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  1. CrackerZ

    Directx Games lockup PC

    Ditched the Geforce Card. Bought an ATI Radeon 9600PRO. Still had the same problem. Apparently Microsoft have admitted there to be an issue regarding DirectX and AMD Platforms Search for the patch named: Q321178_WXP_SP1_x86_ENU.exe to see if this works for you
  2. CrackerZ

    how to find blank characters in a column

    Or using cut you could: #Initialise a line counter to inform you of blank records linecount=0 for field in `cut -c101-110` do $linecount=`expr linecount + 1` if [ "x$field" == "x" ]; then #This field is blank echo "Record Number: $linecount, column 5 is...
  3. CrackerZ

    Directx Games lockup PC

    OK, I think I have found the solution myself. Did the following: - In dxdiag/Video section: Disabled AGP Textures option - In Geforce Display Properties changed all the major Direct3D settings to average (not Performance of Quality, just middle) - Changed the refresh rate of the display to 60Hz...
  4. CrackerZ

    Directx Games lockup PC

    Specification: CPU: AMD DURON 900 GRAPHICS: Geforce3 Ti500/Detonator 45.23 MOBO: ECS K7S5A/SiS735 Chipset/Latest ECS BIOS update OS: XP PRO/SP1 PowerSupply: 300W Ok, the last thing I remembered doing was the Graphics Card, and then the PSU. I had to buy a new PSU as the fan stopped working...

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