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    nVidia drivers - no more DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD?

    Hey all, I have a HTPC with an nVidia video card - GTX 960. Been running it for at least 6 months without really any trouble, but a couple of days ago, after updating the video drivers, I realized that DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD wasn't being passed into my receiver any longer. After a lot of...
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    Two computers, one Monitor/keyboard/mouse set

    So, wonder if anyone has experience doing this: I work from home and have two computers - my work laptop (Which I do all my work on, docked) and my home/gaming computer. I have 3 monitors that I use for work. My gaming PC has two monitors. I've just got a new desk, and I'm looking to save...
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    Help me figure out how to hook this receiver/monitors combo.

    The hardware: My PC: Intel i7 4770, MSI Z87 MPower motherboard, 8 GB RAM, Radeon R9 280X video card, Onboard Intel HD 4700 video. Two monitors: Dell U2312HM, with VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort inputs. One receiver: Yamaha RX-V373 Goals: Intel HD video must be enabled in some form...
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    Help me plan my home server storage system

    I am looking for some advice for the best way to configure my hard drives in my home server. Here's the basics of the setup and what I've been doing. Server running Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. It runs on a Samsung 820 120 GB SSD, which just basically has the OS. I also have 6 x 3 TB WD...
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    IPv6 learning experiment; help?

    Hey all, I'm trying to learn IPv6, whereas all my experience previously has been in IPv4. I came up with an idea of something I wanted to try in my home network. Maybe this is impossible, but maybe I'm just doing something wrong. Here's what I decided to try: I have Windows 2012 R2 Server...
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    Intel Graphics 4000 + Discrete AMD Card = Crashes?

    I've got a system running an Ivy Bridge i5 3570K CPU with an AMD 7800 HD graphics card. It's been running just fine for quite a while. However, last week I looked into using Intel Quick Sync for my Handbrake encoding, so I enabled the Intel 4000 graphics and tested it out. I enjoyed the results...
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    Performance issue - will load balancing NICs help?

    I have a question related to network traffic, latency, and potentially NIC load balancing as related to my home network, and I'm curious if anyone has any experience here who can voice opinions as to what can help. The situation is this: I current have a home gigabit network. The parts of it...
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    Home server keeps rebooting. Suggestions?

    Here's where I'm at: I've got Gen 1 i7 that's currently my home server. It's running Windows 2012 Essentials. It has 8 HDDs (one is a SSD, for the OS), a generic old PCI video card (probably 10 years old), and 4 NICS (this was an experiment learning about NIC teaming). The power supply is 550...
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    My Storage Spaces Disaster

    I wanted to share an experience I had last night with the new "Storage Spaces" option in Windows Server 2012/Windows 8, as a way of warning people. I decided to set up Server 2012 Essentials to take over for my old Windows Home Server. Missing the old Drive Extender from the original WHS, I...
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    Transition WHS 2011 to VMWare

    Hey everyone, Looking for a bit of help from someone experienced at using VMWare. Currently I've got two servers at home. One of them is a domain controller that does some other basic stuff - this is currently installed as a virtual machine on a computer running VMWare. My second computer...
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    Can someone explain the differences in Audio for HTPCs?

    I'm looking to learn what I can about the options for PC Audio, specifically as it relates to using an HTPC. As I've been Googling things and looking around, it's left me slightly confused, and I'm interested in seeing if someone can break down all the options, their implications, and what they...
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    HTPC playback - what do you use? Boxee, WMC, XBMC, etc?

    Hey all, I've got a general question for the HTPC crowd here - which of the media playback software do you use to run your HTPC? I've been playing with all of them that I can find over the last few days, and none of them seem perfect to me. For the last few years I used W7MC, which was...
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    Script to test internet speed - possible?

    Here's the scoop: I'm signed up with a local company in Utah for home internet - we get DSL service, and it's basically the only game in town, because we're a bit remote. I'm signed up for their 12Mbit down, 2 Mbit up service. When I first signed up, it was good almost all the time. I was...
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    So, why don't builds include discreet NICs anymore?

    Back in the day (I feel old saying this) it seemed like no one ever wanted to use "On-board" anything that came build into motherboards. On board sound? Crap! And it uses the CPU! On-board LAN? Crap! Slower and steals CPU cycles! I even remember back when I first started tinkering with...
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    Odd disconnect issue. New NIC fix it?

    So on my home network, I have a DirectTV box; using DirectTV's Direct2PC software, I'm able to watch things I have recorded from DirectTV on my computer. Recently, I hooked my computer up to a 2nd monitor, with the idea that I could watch some recorded shows on one monitor while playing World...
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    Is IPv6 useful/going to be the future?

    Yesterday, I was tinkering with my wireless network, and while looking at the ipconfig, I saw something I've basically ignored for the last couple years since I went over to Vista/Windows 7 - IPv6 information. This lead to me doing some rudimentary Google searching on the topic. It sounds...
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    Setting up home internet filtering/Domain possibly

    Ok all, I have a vision for my home network, and I want to see if this is easy/possible or waaay to expensive to do myself. Currently, I have 6 computers in my home; My desktop, my laptop, wife's desktop, wife's laptop, HTPC, and windows home server. We have one small child currently and will...
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    WHS - Can you keep the OS and Storage separate?

    I've got a home server set up and running already, but there's one thing about it that's bothered me. It appears, by default, to want to use the same hard drive that your OS is installed on for storage in the array. I was wondering if anyone found a way to configure it so that all the storage...
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    Want to wire my house with Cat6 - suggestions?

    I've recently put an offer in on a house. My wife and I are moving in to our own place for the first time, out of apartment living. However, I'm presented with a problem. I'm going to need network wiring throughout the house, and the house is not (currently) wired. Some details- it's 3 floors...