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Bugger all. Forty-five minutes into a game, I'm just starting to crush the enemy (okay, I play 'easy,' but I'm not very good :) ), and BAM! My computer freezes up again. Could it be because I use the biggest map? Or is my video card too small (ATI Radeon X300)? Help!!!

I get thirty minutes into a game, and suddenly it freezes up. I don't know why. :( I can't even Alt-F4 to get out, I have to do a hard reboot. Is this something that is common, and repairable? Or should I start saving often to recover from these crashes?

When I spent three years on night shift, I had to deal with the WORST neighbors. I rarely had more than four or five hours of sleep. Let's see. The kid with the drum set in the garage (which was never closed while he practiced, AND the garage pointed straight at my window). The go-cart that...

I rather like how Brin's Uplift universe handles teleportation. It's quick, it's efficient--and it's very dangerous. One race, the Tandu (xenophobic mantis-creatures who want to make the universe quiet--by killing off all other species), created a race of powerful reality-altering psychic...

Wait a minute: I paid $3 for that mousepad from Dell, and they sold it to me, KNOWING that it causes this sort of problem? :mad: Grrr... Now I have to go and buy a new mousepad...

I bought a new computer about a month ago, and most things are okay (aside from not being able to play M.A.X.). However, the mouse is driving me insane. I've got an optical mouse, and it tends to skip suddenly to the corner of the screen. I don't know why, and I don't know how to stop it. Is...

I get the following error message: "TERRANX.ICD has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." No idea what that means... Okay, I've now installed Patch 4.0 (the SMAC patch), the Windows 2000/XP patch (and set compatability to Windows 2000/NT), and the...

Huh. So I have to get an old laptop if I want to play the game? :( You wouldn't happen to know where I might find a Pentium 2 or 3 with Windows 98 (NOT, emphasis on NOT, Windows ME)?

I bought a computer only a couple of weeks ago. So I'm loading all my favorite games, including Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire. What's this? "Your CPU is not supported, crashes could occur." Dang it... So I click okay, and get an immediate crash to desktop. :( Anyone manage...

Sorry, I don't know the name of the episodes. I watch these by checking them out from the library, so it's been over a year since I've seen them. (It took 9 months to get Angel season 3, and now I have season 4 on hold...) So in case some people missed some episodes, I'm putting spoiler-savers...

How do I get into a router config?

Yup, that's what I'm talking about. I got several in one day, and have relentlessly hunted down and disabled Messenger ever since. I'm not sure if it CAN be uninstalled (since Microsoft has a penchant for making their stuff completely impossible to remove). On another tangent: Does anyone...

Thanks, bro. Back on my old computer, I had spammers sending me jumk through Windows Messenger.

Oooh, a biggie: How do I disable the darn Windows Messenger?

Okay, first question: My wireless network (such as it is, since I can't seem to connect from one computer to another?) is listed as "unsecured." Anyone able to help me take care of that? I thought I chose 128-bit encryption (password and all) in setting it up. And I'd like to be able to...

I've got the new computer, AND I've managed to connect my wireless router... So far, so good! :) No probl... <connection lost> :p

I've got the computer. I'll be asking questions when I get the router (didn't realize I had to order that... you'd think Dell would have mentioned that :( ). Right now, I'm just installing programs. I'll load the big ones when I have access to DSL, to get the patches...

Or how about, when registering, a person has to type in the word that is in an image that is slightly blurry? That is what some boards (e.g., CraigsList) use to stop bots from posting. If you applied that to registration, that should help, right?

Can we set up a referral-type registration? Kind of like gmail? If you want to get added, have a friend who's already on ENWorld send you a referral, and then you can join by clicking the link. That ought to stop a lot of the spammers, who are just joining boards at random. (Of course...

So I shouldn't mention that I've got a set, just gathering dust? I've really got to get around to watching it, someday...