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Caiden Soul
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:06:00 -
[1351]
 Originally by: Caiden Soul
Re. this post:
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Another option we have put together which should be quite simple for users who find their boot.ini to be missing (and have not yet rebooted) is the following:
Download:
Windows XP (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/winxpboot.ini)( also windows 2000 installed in a folder named "Windows" )
OR
Windows 2000 (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/win2kboot.ini)
+ Copy it into the root directory of your Windows drive (eg. C:\)
+ Rename it to "boot.ini"
+ Go to start, then Run and type in "msconfig"
+ Click on the "boot.ini" tab, and select "Check all boot paths"
+ There will be a series of popups for the invalid installation paths in the above files (14 if all goes to plan), and the correct settings will be placed in your boot.ini.
+ Remember to hit "Apply" before exiting the tool, as this will save the new settings.
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
I downloaded the file, copied it to my C:\ root directory then ran msconfig
There is no "boot.ini" tab or option to select "check all boot paths"
So now what do I do?
Also when the series of popups start, do we have to say yes, no or what to them? I'm assuming it will just be an ok but it's better to ask now than get to that stage and noit know what to do. More information for the computers dummies here would be helpful guys.
What does this bit mean too?
Quote:
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
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Venko Trenulo
Wakizashi Renaissance
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:11:00 -
[1352]
For a future patch:
CCP should name their configuration setting file in the EVE directory something other than boot.ini. Like eveboot.ini, for example. If that had been the case, then botching the path would have come up with "no such file", which is a more appropriate failure mode.
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Lazarann
Ideal Machine
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:12:00 -
[1353]
Originally by: Caiden Soul
Originally by: Caiden Soul
Re. this post:
Quote:
Another option we have put together which should be quite simple for users who find their boot.ini to be missing (and have not yet rebooted) is the following:
Download:
Windows XP (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/winxpboot.ini)( also windows 2000 installed in a folder named "Windows" )
OR
Windows 2000 (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/win2kboot.ini)
+ Copy it into the root directory of your Windows drive (eg. C:\)
+ Rename it to "boot.ini"
+ Go to start, then Run and type in "msconfig"
+ Click on the "boot.ini" tab, and select "Check all boot paths"
+ There will be a series of popups for the invalid installation paths in the above files (14 if all goes to plan), and the correct settings will be placed in your boot.ini.
+ Remember to hit "Apply" before exiting the tool, as this will save the new settings.
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
I downloaded the file, copied it to my C:\ root directory then ran msconfig
There is no "boot.ini" tab or option to select "check all boot paths"
So now what do I do?
Also when the series of popups start, do we have to say yes, no or what to them? I'm assuming it will just be an ok but it's better to ask now than get to that stage and noit know what to do. More information for the computers dummies here would be helpful guys.
What does this bit mean too?
Quote:
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
What popups? If it's the one asking you if you want to remove invalid paths, say yes.
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Lemurianus
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:12:00 -
[1354]
Originally by: Lemurianus
Originally by: Lemurianus
Originally by: Lemurianus
Edited by: Lemurianus on 06/12/2007 15:12:33
Originally by: Lemurianus
Edited by: Lemurianus on 06/12/2007 14:51:26
Well, my boot ini looks fine, the boot.ini contents are equal to those written in this thread... But I found a problem I didnt have before this patch. Yes, I updated eve client before 4am. Its just that, now, when I insert a cd on my dvd-rom drive, it plays for a few seconds and then PC crashes, doesnt reboot, just crashes. Tried to do the same procedure four time, all the same. Was playing an avi file (one of the ones downloaded from this site), opened it on Windows Media Player and also on BSPlayer. Both made the PC crash.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
P.S.- its not the optical drive at all. Just crashed again without any particular reason.
Is there any other way to bump this? Has anyone complained about the same issue before?
Uninstalled eve, downloaded new full build (new graphics one). So far everything seems to be ok. Lets see...
Seems that afterall the random crashes persisted... I remember there was a patch that brought these problems, months ago... Seems that some errors are being repeated by CCP... Well, lets now hope (lol) this post will be answered...
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Fatty McFatpants
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:13:00 -
[1355]
FINALLY I'M GLAD I HAVE VISTA!
It saved my computer from CCP.
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Adnvari Nehal
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:13:00 -
[1356]
Originally by: Venko Trenulo
For a future patch:
CCP should name their configuration setting file in the EVE directory something other than boot.ini. Like eveboot.ini, for example. If that had been the case, then botching the path would have come up with "no such file", which is a more appropriate failure mode.
Yea, not naming it the same as the windows system file just seems logical to me.
