Recent content by superfastkyle

just found this thread funny when I look at my ram usage 293 mb used with no swap file....I guess I'm not a real power user, haha. I usually top out about 700-800 when multitasking. XP performance edition, its so great who needs RAM?

I have 5 Seagate hard drives in my full tower case. Boot drive is a first gen SATA. I have a almost new 1.5tb seagate SATA, and 3 IDE seagates. My power supply is directly above them with a horizontal fan blowing out the back of the power supply. My stock amd cpu fan, and thats it, no case fans...

The sound is definitely coming from the internal hard drive so if anyone has any suggestions at all... no matter how much I try to tax the internal drive without a usb drive connected it never makes any noise. So I'm almost wondering if I should not hook them up at all I would hate to be...

The weirdest thing is happening and I am getting quite worried. Whenever I am accessing my external USB hard drives (I have 4 different ones) and no matter which one I use I hear this high pitched noise which I believe is coming from the main case but am not sure its so high its not really...

Just thought I'd give an update on this problem in case someone else ever does. Since my last post I have bought a dedicated htpc and have bought a couple new external usb enclosures, also bought an extra usb 2 pci card thinking that might help. I still after awhile of listening get these audio...

I was using du meter to monitor my bandwidth during file transfers, I did find the checkbox to enable ics but it said something about a conflict. Can it not be used when the router and computers are on 192.168.0.x? I'm sure every thing has a different ip I even tried moving the router to...

well I have had the two routers (wireless just as a ap/switch) running for a while now mostly because the wired one is in the closet where all the wires are run and my wireless doesnt get good reception there, so yeah its slightly complicated. I guess the best option would probably be to get an...

with the 11mbps card in the htpc I can get 500KB download which I could probably live with... but only 100KB upload through lan, why such a difference?

I have been trying to make my HTPC connect to my router and the rest of my network by connecting it to the wired ethernet on my laptop and my laptop gets on the network with the wireless card. HTPC has xp pro laptop has xp home. I did get it to work once by having miniport bridge installed on...

Well I had a friend at my moms work resolder the hard drive wires, plugged it back in and wallah my sound is fine again. But this still is pretty annoying, as I might want to bring my extigy in the other room without bringing the hd along, since I'm too woried about breaking the wires off again...

I have a toshiba l25-1193 laptop and I have had a soundblaster extigy hooked up to it awhile now. But sometimes I have pops, clicks, and 1-2 second pauses coming though. and it will usually take a couple hours of fiddling to get them to stop. But honestly I never have any idea how I do it. I...

My toshiba laptop l25 came with a horrible dvd/cdrw drive, it doesnt seem to be compatable with many commands. Can't rip at specific speeds, spin-up commands don't seem to get it to really spin up. My rips start out at 4x and sometimes if I'm lucky they go up to 18x, which seems only to happen...

I know you want a surround sound system, but unless you buy a receiver over $500 it will probably have horrible amps for the surround and center speakers. You need to spend more than your budget allows if you want surround amps with full bandwidth and nice quality. Most cheap receivers don't...

thanks alot for your help... I finally got rid of my ground loop and it was WAY simpler than I thought. Last reply got me thinking a little simpler. I looked at my receiver plugged in, looked at my hard drive plugged in. My hard drive had a 3 prong plug with ground my receiver a 2 prong plug...

Well putting the hard drive on a longer cable helps a little... another thing I thought of what are these 'ground loop isolators' I see at walmart and such... Do they just mute certain frequencies or do they actually work?