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Nony is offline Nony
Settler

Feb 2003
time: 21:26
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A question to the other Apolyton contest winners Put an end to popups!

I have to know whether any of you have received your betas. It's been a whole week since the first of Microsoft's winners received their CDs and I'm getting a bit antsy.

The main question I'm asking is this: Is MS shuffling its feet because we're not as worthy as their official winners, or did I just put a typo in the address field when I was signing up?

Nony the Inca winner, signing off.

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
Prince
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Dec 2000
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Suffering from ads?

Nothing here yet. :drumsfingers:

CustodianV131 is offline CustodianV131
Settler

Feb 2003
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Suffering from ads?

Mine is in already. Since last Wednessday. Hopefully your copy will arrive soon.

I'm in europe btw.

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Nony is offline Nony
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Feb 2003
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

It's here, it's here! I'm so happy!

Let's install this baby!

*one install and reboot later*

Oh... I need new video drivers... Okay, that's not a problem. *pops in the appropriate CD and eventually reboots*

Right, let's do this again! So far so good... Load screen is up, closes down, no message telling me to update my drivers...

Woohoo, the screen's going blank! Only a few seconds now!

*desktop reappears*

Um...

On further inspection, and after several successful reinstalls and reboots, the same problem happens. For a fraction of a second, the Task Manager tells me that RoN isn't responding. That's the only clue I get. The Event Viewer can't even put the error into a recognizable category.

*shakes fist at Microsoft*

Yeah, we all know it's their fault. All of it.

tniem is offline tniem
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Apr 2000
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Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Take your video card back to the original out of the box driver. This is what I have heard has helped many people get their beta to work.

Nony is offline Nony
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Feb 2003
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Suffering from ads?

That's exactly the driver update that I did. At first, Windows was using a generic video driver, and that wasn't sitting well with RoN. I put in my ATI driver CD and I stopped getting that particular message. So, yeah, I'm still stumped...

And likely taking up valuable bandwidth for everyone else. If anyone else has thoughts on this issue, would you be kind enough to give them through a private message?

Many thanks.

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Got spare money?

aha, they attempted to deliver my copy yesterday. Should get it before the end of the week

Immortal Wombat is offline Immortal Wombat
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Full PM-box? Change here!

Video card not good enough

Bridger is offline Bridger
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Mar 2003
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Got spare money?

Nony, try going to the *newest* drivers? That fixes most problems...If your comp was using a "genaric" driver you should get one specific to your card from the cards website. What card you got? (ATI or nVidia i hope?)

Nony is offline Nony
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Feb 2003
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Support Apolyton

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Originally posted by Nony
I put in my ATI driver CD and I stopped getting that particular message.


*cough*

vovan is offline vovan
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Oct 2001
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Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

The drivers on your CD aren't necessarily the latest. (In fact, they most likely aren't.) Check out their web-site for newest drivers.

Nony is offline Nony
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Feb 2003
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Suffering from ads?

Bah, minor details! ^^

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