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at my school theres a card like that in one of the G5s, its used for taking audio from many places for video editing, it can also be used for recording, although personally i'd rather go through a soundboard. i had to bring home my computer from school, its got a PCI SB-live, 5.1 digital surround sound, i want this to go upstairs but it just can't.

there are certain miniDV and VHS players [combos] that have USB out that goes into your computer, i use it at school for video editing and its incredible, video and audio all USB..expensive, but cool.

i reseated the heatsync earlier, and right after that the problem started...i put on a small bit of thermal grease, after a few tries got the clip back on, plugged it in, and it failed to boot. i took out the battery for 15 odd minutes, tomorrow i'll find out if it worked.

ok, this afternoon, i left my computer on when i went with my parents on a walk. when we got back, i decided i would turn off the computer for a while. about 3:30 i go back to turn the computer on, it tells me NTLDR is missing. i was very scared that i lost my homework and my music, because i have almost 16GB of music that i've gotten from my friends, and the chances i'll get that back is slim. luckily, using my sisters comp, i was able to get the music off the 80GB HDD onto a 40GB HDD. now, when i try to install windows XP Pro SP1, i get a BSOD after startup disk 6, before i get to the partitioning table. whats wrong with my computer that it gives me a BSOD after the startup disks? is my BIOS corrupt? tomorrow when i get home i'm gonna take the battery out of my computer and then put it back in after 5 minutes to see if that clears it, and i'll try again. i tried to install Ubuntu linux v5.10, and at 15% of partitioning, it just stopped. im going to try installing PC-BSD now, i don't know how that will end, but i need an OS because i have to re-write two essays and they're due friday. the 40GB HDD that has all my music and pictures and homework on it isn't going anywhere right now. please help, i really need my computer to work. i'll post the BSOD error later because my dad is messing with it.

i set up a G5 in school for a teacher who does video editing on it, 4 GB of ram, but 4 250GB SATA drives, its got raid 5, which sucks up an entire drive, but its safer, it has autosave and more... this computer doesn't run a RAID drive, i just don't protect the files so in the even of failure i can use it as a slave to get my files back. this computer doesnt support raid, although my other one does, however i lack a RAID card to use, so i suck it up because it wont let me use IDE2 as RAID.

i don't know of any stupid easy or free programs...theres adobe audition, cool edit pro, theres also a program for mac called protools, but i've never used it or seen it before. they're not hard to use, but they arent free to my knowledge. you could run a feed back into your computer and use the recording mixer, but thats really hard.

heres the thing about reinstalling that i want to point out from details given: without explorer.exe, there isn't a lot you can do. you can use the task manager to access Run, but he cant: everyone seems to say Safe Mode, yet: attaching the HDD to another computer is one way, but i think that windows is corrupt, and its not just a virus, which is why i said install windows on another disk, transfer files, and then reformat that drive. the only thing that will prevent that from working is if the account is Protected. that prevents anyone that isn't logged in to that admin account from viewing or accessing the files. im not saying its bad advice, but i don't think people have really read into it enough to realize that there isn't much he can do booting that hard drive as a master anymore in the current situation.

take out the 40, install on the 80, have the 400 as RAID [5 is something i'd reccomend] personally i'd have the 400 as a RAID for everything else, it would remove the chance of failure. that way your also running all SATA, which is faster. its all in what you want to do, but you haven't given a reason to have so many drives, so just use 2 until you need more. you could even switch it up and install on the 160 and use the 400 as RAID. if your afraid of loosing data, have a RAID drive.

well, i will be buying a USB 2.0 card, but i have no USB keyboards or mice, just ps/2 i used to have a guinea pig, but..i wont get into it, its a short but sad story. i don't want to run the risk of USB devices not being recognized on boot, which is why i don't have a USB surround sound adapter. my printer us USB, but there are certain things i want to stay old school about.

