Search results

  1. V

    Need to stream audio to non blue tooth receiver

    I have a Pioneer vsx-d508 a/v receiver or a Harman/Kardon bds270/570 blue ray receiver home theater neither of which is blue tooth & would like to find a way to stream music from Ipod. The H/K has a usb port. Any help with wireless connection to stereo speakers or home theater box would be much...
  2. V

    Changing RAID type

    Can I change from RAID 1 back to RAID 0 without messing up my OS (XP Home) install? I have a 36G Raptor & a 250G Seagate in the system on a Silicon Image controller card that I added after the HDD controller on the Abit motherboard died. I did not want a RAID setup but could not get it to work...
  3. V

    Virus or coincidence

    I have a thread in Computer Help about trying to get drivers installed for a SATA controller card to a system (Abit KN8 motherboard & XP Home SP3) that seems to have a dead SATA controller. It has 2 HDD's (WD Raptor & a Segate) which failed to be recognized after a system hang. This happened...
  4. V

    Can I load drivers to a desktop drive from a laptop (SATA) ?)

    I have a desktop (Abit KN8) with an apparently dead SATA controller. I bought a SATA card (PCIE) but it seems I need to load the drivers for it before it will work. Can I connect the boot drive to the external SATA port on my laptop to load them?
  5. V

    XP borked after bios hang- Please help

    The system is an Abit KN8 AMD Athlon board w/ XP home SP2. The problem happened in preparation for a memory upgrade. In BIOS which was set to manual I changed it to SPD so that when I changed the mem it would boot to the mem specs. When I did the save & exit it hung up w/ 1 long repeated beep &...
  6. V

    Dual band router for Roku?

    I'm not sure if this would be better in Home Theater but since it primarily concerns a router I'll try it here. I have two new wireless additions thanks to Santa, the first being a Win7 laptop which does fine & the other is a Roku/XR for streaming netflix to a tv. It supports HDMI & wireless N...
  7. V

    Any problems with this month's XP updates?

    There are several so I just thought I'd check to see if anyone has had or heard of any more surprises with them yet.
  8. V

    Windows mystery updates (XP Home)

    I have auto update enabled & set to notify only. The usual monthly updates that I choose show download & install progress as it's happening. After waiting a while on IE7 I decided to give it a shot a while back & clicked download at which time it disappeared, no minimize to tray, no dwnld...
  9. V

    UT-04 & 8800

    I upgraded from a 7900gt, which was smooth, to the 8800gt which helps playing newer games at better res. but I still like to visit UT-04 sometimes & it stutters like hell now. The card & drivers is the only change (169.21) & I'm wondering if I should try a beta set. I've seen this alluded to in...
  10. V

    RivaTuner 2.07 is out

    http://downloads.guru3d.com/Ri...2.07-download-163.html Guide:http://www.vaguesoft.com/index.php?pageid=rt207
  11. V

    EVGA video BIOS flashing procedure

    I was hoping to get a card with the latest since I waited a while to buy but that didn't happen so I need to flash the card. Everywhere I look says you need to flash in DOS with NVflash & use 2 cards to watch process but the EVGA site just says do it in windows. Has anyone done it this way? I've...
  12. V

    Need help with rootkit

    It's shown as \RtrDpeBk.ini & I can't find anything on it. Google brings up something about basketball. AVG rootkit detector dosen't find it nor does their spyware or virus detectors. It looks like Panda can't remove it. Has anyone seen this before? I couldn't nail it down with a reistry scan...
  13. V

    Dealer decal removal

    Just got an '05 Chevy & the dealer sticker is a thin clear film type that is very well attached, any tips?
  14. V

    Crucial Ad

    Is it just me or does the background of the "history of RAM" ad look more like butt cheeks than a book? :)
  15. V

    8800GT - Dimensions?

    As compared to the 7900GT if possible or just a measurement. TIA
  16. V

    How do I check the Boot.ini file?

    I've tried the my comp>prop>advanced path but it says boot.ini can't be opened or changed, if I click edit it says it can't be found. Is there another way to see it? Explorer is set to show all & not to hide system files. I've searched all drives & all I've found is a 1kb backup.
  17. V

    What's best way to update chipset drivers?

    Should I remove ALL nVidia drivers including platform then reboot to safe mode & re-install? Is this safe to do on a system that's not a fresh install? How do I check the version of platform drivers installed? Thanks for any help.
  18. V

    AGP & PCI-E hang -K7 & K8 processors

    AGP and PCI-E Programs May Hang With AMD K7 and K8 Processors ? Issue Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP systems using AMD K7 and K8 processors can hang when an AGP or PCI-E program is used. ? Root Cause There is a known problem with Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP systems...
  19. V

    Dual Core Update Trouble

    I just flashed my BIOS & swapped out my 146 to a 175 Opty. Everything was fine until I Installed the CPU Driver 1.3.2.0 which now I find I didn't even need to do. It bluescreens with a Page fault in non paged area. System restore is off from having previous space problems & forgot to re-instate...
  20. V

    175 Opty

    Just wondering if anyone here has or knows of this stepping, what kind of OC I might get out of it. LCB9E 0652WPMW
  21. V