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Kennet MacDonald
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:13:00 -
[1357]
Edited by: Kennet MacDonald on 06/12/2007 20:14:43
Originally by: Caiden Soul
Originally by: Caiden Soul
Re. this post:
Quote:
Another option we have put together which should be quite simple for users who find their boot.ini to be missing (and have not yet rebooted) is the following:
Download:
Windows XP (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/winxpboot.ini)( also windows 2000 installed in a folder named "Windows" )
OR
Windows 2000 (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/win2kboot.ini)
+ Copy it into the root directory of your Windows drive (eg. C:\)
+ Rename it to "boot.ini"
+ Go to start, then Run and type in "msconfig"
+ Click on the "boot.ini" tab, and select "Check all boot paths"
+ There will be a series of popups for the invalid installation paths in the above files (14 if all goes to plan), and the correct settings will be placed in your boot.ini.
+ Remember to hit "Apply" before exiting the tool, as this will save the new settings.
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
I downloaded the file, copied it to my C:\ root directory then ran msconfig
There is no "boot.ini" tab or option to select "check all boot paths"
So now what do I do?
Also when the series of popups start, do we have to say yes, no or what to them? I'm assuming it will just be an ok but it's better to ask now than get to that stage and noit know what to do. More information for the computers dummies here would be helpful guys.
What does this bit mean too?
Quote:
Most likely, this file will contain the correct path to your windows installation somewhere there, and will be found by checking it using the msconfig tool.
Not sure what popups you mean, but if you have an XP disk, you may want to:
1. Put the CD in
2. hold down the windows key (between ctrl and alt on the left side), and hit R (then let go of them :D)
3. in the little box in the lower left side of the screen, type "cmd" (without quotes) and Hit enter
4. Sacrifice a small animal
5. Click in the black box that comes up once to make sure you're typing there, and type exactly (without quotes) "sfc /scannow" and hit enter. Let it do whatever it wants.
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Caiden Soul
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:13:00 -
[1358]
Quote:
;_;
WHY AM I DOING THIS???
I friggin' WORK as a system admin, and do tech support all day!!!
HELP ME, I CAN'T STOP!!!!!
Well for god's sake don't stop now, help those of us that haven't rebooted yet but aren't sure how to get our beloved boot.ini file back...please
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Mithrantir Ob'lontra
Gallente
Ixion Defence Systems
The Cyrene Initiative
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:14:00 -
[1359]
Originally by: Furious Hawk
Edited by: Furious Hawk on 06/12/2007 20:01:46
Originally by: Mithrantir Ob'lontra
Do you by any chance have Windows Vista? If yes boot.ini doesn't exist in Vista
Nope, I would not be in this thread if I did lol. This is just XP Home Edition SP2.
My laptop has XP Pro SP2 on it, and I have not updated EVE at all on that. I want to do a little experimenting, but I take it that the current patch file works properly since they keep talking specifically about "before 0400 GMT"? If the current patch does work fine then I can't experiment. :/
If you downloaded the patch after 4 GMT as CCP is saying in the first page you are pretty safe. They have corrected the typo in the patch and is working as intended now.
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Siri Blue
Gallente
Arachnea Phoenix Battalion
Phalanx Alliance
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:16:00 -
[1360]
Once again:
IS THERE A PATCH FOR THE PATCH OR DO I HAVE TO DEINSTALL EVE AND REINSTALL A FRESH DOWNLOAD!?!?!??!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
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Lemurianus
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:17:00 -
[1361]
lol, now a good old "connection lost"... this is getting better and better...
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Krakkan
ReDevils
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:17:00 -
[1362]
please let this happen to WoW, please let this happen to WoW, please let this happen to WoW, please let this happen to WoW..
Quote:
tuxford: AT LEAST ITS SPEELED CORRECTLY
tuxford: spelled*
Oveur: rofl
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SafTek
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:17:00 -
[1363]
Originally by: proclaimed HERETIC
Posted up on another forum.
Threw together a little script that will check for your boot.ini file, and if it's missing, it will check the only place in the windows directory we can seem to find a backup copy (about 70% so far have it). (Windows\pss dir).
Posted it up on a spare domain I had: www.gamingassist.com.
Gotten about 40 thank you emails, so its working for most ppl.
-proclaimed HERETIC
Source to script is also posted on the page, incase you have any better ideas.
Make that 41 thank yous.
\windows\pss\boot.ini.backup
My sad story to toss on the pile:
I have my desktop and a work laptop, my DT got hit by this. Dell doesn't send an XP CD anymore, and my XP and WinPE CDs don't detect SATA. I couldn't access my HD at all. I got a HD enclosure for my SATA ($50 - they didn't have just a $20 cable) and CCPs instructions starting this thread didn't work. I was looking at a fresh install and lost data.
Thanks again.
Programming error may have been easy to make, but simple testing would prevent this easily.
Lesson learned?
