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telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:25 PM
So I F'ING hate my PC. Random disconnects FTL. So we are in MC ready to take on the Imps...bye bye Telva. Reboot (usually works), stay off TS, login and all I get is a cancel button. Repeat the reboot process, login, get to the "success" screen, then.....nothing. Exit game, restart game, success I am in, I am able to mine a few DI, get into Luci's room, D/C. Able to get back into the game pretty quickly, but Eve gets to tank the dog for me. Everything is fine, line up to tank Luci add....D/C. Get on TS to have them tell Mike I D/C just in time to find out Luci had been pulled.

At that point I was fuming, I would have been much happier had I gotten Waib crit error because at least I would have an idea of what is wrong (bad RAM ftw), but oh no, I get nothing. So, I decided to make sure I have no viruses or spyware. Restart my PC to get it into safe mode, hit F8, nothing, reboots normally. Try it again, nothing. I say WTF (well I said a lot more colorful metaphors) and then reboot to try and get into my BIOS, hit DEL and.....nothing. Turns out my new keyboard doesn't like working until Windows boots (anyone know if that is a function of the keyboard, or because it is a USB?) So I replaced my keyboard and got into safe mode. Ran Ad-ware and SpyBot (<--- found alot more crap than Ad-ware even though it ran second FYI) and then Norton. No viruses but nothing horrible.

So finally I get back into WoW and everything is fine. Then again I was the only person left in MC and the only person left online in the raid group, so who knows. I got back into the PvP raid on the tower just in time to kill Azazle before I had to leave. So unfortunately I didn't have a test session.

Either way, I will raid tonight with my old keyboard after I uninstall the software for the new keyboard. Also, I am wiping the add ons directory again and reinstalling fresh (anyone know if there is a new version of Equipmanager?).

If this doesn't work, I think I am going to pull my old RAM and just run with the new stuff and see if that clears everything up.

I think yesterday just sucked for me in that game. First, I get all the way to Azshara, and there are very few veins to be found and no crystals. I notice Jonra, Thy, and Nos are farming carcapaces so I join them for all of two kills when WSG pops. I go to WSG only to see DOOM staring at me. Xel don't take this the wrong way, but DOOM farms HKs. They could have ended the game in about 3 minutes but it lasted about 15. I was the kill leader for the alliance with 3/8 (KB/HK). I think the DOOM leader had well over 30 kills. The alliance group sucked, no one would do anything in groups, and it just sucked. So I port back to Silithius, and we farm for about 30 minutes before I am told I have to go to the grocery store and liquor store. Come back just in time to get an invite to MC. And then the PC problems start up. Man I hate this game sometimes.

Ok enough bitching. It is time to refocus on BWL which is tonight. We need a smooth Razorgore kill, no wipes, and get everyone in a positive mood. Vael needs to go down in 3 attempts or less. Why? We don't want frustration setting in, and fewer wipes means more time for Broodlord and later. These are the goals and I am sticking to em! We know the strats on these fights, and the tanks know how to transition. There is no reason whatsoeva that this can't be accomplished. In an ideal world, Firemaw would go down as well giving us an entire night for Ebonroc onward.

2biT
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:32 PM
Get rid of Nortan, it causes more problems than it fixes. Get AVG free edition, i swear its the best AV program ive ever used.

Do you use ATI cards? If so there are some new drivers that stop the random crashing according to guild members that use them.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:40 PM
Nah, I use GeForce. I will look for new drivers for it again.

I am just tired of the freaking randomness. If it happened all the time, I coudl figure out what it was. However, it only happens in 40 man raids, but it doesn't always happen (went all Monday night no problem).

As for Norton, I run the corporate edition, and I have never had a problem with it, nor have I ever gotten a virus.

stats
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:45 PM
You should be using OMEGA drivers and use the instructions on that website to configure your bios/mb settings in setup.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:47 PM
You should be using OMEGA drivers and use the instructions on that website to configure your bios/mb settings in setup.

Please explain, I have never heard of this.

And to make things clear, I wasn't trying to mess with my bios last night, I was testing to see if my keyboard was functioning properly.

Evelynn
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:51 PM
Well Telva, I'm sorry you were having issues with your PC, but I was lovin' the opportunity to feralnoob it up. Bright side to everything, I guess, even if the sun doesn't shine on you :/

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:55 PM
Haha Evelynn I am glad you got some enjoyment out of it. I was disappointed to hear that no Might dropped and therefore Elf didnt get a chance at some Epix. Oh well there will be other days.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 01:57 PM
Ok checked out the OMEGA drivers website, and I will give it a shot. I won't mess with the bios settings because I don't trust myself with that kind of stuff. Knowing me, I would do horrible damage to my PC.

Zephonia
Feb 8, 2006, @ 02:43 PM
Yay for crappy comp problems. Im sure you'll be fine in BWL tonight, Telva. <3

MVB
Feb 8, 2006, @ 02:48 PM
HE'D BETTER BE OR IT'S SEXECUTE TIME.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 02:49 PM
I better be, but that is what scares me though. Not to get big headed or anything, but if it happens in MC, sure I will get pissed and Mike will get pissed, but I am easily replaceable. When it comes to BWL that isn't necessarily the case. I mean how many other of our tanks can run up to a big angry dragon, hit sunder 30-40 times and HS about 15 times and then move left and die? That is a very rare skill to have, I would definitely be leaving some huge huge shoes to fill. Plus I need more MVPs, I am still scared of being out rolled on those pants.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 02:50 PM
HE'D BETTER BE OR IT'S SEXECUTE TIME.

