Recent content by DaveU

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    New Build-Klipsch Surround - no rear speaker volume

    Thanks for the suggestion, tried it and still no rear speakers.. at this point I've reverted to splitting the front channel (with a y cable) to the rear speakers from the same output on the mainboard... Not a perfect solution but I'm at a loss...
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    New Build-Klipsch Surround - no rear speaker volume

    Thanks for the replies... Yes, I have the jacks plugged in correctly, Like I mentioned, the sound is fine through the "test" phase, all speakers reporting in the proper order on the proper channel. I've tried all combinations, quadrophonic, 5.1 and 7.1 just trying to shake something loose, but...
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    New Build-Klipsch Surround - no rear speaker volume

    Thanks for looking, Finished a new awesome build, using Asus ROG components i7-7700 cpu, Z270E Main Board Using on board sound... I have a perfectly good Klipsch Quad speaker and sub setup, been working great for years, and I actually had it serviced a couple years back. New Build is Windows...
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    Dell 5100 - Vintage for fun

    Thanks, I'll give that a try this weekend... Appreciate the help!
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    Dell 5100 - Vintage for fun

    Thanks! isn't the card backward compatible though?
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    Dell 5100 - Vintage for fun

    Was gifted a dell 5100 with a pentium 4 and an x300 video card (PCI express) formatted and loaded XP fine, boosted the ram to 4 GB (32bit ya, ya ,ya) I also had a GT 720 (2GB) that I wanted to throw in to compliment the video capabilities. The machine runs fine with the x300 (128MB) but with...
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    Drive can't display current owner

    "on Boot Up" as in when windows loads.... and I am checking permissions on the entire drive... have gone through changing permissions on parent and children... Before I loaded the drive, I had run WD diagnostics and it didn't return any errors,, I guess I'll have to try again... WD have an...
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    Drive can't display current owner

    Installed a new 1TB WD black replacing a 500gb WD Blue Win7 system. data only drive, and I copied over all the data files before installing internally. Recently I started getting an "access denied" message occasionally on boot up, just randomly, reboot and then can access. When it does...
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    amped sr10000

    Thanks... appreciate your time, I guess I ass/u/me that if you spend $100 on a piece of equipment it should pretty much work out of the box. I slightly understand the technology and challenges but *sigh* when the wifes 7" galaxy looses connection guess who gets a phone call? Whats the best...
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    amped sr10000

    hmmm I thought with all the brilliant minds out there reading these fabulous forums (where I come for most of my tech questions) someone would have a solution for me. Vendor suggested updated firmware,(had already done that) Vendor had me configure repeater for static IP ... have done that...
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    amped sr10000

    Purchased an amped sr10000 repeater over the holidays... Took some time to get everything working and a good spot for it with proper signal strength from the router... The unit seems to work great, have 80%+/- signal strength to the repeater where it resides. The problem I'm having is that...
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    New RAM

    Stable evga x58 MB w 6 gig Mushkin Blackline triple channel (3x2) ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24 command rate 2t running at 1.65 Dimm Voltage frequency 1333 for stability Wanted to upgrade (double) ram, purchased muskin silver line (3x4) ddr3 1600 9-9-9-24 (running Win 7 64 bit) Can I just pop the...
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    test a new SSD before build?

    Is it possible or necessary to test a new SSD before putting into service? Just purchased wo new SSD's and I'd like to test before putting into service to test so I know the drive is good before I build and if I if I don't use the drive immediatly? Just plug into an external usb enclosure or...
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    Blu-ray disks as Backup

    Can I use Blu-ray disks, specifically 25GB Verbatim BD-R LTH Type disks as long term storage / backup? Is this a viable option, or am I missing something, Do these things just "go bad" after a period of time? Things change sooo fast It's hard to keep up to the technology. I'm concerened with...
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    Win7 64 - BSoD Bad_Pool.....

    6 month old machine Win7 64, Quad core i7 820, EVGA x58 MB, 6 gig ram, Nvidia GTX 275, minor overclock from manufacturer. No new software or hardware, No Bios updates... Just started random BSoD "Bad_Pool_ Header" or "Bad_Pool_Caller" reboot sometimes ok. or i'll have to completely shut...