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I have comcast on-Demand cable and I want to be able to copy in and burn the 4th season of Curb your Enthusiasm. I bought all the other DVD's but the 4th season is not yet on disc. What hardware would I need to capture the live video into my computer as it is playing on the tv? I want to keep this setup real cheap if possible. Any ideas?

out biD!

AVerMedia M150 PCI TV & FM Tuner Card Windows XP MCE NR around $20 somthing on ebay right now.. High bidder with an hour to go

$149.99! Gotta be something cheaper.

I built one of those silly shuttle computers for my cousin. There is no floppy drive and I am connecting the hardrive via SATA. The mouse and keyboard are bluetooth. First problem upon boot is that the mouse and keyboard are bluetooth so I have to get replacements for installing everything. Kind of a pain in the ass. Second problem is that windows xp w/ sp2 doesnt reconize the SATA drivers so I have to take the case off, get a haggard old floppy drive from some where on campus and find a floppy that keeps failing. Huge pain in the ass. The last several computers I've built dont even need me to install drivers for the SATA to use it. Anyways, I installed windows, which by the way kept stalling out on me. I got the mouse and keyboard all installed. Then I went to do the motherboard drivers but they would not install. Turns out, windows installed itsself on drive F! I cant change it to C since its the boot drive, so that means I have to reformat again?!! and how the hell am I going to make it drive C? Do I just have to install and HOPE it installs as drive c? This is such a serious pain in the ass. Is there any way to change it to drive letter C w/o reformatting?

I'll give it a shot when I get the new floppy up here. thanks.

So nothing else can be done?

Hopefully this works out. No time to do it today so I'll take a stab at it tomorrow thanks.

Thats part of the problem. 1 hardrive, and a dvd drive. what gives?

Today I needed to put a floppy drive into my computer to copy some files on it for another computer. (sata drivers needed during winxp install on a shuttle mini computer) I plugged in one I got from my campus IT department, unplugged one of my hard drives for power to the floppy (I am running ide 3 drives with powered sata converters) and booted up into the BIOS. In there I enabled the floppy disk drive in the main bios menu and restarted. (come to think of it, I didn’t enable the on drive FDD controller, maybe that has something to do with it). When the computer restarted it went though the boot process, got to checking the cd drives for bootable discs, then said the error lading operating system. I figured I must have unplugged the hard drive with the operating system installed on it, so I changed it and rebooted. Got the same error. So I took out the floppy, changed the bios back to what it was and rebooted. I got the same error message and screamed. So what the hell is going on? I put in my xp cd, booted off of it and tried to get to the recovery console so I could at least copy off EVERYTHING to another spare drive before I reformat, but, it got right before that part and said it was examining the drive. Sat there for a while, then loaded up the screen where I can select which drive I want to install the operating system, partition, and/or format. Oddly the drive show up as two partitions, with 0 free space and the drive letters are :- I’m crapping my pants here. My hard drives were 3 different drives, all as dynamic discs, ide with sata converters connected to sata ports on the hard drive. They all have about 2 partitions on each. I searched google and microsofts site and this is what they said about the error: SYMPTOMS When you restart your computer after the file-copy portion of Windows XP Setup, you may receive the following error message: Error loading operating system CAUSE This issue may occur if your computer BIOS does not correctly manage or support the capacity of the hard disk on which you are installing Windows XP. RESOLUTION Warning This article contains steps that may involve changing your BIOS or complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) settings or that may require you to make physical changes to your computer hardware. Incorrect changes to the BIOS of your computer may create serious problems. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that result from changes to your BIOS can be resolved. Change your BIOS settings at your own risk. If you need help with any of these steps, contact your hardware manufacturer and note that making either hardware or BIOS changes to your computer may invalidate your warranty. If you do not want to make hardware changes to your computer, you can take your computer to a repair center So yeah, WTF. I may go home tomorrow and see if I can plug the drives into my mothers computer and retrieve any of the data. :-( Oh yeah, Gigabit amd nforce 3 mobo, 3 ide hardrives with sata converters, windows xp pro sp2, 2 ide dvd drives... I think thats the only info anyone would need really.

Bios defaults work. Heart attack avoided.

I am going to try the defaults next. I'm in class now. Thing is, everything is back to the way it was, when it worked.

My cousins computer had a major error. when it started up it said it could not find the c:\windows\system32\config\system file, or it was corrupt. To solve this put in the windows cd, reboot and hit R at the first screen. I did this, got into the recovery console, went to that path and the file was there, but apparently it was corrupt. I renamed the system. to system.bak and coppied the system.sav as system. . Restarted, and it tried to reinstall windows. I did. My cousin had been loggin in as administrator. when the computer started up, there was his administrator folder with all his settings. I cant log in as administrator. I'm instead loggin in as administrator which is linked to the administrator.computer_name folder. Wonderful. So I figured, oh well... atleast I can get all his files out of my documents from the original administrator folder. WRONG. he had a password on it and it doesnt even prompt you for it. How the hell can you get the documents back! F U my documents.

