Recent content by hawaiian2003

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    Capture card with IR Blaster

    Aloha, I am looking for a capture card that has IR Blaster capabilities. I have a Directv STB that I understand cannot be used in conjunction with a TV tuner card. I am really just looking to view TV on my computer monitor with remote capabilities (onscreen remote is ok). I am not too...
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    HIS Video card RMA

    I have a 10 month old 2600pro video card from HIS Hightech Information Systems). The card just died and I am in the process of trying to get an RMA from the HIS website. Looks like the only way to do this is to go to their technical support tab under the support header. If you go to that tab...
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    Building new Home Theater PC

    I am envisioning this: A home theater pc that I can rip blu ray discs on and play back on my 57" widescreen TV. I am planning to purchase AnyDVDHD so I believe that will take care of some of my problems. Can a motherboard with modern integrated grahics and an HDMI output handle blu ray...
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    Low 3D 2006 scores on 8800GS 384mb

    Great job guys. I don't know how you figured it out so quickly. I couldn't figure out which setting in the bios to change (Asus P5B), so I went back to defaults and it changed my pcie speed to PCI-E 2.0 x16@x16. I ran 3Dmark06 and I got 9000 - thats more like it. But....I went back to...
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    Low 3D 2006 scores on 8800GS 384mb

    It reads PCI-E 2.0 x16@x1 GPU clock 580mhz, Memory 700Mhz, Shader 1450Mhz.
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    Low 3D 2006 scores on 8800GS 384mb

    I have the XFX 8800GS 384mb (G92) video card. I downloaded the latest forceware drivers from the Nvidia site and tried the drivers that came with the card. I also installed the DirectX 9 that came with the drivers. Between drivers, I went to the control panel and uninstalled the Nvidia video...
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    Portrait Mode on 8800GT

    Has anyone tried Portrait Mode on an 8800GT? The cards looks really good and I'm looking to move from a 1950XT. I have had problems before with Nvidia cards in portrait mode. Seems that there is no native support for Nvidia cards. The NV rotates seems to be a software option but the 3D...
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    Secondary Hard drive sleeps

    Thanks. I've had that problem for a long time.
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    Secondary Hard drive sleeps

    Aloha Gang, I use Vista Ultimate and I have a problem with my secondary drive. My primary drive has my windows and programs on it. My secondary drive has all of my documents. My problem is that if I do not access the secondary drive for awhile, it seems to fall asleep. When I try to open...