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"Just because I look stupid, doesn't mean I'm not"
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Kennet MacDonald
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:17:00 -
[1364]
Originally by: Adnvari Nehal
Originally by: Venko Trenulo
For a future patch:
CCP should name their configuration setting file in the EVE directory something other than boot.ini. Like eveboot.ini, for example. If that had been the case, then botching the path would have come up with "no such file", which is a more appropriate failure mode.
Yea, not naming it the same as the windows system file just seems logical to me.
And what is "boot" doing in there anyway??? That's just asking for trouble... @.x;
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Vampirro
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:18:00 -
[1365]
Originally by: Vampirro
Edited by: Vampirro on 06/12/2007 14:11:39
if you are not techy but can burn a disk or use a flash or floppy, see this site.
it will create a boot disk for you and from there you can find out which disk/partition your OS is on.
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm
what it really does is it runs through a bunch of different disks/partitions until it finds yours that has windows, from there all you need to do it copy the boot.ini from the disk to your root drive and delete all the choices that was not the first choice that got you into windows:
Quote:
[Boot Loader]
timeout=30
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="1ST TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="2ND TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="3RD TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\Windows="4TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\Windows="5TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\Windows="6TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\Windows="7TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\Windows="8TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
C:\="9TH TRY THIS selezioni questo nono"
D:\="10TH TRY THIS selecione este decimo"
*further tweaking would be to change the timeout to '0' and to make sure the default disk is also the same as the selection that got you into windows.
this should work on almost everyones setup.
**forgot to mention this is something you can do if you already restarted xp/2000 and cant get into xp and cant find the disks.
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Gizmo69
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:19:00 -
[1366]
Quote:
nice work CCP, first class **** up..
Didn't want that boot file anyway. 
lol 
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Butters Scotch
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:22:00 -
[1367]
Edited by: Butters Scotch on 06/12/2007 20:22:07
AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH....HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH. Oh roflz. I quit and no you can't have my stuffs I gave it all away already. Last Straw!! You bet. Good bye CCP , I'm sick of your crap anyway. To the rest, the solutions are easy, but hey if they gonna mess up this bad, combined with all the stupid nerfing all the time, and trying to mak all races exactly equal...forget it. Just leave. EVE has reached suckitude, and no, I am not going to play WOW, I have no interest in man on man/man on elf/man on orc/orc on man action. Just going to have to wait for a better internet spaceships violencing game.
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Harason Grant
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:22:00 -
[1368]
I can say I am very very unhappy to say the least. I go to bed last night shutting down my computer as normal. I get up today I start to boot my computer and bam so after spending the day geting this computer to function again and I am still working on this and trying to figure out how to recover some stuff lost in the repair of my windows install I think what could have happened to cause this. Then on loging into eve I find out the patch was the cause........ Very very unhappy.
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Crag Heyder
Gallente
Icosothron Industries
space weaponry and trade
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:23:00 -
[1369]
Guess the guy in that picture shouldn't have dranked my beer...
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Edrentin
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:23:00 -
[1370]
I see there more warning now then this morning.
I did reboot and my window's did not come back up.
So i spent my morning reinstalling window's.
lost my work doc, vid's, music, not to happy about this.
but finnaly got it back up and running even rebooted after redling eve. So is the issue still there or no.
I am a morning player too.
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Mithrantir Ob'lontra
Gallente
Ixion Defence Systems
The Cyrene Initiative
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:23:00 -
[1371]
Originally by: Siri Blue
I'Ve just got frakked by eve, warped into a mission, Eve froze, crashed, took my Video drivers with it, sent me to desktop and here I sit with 640x480 pixels a 4mbit colours! HORRID!
I found a backup of my boot.ini and managed to patchwork me a new boot.ini my comp would accept...
Alas...there is still the problem of that corrupt **** named Trinity patch on my Computer!
How the hell do I get rid of this crap!?!?!
Is there a small patch to fix the problem or do I have to download a completely new Eve client to be able to play securely again?!?!
IF THIS WAS A SINGLEPLAYER GAME I JUST BOUGHT; I'D BRING IT BACK AND INFORM "Verbraucherschutz" WHO WOULD PROLLY SUE THE DEVELOPER OF THIS *$&%*"*&º
This is not a problem related to boot.ini being deleted from the system.
Your system probably crashed because your settings can't be afforded by the graphics card you use.
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Gregor Eisenh0rn
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:24:00 -
[1372]
Originally by: TheDevilsJury
Originally by: Kittamaru
JUST AN UPDATE:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is apparently IMMUNE to this bug... I have tested this, so have my corpmates. If you have Win XP SP 2 (and you SHOULD) you should be just fine!
I can confirm that this is not true. The bug affects all versions of XP.
Effects xp x64 as well.
So whos getting fired for this one then?