See I told ya Zeph ....

Btw, Gadi, maybe we could hit up The Calling before tonights run. This will at least allow me to test out all the crap I am going to do to my PC once I get home.

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 04:19 PM
Man Hatchet said he was gonna sleep in, I didn't realize that meant he was gonna stop posting now that he made Warlord. Congrats btw.

Hatchetface
Feb 8, 2006, @ 04:36 PM
I missed all the fun last night, apparently! I bought the armor, got the chest enchanted and turned in my Libram for the headpiece and CRASHED OUT!

I'm leaving work early today, so, I'm TCOB--sorry for being AWOL.

When I get home, I'm gonna level my Paladin. (Wokka, wokka) See you in gchat.

Waibanez
Feb 8, 2006, @ 04:38 PM
When I get home, I'm gonna level my Paladin. (Wokka, wokka) See you in gchat.

I think only you and I got this joke Fellow Horde buddy :P

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 04:48 PM
I know the Wokka Wokka, I am just drawing a blank on why =/

MVB
Feb 8, 2006, @ 04:56 PM
The original Wokka Wokka was from the Muppet Show I think. I imagine you're clicking it over from there.

Hatchetface
Feb 8, 2006, @ 05:00 PM
Would you prefer "hubba, hubba?"

stats
Feb 8, 2006, @ 05:05 PM
OMEGA make pretty much the best games gfx drivers you can buy - standard set for all ati or nvidia cards along with others. They have a section on how to setup your bios for optimal performance. If you read through it carefully and make a list of all possible changes (or print it out) then carefully go through your bios/settings only changing what it say and follow the intructions (ie: it will say osmething like, turn down your AGP power allocation if using a PCI card, Turn up to XX if using AGP or somesuch) Then you can boost your fps by about 10 if your lucky or more and increase your stability. But if your not comfortable with that then it's fine.

Another thing you can do is go to "Run..." in your start menu, type "msconfig"
there and hit it. Now in services shut down ANYTHING that is not microsoft unless you know what it is and you want it, and in 'startup' shut down everything except your firewall and maybe an IM program if you use one. This will help you loads to (remember to restart after you've done it)

Another thing prior to playing your game (WOW) use control alt delete amd in processes, right click on each one (Except wow) and set it to low or below normal priority - leave WOW as it is, DO-NOT set it to high. This should boost your fps and stability even more.

Trust me matey i have LOADS of experience of running high end games with shitty/breaking down computers - anyone who tells you that you'll need a new gfx card or better ram to run a game is full of it and has too much money!

stats
Feb 8, 2006, @ 05:13 PM
It's only fair to point out, i suppose. that i have blown up 2PSUs, 2gfx cards and a processor from various overclocking and tickers and running without fans thinking everything will be hunky dory...

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 05:37 PM
Thanks Stats, I get to go home early as in now because assets I need to test with are not available to me, so I will do all this in the next few minutes. Testing it out on the other hand.....

telva
Feb 8, 2006, @ 05:38 PM
One other quick thing that is probably a n00b question, should I uninstall my previous vid drivers or will the OMEGA drivers write over them?

stats
Feb 8, 2006, @ 06:02 PM
Yes, uninstall them completely from you 'add remove' programs in the control panel.

Waibanez
Feb 8, 2006, @ 08:28 PM
I hope it works out for you Telva ^_^

Evelynn
Feb 8, 2006, @ 08:41 PM
Haha Evelynn I am glad you got some enjoyment out of it. I was disappointed to hear that no Might dropped and therefore Elf didnt get a chance at some Epix. Oh well there will be other days.

Yea, I was hoping to see some new phat loot too, but we got more warlock loot x.x

hatchet- wtf? Why weren't you in our fun world PvP? I missed you, man, hamstrings and all :(

Leridyn
Feb 8, 2006, @ 08:44 PM
I swear to the gods that I'm gonna roll me a warlock next. Gnome warlock - a chick. Krickette will be the name. And by the time she's 40 she'll probably have a whole slew of level 60 BoE epix in her bank. LOL

Asarlai/Blackravyn already said he'd twink me if I rolled a 'lock. Think they'll let me into the guild?

Waibanez
Feb 8, 2006, @ 08:54 PM
I swear to the gods that I'm gonna roll me a warlock next. Gnome warlock - a chick. Krickette will be the name. And by the time she's 40 she'll probably have a whole slew of level 60 BoE epix in her bank. LOL

Asarlai/Blackravyn already said he'd twink me if I rolled a 'lock. Think they'll let me into the guild?

I have a Gnome Lock named Harbert


and a Orc Warlock named Waiby >.>

ROFL TOO MANY FUCKING ALTS

stats
Feb 8, 2006, @ 09:54 PM
dude starts talking about probelms with his pc and you dudes start talking about gnomes and warlocks.

stats razerthorn hits thread for whomgpwnagerage damage
stats backstabs thread
stats kindney shot hits thread
stats backstab
stats backstab
stats locksthread
thread dies
stats rolls 98
stats picks up scabby thread pelt
stats wins fluffy elf fairy wand from 'thread corpse'
"omfg, need b4 greed! fcking ninja looting nubtard!!!!"
/kick stats

ohnolocking privvies these days ;/