This is XP pro. I can see the folder and the my documents folder but I cannot get into them. So if he right clicks on the administrator folder he can take ownership of it? He is currently loggin in as an administrator.

I would like to schedule my computer to do an automatic defrag on my hardrives around 4am every day. I have 5 huge drives and if I could keep them defragged each day (or every few days) it would be nice. I'm unsure how to schedule these tasks. Does anyone know how? Windows XP, SP2.

thanks

How do I tell it to run anyways. I have one drive that is about 8% free and I want it to run anyways instead of stopping.

i was playing quake 3 and it was loadin a level. i got this blue screen of death error msg.... "Driver IRQL Not Less Or Equal" ... does anyone know how to fix this from happening again. ------------------ Amd k7 500 w/ 3dnow and mmx. :: 192 mb sd100 ram. Biostar m7mka mobo. :: 32x toshieba cd rom. :: 2x write 4x read phillips cdr w/ adaptec scsi. :: Winfast nvidia geforce 256 ddr 32mb w/ tv out. :: Diamond monster mx 300 Sound. :: Standard Floppy. :: 5 speakers including a subwoofer. :: Us robotics external 56k modem x2 v.90. :: Intellimouse explorer. :: Standard gateway keyboard. :: 17 inch gateway ev700 monitor. :: Epson stylus color 600 printer. :: Info scaner. :: D-link 10/100 mbit ethernet lan card. dfe-530tx+ w/ wol. :: Windows 2000 Professional.

i was playing quake 3 and it was loadin a level. i got this blue screen of death error msg.... "Driver IRQL Not Less Or Equal" ... does anyone know how to fix this from happening again. ... does anyone know how to fix this from happening again. ------------------ Amd k7 500 w/ 3dnow and mmx. :: 192 mb sd100 ram. Biostar m7mka mobo. :: 32x toshieba cd rom. :: 2x write 4x read phillips cdr w/ adaptec scsi. :: Winfast nvidia geforce 256 ddr 32mb w/ tv out. :: Diamond monster mx 300 Sound. :: Standard Floppy. :: 5 speakers including a subwoofer. :: Us robotics external 56k modem x2 v.90. :: Intellimouse explorer. :: Standard gateway keyboard. :: 17 inch gateway ev700 monitor. :: Epson stylus color 600 printer. :: Info scaner. :: D-link 10/100 mbit ethernet lan card. dfe-530tx+ w/ wol. :: Windows 2000 Professional.

All of a sudden today, and yesterday, I haven't been able to access www.1portfolio.com from my computer. I use them to host the site I am building www.tkesu.org and www.tkesu.com. I also made a page a while back for this lady (its probably messed up now that they edit it themselves) but it is www.sweetmfarm.com. I cannot access that page either!?! I cant access anything that is hosted on www.1portfolio.com from my computer, or the other computers hooked up to my network. I've reset my router, had a power outage for hours which reset my internet connection, but it still doesn't work! I've even removed the hosts file completely from the computer. But, the pages do work. My buddy came over with his laptop. Got a wireless connection from across the street and next door. Picked the one next door (same house) and was able to connect to the page. WTF is going on?! It's driving me nuts! I cant even ping any of the pages. It just doesn't make any sense?!?!

Strange. Now it works again on some of those machines.

I first created it in frontpage but then I switched to Dreamweaver when I re did the whole thing in PHP with CSS.

So I switched routers and the site finally worked. BUT GET THIS. I can get to www.1portfolio.com fine from my home computer, but some computers on my school campus and now the computers I use a work cannot access the pages! WTF is up with www.1portfolio.com. I've emailed them several times and they have never responded. Looks like I'll have to try them when I get home.

I installed some dvd burning software a while back and it tried to install a scsi/raid host controller. When it did, I got a BSOD and the computer restarted. Upon restarting it asked to install the device... Doing so gives me a BSOD. In the device manager I have: Adaptec ACI-7850 PCI SCSI Controller X Scsi/raid host controller Silicon image siI 3512 SATALink Controller Universal SCSI Controller. The X is the one with an X in it that does not function. Now, I cannot uninstall the device or install the device. both give me BSOD. Now when I try to install my blue tooth device I just got, it tells me that the scsi/raid deal has been suspended and needs to be uninstalled. If I do that, I get a bsod. I cant get this thing to go away. How can I?

The mobo did this the whole time I had it and after reading things on the net it looked like the ram/mobo combination I had wasnt the best setup. I should have RMAed it a long time ago... I'll probibly just sell it and get another board.