Author Topic: Tech-related problems (Read 578639 times)

chera · « **Reply #160 on:** August 20, 2006, 01:46:04 AM »

PORT FORWARDING @#@!u(i($#*(# Bit torrents &$%# up ^&*& Bill GATES ^&**evil (&* hate %^^%$$!!@*%^ IP &*$&% router &#*%%stupid ^@*^#* Wanna cry &^#@#$$@ so damn hard *$&%*($& Don't work &$#*#(@& AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

chera · « **Reply #161 on:** August 20, 2006, 02:29:13 AM »

Sorry about that... I had to get it out of my system.

I was using utorrent 1.5 and getting about 70 kBps down, without port forwarding. I figure that upgrading to utorrent 1.6 might make things faster, but when I start it, my speed goes down to 5 kBps down, and the status of my favorite trackers is listed as offline, which they're not.

So I tell myself I might as well get port forwarding fixed up once and for all. I go to portforward.com and follow the instructions to make my IP static. Then I'm supposed to log in to my router (a Linksys BEFSR41v2) to change some settings. I key in what is supposed to be the default IP (192.168.1.1), and can't get in! ฺBoth Firefox and IE don't work. This isn't my own router/network - I'm staying at my dad's place and he had one of his friends set things up for him.

So I'm in a jam; I can't complete the portforwarding procedure, and my BT capability is essentially gone. Switching back to utorrent 1.5 doesn't help, I'm still down to <10kBps; screwing up with the IP settings messed up my computer big time.

Life is mean.... :-(

ebc · « **Reply #162 on:** August 20, 2006, 03:33:26 AM »

Go start>run> type cmd and hit ok

In command prompt type ipconfig and hit enter
Where it says your default gateway, that's the ip you need to enter in to your browser to log into the router.
If it doesn't work then you need to find the manual for the router and read it, it'll tell you everything you need to know.

chera · « **Reply #163 on:** August 20, 2006, 03:57:42 AM »

Quote from: ebc

Go start>run> type cmd and hit ok In command prompt type ipconfig and hit enter Where it says your default gateway, that's the ip you need to enter in to your browser to log into the router.

Yippeeee!!! EBC, you just made my day. I got things working again, portforwarding working and utorrent 1.5 is just fine again. I'm not going to bother with utorrent 1.6 anymore...

thatguy · « **Reply #164 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:23:10 AM »

this isn't really a problem... well, in some way it is.

is it a probem if i've become a huge packrat over the past few years?

i just bought yet another hard drive. a 320gb, cause newegg has been dropping prices like no tomorrow (i got mine for $89.99!). so once it gets here on wednesday, i'll be running a total of 7 drives internal: 80gb, 120gb, 250gb, 250gb, 250gb, 320gb, and a new 320gb (total: 1590gb).

doctor, please tell me... how much of a whore am i?

suki* · « **Reply #165 on:** August 22, 2006, 12:01:00 PM »

Have not reverted for a while for the want of stuff to burn into a CD, but now that I've tried that, I can finally report here once again.

Quote from: thatguy

have you tried burning a regular cd at a low-speed (8x or below)? will that go through? or does it give you the same error? if the cd will burn fine but not a dvd, you may need to free up some system resources while you burn a dvd (or else we can help you figure out if some application is being a misfit). but if a cd also fails then maybe your dvdrw does indeed need to be replaced

I burn all my CDs and stuff at the speed of 4X only coz I'd been told that that's the most stable speed to burn at. But! Talking about burning CDs on that thing...

*insert HUUUUUUUUUUGE LOOOOOOOOOONG sigh here*

Quote from: Janihan

I though you were using Sony discs since according to your log the media ID was SONY08D1 which atleast I thought is only sold under the Sony brand.

I have no idea really as to what media it was that I used but the label on the pack said BenQ. >_< But really. What I tried this time was that I used the USB2 port on my PC with the burner and tried burning a CD this time. And I know the CDs are fine coz I've been writing on those with the internal CD-writer.

I hate to say this, but it gave me the EXACT SAME error message as when I tried to burn a DVD. >_< The burn process was about to start when it got stuck, showed me the disc error message and the tray came out ejecting the disc.

Silly thing is only a year and a half old!!

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #166 on:** August 22, 2006, 12:38:58 PM »

Quote from: suki*

Silly thing is only a year and a half old!!

'Mean time between failure' means just that: mean time!

e.g. some things will breakdown early...

suki* · « **Reply #167 on:** August 22, 2006, 04:40:00 PM »

Quote from: frblckstr1

'Mean time between failure' means just that: mean time!

e.g. some things will breakdown early...

