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I found an interesting video for anyone that might still want to run windows 11, but need a little help with installing it the way they want to.

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Half-Life 1 Discussion / Re: Natural-Selection 1
« Last post by Sandman[SA] on May 26, 2025, 09:21:34 pm »
Always got an answer! lol

Do people still play NS1? I loved it for so long.

Shockingly, yes.  My servers do still get a few players from time to time.
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That's great news!  I am so glad that you did find the power supply for mom's computer.  And it didn't cost a ton of money either.
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I honestly cannot explain how Trump managed to weasel his way back into the white house.  But his cult followers are still behind him all the way.   Even though Trump is doing his very best to trash this once great nation by providing massive tax cuts to the rich while removing millions of jobs for the regular working class.  He has crippled many agencies across the US.  Including the IRS and many medical and learning institutes.  He's deported tens of thousands of legal and illegal residents alike and wants to deport sick children and anyone else that doesn't bow down to his ideals.  And is doing a hell of a job ruining the world economy in the process with his terrif war.

I feel that I need to apologize to all of our allies and friends around the world for the majority of our nations misguided and misinformed people voting for a want to be dictator.  We didn't ask for any of this.
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Server Announcments / Re: Our own 7 Days 2 Die server
« Last post by Sandman[SA] on May 26, 2025, 08:43:52 pm »
I, as always, get that 404 error when trying to DL the file:

Just a little note.  Modsfull.rar is not being used at the moment.  Instead, just use Mods.rar link.  It contains the full package.

On another note.  I just uploaded a new map which contains 2 new POI's.  One is an alternative version of my readymade horde bunker with a front stairway entrance instead of ladders.  The original is still there for your zombie fighting preference if you want to compare.   The other is a massive tier5 hospital that I thought was pretty nice.  And has some trick stuff in it too.  There is only one of them in this map.  It's near the south by southwest end of the major forest city if you want to check it out. 

Next is a nearly complete re-write of the super tools, weapons and traps mod.  With a couple of newly added items as well.  But the newest feature is the ease of finding what super item you want.  When at a workbench or any crafting menu, type "super" in the search and you can find them all.  Each item has a description page that tells you what is required to unlock them.  There is also a couple of new weapons.  There is a light saber that kinda lives up to it's expectations.  It one shots most things in the game.  Another is the return of Katana's.  They have been added to the knife guy progression tree and unlock after machete.  And for the starwars fans, there is a new craftable vehicle.  The Z74 speeder bike.  This thing is trick as it can fly.  Sort of anyway.  It's pretty fast with a super charge mod installed and it's fairly nimble.  And with a plow mod on it, it will crush any zombies in your path.  it's greatest feature is that it can jump up into the air as high as you want to go.  But it won't naturally land softly.  You'll have to keep jumping to land it.  And it won't turn while airborne.

A new regular on the server "EMPY" has made a new super armors mod that has a host of new combination bonus traits.  Also with EMPY's help, I have fixed a number of other mods.  As well as removed a couple that were just causing undesired issues.
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Found it! I can go to sleep now! There were a bunch of wires my mom gave me over a month ago and it was in there. A yellow tip but it is ACER and all the specs are correct! Yay now I can sleep...at 3:48AM. My back hurts. It is humid. Hope it doesn't rain as I am opening the bedroom window and even though it only opens 4 inches at least the air will be moving. But if it rains there will be a wet wall and floor.

Anyway, too tired to take a pic. No necessary. Just happy. Nighty night!

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Server Announcments / Re: Our own 7 Days 2 Die server
« Last post by KT 💣 KλBoƠM on May 20, 2025, 02:03:28 am »
You will need to download and install this mod pack in order to play.  It gets updated fairly regularly.  So remember to grab a fresh download if you haven't played in a while. Mods.rar  Note:  This mod pack has been consolidated for client required files only.

This is new.  But if you want the complete server package, download this file. ModsFull.rar

EDIT:  To connect to my server, you will need to disable EAC (easyanticheat).  Just right click on 7d2d from your steam games menu and select "show game launcher".  Then remove the check mark from EAC and click "Run & Save as default".

