fraseyboy
Headphoneus Supremus
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Well it all started when I decided to have a spontaneous LAN party. I was in some game (Unreal Tournament I think it was) when all of a sudden it froze up. I tried all the usual button combo's but to no avail. So I had no choice but to jam my finger on that button.
When I booted back into XP it was EXTREMELY slow on the loading screen. In fact, it didn't do anything. It hung on it forever until I got impatient and jammed the button again. It was a LAN party. There's no time for waiting at LAN parties.
So once again, I tried booting into XP. This time it got past the loading screen but it wished to chkdsk, so I let it. But even that failed. It got to 99% of stage 1 and froze for a long time. Once again I jammed my finger on the button.
When I finally DID get into XP, it was EXTREMELY slow. Like really slow. Really really slow. It took a long time to log in and when it finally did, it sat there doing nothing for a while. It got up to loading my firewall and a few other startup apps (took much longer than usual) then seemed to quit and do nothing. I couldn't click anything either. Maybe it would have loaded other things too. I didn't wait. I jammed my finger on the button.
So here I am in Ubuntu. Luckily a few of the typical LAN games work in Ubuntu under Wine so it wasn't a complete failure.
Anyone have any idea's why its so screwed up and how to fix it? Maybe something to do with the partition tables being corrupted or something?
When I booted back into XP it was EXTREMELY slow on the loading screen. In fact, it didn't do anything. It hung on it forever until I got impatient and jammed the button again. It was a LAN party. There's no time for waiting at LAN parties.
So once again, I tried booting into XP. This time it got past the loading screen but it wished to chkdsk, so I let it. But even that failed. It got to 99% of stage 1 and froze for a long time. Once again I jammed my finger on the button.
When I finally DID get into XP, it was EXTREMELY slow. Like really slow. Really really slow. It took a long time to log in and when it finally did, it sat there doing nothing for a while. It got up to loading my firewall and a few other startup apps (took much longer than usual) then seemed to quit and do nothing. I couldn't click anything either. Maybe it would have loaded other things too. I didn't wait. I jammed my finger on the button.
So here I am in Ubuntu. Luckily a few of the typical LAN games work in Ubuntu under Wine so it wasn't a complete failure.
Anyone have any idea's why its so screwed up and how to fix it? Maybe something to do with the partition tables being corrupted or something?