I've got an old S939 box laying around and an old Denon AVR-1500 5.1 receiver. THESE seem like they'd be some pretty sweet speakers for watching movies in the bedroom. My problem is the receiver does not have HDMI or s/pdif inputs, just RCA, so I'm not sure how to get the 5.1 audio to it. The...
My son's birthday is this weekend and I ordered Zoo Tycoon 2 Ultimate collection which will be here tomorrow. Of course after I ordered it I see posts everywhere that disc 3 is just a duplicate of 2 and it can't be installed without calling MS to get a new install set. I called MS and they've...
I'm looking for a tuner card that'll work with Server 2008. Does not need to be HD capable. I got my Hauppauge 150 installed after some messing around but neither BeyondTV or SageTV see it so guess I need something else.
I hope this post is not in bad taste but since there are no rules posted for this forum I'm going to give it a go.
I have a client who was a husband/wife web design team. A few days ago the wife found her husband dead. The husband did all of the design/coding work and was 99% done on a site...
I know Hitachi has a tool that will allow you to adjust the spindle speed to lower power consumption and was wondering if anyone knows of a tool that will do this for Seagate drives. I spoke with Seagate tech support and was told they don't offer a utility like this. I just built a new media...
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$10/yr recurring is pretty damn good. I know there have been discussions on here with people having problems signing up, or just not liking Joe, but I've been with them for about 3 years with no problems. Haven't needed to use their support much, but the few times I did...
A lot of good free software taken from the link in THIS THREAD. I realize all of this is available for free through torrents anyway but it's always good to go legit.
Ashampoo Buring Studio 2009
Titan Backup 1.5
Ashampoo Photo Commander 6
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5
Paragon Hard Disk Manager...
I'm going to be putting together a file-server for my movies and music and am trying to figure out which board I should go with. The server is going to be headless so I don't care anything about the integrated graphics other than that it has it. I just want to find a board with a chipset that...
My Samsung drive kept bluescreening Vista during rips with DVD Decrypter so I picked up an LG drive. No problems with blue screens but it absolutely will not rip faster than 2x, which is very frustrating. Anyone know what's causing this and how to take care of it? I read a post on another...
On my computer at work I configured Vista so that when you have a window maximized it opens flush with the sidebar, not in front or behind it, so that the sidebar is always visible and I don't have the hassle of windows being behind it. I want to set this up at home and have been searching for...
I finally got around to installing this copy of Vista I've had and I was going through the power settings. There's a setting that apparently turns off PCI-E lanes when they're not in use or something. Does anyone have any experience with this setting and is it going to hamper my gaming if I...
I have a Gigabyte Mercury Water Cooled case that I'm about to transplant my current system into, and I just bought a pair of 9600GTs. The case has a splitter with 2 available plugs so I'd like to use them to cool the cards with a GPU cooler like THIS.. My question is do you guys think this...
I've been googling without much success and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to use a USB scanner over the network. A device similiar to a Dlink printserver or something would be cool, or whatever anyone can think of.
So I've been on the phone and web all day now trying to find a piece of hardware or software to do this. I need something that will recognize a port scan and block that IP, and also recognize repeated ftp/rdp logon attemps and block those. I'm looking for something under 1k, so far the only...
A few months ago I picked up 3 Seagate 400GB drives when Fry's was letting them go for dirt cheap. A couple of weeks ago the price dropped again so I picked up a fourth. I'd had the first 3 running in a RAID 5 on my DFI NF4 board, and just dumped everything on them to external and added the...
Hi all, I'm really interested in picking up a projector but know almost nothing about them. THIS looks like a really good deal to me but I thought I'd ask for the advice of people who know better than I before I pull the trigger. I'll be using it to watch movies and would probably like to play...
Right now I've got 2 19" CRTs on my desk that I'd really like to replace with LCDs. I'm accustomed to gaming at 16x12 but can't justify the cost of a super-nice LCD right now, so I'm looking at something like THIS which has a resolution of 1280 x 1024. I was just curious if the gamers around...
I just build a new box with a 4000+ and a DFI NF4 SLI-DR. It boots to Windows fine but when I ran Prime overnight it crashed. I ran Prime again this morning and it showed a calculation error after about an hour. I installed MBM5 and it shows my CPU at 72C. I thought maybe the HSF wasn't...
I've been wanting a camcorder for a long time now and have decided to go ahead and get one. The information HERE is very helpful but I didn't want to thread hijack so starting my own. I understand that 3 ccd is better so that's what I'm looking for. I'm really trying to keep cost for the...
I am looking to build an HTPC with the 4000+ I have but I've also got an xp1800 sitting in my closet and was wondering if it would be ok pulling htpc duty. No hi-def, just outputting to my 32" sdtv. My question is if it would do ok with recording on my hauppauge 150. Thanks.
So I decided to bring an old Athlon 1ghz out of retirement to load Windows SBS on to play around with. It's pretty noisy so I ordered a few things to keep the noise down, including THIS HSF. When I plugged it into my Abit KT7A mobo the system would power up for about 3 seconds, give a long...
I'm looking for suggestions on some passive cooling for my DFI board. When I'm gaming the fan spins up and down, my g/f actually thought there was a siren going off somewhere. Any help is appreciated.
I know there are some people around here who are very knowledgeable when it comes a/v products so I thought I'd ask for some advice on a camcorder. I just finished reading the reviews on the camcorders in my price range on Amazon, but most of them are posted by soccer-mom types and thus are...
I know there are some people around here who are very knowledgeable when it comes a/v products so I thought I'd ask for some advice on a camcorder. I just finished reading the reviews on the camcorders in my price range on Amazon, but most of them are posted by soccer-mom types and thus are...
I know almost nothing about either SQL or MySQL and very little about Access (taking a class on it right now). I was wondering if an Access database can be converted to either SQL or MySQL and whether or not SQL and MySQL are compatible with each other.
I've been given a Sony VAIO that won't turn on. I've tested the AC adapter and the MB with my multimeter and there doesn't seem to be a problem with juice. Any sugestions as to what I might check next to see why it won't turn on?
I'm looking to buy a TV Tuner Card and the Hauppauge pvr-150 seems to get good reviews around here, I've seen people recommend ATI also. However, everyone keeps saying that the software they comming with is lacking and that 3rd party software is recommended. My question is, is there a decent...
I have a Viao that's a few years old and for some reason it won't turn on. I've checked the AC adapter and it's delivering juice, and I've tested some resistors on the board and they've got a charge, so I don't understand why it won't turn on. I've taken a look at the power button and it seems...
I'm looking for a bluetooth mouse for use with my laptop but I haven't been able to find any that say they have an off button. Anyone know of a good bluetooth mouse that does? Prefer one that isn't huge but I'd take that over incredibly small, which causes my hand to cramp up. Oh, and prefer...
About to buy an HP as they're the only AMD notebook maker I can find besides ACER. It will be comming with a Radeon XPRESS 200M. I've built desktops but have never opened a notebook and I'm wondering if it will be possible to drop in a better video card.
I'm looking at buying a laptop but I've still got a few questions I haven't worked out. Right now I'm looking at buying an HP because I want it AMD-based. Anyone happen to know of another manufacturer that sells AMD laptops that you can customize? Sure, I'd like an Acer Ferrari but I'm not...
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