me and a friend are going to start scrapping/building computers and selling the parts. i scrapped a computer the school was getting rid of, i got 768 MB of ram from it, and a pair of PCI cards that are integrated Video and LAN, one has internal SCSI, the other has two LAN [one LAN one server] and it has a keyboard input, which i may eventually use, but having it is a plus, because they [just barely] fit in my computer, so i could take out my ethernet and my graphics, and put that in [if it has 32bit or better] to use. which means i could go dual moniter, dual keyboard, one for each screen, have it set to do music or video editing on one screen, then browse the internet on the other....its quite handy actually, i'll try to take pictures of them later, right now im going to try to get drivers for the cards, then install windows on a different hard drive as a guinea pig so i don't screw this one up. i also got a heat sync and a CPU fan, and a few spare screws and a 10 gig SCSI HDD, which isn't that bad, it'll be an Adobe Audition /temp folder

time to reinstall windows...and figure out exactly what your brother did

well, i don't want to upgrade, i want to take the service packs off the Professional discs..so instead of having windows XP Pro SP2, just have windows XP Pro. right now i have SP1 running because i didn't want to take it out and then have it fail to install.

i suggest that if you have another HDD, install windows on that, and then insert the one with the explorer.exe issue in as a slave drive, retrieve your files, and be done. every time i have a problem thats what i end up doing, and its easier than trying a ton of methods to fix it.

my older sister has a zen microphoto, and i actually like it. hers is an 8 gig, which wouldn't really hold all my music [i'd need 20+ gigs] but i like it a lot more than iPods...for a number of reasons really..apple wanted to copywrite the word Pod, which didnt go so well, itunes [in general, i hate it] and lastly, the whole new interface. iPods might have games, alarms, stopwatches etc, but they really don't have the battery life, especially the video. 5 minutes of video almost cuts your battery life in half..plus, its an mp3 player, not youtube. i reserve mp3 players to music. maybe files for transfers at school/work, but primarily music. i have a tiny little 256mb mp3 player/flash drive that has about 40 songs on it, totalling 3 hours if i push it. i might remind you that i have over 2400 songs, all of them are legal, most of them are off CDs, some off itunes although $1 per song really doesn't go so hot with me, so i don't do it unless i absolutely have to. but even still, i don't use itunes as a player, i used it to get songs for my schools radio station [im the music director] and it was basically 14 bucks to the expense of almost everyone but me because i didn't really like most of the songs, but it shut people up. the radio station even tried itunes for a day, and it totally went haywire. we're running 866MHz processors and special sound cards that have 1/4" output L/R for mixing. as good as it went, it didn't go so hot. itunes had issues with our sound card, the music sounded terrible, and the computer crashed over a dozen times, i didn't really keep track as to how many, but over ten. i'd rather use WMP. but i like winamp best, so thats what i do use my suggestion is to do what i do, and use ipods as 'external drives' and just have the computer recognize it as a USB device, drag and drop music, and forget the software. it works better that way

lets just say, that where i live, the people who throw out computers are pretty darn stupid...how do you think i got wireless internet cards [2]? there are some nice computers that people trash, but i don't have the time or room to fix them. [the stress of anxiety disorders] yea. ISA...way to go me.

from how the terms been described to me by my schools computer tech, it means that the CD can be legally copied for use within the company/people that buy it, and the serial can be used an unlimited number of times. its how i learned it, maybe differently from others, but we all have our own twists on life. being as windows XP has "Alexa" files on it [if you use Adaware SE you'll learn about those fast] i think i can do without. my home edition of XP doesn't have Alexa, but suddenly this Pro version with SP1 does, so i'm more thinking its SP1, not Pro. to spoil the fun, Alexa is basically the history file of your IE browser. by adaware SE, its considered low risk spyware, because it leaves a trail. i don't use IE, but i hate the sound avast makes when it finds critical objects. also, if i don't use IE, why not just delete its history? easy as that. also, from what i've read in other places about service packs, SP2 is a 'placebo', it basically takes files and moves them around, making you think you have more security. both my XP Pro Sp1 and Sp2 CDs are open license, i can really just mess around as i like. the SP1 cd has a file called Sp1 or something along those lines, and my main idea was deleting that to not have a service pack. my computers all have basic uses really, Winamp, Trillian, Firefox, the occaisional use of photoshop 7, and the frequent use of Adobe Audition. none of them require service packs, which is the main reason i don't like photoshop CS2 or creative Zen Micro's. i was considering nLite, but i wanted to know if i could alter it before even installing it. that way i don't run the risk of thinking something can be deleted, and having to start over. i have a pair of 40GB guinea pig drives right now, im waiting on the 60+GB drive. and that one is 60+ because someone threw it away and they weren't supposed to, now they have to give me a new one thats 60 or more, meaning it could be as much as 120 i guess, and Adobe Audition needs plenty of free space for editing, audio clips get very big, the same with video editing, which i do also.

