Author Topic: Stupid error message (Read 1682 times)

FUBAR · « **on:** December 19, 2006, 06:48:48 pm »

Does anyone know what this means?:

Its related to the Z-engine software for my strange keyboard and occured after I changed the (TOTALLY UNRELATED) heatsink and fan on the CPU, when I rebooted the PC it decided that it had to redetect the keyboard and the software vanished.

I tried re-installing it but it said it had to uninstall first, so I did...

It decided to crash during uninstall, so...
re-installed, still presented error message and unable to run z-engine software, so...

uninstalled it again & reinstalled and get the same results

stupid Z-Board, this is the 3rd one i've had and its really annoying me.

(Oh and before graeme comments, Z-Boards fit Macs too...

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55starchief · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2006, 07:02:17 pm »

Quoting: FUBAR

(Oh and before graeme comments, Z-Boards fit Macs too... )

any keyboard will fit a mac as will any mouse

Roadkill · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:11:05 pm »

Quoting: FUBAR

Z-Boards fit Macs too

Which is silly as they're designed for gamers . . . . . . who clearly don't buy macs.

55starchief · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:19:36 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

Which is silly as they're designed for gamers . . . . . . who clearly don't buy macs.

We have some of the games, batelfield and unreal tournament both available on the mac

Titsy · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:35:00 pm »

Quoting: 55starchief

We have some of the games, batelfield

Is that anything like Battlefield?

Roadkill · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:36:19 pm »

Quoting: Titsy

Is that anything like Battlefield?

Or Battlefield 2

55starchief · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:38:51 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

Or Battlefield 2

nope Battlefield 1942, there is a petition to get 2 released on the mac platform it has 50 signatures

Roadkill · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:48:57 pm »

Quoting: 55starchief

nope Battlefield 1942

Hmm that's about 6 years old . . . . so sounds about right . . .

Cutting edge for the Mac, right ?

55starchief · « **Reply #8 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:54:38 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

Hmm that's about 6 years old . . . . so sounds about right . . .

well it was released back in 04 on the mac

Not that i really care, i have a mac because it does what i want it to do, i have PC's as well but again i dont play games

FUBAR · « **Reply #9 on:** December 19, 2006, 08:58:11 pm »

right regardless of that I managed to fix the problem by adapting advise found on the ideazon website

Roadkill · « **Reply #10 on:** December 20, 2006, 12:23:59 am »

So this keyboard is working O.K ?

Wasn't that the third one ?

FUBAR · « **Reply #11 on:** December 20, 2006, 07:50:33 pm »

yep 3rd one indeed, the first one just pressed rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr all the time and the second one the left hand part of the space bar stopped working (its in 2 bits) and the 'n' key decided it would much rather be a 't' key and there was nothing I could do about it so that went back to the shop as well!

55starchief · « **Reply #12 on:** December 20, 2006, 07:53:40 pm »

Quoting: FUBAR

yep 3rd one indeed, the first one just pressed rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr all the time and the second one the left hand part of the space bar stopped working (its in 2 bits) and the 'n' key decided it would much rather be a 't' key and there was nothing I could do about it so that went back to the shop as well!

Thats a quality piece of kit then

FUBAR · « **Reply #13 on:** December 20, 2006, 08:03:07 pm »

Quoting: 55starchief

Thats a quality piece of kit then

well thats what I thought... evidently not though

i've got my fingers crossed for this one, hopefully its 3rd time lucky!

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2006, 09:10:59 am »

I'm amazed you tried a 3rd one. If the first 2 are no good, I give up and move to something (hopefully) better quality.

ianjpage · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2006, 10:08:20 am »

Quoting: Jamieg285

I'm amazed you tried a 3rd one. If the first 2 are no good, I give up and move to something (hopefully) better quality.

Dont think there many other things like the Z board though - it is a very wierd (special) bit of keyboard technology!!

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2006, 10:13:19 am »

Mmm, see what you mean.

Would have had one of them in my younger days. Don't play games much (if at all) any more

Roadkill · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2006, 10:20:57 am »

I'm just not geeky enough to own one.

ianjpage · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2006, 10:59:27 am »

Quoting: Jamieg285

Mmm, see what you mean.

Would have had one of them in my younger days. Don't play games much (if at all) any more

lol you truly do sound the old(er) man in that one statement

ianjpage · « **Reply #19 on:** December 21, 2006, 10:59:53 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

I'm just not geeky enough to own one.

not YET!!

Roadkill · « **Reply #20 on:** December 21, 2006, 11:07:55 am »

Quoting: ianjpage

not YET!!

N'ah . . . been there, done that . . . never got into them that much.

I spend too much time doing house and car bits to dedicate that kinda time to gaming . . .

ianjpage · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2006, 11:32:06 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

I spend too much time doing house and car bits to dedicate that kinda time to gaming . . .

Hmm yeah aint the truth - aint played any real amount of gaming for ages, been doing "other" stuff

Jamieg285 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 21, 2006, 01:06:43 pm »

Quoting: ianjpage

lol you truly do sound the old(er) man in that one statement

Cheeky git.

ianjpage · « **Reply #23 on:** December 21, 2006, 02:39:17 pm »

Quoting: Jamieg285

Quoting: ianjpage
lol you truly do sound the old(er) man in that one statement

Cheeky git.

55starchief · « **Reply #24 on:** December 21, 2006, 03:22:50 pm »

Quoting: ianjpage

Dont think there many other things like the Z board though - it is a very wierd (special) bit of keyboard technology!!

with the reliability of an alfa romeo