Jeremy

That guy's armor looks like it could withstand a nuclear blast.

Uhm, the character development and revealing of mysteries and clues as to the whole truth behind Half-Life is awesome. There are still unique and mysterious things being figured out about Half-Life 2. Half-Life 3 is also in the works and has been for a long time now. I personally would love it if hey stretched it to Half-Life 10 but 3 is probably as far as it's going to go. One of the things being theorized right now is that someone on another forum noticed that the Zombies in Ravenholm say "Help me" in Danish to you when they scream. Another thing is that in the beginning when you walk around City 17 and the Combine are busting into people's apartments, if you walk in the playground you can hear the voices of young children. There's a bunch of stuff on Wikipedia too from people who analyzed the sound files in Half-Life 1 and figured, for the most part, what was being said between the G-Man and the scientist in Black Mesa in the beginning, among so much more. IMHO, the Half-Life Saga is the most beautifully done FPS out there and I can fully appreciate it, despite Valve's release delays, but they just want to make sure it is **** good.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/679/679788p1.html I can't wait!

That's quite a resolution. I like 1280x1024...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/5315/nvidia_...nm_750mhz_real/ Thanks to PuntoMX for the link originally.

Hey, I'll remember that for the next time someone's retarded forwarded e-mail gets past my Hotmail filters.

Actually, CCleaner does find a lot of stuff in the registry that, for example, TuneUp Utilities misses. And those entries happen to be the simple ones like unused file extensions and invalid filepaths. I'm surprised TuneUp doesn't get all those, but it does a very good job of getting all the COM+ ones, like in the CLSID section and such. But, when all the reg cleaners are done, the next best thing you can do is keep a record of the games/programs you install/deinstall and use Registry Finder or a similar program to find the mass of them and delete the leftovers all at once. I said that already, oops. Well, just reinforcing my point. Spent all this time typing it, don't feel like backspacing now. lol

Awww, one of those sentimental moments. *sniff* Don't worry, wolfie, I think you're cool in a way. lol As for Billy... perrrhaps.

This is probably the 5th reg poll I've seen in the last few months. There should be a rule made against these. people are so lazy... TuneUp Utilities 2006's Registry Cleaner + CCleaner + Using a registry finder program to manually search for entries of stuff you no longer use, removing the mass of them.

I don't think the speed of the drive is what makes it a good HD. I'm not picky about the speed. My 2.5 year old WD 120 GB recently died and I got a Seagate SATA 80GB NCQ 8MB 11MS from NCIX and it's very fast. Also, it depends on whether or not you take care of your drive. If you never defragment or defrag once a year, your drive will bail on you in 3 years instead of 5, for example, I think. What makes a drive a good one, i think, is how durable and reliable it is. Hell, Seagate came up with NCQ. I voted for Seagate.

I have 1GB of DDR PC3200 Ram, 3.0 GHz and an ATI Radeon 9800 pro and the only thing lagging is my framerate sometimes.

I saw that video years ago. You don't have to hate or dislike Windows to hit Gates in the face. I like Windows, given it's nLited... and I'd hit Gates if I had the opportunity. But, I'd do it in the most comical and creative way I could think of.

Linky clicky I thought the anti-virus fanatics would like this one. It lists pretty much every AV software in two seperate lists; one for the programs that caught each attack as a result of the WMF exploit, and another for the programs that missed some attacks. It just goes to show that you cannot say an anti-virus is the best because its: - Free - Open source - has caught everything bad for you in the past What matters, in my opinion, is will it catch the attacks and viruses of the future? As you can see, everything from Sympantec to Sophos caught all attacks, but everything from AVG to Dr Web missed a lot.

This is the program I used to do my old nLite comparisons. Really awesome tool, indeed.

Support for Windows 98 was discontinued as of January 1st, 2006. WinME is no longer supported and I believe Windows 2000 will no longer be supported by mid-2006.

You're absolutely right. Thanks for that. It was really driving me to insanity. I felt like throwing it out the window at times, bashing it all to hell, and even selling it. I've never dealt with SATA drives before I was completely in the dark. Now I know what has to be done and I don't even need a floppy drive because of nLite! I hope people can learn from this thread in the future. Cheers, Jeremy

IT WORKED!!!!!! *cries* I love nLite... *cries*....

I don't press F6, because integrating the drivers should assure me that that is no longer necessary. I did go to Chipset > SATA > Windows XP and get the latest drivers. Waaaiiit... I just found the txtsetup.oem and put it in the same folder as the SATA/RAID drivers. nLite gave me a new box with options for specific OS! Made another ISO! Will let you know if it FINALLY works! *crosses too many fingers and hears a sickening sound*

Vitalix, thanks for that info. I guess I should just get a floppy drive. GreenMachine's guide to integrating SATA/RAID drivers confuses me a tiny bit. He says that by doing what he does, you don't need to use the floppy nor press F6. But I guess I did something wrong. I tried integrating again with nLite, and left the "Delete After Install" box unchecked, didn't work. Windows Setup still said it couldn't find the disk drive. If It could only see it!!

You guys are completely in the dark here. By the time I put the floppy disk containing the drivers, it DIED. Then before I could go download the drivers, my IDE drive died. Now my Seagate SATA drive is brand new. I'm not booting from the drive, I'm booting from a CD and when I get to Windows Setup, it says no disk drive was found. nLite's Help box in the Driver Integration section says for textmode drivers you need to have a "txtsetup.oem" file in the same folder. Well, I searched the entire PC and no such file exists before or after nLite-ment. I'm thinking it may not have worked the first time with nLite because I checked the "Delete after install" box, so I will waste another CDR without having that checked and see if it works. Also, my SATA controller is a SiS 964. I downloaded the latest drivers from the SiS homepage for WinXP and they're called "SiS 180" drivers, but they are for SATA/RAID.

My Motherboard 2 SATA connectors. My drive is currently on the Primary. My floppy died and then my IDE drive died. My IDE drive went because it was dying anyway, had nothing to do with a zap of any kind.

Didn't work.

WHat good would that do? I have SATA enabled in the BIOS and the drive is picked up but when I get to Windows Setup, it says it couldn't find the disk drive.

Well, that didn't work. I'm not going to college today. I spent 5 hours last night trying to get this working and 4 hours today. Floppy and HD dead... I'm just not in the mood...

This is no longer an issue with DMI Pool Data. My floppy drive died. My hard drive died. I have a new Seagate SATA 160GB NCQ 11MS drive, but am just downloading the SATA drivers now and will integrate them with nLite into a new XPCD to hopefully boot from and allow my PC to see my SATA drive in Windows Setup without the need of a floppy. If so, I can probably make it in time to do my nLite presentation in class (college) mentioned here.