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Plausable Swap
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:25:00 -
[1373]
Edited by: Plausable Swap on 06/12/2007 20:26:42
My boot.ini file was deleted. I made a new one as suggested on one of their suggested websites, but I want to confirm.
I have a single harddrive that shows up as 3 harddrives, will
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
work? WINDOWS is in the first 'hard drive' (C).
Edit: I am running Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
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Caiden Soul
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:26:00 -
[1374]
Quote:
Quote:
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[Boot Loader]
timeout=30
Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows="1ST TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Windows="2ND TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\Windows="3RD TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\Windows="4TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\Windows="5TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\Windows="6TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\Windows="7TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\Windows="8TH TRY THIS " /fastdetect
C:\="9TH TRY THIS selezioni questo nono"
D:\="10TH TRY THIS selecione este decimo"
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This is pretty similar to the file that CCP Mindstar posted a link to (http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/boot/winxpboot.ini)
But in his post he said there would be a boot.ini tab in msconfig after the file is downloaded and copied across and renamed...and there isn't.
Any ideas?
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Dimitrios Ypsilanti
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:26:00 -
[1375]
Edited by: Dimitrios Ypsilanti on 06/12/2007 20:26:22
So, I'm affected. I downloaded the extra content last night and turned of my CPU. My computer started this morning with an error message.
Now it's running but there's no boot.ini file.
What do I do now?
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Commsec
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:26:00 -
[1376]
I don't have time to read 55 odd posts. What happens after 4? If u are going to have a solution to the problem by then - then please do not remove the http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/eveclassictopremiumpatch45017.exe. It is 50% complete.. I don't want to have to download it again on my lame dialup (shaped internet) God help me. |
Kennet MacDonald
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:26:00 -
[1377]
Edited by: Kennet MacDonald on 06/12/2007 20:30:32
Originally by: Butters Scotch
Edited by: Butters Scotch on 06/12/2007 20:22:07
AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH....HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH. Oh roflz. I quit and no you can't have my stuffs I gave it all away already. Last Straw!! You bet. Good bye CCP, I'm sick of your crap anyway. To the rest, the solutions are easy, but hey if they gonna mess up this bad, combined with all the stupid nerfing all the time, and trying to mak all races exactly equal...forget it. Just leave. EVE has reached suckitude, and no, I am not going to play WOW, I have no interest in man on man/man on elf/man on orc/orc on man action. Just going to have to wait for a better internet spaceships violencing game.
WOW, you must be a barrel of laughs when you get a flat tire.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:26:00 -
[1378]
Originally by: Edrentin
I see there more warning now then this morning.
I did reboot and my window's did not come back up.
So i spent my morning reinstalling window's.
lost my work doc, vid's, music, not to happy about this.
but finnaly got it back up and running even rebooted after redling eve. So is the issue still there or no.
I am a morning player too.
there are various things you can get to recover from a format of your hardrive and restore it to the state at which it was in before you formatted it...one product that i've used is Easy Recovery Professional
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Stylom
Gallente
Absolutely No Retreat
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:28:00 -
[1379]
Originally by: Dimitrios Ypsilanti
Edited by: Dimitrios Ypsilanti on 06/12/2007 20:26:22
So, I'm affected. I downloaded the extra content last night and turned of my CPU. My computer started this morning with an error message.
Now it's running but there's no boot.ini file.
What do I do now?
Breathe deep...and start reading this thread on page 1
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Siri Blue
Gallente
Arachnea Phoenix Battalion
Phalanx Alliance
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Posted - 2007.12.06 20:29:00 -
[1380]
Originally by: Mithrantir Ob'lontra
Originally by: Siri Blue
I'Ve just got frakked by eve, warped into a mission, Eve froze, crashed, took my Video drivers with it, sent me to desktop and here I sit with 640x480 pixels a 4mbit colours! HORRID!
I found a backup of my boot.ini and managed to patchwork me a new boot.ini my comp would accept...
Alas...there is still the problem of that corrupt **** named Trinity patch on my Computer!
How the hell do I get rid of this crap!?!?!
Is there a small patch to fix the problem or do I have to download a completely new Eve client to be able to play securely again?!?!
IF THIS WAS A SINGLEPLAYER GAME I JUST BOUGHT; I'D BRING IT BACK AND INFORM "Verbraucherschutz" WHO WOULD PROLLY SUE THE DEVELOPER OF THIS *$&%*"*&º
This is not a problem related to boot.ini being deleted from the system.
Your system probably crashed because your settings can't be afforded by the graphics card you use.
1) I was using classic content graphics
2) After the crash I checked for my boot.ini and it was GONE
3) Had to recreate a boot.ini and after the successful booting up get my graphics back to work...
The grpahics problem prolly was a problem on top...but I still had the boot.ini issue...
A game that kills my computer?
Back to the shop and Customer protection lobby informed! I tell you!
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