Posts by baidarkabob

Thanks Venom. What is a good diagnostic tool for testing to see if the hard drive is running up to its reputation? Thanks, Bob

Thanks for the reply. One of the things that has me worried is that I never installed a S ATA driver. Does XP do that during the install? If not, would the hard drive work properly without a S ATA driver? Could it work at all? I...

Hello, I had to replace my hard drive today. The old HD was a maxtor diamond max plus 9 ultra ata and the new drive is a maxtor SATA. I pulled the old drive and mounted the new one. I plugged the new drive into the...

P.S. I have done a full virus scan and come up with nothing. bob

Hello, I have been running a 5680 since January. It has worked pretty flawlessly until a couple days ago. Recently I started the machine up and some kind of internal alarm was going off, kinda sounded like an alarm clock type alarm. I...

Hello, i am looking for a waterproof case for a 5680. Ideally, something like the pelican 1490, but I am pretty sure that one only accomodates 10.5 inches deep (I need over 11). Any advice? THanks, Bob

I have sent a couple messages to EA Games with no response as of yet. Wondering if anyone else has some ideas here. The synopsis is: 1 - Machine is brand new 5680 with omega drivers 2 - LOTR install fails during 3rd disk operations...

OK, I have installed the Omega drivers and nothing has changed. I have installed the game on my *old* laptop without a glitch - 32 mb nvidia card. I am not very confident it is the ATI 9600 card that is causing the problem because...

I just installed the game on a desktop computer with an ati vid card (9800) without a glitch. Playing perfect too. I tried installing on the 5680 again, making sure the disk was clean, no antivirus, etc. using the internal CD as well...

Thanks for the reply ifrit. I was thinking about installing from the HD but was not sure how that would work with 3 disks - and it is the play disk that is flaking out on me. Can you run the play disk from the HD? Thanks, Bob