed the new video card. So I took out the two new sticks and ran the test again with only the two old ones and got to 100% memory tested with zero errors. After a while I've reached the conclusion that one of the slots on my motherboard has some bad connections and that one of the new RAM sticks is also no good. So, I'm only running 3 GB of RAM now, but I haven't had any unexpected crashes or blue screens since.

Thanks again to those who helped, especially to Krelgen for the MemTest link as it's the only program I could find that could test RAM without having to create a boot CD.

I stumbled upon Falls of Rauros (the band), and you can download a couple of their albums for free on their myspace. The link takes me to mega upload (a site I've never used) and the download is a RAR file. I looked it up, and it says its a compression type file.

Questions: Do I need a bittorrent program to d/l this? (I dont use them)

Can I just d/l it and open it, or do I need a program to "un zip" it? If so, what program (hopefully free) should I use?

JZip: http://www.jzip.com/index.php?bt=c&r=50 ... 5QodcDgvCQ

WinRar works as well.

you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I thank you.

C'mon, it doesn't take a scholar to type".rar files" in google search . But you're welcome anyway.

I have some software issues.
I've been working on Mathematica 6 for a school project/homework/exam.
I was doing fine until just tonight.

My freaking program won't load, and when I finally get it to load it appears to be fucked.
I mean, shift+enter is the command to Evaluate cells, it is supossed to be done after you enter for example

LogPlot[Sin[x],{x,0,Pi}]

You write that, then you hit shift+enter and voilá! You got a graphic.

Now everytime I hit shift+enter NOTHING happens. Even the stylesheet looks different, before there used to be marks every mistake, the Inputs were in bolds, and the outputs were normal, now everything seems the same. Freaking mathematica!

I'm about to fucking kill this computer.

EDIT: I forgot, even the freakin Help menu is all fucked, everytime i clickon something nothing will load, and I will get a message like:
"The cells you are pasting refer to style names ("Input") that are not defined in the notebook you are pasting into. The text will be displayed in the default style for the notebook."
and on my notebook (my file) a message like this will appear:
"paclet:tutorial/FirstFiveMinutesWithMathematica"

I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this shit. Everything was cool this afternoon!!!!

Though I seriously recomend IZArc over Winrar, or WinZip.
http://www.izarc.org/

I can't listen to the new Maudlin of the Well EP. I downloaded it (from their site, of course), and three of the tracks (Tracks 1, 2, and 5) will not play. iTunes tells me that "the above file name is invalid", WMP doesn't even do anything, and even Winamp will only play the other two tracks. I can't seem to rename the mp3 files for some reason, but I'm pretty sure the problem is that the file names have commas and other punctuation marks that are normally not allowed.



Anyone else have this problem?

I have the program WinRAR and lately whenever I download a file this ALWAYS happens "Unexpected End of Archive" and only about half or less songs are actually there. Anyone know how to fix this? its very annoying.

That's because the downloaded file is corrupted, or the download screwed up halfway through. It used to happen to me a lot a while ago; a file would suddenly appear downloaded when it was clearly not, and that kind of message appeared. Lost connection and packet loss can cause that I guess.
Redownloading usually does the trick, unless the source itself is corrupted.
Make sure to clear your cache, else some browsers could think they already downloaded that file, and give you the corrupted one again.
If it happens often from a particular source, well find another source