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Ok, So I put together a new HTPC and purchased 4 2TB drives which gave me a total of 6 TB after setting them up as RAID 5. I created two volumes from that RAID, one is 2 TB and the other is 4TB. Windows 7 is currently installed on the 2TB volume, though it only occupies about 17Gb. I...

I have a Home Theater PC (HTPC) that utilizes a Netgear WN11 USB wireless adapter to connect to a Netgear Rangemax WNR3500 Router. Upon HTPC system startup, I'm able to connect to the router and thus the internet. However, even though I have network connection setup as automatic, I have to...

After spending many nights searching these forums, and trying many of the suggestions, i still have a couple of issues preventing my HTPC being a 'dream machine', and hope someone can point me as to where my problems lie. I am very happy with the win7 GUI and love the usability and wife...

I have 4 computers on my home network: WHS - My Windows Home Server MediaCenter-PC - My HTPC Bomber - My notebook AnnMarie - My girlfriends Desktop With the exception of the WHS all are windows 7. Everything seems to be working alright, but when I open the network view on my notebook it show...

Need help on determining if my Western Digital 2TB hard drive is compatible with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have a HTPC with 5.5TB in total. One of my drives is a WD 2TB GP drive which after completing a fresh install of Windows 7, I can no longer detect the drive. I've reinstall all MB...

Hi people.... I was wondering if any of you would be kind enough to help me with a question I have. (Please bare in mind I know next to nothing about windows OR drivers!) Now, I have an Elonex Artsan lx HTPC and have recently upgraded from XP to W7. I had to do a clean install as the upgrade...

I've a Sony Bravia 40" LCD connected via HDMI to my nvidia card HTPC running Windows 7 Home Premium. Every time I change the input selection on Sony TV from AV5 where is HTPC to TV tuner windows detects the monitor as unpluged dissabling it and when I come back to AV5 the windows detects the...

Extract of a posting I have made at AVS Forum (USA) I have an odd problem with my display Previous configuration of the HTPC: Vista 32bit, 4850 Valor, Gig’EX58-UD5, PWRDVD 9Ultra, Marantz AV 8003 Processor, JVC 350 Projector, etc etc I have made two changes to this configuration: W7...

Hi all, first time posting here and I'm hoping some of the more technically minded individuals here can help me identify the root cause of my problem. Not sure if this is in the right section please move this thread if it's in the wrong subforum. Right, the problem is that I can't seem to get...

Hello - Just finished my Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit HTPC build and install with following components: 1) ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x 16 ATX Intel Motherboard 2) Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6600 3) CORSAIR XMS2 2GB...

the person I got my HTPC from partitioned the HD into 3 ---- in/on the 2nd one he installed W. Vista that someone gave him and he had the understanding that it was "good to go" BUT then found out that after awhile he could not use it because it wanted something he did not have...............I...

[Solved] Windows keeps installing the wrong sound driver Afternoon all. I'm slowly working my way round the house upgrading everything to Win7 :rolleyes:, but I've come across a problem on one of the machines I'm hoping someone might be able to help with. It's a fairly oldish machine. Asus...

Oy check that baby out. Here at Guru3D.com we’ve featured many impressive case-mods on these pages before now, but I think this has to be one of my favorites. This is the handiwork of a guy called Gup the Stargate-themed pyramid HTPC has a motorized top-section that lifts to reveal an LCD with...

Hi! First I watched movies and used pc fine, but I guess it was next time I tried to watch some movies, things got pretty weird. I connected pc to projector via DVI to HDMI cable. My htpc windows user doesn't have aero, so desktop picture was excellent. As soon as I opened video file using any...

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A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece about building a home theater PC using AMD’s Maui platform and the Windows 7 beta. The idea there was twofold. First, explore the HTPC hardware environment. It had literally been years since I’d made an effort to replace dedicated A/V...

Hello all, I have a strange one that I hope you can help me with. I have two machines at home. One is my main and the other is a Media PC (HTPC). I have networked the two machine through homegroup. On my main machine I open two windows on the HTPC hard drive though the network. When I try...

Ok guys, I have a Sony VGC-RC210G HTPC, it shipped with 2x160GB drives in RAID0 config. Yesterday I got 2 more 160GB drives and I want to add them to my config but can I do this without losing all my current data in the original configuration? I have the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, and checked...

My new HTPC came with W'7 RCandidate installed by the fella that built it...........could I go to the MS site and download and reinstall it again w/o any hassle...because it would be to a different person? This I believe would resolve my present problems I have having - Plus - since it has...