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Rewound. that term sounds familiar. I think I heard my great great grandfather talking about rewinding once. ummmm I will look it up in a history book 
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AnalogRocks
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Yeah yeah. Look up superior fidelity and rewond. You'll probably find a 30 ips Reel to Reel deck. 
Rewond. It's what you do with linear recorded media suach as tape and motion picture film.
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You think that PC is not doing digital? Oh my, you do need help.
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| WanMan wrote: | | You think that PC is not doing digital? Oh my, you do need help. |
C'mon there's a whole bunch of punch cards and mechinisms inside the AMD chip just on a microscopic scale. All the punch cards come from the installed punch card generator. They get fed through the microscopic air tubes and the instructions get processed by the super computer. After all why else would we need fans if not to power the air tubes?
Then there's the minature evaporating paint generator. After the punch cards get decoded by the punch card decoder the instructions get sent to the vanishing paint mixer. This mixer sends the paint up the monitor tube and the paint sprayers paint the inside of the monitor. It disapears within a split second making way for the next frame to be painted.
Mmmmm analog
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Bad news. I had the Green Machine PVR running by its self this past weekend and when I went to check on it all I had was a blank blue screen with an unmovable cursor.
IT'S DEAD JIM....
Good thing I bought 2 spare motherboards for it. I'll install one tomrow if I have the time.
The analog PVR500 card is definately working. I've recorded over 250GB of TV shows. This thing is so much fun. Just got to make it go again.
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DAMIT JIM I'M A DOCTOR NOT A Mean Green Machine Mechanic. I'm back! With the backup motherboard. It's still not 100%. I was caught in a reboot loop there for a while. FInaly got the system back up.
We'll see for how long. Gee I seem to remember a thread a few months back about my luck with electronics. I'll have to dig it up and add yet another PVR box to the list. lol 
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Sounds like the mobo in those things are crap. BTW, know of anyone making dual-ATSC tuner boards along the same lines?
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AnalogRocks
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Nope no dual ATSC tuners yet. You could do a pair of Divico Fusion USB's for about the price of a single MYHD 130. They will also do some limited QUAM over cable. This would give you dual ATSC dual QUAM or one of each.
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Grabbed an X-BOX HD-DVD drive this past weekend. Now I have to find out exactly which programs I have to download to make it go.
(power DVD 6.1 and the UDF packet driver?)
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I am curious to know how you make out. XP, right?
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Running XP Pro.
I haven't upgraded the video yet. So it's the onboard Geforce 6150 chip ouputting VGA.
And of course AMD X2 4400+ and 2 gigs ram
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Just put 2 more gigs of ram in. POST shows 4096 but WinXP reports 2.97GB. Strange.
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Reinstalled the offending SATA DVD burner. It's toast. I'll have to RMA it this week. Time permitting.
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Just put 2 more gigs of ram in. POST shows 4096 but WinXP reports 2.97GB. Strange. |
That limitation is twofold:
BIOS (no matter what your mainboard's specs say) and Windows 32bit.
typically a bios is limited to addressing a total of 4 GB of RAM (this includes video memory unfortunately, and any other memory the BIOS is "aware" of so to speak).
So in a typical system you would be lucky to see even 3.5 GB, with sligthly under 3 GB being a very realistic value.
And since WinXP 32 bit cannot handle more than approx. 3.4 GB anyhow, you don't lose anything.
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Now that is interesting about the BIOS and XP limitations. Is the BIOS limiting condition based on the BIOS exclusively, or the Northbridge chipset? I ask, because there are a lot of non-server boards claiming they support 8GB.
Of course, there is always Linux.
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| kschmit2 wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | Just put 2 more gigs of ram in. POST shows 4096 but WinXP reports 2.97GB. Strange. |
That limitation is twofold:
BIOS (no matter what your mainboard's specs say) and Windows 32bit.
typically a bios is limited to addressing a total of 4 GB of RAM (this includes video memory unfortunately, and any other memory the BIOS is "aware" of so to speak).
So in a typical system you would be lucky to see even 3.5 GB, with sligthly under 3 GB being a very realistic value.
And since WinXP 32 bit cannot handle more than approx. 3.4 GB anyhow, you don't lose anything. |
Ahhh I see. So if I put a 512meg video card in here XP will report less available system ram?
That sucks. I could have saved the $269 I spent on the 2nd set of RAM and bought something else.
On the other hand it is faster with all 4 gigs installed. I wonder if it would be worth while to buy 1gig (2 x 512meg pieces ) to keep the system running dual channel and use the curent 2 gigs in another system?
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Oh yeah....I just got off the phone with Plextor support. Apparently he thinks my SATA burner is working. It's just not compatable with the Geforce 430 chipset I am using in this machine. He suggested getting another motherboard. I told him it's not an option.
He said it's clearly listed as not being compatable with the 6150/430 chipset boards on their website.
I have never had to check compatability of optical drives with motherboards before. He explained to me that SATA DVD drives have a different standard than the hard drives and they aren't as universally compatible. YEAH
Why doesn't it say that on the outside of the shiny retail box I have here beside me then?
Looks like I have an expensive paperweight until I build my next system.
Plus I have to buy another DVD drive in ATA to replace this one. The whole idea of having the SATA DVD was to be able to have a separate high speed channel to one DVD drive while using the other.
Nuts.
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That's pretty terrible considerinIntel is moving away from support IDE. I wonder what would happen if you get a SATA-to-IDE and use a PATA optical drive?
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Don't you mean a SATA to ATA adaptor? Yeah I was thinking about that. Just seems such a waste. I had all the cables the exact right length too. ;(
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Mark_A_W
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With the Ram thing - I fail to see why you need more than 1 GB for HTPC use.
If you game 2gb.
Hell, I spec CAD workstations at work and after briefly toying with 4GB ram (XP 64) we found even hi end CAD rarely used more than 2gb. We only spec 4GB ram for FEA workstations now.
1 is enough, 2 is PLENTY, 4 is a waste of money for home use.
My new HTPC only has 1 gb.
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