Sturmvogel

Acer Aspire 1800....that's all really Everest says for Motherboard name. Motherboard chip set is Intel Grantsdale i915P. From what I've seen, it doesn't appear my HDD is going bad, but I still can't rule that out.

I don't see an option to enable SMART, at least not in the bios.

The file system of my HDD is FAT32. It was such before I did the system recovery and after. I've ran across some info about how XP doesn't handle HDD's larger than 32GB very well. But seeing as there was no problem with that when I first got my laptop, and it is restored to its factory settings.... Update: Did some more searching into the problem, and it seems it is SP2 related. Upon looking at Disk Management, it shows 64GB of unallocated space. I guess that's the missing part. I think I may have to resolve this with partitioning of some sort. Not an area I'm familiar with. Unless there are better ideas. Here's a look at it: Disk Management

Long story short...I needed to do a system recovery on my laptop. Some things were bugging about its performance. I had a lot of updating ahead of me. Now, I didn't look at the HD before installing Service Pack 2. All I know is that Windows is reporting my HD size as around 9GB instead of 74GB. Same with the amount of HD used. It's way off. I've tried doing some research into it on my on (and google) and haven't come up with anything. CHKDISK didn't find errors. Any suggestions?

The conversation lasts around 27 minutes. The rest is just empty filler. But a hilarious and worthwhile conversation nonetheless....******* idiots at Verizon.

It's simple...when you want to ensure the deaths of people you are firing at, you fire lots of bullets. In this 50 shots or so. They only got the groom though....tough luck for the cops I guess.

I have this idea...where a random Arcade game is chosen from the 1emu Arcade each day. It will be the featured Arcade game of the day if you will. Top scorers can be awarded prizes, like free denture glue for a month, a "Loan Robert for a day" benefit, or whatever else we can think of. Thoughts?

The Sons of Fate - The Protomen

The Stand (Man or Machine) - The Protomen

The one that kicks the llama's ass...

On PSP? No...for the PS2.

Gitaroo Man

Unrest in the House of Light - The Protomen

I went to Nashville this past weeknd with a friend to see The Protomen perform in their hometown. They are a rock opera band. Their music is based around the Mega Man mythos. It's a post apocolyptic, Orwellian take on the Mega Man universe.We listened to their music on the 8 hour trip to Nashville. I was very impressed. Their sound is fantastic live, although the venue we were in was pretty small. There were about 100-150 on the floor. We were in a club called "The End", in what it seems is a very vibrant music scene in downtown Nashville. Vanderbilt Univeristy was only a few blocks up the street from us, which works well with the scene down their. I wish Columbus, OH were more like it.... Here's their site, Protomen. If you like Mega Man and sort of punk/metal rock, check them out.

I understand your kanji my good sir, but your romaji is suspect. I take it you mean Nijyuusan da? ROFLCAKES!

Nizyuuni sai da... 22

The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. It's the best fantasy series I've ever read. Highly recommend it..

What's that supposed to represent? Is your screen off kilter? Or is it the Taskbar?

You have to shrink it me thinks. With one of those fancy programs people use. I also recall hearing about an option (on Nero etc) that will allow you to overburn a disk. Allows you to squeeze in more data than normal.

Did you mean aspiring Wizard? I mean...we haven't heard much of your band's music to call you inspiring.... I think he ment to say aspiring. And 68% of Americans agree. Oh shyt I qouted somebody who already asked him the same question, but what the real concern is, why did he say Wizard? A perplexing mystery indeed....will we ever know?!?

Did you mean aspiring Wizard? I mean...we haven't heard much of your band's music to call you inspiring.... I think he ment to say aspiring. And 68% of Americans agree.

Did you mean aspiring Wizard? I mean...we haven't heard much of your band's music to call you inspiring....

But that title would be factually incorrect silly...

Yeah...quite sad really. Especially for the kids.

Co-op is more fun to me....