I, as always, get that 404 error when trying to DL the file:
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The power cord my mom said she gave to me as she "didn't need it anymore" (she did not even know what it went to) or my youngest brother took it home saying she didn't need it (on the computer she was using) but when I asked him he said he took no cords.

So now we have to buy her a new cord which she used to have and was in really good shape. IT is sold for a lot more than it used to be. Who in the world thinks "I don't need these cords I don't need anymore" when it goes to a computer that she would eventually use? You keep computer parts together! Not give them away!

You can really tell my mom's age now.... She isn't as smart as before and says things that don't make sense and she would have been able to figure out on her own before.

What makes it worse is most places are only online sales and as for delivery they won't deliver thanks to the Mail strike that just started again (May 2025).What timing!

The power cord and adapter need to be:

Output: 19v, 4.74A, 90W
AC Input: 100-240V 50-60H

Plug tip: 5.5mm x 1.7mm (Blue but I have seen some sites show yellow).

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/laptop-charger-90w-19v-4-74a-power-supply-ac-adapter-for-acer-travelmate-6595-8573-p243-p453-a10-090p3a-a090a066l-adp-90sb/14950625?cmp=seo-14950625

https://www.newegg.ca/p/16J-0257-00029?Item=9SIAC87C0N6596

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/19254933
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I thought we had more info on this or another thread but I can't find it with the forum's search feature. I only found this one.

ANyway the computer my mom has been using (Since I was diagnosed within weeks of my last post with cancer I stopping posting about the Acer mini-tower PC) the boot drive died. Her screen with orange with white horizontal stripes. I tested and the monitor worked. Rebooting I found out there was a drive error.

So tonight I quickly set up the Aspire (I was NOT planning this today). Since my Chemo my brain is not like it used to be. My memory is shot and I am frustrated by my lack of intelligence I once had in building computers or simply just hooking it up. This ACER XC-830 I was able to hook up easily and put a bigger monitor as the one my cousin Bob gave her when the last monitor failed was pathetically small. Dave's monitor works but I can't find where to plug in any power plug into this thing. Then I realized upon reading about this PC (very hard to find anything a this date...) I realized (as I believe both you and Dave said before or maybe just you Jeff) that this is a laptop in a Desktop PC case. THAT is what the small port is for! The only thing I am missing is the power cord but I don't know where it is! Somehow my mom misplaced it. I didn't realize it was for the Aspire XC-830-EB12 and any info on it shows me info for XC-830-some other letters and numbers or XC-840 or laptops instead of a PC case. I was beating my head knowing the cord to power was missing but I didn't have it and everything should have been together. With how much my mom has been sorting through stuff, minimizing and trying to get rid of things, I wonder if she accidently tossed out the power cord.

Anyway, So I have everything set up (skipped with old hard drive since it failed in the PC case she was using so that saved me a few steps which I was going to do) except the power cord.

I also looked up more info that I could find and verified that you can't use more than 8Gb Ram DDR4 but some people on YouTube have figured out how to get it to take more:



His is a little newer than my mom's, as hers is XC-830-EB12 (some sites say EB11, but the sticker on the case says EB12), and his is the (he talks about the specs at 12 seconds).

My mom only has the 1 TB HDD and NO OTHER DRIVES in hers, but DOES have the CARD READER. The pics below are of one without the card reader. (old big PC had 500GB SSD).

Closest I could find on Amazon.ca





This image is someone's pic on the Amazon.com site but I do believe is newer than the one my mom has too:


Their review was:

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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2022
This desktop computer from Acer is kind of an interesting design, in a way. It looks like a full-sized computer on the outside, but internally it is using both laptop and desktop components. The Celeron J4125 is mostly a CPU that you would find in a mini-PC or a laptop, it's a newer Celeron processor that performs pretty well in all the systems that I have tested it in (including this one). The upside to this thing being in such a large case (relatively speaking) is that is has a bit of modularity, it comes with two 4GB sticks of 3200MHz laptop DDR4 from Crucial, you can upgrade that to 16GB (8GB x2) if you feel the need to do so later on. It also has a real NVMe 256GB M.2 solid state drive from Kingston, NOT the slower SATA M.2 drives that you sometimes see with systems using this Celeron processor.

