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Demophobe
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| Here is a cached version of BlackViper's configuration list. It really can't be beat, so there is no sense in putting it all down here. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, Demophobe.
A lot of reading, but worthwhile, I suppose. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| What is the difference between formatting my drive and shorting out CMOS? When should I do one or the other? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| What is the difference between formatting my drive and shorting out CMOS? When should I do one or the other? |
This is getting a bit wacky, my cuban friend. 
Formatting your drive erases all the data, rebuilds the file system and lets you start from a clean slate when your Windows install is hopelessly messed up. The coputer boots, but Windows has lost functionality or is otherwise disabled. Perhaps a virus, a delete-happy user or just time has made it impossible to continue with your current install.
Shorting the CMOS is to reset the BIOS in the event of it not POSTing or booting or if you forgot your BIOS password - nothing to do with the hard drive. There are a number of things that can be wrong when one needs to do this, but it's usually a mainboard problem. |
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Dodgy Al
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| I have NRG audio files on my computer. How can I play / edit these? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| Neromancer wrote: |
The solution to extract audio from a .nrg
is to use Nero's 'Image Drive' (which must be installed)
Installation of Nero ImageDrive
Nero ImageDrive is not automatically installed during installation of Nero. It is only installed if required, using a separate installer. Please proceed as follows to install Nero ImageDrive:
Please click on: Start > Programs > Ahead Nero > Nero ImageDrive Installer
You will now be taken through the installation process. When the installation has been completed successfully you will be asked to reboot the system.
Nero ImageDrive is now installed and ready for use.
Once installed - mount the audio .nrg in ImageDrive and walla!
It shows up in My Computer as a CD-drive. And then you can EAC or whatever!! |
Don't you hate that Gideon? 
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Gideon
Joined: 24 Feb 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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The solution to extract audio from a .nrg
is to use Nero's 'Image Drive' (which must be installed)
Installation of Nero ImageDrive
Nero ImageDrive is not automatically installed during installation of Nero. It is only installed if required, using a separate installer. Proceed as follows to install Nero ImageDrive:
Please click on: Start > Programs > Ahead Nero > Nero ImageDrive Installer
You will now be taken through the installation process. When the installation has been completed successfully you will be asked to reboot the system.
Nero ImageDrive is now installed and ready for use.
Once installed - mount the audio .nrg in ImageDrive and walla!
It shows up in My Computer as a CD-drive. And then you can EAC or whatever!!
hope that helps..
U can also us CDMAGE to extract the audio files.. -->http://www.geocities.com/cdmage/ |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: |
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Man....to hard of a question eh demo? Ok...fine. Here is an easy peezy one:
How do you check to see how fast your PC is and how much ram you have? It's a two click process. What is it?
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Control Panel -> System.
This has turned into a test? Dang! I thought we were doing a community service here.  |
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dbee
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: |
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What is the difference between formatting my drive and shorting out CMOS? When should I do one or the other?
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... just to elaborate on what Demophobe said there CL. Basically you can think of the BIOS as where the electrical engineer meets the software engineer. An operating system is a behmoth of a thing, vista is probably > 60,000,000 lines of code and maybe 512MB ???. It uses vast amounts of memory, sometimes the operating system is stored on a hard drive before it's loaded into the computer.
A BIOS on the otherhand is a tiny little computer program stored on a programmable logic controller usually. The BIOS usually only has around 64KB to work with. This means that it really can't do very much. It's tasks include checking the motherboard to see what's attached initializing the devices, doing a POST (Power On Self Test) to make sure everything is working.
The programmable part there, means that you can alter some of its setting on its FLASH memory. It also has Read Only Memory (ROM) that you can't alter. The BIOS is also able to set various settings on the motherboard and CPU, such as voltage, frequency etc ... . This is what's generally termed overclocking (at least to my understanding of it anyway). You can ramp up the power and get more action, although at the cost of overheating and/or stalling your system.
The main task of the BIOS as far as most people are concerned, is to grab the OS and pull it into RAM so that the computer can run. Usually the OS will be stored on the harddrive. The BIOS will read the master boot record, or first bit of the hard drive which will give it directions on where to go. Then it will bring the OS code in bit by bit. This process is called bootstrapping. You can tell the BIOS where your OS is located at ... be it on a FLASH drive, another computer on your network, a harddrive, or a cdrom.
This means that basically, I can plug my FLASH drive into your computer adjust your BIOS to tell it to look for the OS on my FLASH. Then it will start up your computer with my OS. I can then access your files and completely bypass any password security you have in your OS (unless of course your data is encrypted on disk ... and you don't have the key stored on the disk).
This is the reason we have passwords for the BIOS. But of course, the BIOS is a programmable device. So if we short the BIOS, or in otherwords apply current to the part of it where we programmed the password mechanism, then the BIOS instantly forgets anything we told it to do. And goes back to it's non-password protected standard factory settings. Defeating the purpose of the password.
A harddrive on the otherhand is just a peripheral storage device. A computer doesn't need a harddrive to run. Just like it doesn't need a monitor or a keyboard. A harddrive is just somewhere handy to store our data that doesn't automatically erase when we turn off the power. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Demophobe wrote: |
Control Panel -> System.
This has turned into a test? Dang! I thought we were doing a community service here. |
My bad there big daddy  . Let me get this mug back on track:
Is there anywhere on the internet that I can find information as to whether or not my PC is good enough to handle a specific video game? |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest |
I was wondering who else went to that site. I love that site.
Alright all. If you guys are going to come on here and answer questions, you HAVE to post up a new one after your answer one. Please.
Where or How can I get my hands on an English OS (operating system) here in Korea? |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Illegal: Go to the tunnel guy in Yongsan.
Legal: Not sure, but hike around Yongsan a bit and I'm sure you'll find one.
Here's a tech question:
I have a home theater projector connected to my computer via DVI. The DVI connection looks fantastic. It is also connected to my Skylife box via S-Video. The S-Video connection doesn't look very good at all. Is there any way to improve the video quality I'm seeing from my Skylife box to the projector?
Also, the Skylife box has the Red-Green-Blue outputs, but the projector doesn't have matching inputs. It does have RCA inputs for video, as well as a VGA input. I've tested the RCA input, but the quality is the same as S-Video. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| Thunndarr wrote: |
| http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest |
I was wondering who else went to that site. I love that site.
Alright all. If you guys are going to come on here and answer questions, you HAVE to post up a new one after your answer one. Please.
Where or How can I get my hands on an English OS (operating system) here in Korea? |
Pirate copy - the tunnel in Yongsan or download a copy.
Legal copy - go to the Microsoft kiosk on the 8th (?) floor of Yongsan station and get a copy. |
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