The Intel 845/865 chipsets do not meet the minimum requirements to run the program. The program requires a card that supports hardware T&L (Transform and Lighting), and the Intel 845/865 chipsets do not have the required DirectX functionality necessary to run the game.

Is this Purely Hardware, or is there some way i can fix it without going out and buying a new graphics card. --Omnipotence407 05:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's purely hardware. The Intel onboard video chipsets are not made for 3D gaming, or really any 3D applications; they're primarily 2D, and fairly minimal. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 05:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dang, oh well, thanks anyways. Omnipotence407 15:11, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible to watch cable TV on a computer? If so, what sort of adapter would be needed?

Thank you.

ChunkySoup 05:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You need a TV tuner card. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 05:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A tuner card is neccessary, but may not be sufficient. It will work with analog cable, but digital cable is encrypted and there are no tuner cards that can decrypt it. --Carnildo 22:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nvidia and ATI are apparently going to release

CableCard devices for Vista (and only Vista, due to its happy DRM), but I have no idea when. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 05:58, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply

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Why does publicfile, as described in [1], "skip names that contain tildes, spaces, or control characters"? There are plenty of useful filenames that contain spaces, and most FTP programs seem to handle them just fine. What is publicfile's reason for not serving them? grendel|khan 06:29, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's probably to prevent

Apache web server myself. --h2g2bob 19:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply

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I suppose that's understandable... but spaces?! grendel|khan 05:22, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

somebody please help me. I bought a 40 GB portable hard disk. i am not very knowledgeable about computer science so please please bear with me if my question seems silly. I connected the drive to the computer usb port. and the light provided in the disk glowed. and also an icon appeared in the taskbar. this is the icon that appears when a pendrive is inserted. when i right clicked it there was an option available as "safely remove hardware". i left it as it is. and i opened "my computer". before this i installed all the softwares present in the cd that came with the portable. also i installed "USB 2.0 DRIVE" from another cd. but inside the my computer i do not see the hard disk. when i insert pendrive an icon appears named as "removable drive" right? but when i insert this portable hard disk no separate drive appears. what shall i do? how do i open the portable hard disk and use it? please somebody help me. thank you very much. —The preceding

You will have to partition and format the disc before use. --antilived^{T | C | G} 09:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a link from the article on disk formatting that will tell you how to format the drive [2] --Transfinite 18:48, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1. WHAT ARE THE 7 ADVANTAGES OF ITANIUM PROCESSOR OVER PENTIUM
2. EXPLAIN IN ABOUT 10 LINES HOW SOFTWARE PIPELINING IS IMPLEMENTED IN ITANIUM PROCESSOR.
3. EXPLAIN IN ABOUT 5 LINES HOW PREDICATION AND SPECULATIVE LOADING IS CARRIED OUT IN THE I.A -64 PROCESSOR.
4. SCHEMATICS ON ITANIUM PROCESSOR —The preceding
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lol--PiTHON 11:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE DON'T WRITE ALL IN CAPS --h2g2bob 16:20, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At least try to make it not sound like homework --froth^T 18:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What class is this? =D This question just made my day. Yea, yea, I'm a wikidweeb. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 01:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Read the "how to ask a question" section before typing a question. The "Do your own homework" might come handy.... --Kevin Z 02:25, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that it's necessarily factually correct, but I just came across this. —The preceding

unsigned comment was added by ButterChicken69 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC).[reply

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This occassionally happens when you've got many drives/partitions/network drives "using up" a lot of drive letters and Windows can't "find" an appropriate drive letter to assign to your removable disk. I assume you've got Windows XP (I've only used Pro so I hope Windows XP Home Edition has the same options I'm about to take you through). First, plug in your drive and wait till its detected (i.e. that "safely remove" icon appears in the task bar). Now right-click on My Computer then click on "Manage". In the left pane there should be an item called "Disk Management", click it. Now in the right pane you should see all your physical drives/partitions, one of which is your portable hard drive. Right-click on it and choose the option that says "Change/Assign drive letter" or something like that. Choose a new drive letter for your disk (make SURE it's not one that is already used by any other drives in "My Computer"!!!). It might pop up a warning about changing drive letters blah blah blah. I assume you're using the drive for data storage and aren't actually installing programs on it? In this case ignore the warning and click OK. Your new drive should now pop up in My Computer (hit F5 in the My Computer screen if it doesn't). If it still doesn't appear (which sometimes happens) you can manually browse to it in the address bar by e.g entering X:\ (if your new drive letter is X). The bad news is you may have to do this procedure every single time you plug your drive in. Cheers! Please post back to let us know if this solves the problem. Zunaid©® 12:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can also use Tweakui (official Microsoft software), go to My Computer within Tweakui, and see if the letters are checked, since unchecked ones won't be used by Windows. This can help elimited the above problem, I believe. --Wirbelwindヴィルヴェルヴィント (talk) 01:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When trying to run

