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there may be a problem with your USB ports, or where they're seated on the mobo, thats always worth checking out, especially if its the front ports.

it would be wiser to go for Adobe Audition, and there are a few reasons for it. Adobe Audition will record the entire album as it is, exactly how its played. you'll be able to split it up and save each track as .mp3, .wav, and a few other formats. also, it can record anything from the selected recording device, theres no need to get an additional sound card. i use integrated sound on my motherboard, and there are songs that come out the same as if i had a sound card. in a sense its cheaper and can be use limitlessly. you can even just use the trial on adobe.com to do it, i used that while i waited for my copy to come in the mail. it just depends on how much you're willing to spend, and if you want industry standard or not.

it might be the cable, the housing, or the drive itself. the drive might be corrupt in a way, if you have parition magic, you should run that and see if it comes up with any drive partitioning errors, i know 8.0 will fix it, although sometimes it doesnt start because it doesn't recognize the drive letters, i have no idea how to fix that. you might try defragmenting the drive, but other than a corrupt file or something im not sure what else to say.

a network virus is a network virus, theres no way to isolate them once its on. to my knowledge, you can easily go from one of the outputs of one router into the input for the second router, and there shouldn't be a problem. the mac address shouldn't be affected at all, and it should work, but if your afraid they have adware/spyware, just don't connect them. have anti-spyware/virus/adware software on a CD, and run it before connecting them. better safe than sorry, always.

not all processors are equal. the socket 775 is technically newer and 'faster' but i'd pick hyperthreading over it, so its all in what you want, new or hyperthreading.

all you really need is an amplifier, and a line in on the motherboard. i'll take pictures on a setup i have in school for it tomorrow, but basically speaking, you run the turntable into the amplifier [that is, only if it is not amplified itself] and then you run a line from the amplifier into the LINE IN on your motherboard. don't use microphone unless you're 100% positive that its stereo, almost none of them are. i hope you're up on your audio here, otherwise just google the terms you don't know. most turn tables that are made today have either 1/8" stereo out, or RCA outputs. you need to just get a stereo amplifier [a guitar amp will not work] and go into the input labled PHONO, for phonograph. it will minimize the distortion from the needle. if you're using a big combo sort of thing thats amplified, you just need to run either RCA or 1/8" into your line in. stores like radio shack might carry adapters or even cables that go RCA to 1/8". i have one here thats about 3' long, does what i need it to do. i'd go into the software section to give you tips, but while im at it [and i do record vinyls] i'll tell you what i use. there are two programs, pretty much the same, only one is easier to find than the other. one is called Cool Edit Pro, the other Adobe Audition. Cool Edit Pro 2.0 is the same as Adobe Audition 1.5, both are fairly old programs, but they do work well, although neither are free. theres no easy way to use free software to go from vinyl to .mp3, in fact, there is no direct way to save to lossless format audio without programs that cost the good part of $100+. it seems kinda stupid to need to pay for it, but the two programs i mentioned are very expendable, and can be use for many many things, i use it here at home to record saturday night live musical guests, which i did just last night..i also record music from websites, concerts on TV, etc and so forth. after a while it makes up for itself.

its a really old version, i don't know what to say other than try to ebay it and suck through the search results for a while and see if you can find anything.

unless i'm mistaken it is a Logitech, although that's an older model...can't give you any more info, sorry.

i don't have room to make it any neater, honestly...the computer is barely over a foot tall and wide. i just made it so that there are no wide ribbon cables to trap heat or prevent air from entering the front, because it does go in, and if you put your hand on the front you can feel it...of course theres much work to be done to make it better, but its 5 years old, its not going to last long enough

my junker...took with a junky digital camera the camera is 7 years old and captures a 4500RPM CPU fan...i have no clue how.. i cut and bound the cables myself, and the case fan is where a whole fan scoop used to be....looks better to me, the guard is so no stray cables get sucked in and chopped up, because that fan blows all the hot air out. yea...my computers in school don't exactly look so hot...but i'll get pics of those at a later date..yea, i have 2 computers in school. one is just being built, the other is for work, until i graduate, then it comes home.

linux can really work well with 64MB, 256 will be great.

i'm gonna have 5.1 on a 7.1 system when i get a computer upstairs ^_^

use the Shared Files folder. duh. just throw everything into the Shared Files folder on the network, and you can literally take and use them as you want.

i have some BS integrated sound here, it works, can't complain. at school one of my computers has a Creative SB Live 5.1, and the other one, well...i'm not sure what it is just yet, i haven't gotten a good look at it, but its a PCI-E card..the SB Live is just PCI

sorry to kinda lead this off topic, but on my dual socket board, theres a raid port by the 4th PCI slot, 60 pins...what kind of card does it use? my dad brought me home this wierd RAID cable, its got like 2 RAID slots on it, and what appear to be 3 floppy plugs.. i really have no use for it, but whats so great about raid?