>_< *sniffles*

Any good external DVD-writer recommendations??

thatguy · « **Reply #168 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:18:25 PM »

i loved my sony external dvdrw... right up until it broke

actually it broke while i was bringing it home for the summer, so i dont know if i had packed it incorrectly, or if it was just being cheapo. now im back to my internal cdrw (and no dvd drive, so can't read any dvds! ack!), until i go to newegg and buy an internal dvdrw to replace it (considering how cheap they are.. ~$30)

idiotboy · « **Reply #169 on:** August 22, 2006, 05:22:23 PM »

Quote from: suki*

>_< *sniffles*

Any good external DVD-writer recommendations??

i'm using a Freecom Classic. i'm on my second one at the moment, the first one lasted a bit over three years. i've never had any trouble writing with it, or getting it to read anything (except when the first one died), and i thrash my external drive very hard (and cart it around the world, too).

the first one lasted longer than the external DVD drive that i bought with the laptop, that's for sure.

chera · « **Reply #170 on:** August 23, 2006, 08:44:45 PM »

Quote from: suki*

Any good external DVD-writer recommendations??

I use an internal Lite-On DL DVD writer, placed on my desk, connected to my laptop using a USB-IDE cable. No need for an enclosure. Works perfectly. Cheap, too.

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #171 on:** August 26, 2006, 07:48:18 AM »

I downloaded this file which is a bout 650MBs and when I played it on MPC, it's only 24mins long, so I know that can't be right for a file of that size and the quality was not THAT great. So I played the same file with VLC and it said that the file was broken and I got the option to fix it. I fixed it and file played till the end (about 55mins).

Question: Is there a way to permanently fix the broken avi file? VLC only fixes it everytime I want play it.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #172 on:** August 26, 2006, 08:35:05 AM »

^ try divfix

huggumwuggums · « **Reply #173 on:** August 26, 2006, 11:37:22 AM »

I've tried it and it seems to be working. Thanks!

Asmodai · « **Reply #174 on:** August 26, 2006, 02:20:47 PM »

Here's a question. I'll probably need to add a PCI controller card to support my current HDDs. Is it worthwhile for me to switch over the optical drives to the PCI controller too?

Would there be any performance gained by moving all the IDE devices off the chipset?

ebc · « **Reply #175 on:** August 26, 2006, 03:11:10 PM »

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just put the harddrives you need on the controller.

reine · « **Reply #176 on:** August 26, 2006, 03:18:02 PM »

I got a quick question, so I have like 4 -1gb sized ISO files- is it possible to merge it in one DVD and keep all the menu and chapters. Maybe add another menu of which DVD I want to open? or do I have to do it the hard way?

another noob question, can I add ac3 audio support to auto GK

ebc · « **Reply #177 on:** August 26, 2006, 04:05:26 PM »

I'm pretty sure you'll have to do it the hardway.
Haven't tried using AutoGK for ages but I'm thinking nope, it's AutoGK and it's only setup to do things the way it wants. You gotta use normal GK or another encoding tool to choose you're own audio stream.

thatguy · « **Reply #178 on:** August 26, 2006, 05:06:55 PM »

Quote from: Asmodai

Here's a question. I'll probably need to add a PCI controller card to support my current HDDs. Is it worthwhile for me to switch over the optical drives to the PCI controller too?

Would there be any performance gained by moving all the IDE devices off the chipset?

Quote from: ebc

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just put the harddrives you need on the controller.

same as ebc said, just keep a couple things in mind: keep your optical drive on its own channel, you dont wanna burn a dvdiso from a hard drive that is attached to the same channel. and for the most part, you should just keep the optical on the onboard pata, because some PCI-pata cards dont offer the right DMA support to even run optical drives.

i have 2 onboard pata channels and 2 pci pata channels. onboard primary -> OS/boot hard drive, onboard secondary -> optical. both of my pci channels go to my secondary (aka storage) hard drives.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #179 on:** August 26, 2006, 06:26:44 PM »

Quote from: ebc

I'm pretty sure you'll have to do it the hardway.
Haven't tried using AutoGK for ages but I'm thinking nope, it's AutoGK and it's only setup to do things the way it wants. You gotta use normal GK or another encoding tool to choose you're own audio stream.

Although yes AutoGK does like to do things its way, you have under 'Advanced Settings' the option to keep the origional audio track (for example AC3) or re-encode to a bit rate you want.
But adding audio... haven't checked/tried/don't think you can actually.