** WARNING ** Object reference with key "page.i" is in use.
** WARNING ** Could not add Dests name tree entry...

However I don't get the error when running

I have 6 copies of Windows XP for each of the 6 computers on my Ethernet network. Whenever I install a copy by accident on a different computer after a crash or some other problem the computer that the copy was on originally crashes with a “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM – You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the original Setup CD-ROM. Select “r” at the first screen to start repair.” The repair process always fails and instead of starting the system goes into an endless reboot cycle following display of the welcome screen. This happens only if both computers are connected via the Ethernet no matter what else is tried such as booting under “last known good configuration” or reinstalling Windows using a different name for the system root subdirectory. I am beginning to suspect that this is a malicious form of Microsoft copy protection since no warning is given so that you can reinstall the correct copy before access to the files on the computer of the original installation is permanently prevented – can’t even access them by putting the hardrive in another machine; in most cases the connected added hard drive can not be detected under Windows at the hardware level. Anyone have a solution or more information? -- 71.100.10.48 17:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely nothing to do with M$ protection, though I'm not a fan of M$. The SYSTEM file is corrupt, and you need to make it uncorrupt. Can you not replace the SYSTEM file at the Recovery Console? Splintercellguy 19:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The system file is part of the registry hives, you can't just replace it. Have you tried booting off the cd and doing a repair? Not the recovery console repair, the repair that comes up *after* the license agreement? Or try this. You should be able to see the hard drive from another computer, if you go to disk management do you see the hard drive? Are you sure its detecting in the bios? If it detects in the bios and it shows up in disk management as unknown partition then you most likely have some sort of drive overlay installed like norton ghost. If it wont detect in the bios by just moving it, then its most likely a jumper setting; on WD drives setting the jumper to master will make the drive not detect at all if its the only drive on the ide chain, it has to be set to "single" and vice-versa. On most dell bioses any unused sata/ide ports are disabled in the bios so the only way to get new hardware to detect is to turn the ports back on etc... Lots of issues can arise that I'd need more information the specific problems to tell you what to do. You said "install a copy after a crash or some other problem", most likely the computer itself has a problem such as bad ram, failing hard drive, etc.. that is causing the original bluescreens and the subsequent crashing. I would test the hard drive and ram, either by going to the hard drive manufacturers website and getting the utility, or just get the ultimate boot cd which has multiple HD/Ram testers. These are pretty accurate and if they show a problem then you know you need to replace the HD/Ram. As for the other hardware it can be a bit more tricky to find whats failing. Also if your repair cd's have service pack 2 on them, you can stop the "endless reboot cycle" by hitting F8 before windows loads to get the options screen to pop up (don't let it auto pop up the options screen after a reboot, it wont show the same options) in this list with service pack 2 theres an option that says "disable automatic restart on system failure", so whatever bluescreen is causing the reboot will stay on the screen and you could then research that.--PiTHON 21:01, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The hardrive is found by the bios but there is no access to the harddrive under XP. All you get is the instruction to boot from the CD. Sometime but not often booting from the CD gives you access to the \Windows systemroot subdirectory but more often as in this case the designated systemroot is not \windows but c:\. In either case the copy command will not copy the system bak file. Sometimes reinstalling Windows from the CD into another subdirectory allows you to access and copy some files and documents from the previous installation to another hardrive but in most cases if reinstall finds a partition it shows it as unknown and will then require you to delete it or reformat it prior to reinstallation and even though it shows creating a new partition in the unpartitioned space selecting this option give no response. Sometime if the hardrive is removed it can be accessed using another computer and a program called Active@filerecovery but sometimes even this program fails to find the drive. Ask me questions and I'll try to answer everyone. 71.100.10.48 06:20, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You could replace if you had a registry backup lying around. Splintercellguy 04:27, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you reinstall Windows (As it sounds like you're talking about), are you installing over top of the old one? If so, I suspect the programs, modifications, Windows updates, etc. are doing a very good jib confusing the registry.

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With some programs you may be able to use it by changing the clock back to a time when you were allowed to use it, in some other cases you may be able to change the registry too, with some programs you just have to install it again and the timer starts again. I think these are all pretty rare though, especially in modern software. In a lot of cases now there's not much you can do, once the trial period is up it's up, unless you get a cracked version. --Kiltman67 20:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

With most modern programs, as Kiltman said, there is no "easy" answer. Most programs will not allow you to do it at all. A few require significant registry editing, or changing the BIOS clock, which is not a good idea. If you are familiar with a resource editor, you can sometimes edit the trial period checking within the exe -- although you'll have to be very familiar with HEX. Some people also decompile the exe's into assembly and edit the trial period within the exe (this is a practice often used for cracking software keys). Keep in mind you could easily get in legal trouble for this, and that this advice is for educational use only. P3net 21:30, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's where it's handy to have multiple computers, just download it on the next one. StuRat 22:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about running it inside Sandboxie, deleting the sandbox after it expires, and installing it again, and deleting the sandbox, and so on... --wj32 ^{talk | contribs} 01:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, that doesn't work... I think that Sandboxie still keeps track of that... I'll try it out later. P3net 02:12, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Install the application with Total Uninstall so that you can uninstall it when the time trial is up "totally," allowing you to re-install it again with the clock being reset. You could try Total Installing the application again, then uninstall it and re-install it to start over the clock. I haven't tried it though. X [

DESK|How's my driving?) 21:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply

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