In terms of port selection, it's mostly good except that there is only 1x HDMI port and zero USB C ports. There is a second VGA port if you want to use that, but another HDMI or DisplayPort would have been welcome. On the front you have 2x USB 3.0 (3.2 gen 1) ports, with 2x more on the back side, along with 2x slower USB 2.0 ports. This system uses WiFi 5 (802.11AC), and there is a Gigabit Ethernet port on the back. If you look at the photos, you might think that there is an SD card reader on the front, but that is not the case, it looks like the front panel that they are using has a cutout for a card reader, but on this system, they opted not to install one. There is a DVD-Dual Layer optical drive, so if you have the need to read or write DVDs in 2022, then you will be able to do that with this computer.

One thing that I think is a little misleading about the product page is that it mentions "5.1 channel surround sound" with what looks like sound waves playing from the computer tower, but it actually has no on-board speakers. It just "supports" 5.1 channel audio which is native to Windows and not really a selling point for this computer (in my opinion). There are headphone/mic jacks on both the front and the back.

This comes with a wired keyboard (membrane style switches) and a wired mouse. These are ok quality and better than not including one, but I don't think I would use them personally. I am lucky because I have access to mouse and keyboard products that cost almost as much as this computer does, still though, you could spend about $100 and get a mouse and keyboard that would be a lot more enjoyable if you are spending a couple of hours a day using this computer.

So my opinion is that this is a decent value, you get a PC with an acceptable Celeron chip for this price, the ability to upgrade the Ram and SSD. You also get an available PCIe slot on the motherboard in case you want to add something like a network card to get Wifi 6. However, if you don't need a keyboard and mouse (or would rather save that money and buy one yourself), you can get a mini-PC with the same specs and performance for somewhere close to $250.

I tried to find a manual: https://www.manuals.ca/acer/aspire-xc-830/manual?p=30

My mom's is the Axpire X which can be any of these when searching online but hers is Aspire XC-830-EB12:

Aspire X

    Aspire XC-1660
    Aspire XC-340
    Aspire XC-830
    Aspire XC-840
    Aspire XC-860
    Aspire XC-865
    Aspire XC-866
    Aspire XC-875
    Aspire XC-885
    Aspire XC-886
    Aspire XC-895

The only Aspire link I could find was on the UK site:
https://www.acer.com/gb-en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/aspire-classic-desktops/aspire-xc/pdp/DT.BDSEK.001

I went to the ACER site but need to get more info which I thought I posted already on these forums but guess I didn't previously:



Her info is:

Mdl #: D17W6 ?
SN: DTBDSSAA00102
SNID: 02400177830
https://www.amazon.ca/Acer-Computer-Graphics-Manufacturer-Warranty/dp/B08VZ6VVJN

https://www.localexpress.ca/65W-AC-adapter-power-supply-cord-for-Acer-Aspire-XC830-desktop-PN-D17W6_p_13334.html

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Well, one thing about Trump, he doesn't make down and speaks a lot of truth.

Umm, what "truths" does Trump speak of?  The only thing that comes out of his fat, cheeseburger swallowing mouth are lies, deceit and grand dreams of becoming the US first convict dictator.  That's if he gets back into office.  You do know that he was recently convicted of 34 felonies and currently awaiting sentencing, right?

Oh Trump has revealed so much about himself that he never revealed before. Everyone hates him and he wants to make Canada is 51st State? No thanks. When I said wish travelling to the USA and back would be easier I did not mean like he is doing. Trump is finally revealing who he truly is: A power hungry man who does not believe in working together but just wants to take over the whole world and changes his lies so much, he could be saying the opposite one day than he did just the day before. He is also ruining the economy not his for the USA but Canada and others as well.





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