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Originally Posted by k1rr3d
the LameNoCD crack i've got for D-Day actually requires you to open up your box and pull out the IDE cables from your CD/DVD drives, mount the lame image in Alcohol and then reboot your machine.
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Thanks to a little utility called Starforce Nightmare (previously called Starf**k), I no longer need to open up my box and pull out the IDE cables from my CD/DVD drives to get the mini-image crack working.
I use Starforce Nightmare to disable my master and slave devices on my secondary IDE channel (No reboot required), mount the mini-image in Alcohol and play the game. When Im done playing I use Starforce Nightmare to enable my master and slave devices on my secondary IDE channel. I dunno how these guys do it, but it works perfectly for me.
Starforce Nightmare can be downloaded here :
Starforce Nightmare
I strongly recommend you read the txt file that accompanies the utility before using it....the following is an excerpt from the txt file:
Before using this program keep in mind: all what you do, you do on your own risk.
Be carefull, if you are using it: not all features will work for every one, it depends on your hardware and software combination.
If you are not sure about it, delete this program.
Like I said it works for me with D-Day 1.0, my machine is setup as follows:
Windows XP SP1 + various updates done via automatic updates, so its probably SP2.
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard.
Primary IDE Channel
master: Maxtor 80 gig HDD
slave: Maxtor 80 gig HDD
Secondary IDE Channel
master: Samsung CD-R/RW
slave: LG DVD writer
My cd/dvd drives are master and slave on my secondary IDE channel. You will need to know which position and channel your cd/dvd drives are on to use Starforce Nightmare.
This is what I did to determine the position (master/slave) and channel (primary/secondary) of my cd/dvd drives:
1. Open Device Manager.
To open Device Manager, right click MyComputer, select properties then click the Device Manager button on the Hardware tab page (hopefully I dont need to tell you that you must first select the hardware tab page by clicking the word hardware which is located between the words Computer Name and Advanced
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2. Change the view to "Devices by connection".
Click View|"Devices by connection"
3. Expand the storage controllers node.
My storage controllers node, was under the PCI bus node and was called "Intel <blah-blah> Ultra ATA Storage Controllers.
4. Expand the Primary and Secondary IDE Channel nodes.
Under the storage controllers node you'll find the Primary and Secondary IDE Channel nodes, expanding these will reveal which devices are on which channel.
Now you know which devices are on which channel, to determine the position, right click on the device node under the channel node and then select properties. On the "General" tab page check the location, on my machine, Location 0(0) denotes master and Location 1(1) denotes slave.
Use this utility with caution, read the txt file it contains important information.
Lastly, a word of thanks to the developers, I appreciate your efforts. I agree, you obviously do have deep expert knowledge of the hardware architecture.
Thanks,
k1rr3d