Actually Kasa already offered his help last time to help me get the lvl 49
spells. Hehe. What I need most now is the Staff of Wheel that give me
10int. Remember I'm the one who did my original stats wrongly? Putting my
bonus point to STR and AGI...sigh. So I must boost my INT now.
Ziltus
On Monday, 15 May, 2000 10:47 AM, Gary Qui Hong Loong
[SMTP:
kanglun@...] wrote:
> We got tons of runes to make the IC scrolls. Think still got that IC
> scroll from Vox the last time. Ask CQ1 about it lor.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LKW" <leekw13@...>
> To: "'* Singapore EQ Mailing List'" <sg-everquest@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:05 AM
> Subject: [sg-everquest] MIA: My long and naggy CR experience :(
>
>
> > Got a very very bad day on Fri night, ops, Sat morning.
> >
> > Was hunting in Unrest with DF, he was helping me with the Acumen Mask
> > quest. We took in 2 newbie healers, and the hunt supposed to end quite
> > early but one of the 2 healers was a damn CCB looter. Already told
them
> in
> > advance they can get all the loot except the NO DROP, worthless
darkbone
> > skull (while DF get some xp), yet this KNN idiot go and loot the 1st
> skull.
> > In the end no choice, hunt longer.
> >
> > Shortly after I got the skull, I stayed back with DF, hoping to get him
a
> > BS tunic to sell, thanks for his companion and help. While standing on
> the
> > fountain, suddenly my screen turned blue! I tried all means to close
the
> > blue screen (infamous win9x GPF) but system simply hanged. No choice,
so
> I
> > turned off my PC and turned it on again. When I rebooted, win98 did it
> > normal scandisk and this time it showed many corrupted files,
crosslinks
> > etc. No choice, I get all of them fixed. Just before it reached the
> win98
> > desktop screen, system halted again! I kept trying to load my PC and
the
> > same old thing keep coming back - files/directory corrupted and system
had
> > to rename file/directories...until a stage it renamed my win.com
file!!!
> > Damn PC finally down as it can't even load it's win98! I struggled for
2
> > hrs (till 6am in the morning) and gave up.
> >
> > The next time, Sat, the saga continued. Again I tried to boot from
CDrom,
> > FDD etc but system simply dun worked. In the end I selected boot from
> > win98 CDrom and reinstall win98. Still got file errors during scandisk
> but
> > I managed to install my win98. Next I went on to install all drivers
> > etc...damn...pc lock-up again. When I rebooted...scandisk got error,
fix
> > file and rename...the same old cycle con't. Everytime it scandisk, it
> > found more corrupted and crosslinked files (and it renamed more files
just
> > to fixed them). I kept on scandisk, reinstall win98 until I fall
asleep
> in
> > front of my PC (wake up and 6am Sunday and realized the damn thing
still
> > scandisking!!!).
> >
> > In the end, Sun morning....gave up. Try my very best to retrieve my
data
> > using dos prompt but still lost many important files. Some files, like
> > ICQ/DB/*.* files, all got cut-short becoz the filename > 8 chars and
dos
> > prompt can only copy max 8.3 files. Anyway no choice. Ard noon time,
> > completed data CR mission. Becoz of so many corrupted and crosslink
> files,
> > I decided to reformat my HDD thoroughly, by using LOW-LVL formnat! The
> > format (8.4GB hdd) took me so long....from noon to night 10pm plus!!!
> > After that, I spend like 3 hrs reinstalling all my drivers, ISP, MS
> > office, EQ (included patching online) etc. By the time I finally
patching
> > EQ, already 1am plus. Login EQ just to get my char out of unrest
(heng,
> > still alive, hehe). Sigh, dun even got time to install UO (UO got
longer
> > online patch than EQ). Maybe tonight I will con't with my PC CR
mission
> ;(
> >
> > All my The Sim goodies are gone (gotta re-train my 'perfect-skilled'
> sims),
> > my chars and treasures found in BG and GB expanion, my UO and EQ
> > macro/hotkey list etc....sigh.
> >
> > Now I know the importance of HDD backup. Anyone got any good CDRW
machine
> > to introduce? Shld I get internal or external one? I dun think I can
> > afford SCSI, so any EIDE or parallel port version is good enuff. Pls
> > recommend.
> >
> > p/s: Died by DROWNING (in DC) while trying to do the ice comet quest.
How
> > long can mage's water stone last? Maybe someone can summon me a few
when
> I
> > do the quest again this or next week. Ouch, also dropped lvl...gotta
go
> > back kill dwarves again, hehe.
> >
> > Ziltus, the real CR man!
> >
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