Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642
I'm fairly certain I'm going to buy a ps3 in the next month or so to replace my very aged xbox media center (xbmc). I understand the PS3 can't natively play mkv files though? Scott On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:55 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Your fine but you might consider a ps3. Bluray, full divx and network support. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:31:32 To: Joe Userhardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642 Hello, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:12:12 AM, I wrote: Hello HWG, So, I went to watch 'Ghostbusters' this morning as nothing was on any of the 500 channels I get on DirecTV. The little red light just blinked away and the tray wouldn't open nor would the display come on. I unplugged it - waited - and plugged it back in. No joy. This is the second of two that have died. I swear they put timers in these things. So now, I am looking for another Divx player. The Philips DVP5140 is looking like my best bet. It does Divx Ultra, which the 642 didn't - but I didn't encounter divx Ultra that much. I currently use this 642 through S-Video but I have RCA available also. No HDMI. Might have ability to do component RGB type hookup, if I shuffle some stuff around. I am looking for other suggestions before I get this unit. Is there something better out there? Ok, going to assume I am doing OK with my choice here. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] Opinion on a MB ?
From: FORC5 Looking at updating my aging a7n8x server which BSOD's almost daily. May just need a new PSU which is very old. Fry's add today shows a E8500 with a intel G31 MB for $220 Looks like might do me just fine. Do need to update ram and PSU. IF Vista refuses to play with the HW change will clean install XP64. Just did an Intel boxdg31pr with that CPU in Dec.. (only dual core.) 4G RAM on Vista32 (yea, I know...) Works with Vista32 fine, but the Intel Accelerated Video drivers are a must for Aero. Score is too low with the MS default ones. (I could care less about that though) All the other segments of those scores are pretty high. (But then again, I'm used to building myself junk.) I'm NOT a Gamer... Good luck. The MB is the Intel Classic Series. Rick Glazier
[H] SoundBlaster XFI Extreme Audio Problems
Hello all, I have a problem that is actually frustrating me. The problem is with the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E I have. The Problem is that every once in awhile while watching videos or playing Video Games the Sound Driver crashes and no sound comes out of the sound card. Sometimes I am able to switch the sound device to the USB headphones I have and it works, sometimes it does not and need to reboot the computer. Either way in order to get the X-Fi to work I need to reboot the computer. System setup: Asus P5N-T nForce 580i motherboard Intel 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme Edition Asus branded nVidia 8800 GTX Video Card Creative Soundblaster X-FI PCI-E ExtremeAudio 4GB of Dominator 1066 DDR2 memory I have removed the device and removed the drivers and it sill happens. I’m getting close to wits end. Regards, -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: be...@cox.net MSN: be...@cox.net AIM: dowbeave
Re: [H] Opinion on a MB ?
thanks, I actually have a spare pci-e video card in the pile to use but it is just the server. took PSU apart this am looking for bad caps, all looks well. I very old enermax 350watt still pondering Anyone know how Vista handles HW changes ? I expect trouble fp At 09:09 AM 2/9/2009, Rick Glazier Poked the stick with: From: FORC5 Looking at updating my aging a7n8x server which BSOD's almost daily. May just need a new PSU which is very old. Fry's add today shows a E8500 with a intel G31 MB for $220 Looks like might do me just fine. Do need to update ram and PSU. IF Vista refuses to play with the HW change will clean install XP64. Just did an Intel boxdg31pr with that CPU in Dec.. (only dual core.) 4G RAM on Vista32 (yea, I know...) Works with Vista32 fine, but the Intel Accelerated Video drivers are a must for Aero. Score is too low with the MS default ones. (I could care less about that though) All the other segments of those scores are pretty high. (But then again, I'm used to building myself junk.) I'm NOT a Gamer... Good luck. The MB is the Intel Classic Series. Rick Glazier -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Earth: A solid substance, much desired by the seasick.
Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642
Unfortunately, that's true - the PS3 will not play MKV files without changing their format. You can use a tool like MKV2VOB to change the container format to one the PS3 understands - from what I've seen, it's not the video or audio codecs that the PS3 doesn't work with, just the container format. Jamie 'Scott Sipe csco...@gmail.com' said: I'm fairly certain I'm going to buy a ps3 in the next month or so to replace my very aged xbox media center (xbmc). I understand the PS3 can't natively play mkv files though? Scott On Feb 8, 2009, at 4:55 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: Your fine but you might consider a ps3. Bluray, full divx and network support. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Joe User joeu...@chronic.org Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:31:32 To: Joe Userhardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] DVD Divx players... RIP Philips DVP-642 Hello, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:12:12 AM, I wrote: Hello HWG, So, I went to watch 'Ghostbusters' this morning as nothing was on any of the 500 channels I get on DirecTV. The little red light just blinked away and the tray wouldn't open nor would the display come on. I unplugged it - waited - and plugged it back in. No joy. This is the second of two that have died. I swear they put timers in these things. So now, I am looking for another Divx player. The Philips DVP5140 is looking like my best bet. It does Divx Ultra, which the 642 didn't - but I didn't encounter divx Ultra that much. I currently use this 642 through S-Video but I have RCA available also. No HDMI. Might have ability to do component RGB type hookup, if I shuffle some stuff around. I am looking for other suggestions before I get this unit. Is there something better out there? Ok, going to assume I am doing OK with my choice here. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...
