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    New to Home Theatre, any advice welcomed

    For 17 years, my wife and I have been completely satisfied with our 27" Panasonic CRT TV, which not only refuses to die, but the picture quality of which seems as good as when new (maybe our eyes are just older). We have finally decided to go with HDTV, incorporating it into a whole new A/V...
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    Another bit of novice idiocy

    Pardon the insurrection, but I was wallowing about on this board several months ago regarding the dreaded Soyo K7VME barebones kit from Tiger Direct. I'm an all-Mac, all-the-time ex-graphic repairman who now owns a retail biz (hobby shop), and am forced, for technical reasons, to go to the Dark...
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    Soyo barebones kit all built -- won't start up

    I just fired up my first homebuilt PC (from a Soyo barebones kit): the pretty lights came on, it sounded like the drive was spinning up, and then, after no more than five seconds, it simply shut down. No attempt to restart it has been successful. I don't know where to go from here. I *do*...
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    Mac Hick builds Soyo barebones kit -- dopey questions

    OK -- though it's probably the slowest PC build in history, I've now got everything in my Soyo barebones K7VME/Athlon 2800XP+ box, except the HD (Western Digital Caviar SE 200GB). This may sound exceptionally dumb, but bear with me. In the Soyo case are two tiers of drive bays: three 5.25" bays...
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    Old topic, new goof

    Allow me to preface my question with the admission that I'm a total Mac-head, and have been since 1989. My previous life was as a graphic designer and Mac IT, networking, and pagination specialist. My new life is as a hobby shop owner (all part of Life's Rich Pageant?), and business needs...