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Darn!  That worked!  Well uninstalling my Aureal soundcard that is.  No sound now, but at least I can play again.  So, need new soundcard ... any recommendations .... I only use it for a couple of games, listening to Radio 2 on the net and CD/MP3 - all through headphones ... so I guess it doesn't need to  be a sooper-dooper one.

Thank you chaps ....... especially Neutron.  

See ya.

Season's greetings one and all from the frozen wastelands they call Scotland!  Having now some time to myself I thought I'd re-install HL and CS (1.5? 1.5? where'd that come from?)  I was having problems after I bought a new NVidia GeFroce MX440 - a lot of my video/audio was freezing on different apps/games and at all different times.  I have tried two different versions of the NVidia drivers (older ones and the newest ones) but nothing seems to help.

I re-installed XP a couple of months ago and have only just re-installed HL and CS.  Same thing happens though when I start CS .. when I click any of the orange menu title (config etc.) my system just freezes and I have to hold the power button in for the usual 4 secs before it will reboot.

System specs:  mobo (no idea .. bought it two years ago!), PIII 1GHz proc, 1024MB RAM, NVidia GeForce MX440 64MB, Aureal sound card (!!??) 2 x 15GB HDD - got all the latest drivers for devices and as up-to-date as I need to be with MS-type patches

Any idea why my system freezes?  I'd like to get back into playing CS but can't .... Oldie says you all really miss me .... :wink:

Thanks.

...oh no it won't ... couldn't resist that  :lol:

hey chaps .... winter is setting in here .... the north wind doth blow and we shall have snow .. and all that drivel!  Still not got a fully working system  :cry: so still no CS for me !!!!

Got a new NVidia video card and it seems to freeze my system whenever I play video or music.  Tried different Detonator drivers and it makes no difference so saving my pennies for a new soundcard.  Hopefylly I will then be able to get back to playing CS ......

I do read the forum religiously every day ... love the banter and good to see the clan growing ......

Take care ....

Thought I'd give my tuppance worth.....

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> Actual examples of metaphors from GCSE papers:

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.

McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr.on a Dr Pepper can.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet
of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of Family Fortunes.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. ( I have actually got a brother called Phil).

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on
31p-a-pint night.

He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.

The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Glenda Jackson MP in her first of several points of parliamentary procedure made to Robin Cook MP,Leader of the House of Commons, in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the suspension of Keith Vaz MP.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.

The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free cashpoint.

The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.

It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with their power tools.

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.

She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature British beef.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

...I don't care ... someone wants me ....... someone wants me .... aahhh  :oops:

aw shucks Stryker ... that's the nicest thing ne1 has said .... see Doggers at least someone wants me ...... ;-)

will try and make this one .....

See ya

Samdad

ooh  8O  sounds like my kinda server ...

CoFR?
llamas?

me = confused  :?:

ooh err! is that painful ...... 8O

well after a shite few months at work when I've been snowed-under and then coming home to try and support an international charity I work for ..... and having CS1.4 screw up my PC .......I was just geting back into the swing of things when I've been asked to leave the clan 'cos it's needs participation ......

I can fully understand that a clan needs to be active to be successful, so I'll bid you all a fond farewell .... I may pop-in for the odd-game now and again ...... and check back on the forum for the witty banter and repartiore .....

Thanks for the fun .... short-lived though it was .....

If anyone's up in Glasgow give me a shout and we can try and meet up ....

Cheers the noo....

Samdad
 :cry:

rah! June 12th ... 2 days after my birthday ... I'll still be busy opening all those lurvy presents u all will be sending me ....

See ya

Samdad

Thanks chaps.  Did do the usual searches but couldn't actually find one to match our needs.  I'll have a look at the above and see what I can find.

I have to agree that W2K is V V stable ... far more so than NT4 .... and we don't have a choice anyway ...

Thanks again for the info.

Regards.

Samdad

(btw eventually got CS1.4 working and played for a while the other night .... if I was bad before then I'm absolutely crud now!  It's amazing how quickly you lose your edge after not playing for a while!)

W2K?  Ain't got no choice ... it's the only OS I have a hope of supporting.  Thanks for the all the advice and help ... I'll keep looking for a mail server proggie we can afford ......

Thanks

Samdad

Hi chaps.

Gonna change my name to "lurkio", 'cos even though I don't post much, I am still here checking the foums whenever I can.

Anyway, on to my slightly (!?) OT:  looking to set-up a POP3 server on a W2K Server.  What do we use for blah@deadmen.co.uk ...... Need it to set-up email for charity I work with.  Have looked at MDaemon and IMail, and both do what we require, but too expensive (>250 casual users).

Thanks for any info.

Regards.

Samdad
(still working far too bloody hard    AND can't get CS1.4 to work even though I now have a sooper-dooper fast cable modem at 512K!)