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I just spent over an hour trying and failing miserably to beat Raam before switching to Madden in disgust. I can't remember a boss in a game that gave me this much trouble. Every time I think I'm making progress, I have to switch cover and get 'sploded by the freakin bats cause I picked a bad time to move. >_<

My next purchases will be: 1. R6:Vegas 2. CoD3 3. Halo1&2 (I was a ps2 guy, missed out completely on the halo thing... as in I have never played them) I will be getting vegas as soon as I get my best buy certificate from work

for now I only have the one month free trial of gold, but if I deem it worth the money I will make it a more permanent upgrade Tag: Boiler12 Right now I have GOW and Madden 07, hope to play some of ya!

I wish I had a bazillion dollars for a rig like that..... Only thing from that list I have is the cpu...

I tried doing that on the install CD, but I looked for the driver location for that HDA and didn't see it in device manager :/

Long story short, I installed an x-fi soundcard that turned out to be defective, and I removed it and its drivers to return it. When I tried to re-install my motherboard sound drivers, I get a message saying: "The HDA Audio bus driver is required and not found." To my knowledge, I have not willingly gotten rid of such a driver. At this point, the installation program quits and I am SOL. When I check Add/Remove programs, it shows "High Definition Audio Driver Package - KB888111". Here is what I have tried to this point: - Cleaning all audio drivers and deleting the high def driver showing in my add/remove programs, then running the installation program again. The first time I run it after deleting everything, it says high def audio is enabled, please restart computer and run program again to finish install. I do so, and run install again..... and I get the same error message as above. - I tried searching Microsoft for such a driver package to install seperately, but apparently this is not available in this manner. - I searched the motherboard driver CD and found the audio bus driver file, tried to install it from here, and then run install, and same problem. - I performed an xp repair-install in hopes it would add any possibly missing files. This also was in vain. I fear the only option I have left is to reformat and start fresh, and I REALLY don't want to have to do this unless it is going to be absolutely necessary. Someone please tell me if there's anything else that I can do to fix this problem so I can get my sound back!! And no, I don't consider buying a third party sound card again to be an option. Without my sound, I will be forced to sulk in a corner with my xbox 360 until I can game on my rig again...

people that go shopping at 5am and fight the crowds the day after thanksgiving are insane. I don't care if I could have saved $100 on my xbox by buying it today, I saved myself hours of pain and suffering by not going out there. To those of you who did fight the crowds, gods speed and try to get home in one piece

This game has made my recent (wednesday) 360 purchase entirely worth the money I paid for it. I'm a little scared to try insane.... i would probably have to quit my job and drop $$ on the XBL gold account if i ever wanted to beat it on that difficulty....

havent figured out my network connection yet.... xbox is ~50ft and a room away from my router, running a cable would look ridiculous and get destroyed by the cat, and the silly wireless adapter is $100 when I do, I'll hook up my free 48 day trial i got when buying GOW and see how I like it

First off, thanks to all of you who posted up in here, great comments and fact-based opinions I picked up the 360 Wednesday with the 20gb hd and wireless controller, "play and charge" cord, along with Gears of War and PGR3. PGR3 is alright, nothing earth-shaking, but visually beautiful and resonably fun. GOW..... hol-y crap! unbelievable..... I'm so addicted to this, it should be illegal Hands-down one of the best games I've played in a long time. So far I'm extremely happy with my purchase! Now, if only I had another $200 to drop on some more games right now.....

lol I just wanted to give you a little crap after your venting over the last week, thanks for the honest opinion

I realize this is probably not posted in the correct place, but as there is a time consideration here, I wanted to get as many replys as I could before noon today. I am giving serious consideration to getting an xbox 360. I have been a PS2 guy for several years, and absolutely love games like metal gear, grand theft auto, etc. I am considering going xbox partially due to $$$ and availability considerations. I know I will be missing out on metal gear, but I would be gaining GOW, halo 3 (and 1 and 2), and several other sweet titles. First question: Am I making the right choice or should I really hold out for the PS3? Second question: Give me some game recommendations if I am going to purchase the 360 I enjoy racing games, stealth/shooter games, and sports stuff primarily. You can already nix out madden 07, as I have this for PC. If I can get some convincing replys, then I will go buy the stuff today after noon eastern (when I get off work). Oh, one more thing, PLEASE do not flame this with "ps3 sucks" rants, constructive advice only please. (So 'Mo and maverick need not post in this thread )

I love love love love love love my core 2 duo E6600 they should be cheaper by then with the quad cores coming out, and the line ought to still be formidable. at least consider an intel system, they're finally doing some good things!

lol, when half the computers in this office are 4 years old and are deciding to go schizo on me one at a time, and it's my job to keep them all working, there is no such thing as a work-free friday

not sure anyone was conscious through the night to claim that they know there was no BOC while we slept i've decided that i refuse to let woot ruin another work day for me though, so the BOCs are all yours, guys

the end is nigh, i can feel it.... sneak preview claims wireless mouse next... can't take any more, i give up. good luck getting your bags of crap, crazy non-sleepers

....... rca must be having a fire sale.....

an 80gb IDE hd.... somebody shoot me. not excited.

i'm about to give up all together. i feel like an idiot refreshing the same dang page of course as soon as i shut down and go to bed, they'll sell 1,200 BOCs and i won't get one

i'm trying to hang in there, but i have work at 7am I feel like one of those morons out in the cold camped out for a ps3......... Even though they're trying to shove stupid crap down my throat, at least this is better than that snooze-fest the gamebridge brought

*foot firmly inserted in mouth* btw, a bloodhound you aint

i'm guessing the $90 ufo will be the thing that kills the woot-off and ends my evening wow..... was i wrong...

bravo! you took one for the team

i can't hear you. please call my future number. http://www.woot.com/WhatIsWoot.aspx#q9 I know what woot.com is. I wanted to know what woot off was. A special 1 day sale? Cause I've seen people post on woot.com before and there was no response like this before. if you actually READ the stuff at that link, it explains a woot-off they probably have about 3,000 of those stupid things

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