Re: [H] HD size limit for XPPro?
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Al Anger wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:46:42 + dsinc...@bellsouth.net wrote: Zul, What's funky about 4x40GB? Keeps me in check and makes backups quicker! A HD with no partitions is like a house with no rooms. A HD with no partitions is like a house with no WALLS. You can't use an HDD without giving it at least 1 partition. =) Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #264: Your modem doesn't speak English. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] HD size limit for XPPro?
Christopher, I do so understand this! I was looking for suggestions on HOW TO MAP a 160GB HD. Nothing more. I suggested 4x 40GB. JMacCraw suggested another map I can NOT do. FINE! Jeez! A Plebe/Noob I may be. But, after 13+yrs on this Collective, I have learned (and forgotten) some of the basics! Sorry, I am having a very bad-PC day! Just venting! Best, Duncan -- Original message from Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net: -- On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Al Anger wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:46:42 + dsinc...@bellsouth.net wrote: Zul, What's funky about 4x40GB? Keeps me in check and makes backups quicker! A HD with no partitions is like a house with no rooms. A HD with no partitions is like a house with no WALLS. You can't use an HDD without giving it at least 1 partition. =) Christopher Fisk -- BOFH Excuse #264: Your modem doesn't speak English. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
[H] Advice on HTPC components
I have an old AMD XP3200+ based system I used for an HTPC in the bedroom, using it to stream video from my main system via 10/100 wired network. Since going to HD on my main system, I find this old system struggles to play MKV (720p) content (I haven't even attempted actual HD content). Suggestions for motherboard/cpu combination and video card to handle the 720p output for cheap would be appreciated. I am currently outputing to an analog television, but hope to add an HD television in the future (too few $$$ at the moment), so SD and HD output would be a nice plus. Thanks for the input. Jim Maki jwm_maill...@comcast.net
Re: [H] SoundBlaster XFI Extreme Audio Problems
If you're running Vista, you could try bouncing the user-mode audio stack service (since Vista moved audio completely out of kernel and into user mode). Otherwise, I'd probably chalk it up to Creative's legendary inability to write a driver worth a damn. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Beave Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:25 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] SoundBlaster XFI Extreme Audio Problems Hello all, I have a problem that is actually frustrating me. The problem is with the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E I have. The Problem is that every once in awhile while watching videos or playing Video Games the Sound Driver crashes and no sound comes out of the sound card. Sometimes I am able to switch the sound device to the USB headphones I have and it works, sometimes it does not and need to reboot the computer. Either way in order to get the X-Fi to work I need to reboot the computer. System setup: Asus P5N-T nForce 580i motherboard Intel 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme Edition Asus branded nVidia 8800 GTX Video Card Creative Soundblaster X-FI PCI-E ExtremeAudio 4GB of Dominator 1066 DDR2 memory I have removed the device and removed the drivers and it sill happens. I’m getting close to wits end. Regards, -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: be...@cox.net MSN: be...@cox.net AIM: dowbeave
[H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
Yes. Applies to both. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:55:00 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
Happens most if you ever had roxio installed, but can happen otherwise. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:55:00 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW
got it fixed, thanks! - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 18:12 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Happens most if you ever had roxio installed, but can happen otherwise. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:55:00 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I did a bit of looking aorund and found that this applies to Vista, does it also apply to XP? - Original Message - From: tmse...@rlrnews.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 17:02 Subject: Re: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW Find and clear the high and low filters in your registry God I'm doing this from memory so maybe way off, but I believe its: Hklm\system\current control set\control\class\ Look for upperfiters and lowerfilters entries. Don't delete them themselves, but all the crap under them can go. Then reset (Corrected the above, damn, the bold is slickness, direct cut and paste to app). Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 16:49:05 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Did System Cleanup, Now XP Does Not Recognize Lite-On DVD-RW I had to do a major clean-up after getting infected with a nasty virus a few days ago. Now I'm finding that a lot of my XP settings are goofed up and need to be reset. Some are minor, such as the clock in the toolbar being military time. But one major glitch is that now XP is showing my 2 Lite-On DVD-RWs in hardware profiles with a yellow warning icon, and they are not showing as recognized drives in My Computer, I tried uninstalling then and rebooting, but XP still did not see them as new hardware. ack! There aren't drivers available, although there is a firmware update available but I don't know if that would help or not. Directions for installing the firmware say to burn the data to a CDR.. duh.. CDR isn't working! Any ideas? thanks, Veech
