Recent content by spanq

Not once did I say there were absolutely no changes under the hood. I said it hasn't really changed all that much. You can still hose Explorer with a bad CD. You can still kill the print spooler trying to clear documents from the queue. You can still wipe or change the password of any Windows...

I probably should've been more clear about the system specs before my post, especially if it gave you guys the impression I wasn't getting the full experience of Windows 8. I never said they should ditch virtual memory. I didn't even remotely hint that whatsoever. My point was that that...

The hardware of my netbook is irrelevant. Microsoft's effort to make desktop users use a tablet UI for their PC is silly. Windows 8 as solely a tablet OS is one thing, but Average Joe running it on his/her desktop who's been used to the old fashioned Start Menu since the 95/98 days and dragging...

I put Windows 8 on my netbook just to give a whirl and while it runs nice and smooth, it doesn't bode well with me at all. Nothing about it feels like an "upgrade." It reminds me of the days of dropping in a custom shell for Windows XP. I understand that Microsoft is desperately trying to catch...

Got an old machine here with a A8N-E motherboard that keeps giving me a VGA error beep (the long one, then three short ones). I've swapped out video cards, memory, cleared the CMOS, tried a different PSU and it still gives me the beep. The system seems to still boot, as I see HD activity...

Is anyone running this? Has anyone built a machine strong enough to handle say 10 workstations? I've got someone who wants to build a couple of "servers" that are rife with USB cards (and use USB hubs for each station) for teaching software such as Photoshop. I just can't imagine a single...

Just upgraded a machine to Windows 7 via USB drive and have discovered the DVD/CD burner doesn't read discs. It seems to choke reading music CDs and has no luck with data CDs or DVDs. However, the drive works fine in XP and will read boot discs without any issues. I've flashed the drive with the...

It's definitely a hardware issue. I just installed W7 on another one of these things, exact same model, and the audio worked without having to install anything.

Audio is enabled on the BIOS and there are no unknown devices showing up in the Device Manager. I'm wondering if the onboard audio is faulty.

I've got Windows 7 installed on an Eee PC 900 and for the most part it runs pretty damn well, but I cannot get the audio to work for the life of me. I've installed the ASUS ACPI driver, then the Realtek drivers under XP-compatibility mode as instructed by a dozen Google searches on the subject...

ATI drivers? No. I did have the latest nForce and GeForce drivers, though. I've been using the WMC remote since it's connected to a TV. Fullscreen/windowed made no difference in resolving the issue. The only thing I hadn't done in terms of troubleshooting by making sure everything was fully...

I don't think it's the UI, either. I'm under the impression I've either got a shitty driver somewhere or the 8200 just can't handle it. Changing and/or removing codecs doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm running the RC, 7100. EDIT: I just upgraded the BIOS and now I'm getting a floppy...

I built a machine specifically for being a media center with a A64 X2 6400, ASUS M3N78-VM motherboard with the onboard GeForce 8200, 2GB of RAM, and a couple of Seagate SATA2 HD's. I'm running Windows 7 32-bit on it. The system itself performs as it should, but the UI in Media Center is...

Actually, I just ended up turning off the option in the Sound Control Panel where Windows will automatically adjust the volume when it detects incoming communication and now everything is fine. Cool feature, but doesn't quite work right. Apparently, it's not a X-Fi only issue, either.

I've noticed that adjusting the volume in a Steam game seems to affect the volume of the entire mixer. I'm running a X-Fi using the beta drivers and it's damned annoying.