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There are differences between the 'oem' and retail versions, they go through different activating proceedures, so somethings experienced with the oem version may not apply to the retail version. I have a couple of both and have seen this first hand.
Then of course I may be full of shit, and all the above is just bullshit... Last one I promise.
major hardware The emphasis here should be on major, I have changed video, sound cards, Ram, (I don't consider them major)many a time without any need to do anything with regaurds to keeping the OS running. From what I have seen it's basically motherboards, perhaps CPU that will require action, or perhaps a number of items at the same time. But if you are like me, any hardware upgrade is usually follwed by a complete format reinstall, after I have checked everything out on the current install as to try and avoid any problems on a clean install. Am I drunk? No, stoned? well thats against the law, so I wouldn't do that, perhaps a bit dizzy I don't usually talk this much, it won't happen again. Actually being stoned isn't against the law, being in possession, or operating a vehicle whilst being stoned are, so.... yeah, I'm stoned, absolutely out of my tree, and loving it. Carry on!! ... either change of environment (go for Linux), or buy a brand new PC...
I think the safest way to avoid fights with environment settings/re-installation/etc.. bla bla bla... would be to buy a brand new PC... just to be able to re-install your Windows compatible tools... bleh ! i doubt you'd run into any problems with just a video card replacement, but i don't have experience when going from ati to nvidia.
typically, things like motherboard or cpu would maybe make windows stop working. a friend of mine told me there's a way to get windows to redetect hardware configuration, but he forgot how. 9_9 worth looking into, anyway. thanks to the people who put up info ages ago regarding a new comp.
Got it today, and it's a flier. The 7900GT is indeed a monster card, I just need to find somewhere in melbourne that can get me a dual link dvi-d cable for my monitor. But games look great and fly. Now i just need to find the time to go through all the titles I wanted to play. within the 30 day period prior to installing the OS
That of course was ment to be '30 day period AFTER installing the OS So According To [59.167.126.200]... either change of environment (go for Linux), or buy a brand new PC... I'm not totally sure that is what I said, I'll have to wait a day or 2 to know for sure, but by then I prolly won't care 0_o I'm not totally sure that is what I said, I'll have to wait a day or 2 to know for sure, but by then I prolly won't care 0_o
errr... I was joking... really... just in case you took that as is ;P 'Strunk and White says outside (like this).'
I'm not sure about White but I'll stand by Strunk and change my ways henceforth (in fact I'll start right away!). Oh, but now I have two and that can't be right (can it?). You can combine ! and ?, into !? (but maybe that's only for exclamatory questions in comic books.).
You can't combine . with ! or . with ? or . with ; as far as I know (and I don't know a lot!.). ! If you are switching from ATI to NVIDIA and vise-versa and fear driver overlap issues, just use DriverCleaner from http://www.drivercleaner.net/ and that's it, problem solved.
If you are putting together a full new PC and not just replacing a videocard, do not expect to just put your old harddrive and expect Windows to work. Even if it does, it's likely to be way slower then it should be. Always do a full Windows reinstall when you do a major upgrade of CPU + motherboard (like going from AMD Tbird to Athlon64 or from Athlon XP to Pentium 4 or whatever). As to what comes to the whole Windows Activation bullshit, just get a Windows XP PRO SP2 Corporate Edition CD image off the net and you're set. It will NEVER ask you to activate or reactivate or whatever. No matter what hardware changes you make. When you at some point do a full system format and reinstallation. Do not forget to split your primary harddrive into multiple partitions, so that you have at least a C: for the OS and apps and D: for everything else. This way you will avoid the trouble of having to fuck around with backupping dozens of gigabytes of important data should you ever need to reinstall Windows.
that's all well and good until a hot chick asks you what it represents.
"umm.. it's a computer game that I play a lot" "Oh." great fun.....two posts in three days..btw the secret word for tonight is "joystick".
(and thanks alot for the recent releases, havent played them all but i will get to it :) Just grab a copy of "driver cleaner pro" free software, uninstall ATI, run drivercleaner and clean ATI, then power down and install the nvidia card, power up and bobs your uncles mother
I took care of his horses for nearly two months and he never paid me once. Bitter memories, man.
I composed this while playing sin, titled "CPU Bound." (to the tune of simon and garfunkel's "homeward bound")
See pee yooou boound oh ah wish ah wa-asn't seeeee peee yoooou bound BOUND, when the game's a-skippin BOUND, when ma framerate's dippin BOUND, you get the idea. I just totally hate Bush. Just completely and utterly. I just thought I would express my frustration.
was free for download right? i couldn't find a single copy of it on Microsoft's site, so i'm picking it up via p2p.
from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
The Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 has been replaced by Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition provides a complete integrated development and debugging environment making it the easiest way to create powerful applications using the C/C++ language. Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition also contains an enhanced version of the C/C++ optimizing compiler for the fastest executables. Best of all, the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is completely free! :( Although, after using visual studio express for C# the past several months, I kind of like it :O
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