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It could just be more people in your area are getting the same service. All the people in your area would be sharing bandwidth, so it could just be more usage than there was before. It might also be interference of some sort. Try relocating your antennae to see if that helps.

Linux! :mrgreen:

Built by me: Opteron 165 @ 2.4Ghz w/ Zalman 9500 1Gb Corsair XMS @ ddr500 3-3-3-6 MSI-K8N Neo4 EVGA 8800gts @ 1250/960 (I have dual PSU's to power this beast :mrgreen: ) Audigy 2 zs platinum 74Gb 10,000 RPM Raptor 320Gb Seagate 7200.10 PRT 200Gb Maxtor Plextor PX-740a Sunbeam 4 port fan controller Logitech lx500 keyboard Logitech G5 2000 DPI laser mouse Gentoo/XP Pro SP2/Almost have OS X working :D

You could just search your computer for mp4 files and see if you find the one you converted.

To make sure it's overheating you should heat up your processor and see if it does it. If any apps such as Speedfan. Use Prime95 to heat up your processor. Choose just benchmarking when it first starts. Then go to Options>Torture Test>In Place FFT's Let this run for a while, while monitoring you CPU temps. Post your temps and whether or not your computer restarted.

I'm thinking we need to sticky on of these threads. There is *a lot* of threads how to capture video in a game.

What kind of windows are you talking about? Do you mean IE/FF/Opera or some other browser, or ANYTHING? If it's just your browser, try holding "Control" and scrolling up on your scroll wheel on your mouse.

That's pretty cool. That's about what Vista does with windows, but they're stationary, so it's less complicated. Lol, One of the great features of Vista is on line of Javascript. :D

Your install is probably dead. That "Error message" coming up is not actually an error. Your NIC is trying to boot of another computer on your network (That's what PXE booting is). This probably started because your boot order is set to boot from your harddrive, then PXE boot. Since it now can't boot off your harddrive, it tries to PXE boot. You are seeing this now because your computer won't boot, so it's not the cause, the computer computer not booting is the cause of this.

All programs are going to take a while. It's encoding the pictures into an MPG2 video. You're losing quality because you're watching it on a T.V. T.V.s are crap compared to computer monitors.

A simple Windows key + Pause/Break will work. When it comes up just click the hardware tab -> Device Manager.

Yay, I have no offenses.

Audacity

What are you using this laptop for? There really is no best computer, I could easily build a $10,000 computer that sucks at gaming, or build a $10,000 computer that's not for AutoCAD. So first of all, what are you using it for?

See, even with an x1900XTX (ATI's best video card atm) he doesn't even get playable framerates.

My score is about 2,000 on 3dMark 06. It's about 30,000 on 01 though. :mrgreen:

Lol, yeah make sure you know what you're buying. And OMG half jugs are really 40-50 million? I haven't played in a few months, but last I knew they were 3-4. What are Phats now? Like 200 mil?

That's not a very good score. 5,000 is a top of the line computer and 1,000 is a basic system, from when they release it. So your laptop scores like a lower end system from 3 years ago.

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netstat's a DOS command!? Lol, I didn't know that. I use it all the time in Linux. Thanks for telling me that.

If you just bought your ethernet adapter a week ago, that could be the problem. Try putting your old one back in.

Not Windows 98. Personally I'd go the Linux route, but that's just me. Windows 98 is unsupported and old. I'd use 2000 if you really want Windows. If he has another computer, you could turn this into a nice little firewall for him. Check out Smoothwall if you're interested.

The cable could be bad. That happens a lot of times.

See that wasn't so hard now was it? Don't you feel better for apologizing? :wink: Seriously though, leaving your computer on should not be a problem. Does your computer POST? If it doesn't even post check to make sure things are securely attached. You may want to reseat a few components to see if that's the problem.

It should run RS perfectly fine, and no you don't need the card. My little 1ghz AMD plays RS flawlessly with it's onboard video. It's definatly not your hardware. If you're running on dialup, there's a good chance that may be the reason. If you have DSL or cable, then you may want to run a quick spyware/virus scan, just to be sure that isn't the cause. That little phrase doesnt make much sence....AMD makes processors....not video cards or motherboards...if it has onboard video then that deals with the motherboard not the processor... He meant AMD processor on other mobo with onboard video. Technically AMD does make video cards. They bought ATI, remember?