    Finally going to DC Opty

    I'm about to order an Opty to upgrade my 146@2.5 to a 170-180. I've read some comments here & there that they are shipping chips with X-2 memory controllers or adding more cache & calling them Opterons. Is this true? If so what steppings do I need to look out for? Thanks .
  22. V

    Radeon 9500 Power connector

    I just gave the card to a friend & thought everything was in the box but he can't find the auxillary power connector & I don't remember for sure what type it needs. I have a splitter with the small 4 pin molex on it if that's it. It has the 5 & 12 volt leads (red & yellow). I'd like to be sure...
  23. V

    Need help on drive partition utility

    I have XP home on a HDD with 2 other partitions, C which is active has the OS, D is empty & E which has data on it. All are the same cluster size. I need to merge or get rid of the D & E partitions so that the entire drive will be just C. I tried a PartMagic demo but it won't actually do...
  24. V

    Help with sig edit

    As stated in summary my posts now have a bunch of unused space at the bottom & I can't figure out what I did wrong. How can I correct this? Thanks for any help.
  25. V

    VOIP Questions

    I'm wanting to try Vonage out & have some questions about the set-up. I have a D-link cable modem going to a 4 port Netgear wireless router which serves 2 comp's on cat5 & 2 wireless. As I see it I can put the voip adapter ahead of the router (between the modem & router) or come out of the...
  26. V

    Sharing with OSX & XP

    My daughter has an XP laptop & an Intel iMac both running through a Netgear wireless router & wants to share files between them. Any tips would be appreciated.
  27. V

    D P.......Sorry

  28. V

    Unwanted dual boot

    I rebuilt a system when the XP HDD went south & managed to save some stuff on a partition of the second (98se) drive seperate from the OS. I've got XP installed on a new disk & am ready to put the old disk back in the system to retreive files. I do not want 98 back & as I recall XP set up dual...
  29. V

    Stuck Molex connector on Motherboard

    New build jinxed by dead PSU, thought I'd give it one more try before sending it back. The MB is an Abit KN8 & it uses a 4-pin molex but upon attempted removal it won't budge. It's like it's locked in place. I've pulled & wiggled it until I'm blue in the fingers & scared I'll damage the board...
  30. V

    New Enermax PSU = no go

    Just got a EG565P-VE FMA 535W for a new upgrade with an Abit KN8 & all it would do is just tap the fans enough to start them spinning , then they would quickly stop. After that nothing until I shut off PSU switch for a minute or so then it would do same. The 5vsb LED on board would light. After...
  31. V

    Abit KN8 power

    Have one on the way & looking through the manual it has a 24 pin connector but the manual says to leave pins 11, 12, 23, 24 off. Thats got me a bit (pun intended) confused. Is that a misprint or should I just use the 20 pin? It says it's compliant to the former 20 pin. Does that mean if you...
  32. V

    Western Digital Drive

    I've got it running from floppy on an old system with 80GB disk which is about 2yrs old. It started out showing like 290+ hrs & went down to about 270 but after running 4hrs it's now estimating 325+ hrs. The last time in XP the event viewer showed a bad block error & Windoze won't even boot to...
  33. V

    How do you play HL2 in off-line mode?

    My password is rembered but I don't see any option for off-line anywhere.
  34. V

    Stuck in HL2

    I'm at a point in the game I can't advance from. Are there dead ends in this game? It's where I fell into a room in a waterworks(?), killed the flying bots, moved the barrels down & stacked them up(much ado) to get in the big pipe to go to another water filled room with a ladder to nowhere &...
  35. V

    iMac & wireless network

    Just got a new Intel Mac & having trouble getting on the net. It has the airport card & it sees my network & that it is wep so it needs a password which it keeps saying is invalid but I know it's not because it works fine on the Dell laptop. It will log in on the unprotected signal across the...
  36. V

    Need help finding info on Adobe CS2

    I've tried the Apple, Adobe & SpyMac sites but haven't come up with anything. I've got an Intel iMac coming & have CS2 & I'm trying to find out when they will release the universal so it won't have to run through Rosetta. I'd like to know if I should go ahead & install it or re-sell & wait for...
  37. V

    Thanks Anand 4 great iMac review

    I'm awaiting delivery of a CoreDuo iMac & as in depth as the review is it raised a question regarding using Adobe Creative Suite software on it. From input I got earlier I didn't expect such a penality running through Rosetta so I'm glad I got the 2 x 512 mem upgrade. The comp is for my daughter...
  38. V

    NV 81.98 causing sound prob?

    Just installed Half-Life 2 & first time loading it recomended updating vid driver so I went ahead (been meaning to anyway). Then after loading game I have no sound. I'm using on-board & headphones. After stoping a few times to check settings I got a BSOD NV4_disp, = device driver stuck in...
  39. V

    Half-Life 2 install questions

    It's not really clear to me how this works. Do I have to set up an account with Valve(Steam) to play the game even if not on-line multiplayer? Does that include a credit card # & do they charge a fee to keep playing? The box says it includes CS:S so should I make a folder for it or is that...
  40. V

    Need advise on buying a MAC

    Not sure where to post this so I'll try it here. My daughter is wanting a iMac G5 for college to do graphic design with Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, In Design & maybe Maya. She's looking at a 1.9ghz PowerPC G5 with 512mb of 533mhz DDR2 ram, 160g HDD, 8x DL burner & a ATI X600pro(128mb) video...