Recent content by Skaiwalker1

Trickle down economics has nothing to do with the Cash for Clunkers program. Our country is in a deficit right now so every dollar we spend is money that was borrowed from another country. We have to pay this back eventually thru taxing U.S citizens. Cons don't like it because the U.S is...

I would like to 1. Make a backup of my Vista DVD 2. Slipstream some things (such as the latest Catalyst driver) into a Vista DVD. Is this possible? I read that Vista is different from XP.

Hi, I was wondering if there was any way to make a back up copy of Windows Vista if you have the original disc. I have heard some stories with people making a copy, but it wasn't bootable. Has anyone sucessfully made a bootable back up?

the guides on converting vhs to dvd seems to coincide with what Peter says which is why I want to disable the mpeg2 encoding on my Theater 650 Pro. Does anyone know if its possible to disable it or will I have to go buy a card without hardware encoding?

I have a Theater 650 Pro right now but am willing to buy the Canopus ADVC-100 if I could get better quality. What do you guys think? Also, is there anyway to disable the hardware encoding? I don't want any sort of compression in order to retain full quality.

Hi, I'm trying to transfer all my VHS tapes onto DVD. Would anyone happen to know which hardware and software to get for the best quality possible? thanks.

Isn't the hard drive controller on my mobo? And if there is a problem, will that affect all 4 of my sata ports? Maybe i should just stick with IDE? From what I've read, IDE and SATA are the same performance-wise because neither of them can fully utilize their bandwith (133 for ide and 150...

Hi, I'm kinda new here and was hoping some people in the forum might be able to help me out with a small issue. My hard drive seems to need extra time to power up. Bios would not detect it when I use quick boot, but when I disabled it, my system now checks the ram and the extra time it takes to...