Didn't work . When I ran it, it said it would not run when the drive is actively being used, and would do it's work during start-up. So, I restarted my computer, and the same error message about drive consistency that I described above came up, and it froze at "1" again.

Argh... What's with my display now then...

Some old good games require me to lower my resolution to 1024x768. Whenever I do that, the picture goes off center (to the left.) It works fine and all when the resolution is 1280x1024 and remains centered, but somehow it always goes off screen with smaller resolution. I can adjust the screen in most cases, but for example, in Heroes 3 the screen remains in the left no matter what I do.

Edit: Ok... I found a remedy to Heroes 3, which is to put the resolution to 800x600... Though the screen going to the left annoys me still. For example, when I start playing some newer games they automatically have the low resolution on for me for some reason and when all the menus disappear due to the picture being off, it's difficult to get to the settings. Sure I can manually adjust the screen just enough to get to the menus usually, but it's still annoying to have to do that all the time.

I'm getting flickering on my 2nd monitor. It just started happening today. It doesn't take up the entire screen and is black when it flickers. My 2nd monitor is actually plugged into the main output of my video card, so the boot screen and everything shows on that, but once it boots up, I have the other monitor set to my primary one.

But yeah, I don't know what's happening. I can't link the flickering to anything specific. It's done it while I've just sat there, scrolled through a webpage, clicked a link, typed in AIM. And it doesn't do it constantly. It's like 1 or 2 quick flickers then done for a little while.

Any ideas?

GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane 2.5GHz
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 8GB
OCZ GameXStream 700W ATX12V

Nevermind. I updated to the latest NVidia drivers and haven't seen it since.

The 'h' key on my keyboard has become spongy (not the best word to use but easiest). I tried to clean it with water (made sure it dried completely before replacing it) and it still does it. The area around it is clear of anything sticky as far as I can tell. I called Logitech an since the keyboard is out of warranty I have the option of 50% off a replacement, which even so I do not have money for. Any suggestions for what I can do to fix this?

Installing is half the fun though You miss out on all the real-hardware experience.

Anyway, the CPU is an important matter. I haven't used VirtualBox in something like a year or two, so I can't comment on how things are going now as far as features, but back then when you created your VM you had various option: How much RAM to give it, USB support, Floppy and CD, CPU cores to use, Video RAM, Shared files, and a few other things. The only thing I can recall reading about new since when I ran it was newer and better OpenGL support.

With your system I would suggest:
-Dynamically expanding HDD (give it a good 7-15 GB to start)
-1 GB of RAM
-128 k of Video RAM Min.
-Two cores if on a quad core processor
-Installation of the Virtualbox Guest Additions (Found in Devices->Install Guest Additions when running the VM)
-Enable 3D acceleration

In general just mess around with the settings for the VM (when you select a VM, Virtualbox has a few options, one of which is "settings")

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

Yay!! New NVidia drivers are out! They fix the fan problem

I knew I forgot something. I have a Core 2 Duo e6750 @ ~2.6 ghz.

I just got done installing Linux Mint, and it goes fine until I went to install my video card driver, it installs then tells me I need to restart. When I do it launches in this long DOS command log, where it prompts me for my username and password. Fine, I type that in, but then it shows a moose image and doesnt do anything else. I am fairly new to Linux and assistance would be awesome. How would I go about getting back to the Linux GUI?

You might need to load the driver, if so... log in as root and do this (assuming you are using nvidia):

modprobe nvidia

To start X (the gui) :

If you are using KDE, just do this as a normal user :

echo exec startkde > ~/.xinitrc && startx

From that point forward, just use the startx command to launch into X.

Help? I don't want my computer to crap out before this can be fixed

Try doing it from a windows install CD, enter into the recovery console and run chkdsk /r from there and see if it can correct the errors then.

I don't think I have one, my Laptop came with everything pre-installed. Or do I have to burn something?

I use ATI cards in this PC. I assume the command would be modprobe ATI? If it is, it doesnt seem to run. It says it failed. I am logged into as root.

Edit- Also when I try to use the startx command, it just says Fatal error, no screens found.

ATI, should've said so

You need to roll back your XOrg to an older version, probably. ATi is notorious for having incompatibilities with the latest XOrg.

Basically: never go with the fglrx driver (the proprietary one you were prompted for) unless you know it is compatible with your X setup, better to stick with the free ATI drivers as there is less compatibility issues.

nVida ?ber alles for Linux. I really can't help with ATi specifics as their driver support is so bad for Linux that I swore off buying anything from that company around 10 years ago.

You might want to ask http://forums.linuxmint.com/. There will be others in your situation and everyone is using Mint.

Thanks for the link, I have checked it out. However it hasnt sent my confirmation email yet, and I have a slight problem with my video card driver still. I downloaded the 10.3 driver from AMD/ATI and whenever I go to install it, it asks me for my character coding. I have tried a lot of them, including most of the Western ones. Which one should be used for this? http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq102/Starforce9/MintATIDriver.png?t=1269633390

I need help routing my Xbox 360 audio out of my computer speakers.

I have my Xbox connected to my PC monitor through HDMI, but the audio comes out the monitor speakers, and they aren't the best quality. So I bought http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TK1R0G/ref=oss_product and connected an optical cable from that adapter to the Digital I/O connector on my X-Fi Forte, but I am not getting any audio signal.

Anyone have an idea?

It looks like you're just double clicking on the file on your desktop. Did you look at the https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_cat102-inst.pdf? Open a console, navigate to ~/Desktop (since that's where you saved the file) and run

sh ./ati-driver-installer-10-3-x86.x86_64.run

I use one of http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.btecanada.com/images/970150CN.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cgi.ebay.ca/NEW-LOGITECH-GAME-CONSOLE-5-1-SPEAKER-ADAPTER-PS-XBOX-/250548836991&usg=__sw_echpLZGhWz8ivVucBajwzaC0=&h=400&w=400&sz=18&hl=en&start=18&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Q3hhzaNnZ1nniM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dxbox%2B5.1%2Baudio%2Bw/%2B3.5%2Bmm%2Bstereo%2Baudio%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DADc%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26channel%3Ds%26tbs%3Disch:1, both for PS3, and 360 in the past. (Though mine has 2 PC connectors not 3.) It came with my 360 Elite, which I have since sold.....minus that piece.

Just plug the 360's default audio cables (RCA) to it, then the PC speakers on the other end. I'm playing Tools of Destruction on my HDMI monitor (Speaker-less.) with 5.1 currently.

Fixed the problem. Kasperski caught a Trojan, and after removing it I rebooted. This time, instead of freezing on the "Check disk" screen, it actually did what it was supposed to do.


Stupid viruses :meh:

Aren't RCA just L/R Stereo, how can they transfer 5.1 sound?

RCA is just stereo sound (2 channels), but 2 sources can be mapped to a 5.1 system. The rear speakers are mapped the same as the front speakers and the center speaker probably get mapped both channels. Subwoofer output is virtualized from low frequency channel input.

While not having the fidelity of native (true) 5.1 sound output 2 channel mapping will work.

Time for a new thread....Close Enough.

New thread:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1084024-the-community-tech-thread-%2387/

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