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    Homebrew DVR issuse

    Hey all, question about my homebuilt DVR machine... When recording or watching TV, my computer freezes irrecoverably (have to hard-boot) or bluescreens within about 3 minutes. Very frustrating. I have tried this with Windows Vista Ultimate as well as with XP Media Center and the software that...
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    dclive -- i appreciate the help! :D
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    oh also -- i wanted to keep the apps and OS separate from the data... does that make any sense? or should i just get one and partition it into two?
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    ok, i've updated the list... check out the new proc, mobo, and memory! what do you think now?
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    ok, i'll look into that! but i'm not OC'ing, if that makes a difference. what do you think about the rest of it?
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    How come? Would that be better for this type of workstation than the AMD dual-core?
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    Multimedia Presentation Rig

    Hey all - Let me know what you think. This will be primarily used as a multimedia presentation rig. Case: COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Proc: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 GHz GPU: EVGA 256-P2-N550 -T2 GeForce 7600GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Memory...
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    best card for video/media workstation?

    hey -- sorry for the noobtrocity, but what type of card are you referring to by 7xxx? o-0
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    best card for video/media workstation?

    hey man, hope you're enjoying your co-op. i'm a senior in digital media, but just got a job doing IT work for drexel! so good! anyway, HDMI is not an issue right now, but i guess i could always upgrade later. i'll look into the 7600's! thanks!
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    best card for video/media workstation?

    yo! what's up my dragon brother!!!! hahahaha.... what's your major? i'm digital media, graduating this june! ahhh can't wait!
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    best card for video/media workstation?

    hey guys -- planning on building a media workstation that will be primarily used as a workhorse of projection, video display, and almost any other media application. gaming is not an issue for this workstation. with that in mind, what video card do you guys recommend for a decent price (under...
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    Help w/ Radeon x1900xtx blue screening

    bumping this again, someone please help!
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    Help w/ Radeon x1900xtx blue screening

    well the PSU is good..... 550w and working correctly......... the RAM is corsair ram that i've already RMA'd once and since then it's worked fine (until now?). and no, not overclocking my machine. but how would i go about installing standard VGA drivers? i'm sure it's really simple, but i...
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    Help w/ Radeon x1900xtx blue screening

    oh and how would i go about installing a "standard vga adapter?" would that even help?
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    Help w/ Radeon x1900xtx blue screening

    hey guys - wondering if anyone has any sage-like advice for me on this problem! :) i was having a difficult time getting my various displays configured correctly with the Catalyst Control Center. finally i could not even set the resolution correctly, so i began to uninstall the drivers to get...
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    PFN_List_Error

    hey guys, every once in a while i'll be working on just about anything (very random) and i'll get the BSOD stating that i had a "PFN_List_Error." anybody know what this is or how to troubleshoot/fix it? thanks...
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    rendering issues in maya with x1900xtx

    help. anyone?
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    is this a PSU problem?

    thanks guys, i'll try the basic booting thing. the problem is that the BSOD is not consistent... sometimes it'll go for days without crashing. also, there is no specific list of commands that CAUSES it, it's pretty random. but i'll try swapping PSUs. also - talcite - i don't have anything Nforce...
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    is this a PSU problem?

    ok, i'm not home, but here is my PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817171009 did that help? it says it's got dual +12v, don't know if that's what you're after.
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    x1900xt dual display experiment , pls help!!

    yea ^^ he's right. i've heard of pain-in-the-butt conversions involving something like a DVI -> USB adaptor, but that apparently had serious lag and even more serious quality issues that it was canned after the first try. anyway, practically speaking, no, there is no way. what i did before...
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    is this a PSU problem?

    haha - pwn'd in my own topic. :) i'm kind of a noob at building -- how could i figure that out?
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    rendering issues in maya with x1900xtx

    hey guys -- for some reason when rendering in Maya 7 on my new x1900xtx, i'm getting a lot of aliasing on the models. now.... after a fresh reformatting, it was rendering beautifully, but somewhere along the way i think a driver or other installation got in the way of my catalyst driver. or...
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    Disk questions

    hey bro - i have the WD Raptor 150 as my main drive. personally, my next purchase will be an IDE drive simply because of ALL THE TROUBLE i have when installing XP on the raptor because of the lack of a built-in SATA controller (when reformatting). it is really such a pain. anyway, i guess if you...
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    Disk questions

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    is this a PSU problem?

    hey guys, built my system last february and haven't quite gotten everything sorted out yet. i realized i had a bad stick of ram, so RMA'ing that fixed about 90% of my problems. but still, from time to time i'll get the B.S.O.D. for apparently no reason. i'm guessing it's one of two problems...
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    slipstreaming problems

    hey -- can somebody at least point me in the direction of where to download the correct SP2? thanks
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    slipstreaming problems

    ok -- trying to slipstream SP2 onto my original windows install cd. copied my windows install cd to the hard drive, and downloaded the "Windows XP Service Pack 2 for IT Professionals and Developers" on the microsoft downloads section. when i try to use the "run" dialog and type "C:\XPSP2.exe...
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    dual-booting

    anyone have any info on how to set up a dual-boot rig with XP/Linux with one hard drive?
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    bundling SP2 on my old XP CD

    hey guys -- if you read my other topic this might make more sense. while troubleshooting, i was wondering if i could burn a new XP cd that also included SP2 since my old one doesn't even come with SP1. if anybody has info on doing this, please let me know. thanks!
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    help installing XP PRO

    oops i mean, while "registering devices" i get a "memory at _________ location could not be read" error. the __________ is a bunch of numbers, but i'm sure you all know what error i'm talking about..... could this be a memory problem? otherwise, i get the ^^ other error while "installing devices"
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    help installing XP PRO

    hey guys -- having some trouble installing XP PRO. sometimes while it is "registering devices" or while "installing devices" the computer has an error that says the HOST IEEE 1394 Controller isn't windows verified or something. or else it just freezes up at certain points and won't go on.... i...
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    winXP install error

    well, like i said, i tried 2 drives and 2 cds... the cd has always worked before for me but this time it's not. is there a way to make an image of the cd and use it on startup or anything?
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    winXP install error

    i'm trying to reinstall XP, but every time i do, i get an error while installing the setup files (after the reformat) that says "Setup cannot copy the file: mfc40u.dll" however, it's not just this file, it will be several files while trying to install the setup files. sometimes i can keep...
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    CD ROM drive question

    also, i was wondering--- if it's not supposed to be on the IDE slot, could this possibly be causing drive conflicts with my main drive (which is on SATA1)?
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    CD ROM drive question

    hey guys -- just wondering if the CD ROM usually gets plugged into a master IDE slot, (for instance, IDE 0 -- master) or if it gets plugged into the slave, or not into the IDE at all. if not, please let me know where and how it should go. Thanks!
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    question about a BIOS setting

    hey guys -- i was browsing through the BIOS yesterday trying to solve another problem when i came upon the option that says "OS select for DRAM:" the choices are "non-OS2" or "OS2" just wondering what the difference is and what i should have this set on. i'm running XP SP2 with 2gbs of...
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    h/d question

    i'm gonna keep bumping til somebody helps me out!!!!!!!!
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    h/d question

    c'mon, i know there's some helpful people out there. where are you?!?
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    h/d question

    help please!