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Originally posted by coffin filler
I have built both of the PCs i own" but i am by no means a cleaver geek who needs no help  "
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If you built your own pc's, you're already half way to being a geek
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If i change the power supplies over is this intended to see if the problem is "not enough power being sent to different components" and resulting in the problems i have mentioned ?. If thats the case then i would be wondering why both PCs play the games from the original disks or am i missing the point ? (i know its hard to belive but its possible).
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That's what I wanted to test, yes. Yeah, well, I'm grasping at straws here too. As far as I know, both bad memory and an insufficient power supply can cause random problems. If your original always works and the crack never on the bad pc, then that's not really random of course, so have you tried it several times with the original to make sure that it's stable and not temporary ?
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My first point of call is to make a image through clone and mount it with daemon tools i think. I cant belive i diddnt think of that myself expecialy when ive told countless others to do exactly that. If i still have the probs with PC number 2 and nocd/backup cd cracks then mabey it will pay to reformat my hard drive. Is it poss that i could of picked something up that would stop "SOME" cracks working even though i use virus protection?
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Difficult to say, I can't really think of something. When the crack doesn't work and the original does, it's a crack problem. But you've got another PC with the same OS where it does work. So the mystery remains. All I can suggest is testing the memory, the power supply, updating all drivers (don't forget the mb drivers) and of course see if Daemon Tools helps.
One last thing : I know that badly written programs in the W95/W98/WMe range of OS'ses can get away with a whole lot more than under the NT OS'ses (like XP). This means that a badly written crack may work at random on a W98 system while this likely wouldn't be the case on for example XP. This is getting really hypothetical, but it's all I can think of. Even if the crack was badly made, it still is pretty weird that it works on one system and not the other. If all else fails, wait until some other cracks come out and try those.
You really are a vat full of mysterious PC problems, aren't you ? Ouch my poor head