XG Fox Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 Thanks everybody! @ Ludvig: Nah, that planet was just hand drawn in for the heck of it so far. For all I know it might not even be there when I'm done. But I did get her hands drawn in today... all that's left now is the tail! ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted April 16, 2006 Author Share Posted April 16, 2006 Great. Just freakin GREAT. So I'm rebuilding my computer with all my new parts, and I get it all together and fire it up... and then it all shuts down after a few seconds and beeps its head off at me. Well, I first found out that the cpu fan was plugged into sysfan1 instead of cpufan1, but that didn't make much of a difference. It's still dying on me. But THEN we found that the CPU has a problem (my brand new $200 AMD Athlon XP!) but we weren't sure if it was a bad cpu or if I had put too muich thermal compound on it and shorted it out... BIOS still recognized it, but when it started loading Windows it would all shut down and die and beep and whatnot. So if I can't get that figured out, it looks like I'll be dishing out another $200 for another of the same. So that's one thing keeping me from coming back for a little while, plus the other is that my parents are still a little paranoid about my grades, but you knew that already. But I haven't left you guys, I'm just having a LOT of trouble here, with this computer definitely. But at least you guys know I'm still alive. XD Oh yeah, and that Alexandria pic's been done for a while now, but I haven't been able to scan it... maybe I'll get to do that sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 Yay! He's alive! ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludvig11 Posted April 16, 2006 Share Posted April 16, 2006 maybe the comp needs more power? when my bro bougth his new comp-parts and then built it and started it.. it started to smell burnt, I think it was something wrong about the mother-board or something.. computer beeping is much becuase of low-power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 maybe the comp needs more power? when my bro bougth his new comp-parts and then built it and started it.. it started to smell burnt, I think it was something wrong about the mother-board or something.. computer beeping is much becuase of low-power. Hmmm... I never really thought about the power supply, but mine's a 300 watt anyhow, I think that should have been enough... but what's weird is that it actually WORKED once or twice, it actually booted up with that power supply. Here's what's REALLY weird now... I went to a computer store to see if they could figure out the problem... they plug the cpu into their motherboards, and it works no prob, but at a much lower clock speed. Plugging it back into my motherboard resulted in beeping as usual... so they had no idea what was wrong. BUT, on the flipside here, I bought the CPU from Newegg.com, and JUST YESTERDAY was the 30 day return limit... and I was able to get the RMA from em, so I'm sending this one back and getting a new one from them, so we'll see what happens with the new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Fox Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I HATE THIS School PC, can not see Awsomness,DIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Damn. Hopefully my parents will get some freakin sense in their heads and quit being against me all the time, then I can be back online whenever I want... but I don't know if that'll happen anytime soon. My dad listens to me (kinda) but my mom is still as stubborn as hell. Doesn't really matter WHAT they do to me, it's gonna take a hell of a lot to separate me from this place. So don't count me out yet. And on a side note, my damn computer's still down... and I have like 4 pics to scan... so... yeah. I've improved a freakin TON on drawing, you guys are gonna flip over when you see these... :friends: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Fox Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Damn. Hopefully my parents will get some freakin sense in their heads and quit being against me all the time, then I can be back online whenever I want... but I don't know if that'll happen anytime soon. My dad listens to me (kinda) but my mom is still as stubborn as hell. Doesn't really matter WHAT they do to me, it's gonna take a hell of a lot to separate me from this place. So don't count me out yet. And on a side note, my damn computer's still down... and I have like 4 pics to scan... so... yeah. I've improved a freakin TON on drawing, you guys are gonna flip over when you see these... I know how ANNOYING Parents can be..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 *Waits eagerly for artwork* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 13, 2006 Author Share Posted May 13, 2006 HOPEfully you won't have to wait too long... I'm outta school May 25th... And here's a quickie lineup for ya: 1) Alexandria Coraos completion (finally) 2) Speeder bike design (awesome) 3) Uh... I'll tell you guys about this one when I show it to ya... 4) Various others I dig out of my spiral EDIT: Ooh ooh ooh, I forgot one... 5) another Alexandria pic. Drawn kinda small, but when you guys see it you'll go . :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 Rawr. [/bad quality picture] EDIT: Ehh... also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Crikey mate look at that 'un! She's a beaut! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 Crikey mate look at that 'un! She's a beaut! She? >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 I was speakin' like that guy on animal planet. