Computer | Dummies....

I. Introduction First you'll need a Crossover Cable : A crossover cable is needed to directly connect your computer and Xbox. You would plug one end of the cable to your computer and the other end into the Xbox, there are no devices in between. If you have a hub, switch, or router you will not need a crossover cable though some still will work with one. With connecting to hubs, switches, or routers you should use a straight-through cable. The image below shows the difference between the two: To easily tell if you have a crossover or not, simply look at the two ends side by side. If all the pins, 1 through 8 on both ends are all the same color in the same order, you have a straight-through cable. If pins 1, 3 and 2, 6 are swapped you have a crossover cable. Notice the TX, RX as well. This shows why in pc to pc connections a crossover is required. Otherwise one pc will be transmitting over the same wire the other pc is trying to transmit on. This guide currently gives configuration ...

Cont... Here you've changed static ip back to yes and your gateway address should be the address of your router now. If your router is on a different subnet and by that I mean its ip is 192.168.1.1 and it is giving out dhcp address's of 192.168.1.x then you would make your evox.ini reflect those differences like this: [Network] SetupNetwork = Yes StaticIP = Yes Ip = 192.168.1.3 Subnetmask = 255.255.255.0 Defaultgateway = 192.168.1.1 DNS1 = 0.0.0.0 DNS2 = 0.0.0.0 MXM Dashboard If you run MXM as your dash and want to use DHCP then the MXM.xml file's section should look like this: True 255.255.255.0 Avalaunch Dashboard If you run Avalaunch as your dash and want to use DHCP then make the section of the avalaunch.xml look like this. 192.168.0.180 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 195.159.0.100 195.159.0.200 8080 UnleashX Dashboard For UnleashX, edit the config.xml file to look like this: 192.168.0.100 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.7 Yes For all of the dash's conf...

Ever wondered just what that enigmatic name means? Gaming and multimedia applications are some of the most satisfying programs you can get for your PC, but getting them to run properly isn’t always as easy as it could be. First, the PC architecture was never designed as a gaming platform. Second, the wide-ranging nature of the PC means that one person’s machine can be different from another. While games consoles all contain the same hardware, PCs don’t: the massive range of difference can make gaming a headache. To alleviate as much of the pain as possible, Microsoft needed to introduce a common standard which all games and multimedia applications could follow – a common interface between the OS and whatever hardware is installed in the PC, if you like. This common interface is DirectX, something which can be the source of much confusion. DirectX is an interface designed to make certain programming tasks much easier, for both the game developer and the rest of us who just want to sit d...