Recent content by ColinR

If you don't want TF2 (like me - not a fan of class-based shooters) you have the choice: Pay $49.90 for Portal and Ep2 or Pay $49.95 for all three plus two games you don't want and won't be able to "gift" because everyone owns them anyway. Its a great deal if you haven't got HL2 and Ep1...

Create a password for your user account, and Administrator. Problem solved - unless you're running something older than Win2000.

I used to go with: wedf, but it got tiresome changing the controls every time me and my brother switched playing when we shared a computer at Lan parties. Eventually I went over to wasd. For a long time I played Doom on joystick (back when we played using a serial link :D ). But that was...

I'd just like to point out that this isn't the first time Valve has pulled this stunt. I bought the Special Edition package of HL2 that contained (for extra cost) a T-shirt (low quality) and a tin box. Also involved (this is the important bit) HL2 (obviously), HLS and HLDMS. Later on I got...

Learn from this experience, folks. When it does finally come to upgrade you no longer just look at the benchmark scores. It's time to factor in the longevity of the socket you're sticking it in. Buying a 775 wouldn't make much sense if it only had a 6 month lifespan. Its just that 939...

You also need to balance it against what you'll lose. I lost access to a few of my media keyboard's functions. You may have problems with some of your software, maybe there aren't your printer's drivers out there. If you know you need it (you need access to more than 2GB) you'll probably...

Beautiful, Crim. Just beautiful.

You have GOT to tape up your drilling - that's where you're going wrong. Get some masking tape (the paper kind you'd use for masking off in paint spraying something). Cover the area you're going to drill. Drill. The drill bit will be much less likely to slip. Also use a speed-controlable...

Always read the small print! :D I had a mate who never even had any vents in his PC. Popped the side off and bingo - his hard locks stopped. I always thought this guy knew better too. Those sticks are in the wrong slots too. The MSI boards are the only ones that have the ram populated...

If Memtest doesn't crash it, it sounds like your PC is overheating. (Symptoms are it runs games for a while fine, then crashes. Reboot and it will crash almost immediately.) Run a torturous cpu test (SuperPI for example) and see if that can crash it. If it does, dettach, reapply paste and...

Err... I'd guess about 3.2 kilos heavier. :rolleyes:

I'm not so sure of the Dungeon Sieges and Diablos of the world really stacking up as proper role-playing games (though I won't get too beardy here). I haven't played the full version of Dungeon Siege 1 or 2, but have played the demo of DS2. I played Diablo 1 to death at LAN parties back in...

If you touch the sides of a HD that has been working hard recently, the sides will be scorchio hot. Note, that this won't be the case if your (ahem) case is made of metal and comes into contact with the drives (the case will be conducting heat away). Also, many of the latest SATA disks have...

This is an odd thing to say. In my opinion (which other people may or may not share - this is not a flame), the PC is the home of the finest RPGs ever created, throughout time... The Ultima games (pretty much covering all of the 90s and Underworld 2 in particular). Anything by Bioware...

I have an issue with a hard disk here. It has been formatted from being a massive NTFS drive (20+ Gig) to being a teeny tiny (7 Meg) FAT drive. The previous owner has since realised there was data on it that he needs back. :rolleyes: In all likelihood the drive hasn't actually been...