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 Ah, gotcha. *reposts pic cause its so awesome* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbital Fox Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 OMG... I'M NOT WORTHY!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grimloq Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Make the spikes on the plasma scythe glint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 16, 2006 Author Share Posted May 16, 2006 I plan on shading it more in Photoshop as well, but yeah, I'll see about doing that too. Glad ya like it. Oh yeah, and I've -obviously- gotten my computer fixed, save one minor detail, but anyhow, here's what I'm runnin now... CPU: AMD Athlon 64 (2.1 GHz) Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo V (NVidia nForce3 chipset) RAM: Corsair 512MB (x2) ATA HD Master: Seagate Barracuda 80 GB ATA HD Slave: Western Digital 20 GB Video card: ATI Radeon 9250 Only problem with my computer now is... well, look. I have an NVidia chipset motherboard and an ATI graphics card... and evidently you can't mix chipsets like that... so I'll probably have to end up getting an NVidia graphics card to get graphics-intensive stuff to run right... but otherwise, this compy has freakin WINGS. It can do ANYTHING. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grimloq Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Anything, eh? Okay. Have it divide twelve by zero. Anyway, actually, I /think/ in my experience there's usually some option in BIOS to disable an onboard chipset. However, if you find it, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT TURN IT OFF UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO REINSTALL WINDOWS. That's the worst case scenario, and it happened to me. Whether or not drivers are installed is irrelevant... Stupid Windows. That said, as long as there are no drivers, find it in the Device Manager and hit 'do not use this device'... That will probably do it fine. And actually, having an ATI and nVidia chipset if one is inbuilt has never given problems to the best of my knowledge. If I were you I'd just go with one, but that's just because I'm very obsessive about that kind of thing. This is all just from my little pool of knowledge, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 16, 2006 Author Share Posted May 16, 2006 Anything, eh? Okay. Have it divide twelve by zero. Anyway, actually, I /think/ in my experience there's usually some option in BIOS to disable an onboard chipset. However, if you find it, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT TURN IT OFF UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO REINSTALL WINDOWS. That's the worst case scenario, and it happened to me. Whether or not drivers are installed is irrelevant... Stupid Windows. That said, as long as there are no drivers, find it in the Device Manager and hit 'do not use this device'... That will probably do it fine. And actually, having an ATI and nVidia chipset if one is inbuilt has never given problems to the best of my knowledge. If I were you I'd just go with one, but that's just because I'm very obsessive about that kind of thing. This is all just from my little pool of knowledge, though. Aaaaaaaallright... I'll have to try those and see if that makes a difference... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 XG you know what the drawing needs to be a mega pwning pic?, yes you are right, a fork on a stick...XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Fox Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 @ XG. if the graphics card on your motherboard was at one time active (you did not have the ATI in, but used the onboard) then you must uninstall the drivers fo it, if they havent already, and THEN change the setting in BIOS (sometime windows dosn't delete old drivers) also, you may get some ram back, that was going tword the onboard VC....SOOOOOOO @ grimlog: you sound like you know that pain from expiriance........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grimloq Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 Nonono, it's worse than that. I'd uninstalled any and all drivers for it, AND specified not to use the device in the Device Manager, then turned it off in BIOS. Boom. The only option was a total reformat (Windows couldn't boot - it freaked out when it couldn't find that device. Reactivating it didn't help, it was permanently corrupted). It was an onboard sound card in this case. And check anyway. Windows Update will automatically grab updates for devices even if you don't want it to. But still, having them both should make little difference anyway. If 'graphics intensive' stuff isn't running as well as you'd hope, it's most likely nothing more than the age of your card. 9250 is fine, but by no means ultra-powerful. Going by my own meandering experience, once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Fox Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 there is only one way to fix that, disable auto update.....in the registry.....but that's a pain in the #$%!!! you have to manually activate updatel any usb device (ie. jumpdrives) any time you plug it in.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XG Fox Posted May 19, 2006 Author Share Posted May 19, 2006 Actually, I found a different driver... even weirder was that it was on the motherboard installation disc especially to install MSI motherboard compatible ATI drivers. X_x But now for the real awesome stuff... SHADING UPDATE! I haven't done much of his head yet, but the majority of him's done now. Say bai bai to flat shading or stupid gradients! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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