well, the sound card is now basically useless, as 4 diodes are off, and i'm still missing 3 jumpers from it...as for what im left with, well...not a whole lot...that custom computer is still gonna be made, but i'm short a power pack that works with it. the smaller one that i had to use doesn't even start, it just makes this faint ticking sound...not the friendliest i've heard..... i need one with 20 pin ATX and 6 Pin Aux, at least 4 molex, one FDD..thats about all i need, but it can't be much over $20...if i could get one at the dump i'd be so happy...my only problem is being short one hard drive...i've got a 40 GB to use for it, but i want the 60+ that im supposed to get...i need it soon. this computer is going to triple boot XP/Linux/Darwin, but thats only if my darwin works....if not i'm stuck dual booting...but i don't want to, so i'll be testing it on a maxtor first to see if it works, because i don't want to mess this drive up...i've messed enough drives up, but i don't want to repeat that much more.. the ATA PCI card i have will just run the DVD drive, i don't want to go off the mobo if i can avoid it, because i want to have plenty of room to have hard drives...in enough time this computer will just have 4 hard drives, and no ODD's because it'll just boot OS's, the other computer i'm slowly building is going to do editing, and only boot XP Pro...but until i get a power pack for it, im stuck...600W seems too much, not only that, but my case can't fit that...guh. life.

i do believe its ATA/133, but i don't have it here to check. when i get my computer running, which may be a while, im at a lack of my second hard drive, which will be the master for it, and mounts for the hard drives, which have been slow coming along, i also need to scare up about 16 L-Brackets for the sides, which i just need to find the time to get them out, i have a ton in a box somewhere. but at the moment i'm ready to kill someone, because some person, whom i'm unsure of who but can place bets on, has dropped my sound card onto tile floors...while i went through a box of CDs i found 3 more jumpers and 3 DIODES that came right off. on top of that, some pins were bent, and unless i can figure out which diodes went where and replace them, i can't use it for anything. and it was a nice soundcard, with an ATA connector on it...i'd been looking around for one...now i have it, and can't get it fixed because its used with no warrantee....

I've had similar problems with my LCD, when the cable is moved the wrong way the hue changes from what it is normally to a green, sometimes a blue. never gotten a red though lol. CRT's are very cheap, you can even find good ones at a nearby dump....

you'd network them together. its easy to set it all up, but not easy to get it working. certain networks that run off a single server have problems when two computers try to go to the same website...its the basic idea of a router, have one source, and let x number of people use it as if it was a single direct source. it isn't exactly the most practical being that you wouldn't have the same control on them if you had them on an KVM switch.

i know they make them, i just can't think of the name of the card, my older sister has one in her computer....but what program are you going to use? it all depends on what you're aiming on record to, what quality you're looking for...just do a google search for TV tuner card...i doubt you'll ever use it for bnc, but i could be wrong...bnc cards are 3000 a piece...so there goes that idea.

256 runs XP great, linux would be more than fine with it.... the only thing is that desoldiering the ports you don't want to damage the board, i would just leave the board as is, and just not use it, its not going to pose a problem with them there, unused ports are just that. how would you explain it if the wrong diode heats up, comes off and you end up sending it back? its kinda smarter to just leave it

yea, the whole idea to get god knows how much ram is kinda stupid....if you run a mac G5 solely for video editing, thats different, but if your running an average PC with more than say, 640MB of ram, theres something outta wack in your head. my computers going to run on 256mb of ram [a pair of 128's] and the dual core, thats going to get 640 i guess spaced in 4 slots [three 128s, one 256] and thats only because its going to run wireless internet, adobe audition, and winamp, WMP and maybe a media pack seemingly nonstop. it should be getting a 150-200W pack, no need for more really, with a single ODD, one FDD and maybe two HDD's, what do i need 600W for? woot for minimalism

just put it all in a cereal box but wowser, i didn't realize it was that small. plexiglas wouldn't really be ideal for that sort of thing, i've got a plexiglas case in the [slow] making for a dual socket Xeon server mobo, and thats big. you could fit two of those nano mobos on one of my xeons i'd say just find some small metal box and drill holes in it, because for that size, even though it would be pretty easy to use plexiglas, its not really practical...do remember grounding

well, if you have a pro version of XP, that would be the best to use, get the XP Boot disks for XP Pro off M$'s website...just put in the floppies 1-6 and with the CD in, and then it'll install clean. if you don't have XP Pro, and you just have Home, it depends on if you have the single of multi CD version. depending on your version, just go to the M$ website and find the startup disk for it, thats the best way to do it, SATA or IDE.

i could make the same sort of things out of pieces i've gotten out of the dump. of course it wouldn't run straight SATA, i'd need a dongle, but it would be feasable. that basically means, about $15...not to mention a cheap case, either that or just the old computer downstairs...i think its got a 466MHz processor... but it is a good idea, it would be able to ease the stress of the web on whatever your main computer would be, also running linux would drop the risk of viruses from who knows how many to about 2? i'm pretty sure linux only has 2. doesn't matter, they make avast for linux, so thats even less to worry about i like it [the idea and fact that you're doing it]