For the past few weeks, my newer system has been down due to the IDE/SATA drive controller going out. It would not recognize any drive of any sort. In the meantime since I have no temporary usage LGA775 motherboard, I have been limited to my older AthlonXP system (SocketA XP3000+, 1GB DDR400, ATI 9600XT, 160GB PATA drive, A7N8X board).

I have been getting back into CS:S lately which still plays well on this aged system although I do miss the DX9 effects. Using the DX8.1 level, I still...