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StarTrek DS 9 The Fallen - End Credits That game was really good!

How about turning off automatic system restoration, get a tool specific against this virus (Symantec and Kaspersky etc. offer those), run it and hope for the best?

a bit on the harsh side, are we? Jeremy Soule - Icewind Dale: Hrothgar (the whole soundtrack actually)

Try and isolate the soundcard, possibly an (itself isolated!) steel mesh would be enough. Aluminium foil is possibly too thin, and you'd have to make sure it doesn't come near any device, which seems difficult...No modder around here with tested ideas?

Das Ich - Sehnsucht (testing new smilies) [edit]Yes, they work

If the price for a 3870 is the same for a 8800GT, this is true. Here the ATis are lower priced and thus worth considering...

The intro always makes me nervous... Nice music anyway. Nine Inch Nails - Head like a hole

Sentenced - Burn Woohoo! Ok, at least at the beginning... (Beware of youtube-ish sound quality...)

How could the problem occur at boot time if it was a windows problem? If it is indeed a form of virus, it must have affected something that can cause problems at the very start of the PC (boot sectors? bios?)... A hardware malfunction still seems to be more probable to me - but again: I'm not really qualified.

Well, I can only copy that sentence, because I think the same but don't feel qualified to say for sure The behaviour seems very strange however, quite unlike every dying mobo I've seen so far... Did you ever check the network traffic, whether it really doesn't work or just isn't exposed to the user? I'm thinking of a "Zombie" here (part of a bot net), but I'm even less qualified on such terrain...

Thank you

The processor socket doesn't matter, as long as there's a PCI-Express slot on the motherboard And because there are no 8600GT for AGP (or even PCI, ) (that I'm aware of), the card should fit just fine. Oh, and make sure you don't get a 256MB model, because they are teh looz0rs!

Oh, must have been a good atmosphere Beyond the Void - Nihilism

I should have been born five years earlier or so... Anyway: I've seen Iron Man lately and actually consider it to be an entertaining movie despite my general dislike for super-hero stuff.

I whish I could have seen them in that lineup, even if what I saw was awe-inspiring...

The 8600gt is considerably slower than the 8800GT, and by considerably I mean less than half the performance. If you understand german, have a look at this column at the 3dcenter. It appeared directly after the launch of the 8600gt(s), quite some time before the 8800gt, but the performance of the 8800gt is comparable to the 8800gts (old model).

Congratulations Hope you'll recover from it easily, probably even get off the little helpers

Seabound - Hooked (Album mix) (on Sanctuary Radio )

Taxes. A lot of work to finally pay almost nothing, being a student and all...

Looking forward to sober follow up post

Hm, on one hand, there's the 9800-card, a reason against that goal. On the other hand, you as a female being are talking about high end computer gadgets, so I think the proposed effect may indeed be achieved...

Ah, I see. Sounds like a pretty fast engine to me, making the monstrous demo computer producing 1000fps or something Btw, using an x800 means that S.M. 2.0 cards are within range still? Nice! And: good to hear something again

Does that mean you're still rendering the character when in 1st person? Isn't that a bit wasteful?

ah, this show should die.

IAMX - Nightlife Simle and effective I would never have listened to such music a few years ago unless drunk, now I wonder how narrow my taste was at that time, even if I considered it to be very varied and open...