not to mention theres a huge difference between home and pro. home has a few more features here and there, more keyboard choices, also you can set keyboard buttons in home, i can't do that in pro. but soon i'm gonna have a DAS blank keyboard, so meh. Home and Pro don't mix. you can install home as much as you want, but once you install pro, it'll be hard to get home back on.

i noticed that, especially when using line out with a headset, you hear a current going through it, and that should be silent. I blew out my PC with an air compressor earlier today, the PSU was full of dust...i blew out through the fan up and it was like a dust cloud coming out the back, then to make sure it was out, i went from the back in, and a ton more came out...also there was a lot behind the face and in my FDD because of the fan that blows out of the case, it sucks in through the front...there isn't a lot i can do about it other than switch my floppy drive, but i'll figure out how to perfect it eventually. but i also noticed just how small my motherboard is. its flippin' puny..about 8 inches wide, maybe 10 inches long, 3 PCI slots and 2 slots for RAM...not a heck of a lot, but it runs well with 512 in it...it'll loose the 512 and go back to 256 once i get a PSU for the dual Xeon...i hate having to wait for it, because its such a good mobo, i want it running now...its got a special PCI-E sound card, i'll see if i can find info on it tomorrow, because its one from the dump, shaped similarly to a triangle. when i finish the computer you'll see how it looks, its all plexiglas

ok, i've got three versions of XP..Home, Pro Sp1 and Pro Sp2. the home i don't really care about but is there a way to delete the service packs from the CD? i'm no fan of them, and it takes up room i'd rather have.. i may have just short of 50 gigs free, but this is a music editing machine for now, and i'd rather have the one i hope to have running soon clean. it'll get a 60+gig as the master and a 40gig for Adobe Auditions /temp folder. is there a way to delete the service packs from the install CD? both are open licenses, and i'm willing to do experimenting with it. any ideas?

i really see no sense in getting a sound card if you have onboard audio, i might just be crazy..... i use integrated audio all the time...there is a little bracket on the back of my PC with speaker out, but i don't really use it much....i find the only difference as one being amped, the other not....either way, it all comes out the same, and with just a pair of desktop stereo speakers, theres no need for 5.1 or 7.1 sound...if you have that kind of system fine, but meh...its an old PC...at least im not using the moniter speakers...those just suck...

my cable management is purely makeshift. i just wanted to mod it up a little before it dies, because i might have just given it a few more years. not to mention how the thing is built..the power cables coming out of the PSU are to the left looking at it through the 5.25" bays, so i can't really mod it up to change that and get them completely out of the way. im still waiting on a powerpack for the dual Xeon motherboard, so i have no computer to fall back on, im stuck with what i have for the next month or two...i either find a new PSU or i find one thats smaller and less power consuming than the 600W one. either way, i need it to run the comp. its got a case loosely fit together, i just haven't put on L-Brackes yet because i don't know how big the PSU will end up being. i found one on Ebay that is a last resort, so if all else fails thats what i've got to get. im hoping that the computer my friend is about to dump has the right stuff for it....oh well...i've got a trip planned to go to a local school that just takes whole computers and dumps them, so if i can pull out some goods i will. that includes as much RAM as i can, processors + fans/heat syncs and hard drives...and one power pack that suites my needs. that wireless USB, is that an internal cable or part of the PCI card, because i've never seen that before, but thats a sweet lookin rig

well, it explains how they work, and judging from that, i think you can piece together that the diode is becoming unresponsive...in my eyes, its the chemicals that create the different colors. can't really give any better thought than that.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/led.htm hopefully that does it for you

i'd almost expect a 3+ GHz processor with all that in there... how hot does that baby run with all those drives at 114F a piece?

its probably an issue with the USB port...im not sure what would even cause that problem.