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No, this isn't a political rant. The Internet Radio Fairness Coalition has just asked me (along with other IRFC members) to fly out to D.C. this coming Tue/Wed to speak with our elected representatives on the state of Internet Radio. Imagine that!

I ran the installer, but it said I already had the latest version installed. I guess that's why everything looks so awesome to me in COD5.

That's cool. I love helping out where I can, and although I wasn't in on your situation, glad it sorted out brilliantly for you!

Yeah, I totally recommend it too. Use it quite a bit. It has its quirks, which can be annoying at times, but you just learn to live within it's boundaries and it's all good. Nothing can touch it. I will mention that Win7 (and earlier versions) already have voice recognition built in. It's not as good as Dragon, but it doesn't totally suck either. It is as easy on your pocket book as it gets, though. You could try it for a while to get the hang of voice recognition software, then switch to Dragon later if you want something a little better. Go to your Control Panel and look for Voice Recognition. From there, you can set up your mic for use with Voice Recognition and do some tutorials. I'd be interested to know how it plays out for you.

In what game, Crunch?

Nice one, Dean. Congrats. It always feels good to come out on top. She says that too, in case you were wondering.

Where's your backup? I know, I know. Sorry to add insult to injury. If you have the drive that used to be your Win7 boot drive lying around, then yes, perhaps that's the best you can do. Hook it up and transfer the data off that. How long has it been since that drive was replaced by the SSD? Whatever has gone on in between, that's how much you've lost. Why not copy everything salvageable off that drive, format the thing, then tell Windows 7 to use it as a backup drive on a daily schedule?

Nicht verstehen. Stop mit Bing Deutche auf Englisch übersetzen. Versuchen Sie Google statt. Stop using Bing to translate Deutche to English. Try Google instead. http://translate.google.com/ .

Happy Birthday HXTR !!!

Bad motherboards and power supplies do not make programs disappear. It could, however be a corrupt motherboard chipset driver since we're seeing a pattern here with USB devices. Let's not jump to hardware too fast, other than the USB hub, that is. Get that thing out of the way, then scan for a virus. A virus could certainly generate erratic behavior with software and manifest in strange behavior in peripheral devices, or applications going missing. If the virus scan is clean, then refresh your motherboard chipset drivers. Use Driver Detective - http://www.drivershq.com/ OR - get the chipset drivers from your computer manufacturer or motherboard manufacturer.

LOL Idiotville. We should make a movie.

I rarely fall back on a virus as a cause, mainly because it actually is a rare occurrence and often explainable as something else. In this case though, it's hard not to believe it's not a virus. That said, I might safe boot with networking, then point my browser at the eset online scanner found here: http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/ I'd keep the usb hub disconnected, and the keyboard connected to a native usb port (assuming you have it connected elsewhere usually.) I'd keep scanners, printers, cams, and any other device out of the picture while figuring this out. A rollback should wait till you determine if you're clean. Have you installed something new lately? Like just before things went wonky? Visit any strange websites? Anyone have access to your computer other than you on a regular basis?

Personally, I hate locked posts. It forever prevents the last word, which I sometimes desperately need. I'm am seeking help for that, but I digress... Who gives a rat's ass if someone replies to a post made when Christ was a Corporal? All that does is give us all something to give them shit about.

LMAO

Repeat after me: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and a big motherfucking knife to teach those who ought to know better than let me slink up to them.

Congrats !!

To add to what Labob has said, I sometimes find it necessary to run an application with elevated credentials ("Run as Administrator") so that it can perform some housekeeping task that running as a non-administrator won't get done. Problem comes in when the application predates the whole UAC thing in Windows and has no way of telling Windows it needs elevation to administrator. When you run as administrator, it completes it's necessary housekeeping (saving settings in the registry or whatever) and from then on it's fine with running as a normal user. Moral of the story: If an older program was just installed and it's failing, or failing after an update, run it as Administrator and see if it doesn't magically work fine. After that first time, try to run normal. Still working okay? You're good to go (till it borks out again, then just run as administrator again,) or if not, right-click the exe and set to "Run as Administrator." Note that if you set to run that way, you will always have to approve the elevation using the dim-screen/UAC dialog. Unless, of course, you have disabled UAC altogether. Please DON'T do that. That's like saying "to hell with the condom, she's on the pill." Stupid, stupid, stupid... (not always, but if you don't know who/what your dealing with, could be some bad side effects, right?)

I happen to have an 8300 right here that I've been installing Ubuntu Linux on. The 8300 is a Pentium 4HT processor. Single core with Hyperthreading - the first HT processor from Intel. It runs at 3GHz. Mine shipped at 1GB RAM on 2 sticks of 512MB. It had (and still does have) Win XP Pro installed. A07 is the current bios version, so you're several behind. You can get the flash file for the A07 bios from Dell. Please remove your service tag and COD WaW CD key. They are private and the latter could invoke a round of key theft. You did not mention your video card. I don't recall what mine came with, but the graphics buss on that motherboard is an 8X AGP slot. Many of the boards of that day were 128MB VRAM, so not stellar performers. Best you will find at a reasonable price is an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 w/ 512GB VRAM, but be careful if you go shopping because that board had several versions. You would need the AGP version. Not sure what's causing your black screen of partial death. I would suspect the video driver. My suggestion: Update the BIOS to A07 Update to current video driver for whatever card you have in there. - or - Get a new video card.

All that and a sucky ping, too. Nice job Gump!

never let windows update your drivers for video....go to the nvidia site...select your particular card from beta and archived driver sets..or the present whql...don't bother with that windows shit..set it to never update ...as well you might have to go into your bios to see what your settings are..might not be as compatible as the older setup...go into add and remove remove all drivers for nviidia including physx sound and everything....have your selection downloaded to wherever you download to,,,reboot into 800 by 600 do the custom thing fresh install....on the nvidia driver set....make sure you have the 64 bit version....remember custom install ...clean install..that way it will remove any traces of the old driver set...good luck...as well check the power requirements on the 12v rail...maybe psu related?,,,lots of things to consider JohnnyQuest is absolutely right. This is the site you want to go to when looking for the latest and greatest GeForce drivers - http://www.geforce.com/drivers Don't do the automatic detection. It needs to run Java, which you should have disabled in your browser anyway. Just use the manual search options and specify everything you have using the drop-down lists they provide. That will get you to the right driver. And just to reiterate a point he makes, always - even if updating from one version of GeForce driver to the next - perform a "clean install" which is a checkbox you check after selecting to do a custom install. Don't change any options other than that for the custom install. All the other settings will give you all you need, but the "clean install" option is not selected by default. Darth Yoda - Radeon drivers are totally messed up where removal is concerned. Don't know about Win7, but on an XP box I just replaced an ATI card with a GrForce card, I found entries for the driver, a control panel app, and an un-installation tool. Apparently, you are supposed to "remove" (through the XP Add/Remove Programs control panel applet) the un-installer which will uninstall the suite of drivers and associated programs. I removed the associated programs first, so "removing" the uninstaller threw an initialization error. Grrrrrrr! Idiots. The drivers still uninstalled anyway. BUT, I installed the new GeForce card, then installed it's driver after downloading from the aforementioned website (while in an ugly low-res display state,) and finally went after tossing out the ATI stuff.

No shit. I wanna get in there!

Agreed. A massive corporation trying to get nickles out of an affiliate deal on a per-install basis. What a fucking joke! And like we don't know how to just say no. lowercase-i idiots.

LMAO - Awesome.