Recent content by Wickeke

OK opened the case up, didn't see anything that looked "melty", charred, or burnt. Reset all the power connectors, fired it back up. Ran a couple comp games in CSGO and no issue. So if it does happen again I will try replacing the power supply, I think i have an old one i can swap out. As for...

I have two things i could use your guys helps with. First, the ASUS Anti Surge protection has triggered a few times in the past couple weeks. This only seems to happen when i am playing CSGO. I have looked for trouble shooting advice, but the only thing i could really find said to go into the...

for the HTPC OS Windows 7 64 or 32 bit?

Good point, will probable go with the Caviar Green 2TB drives in the server. As for TV tuners, after talking with our cable provider (Insight) the cards do not allow On Demand functionality. So we will be keeping the cable box. This will be used to replace out existing Blu-Ray player and give...

I am very close to getting approval from the CFO, also known as The Wife, to purchase a HTPC and home server. But she wants me to price it out completely, none of this "you said it would cost $500 but it ends up being $1,000". I have been reading CrimandEvil post Ultimate HTPC Guild and this is...

Ok I have been thinking about doing a HTPC/Server for some time now. I have tried reading throught some of the posts here and to be honest my head is spinning. What I want to do: Have all my Music (500 CD + some DLs from iTunes), Movies ( 350 DVDs, 10 or so BlueRays) loaded somewere so I can...