Recent content by High Desert Ranger

Starting out with Windows and probably XBMC, eventually move to linux.

I have a system that I'm going to turn into a HTPC system. Currently it has a MX400 video card, that has a DVI port, a VGA port and a S-Video out. I don't think this card is going to work out for me because I've heard about a lot of issue with the S-Video out. So I'm looking for a replacement...

I would like to have this to build a computer around it. Please ship immediately.

I'll have about 100gb of non-replaceable data too. Has every industry gone to hard drive backups? Is there no mega giga-byte tape or optical solution?

I just got a Wii and found out it plays Gamecube Games with the Game Cube Controller. I'll be looking into that.

I plan on creating a server with a 2tb drive of data that will mostly be (95%) unchanged, HTPC server. I plan on have a mirrored drive setup for the first half of my data integrity, and want to backup to something else for the second half. 2 Drives. for 2tb of space. I might all do a Raid 5...

Don't have the original OS disks, if the machine even came with them. Need to either use the OS stuff off the drive (which like I said I can get, but it's a long task) or install a virgin OS and use the manufacturer drivers. Boot from a livecd??? Don't need to SATA is my secondary drive...

Not really worried about getting the info off the drive, I can file copy a little at a time. I pulled 20 gb of music and photos off for someone. I need to get the system directories reliably onto the compaq's hard drive and save the info from the compaq. But I have frozen a drive defore.

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I just got a Toshiba Laptop for free because of a failing hard drive. My laptop is a Compaq with a bad GPU (Nvidia). I would like to to take the harddrive out of my Compaq. Copy the entire thing to my desktop hardrive. (Like using DriveCopy or something) and then wipe it and copy the...

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Can you imagine if they built computers using the pre-packaged screws. It would be a huge pile of envelopes.

I have a WinTV Capture card, and it makes .ts video file. What do I need to do to get it burnt to a DVD that will play in a DVD player?

How can I get the ".ts" files burnt to a DVD to play in a DVD player.

I solved the first problem. I had Composite selected and not S-Video input. Fixed, now have color.