Re: [H] Question on surge protectors

2013-10-30 Thread Winterlight
Voltage drops as it leaves the power source. So the closer you are to the panel the bigger, and quicker the surge is going to be. When lightening hits a breaker panel, I have seen the result of this, it can blow it right out of the wall, and destroy circuits and boxes near by, or even start

Re: [H] PC Gaming..

2013-10-29 Thread Winterlight
At (So far, Just Civ-V, Tomb Raider and Walking Dead in my Steam account) Which Nvidia did you grab? I traded back a GTX 760 to go to the 280X, which was on sale.. only negative: no throw ins. EVGA GeForce GTX 660 FTW Signature 2 m

Re: [H] PC Gaming..

2013-10-29 Thread Winterlight
The new game that just came out 10/25 is Batman: Arkham Origins. I have a Steam code for the game that came with my new Nvidia card that I want to sell for 30 bucks...it is currently selling for $50. At 07:18 PM 10/29/2013, you wrote: I hadn't setup my PC to do any gaming in a long, long tim

Re: [H] Car Battery with UPS

2013-10-19 Thread Winterlight
eries outside in the driveway. Just a thought. I'll defer to the experts, however. Duncan On 10/18/2013 21:34, Winterlight wrote: Anybody here ever hook up a car battery to a UPS?

[H] Car Battery with UPS

2013-10-18 Thread Winterlight
Anybody here ever hook up a car battery to a UPS?

Re: [H] Good UPS's

2013-10-12 Thread Winterlight
. Aside from it sounding like a beep factory test lab Too bad you can't disable the beeps... have you ever had six UPS go off in the middle of the night while your sleeping... it's not fun! m

[H] MS DRM Playready in Media Center

2013-10-12 Thread Winterlight
I use Win7 Media Center with a SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME TV network turner and stream to a couple of XBOX 360 extenders. Everything has been fine, but a ago I started having troubling with the extenders connecting to Media Center. Even when I could connect some of the recordings would not pl

Re: [H] Crucial M500

2013-10-01 Thread Winterlight
regroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 8:17 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Crucial M500 At 03:15 PM 10/1/2013, you wrote: >Yes. > >However, I would get a Samsung 840 EVO or Samsung 840 Pro - and nothing >else. why the only br

Re: [H] Crucial M500

2013-10-01 Thread Winterlight
p.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 3:59 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Crucial M500 Is the Crucial M500 suppose to replace the M4... I'm confused.

[H] Crucial M500

2013-10-01 Thread Winterlight
Is the Crucial M500 suppose to replace the M4... I'm confused.

Re: [H] Firefox problem

2013-09-20 Thread Winterlight
or me. I need to find a better addon for doing that. To get around the issue, I use 2 firefox profiles, one in normal use without the addon, one for when I want to yank a video from youtube (Then I clean up the junk after). > > On 09/19/2013 16:47, Winterlight wrote: > >> My prim

[H] Firefox problem

2013-09-19 Thread Winterlight
My primary browser is Opera but I also am using the latest updated version of Firefox. A month ago I was looking for a TV show I missed and ran a Google search. A torrent came up, and I clicked on it. The torrent never downloaded but ever since, every time I load Firefox the torrent at 0 bytes

[H] 3TB

2013-09-18 Thread Winterlight
I want to get one or more 3TB desktop drives to store videos oneither a Seagate or WD ... maybe a WD Red. I am really looking at reliability and price point rather then performance. Anybody have any issues with large 3TB drives?

[H] Any gamers left on the list?

2013-09-06 Thread Winterlight
I just purchased a EVGA G660. It came with a code for a Steam PreOrder download of < Batman: Arkham Origins > for the PC which becomes available for all platforms on October 25. You can see the Steam Pre Order price here of $44.99 http://www.gamingdragons.com/en/game/buy-batman-arkham-origins-s

Re: [H] Extending wireless network.

2013-09-03 Thread Winterlight
You need a signal booster. The way they work is that you run a coaxial cable out to an antenna that is about 12 inches by one inch diameter that is located somewhere, in the attic, on the roof, outside ... where ever... a spot that does receive a strong single. Then they broadcast that sig

Re: [H] how to compare

2013-08-26 Thread Winterlight
f 1650p. Once I am driving the 3 monitors I plan on using HDMI from video card to the X3000 to display media center HDTV just by switching the input. m -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of W

Re: [H] how to compare

2013-08-26 Thread Winterlight
d be about double a single 5750, but I'd probably opt for the 660. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 2:30 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subj

[H] how to compare

2013-08-26 Thread Winterlight
I want to replace my two ATI 5750 cards Crossfire with a single Nividia card that is capable of driving three large monitors plus the HDMI. Gaming is not an issue as long as I keep the performance I have now. So what is the best way to compare...Core clock? So if my 5750 cards run at 650Mhz ti

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Winterlight
OK, then my plan will work! I appreciate the help! m At 02:48 PM 8/25/2013, you wrote: You'll end up with a dual boot. Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -Original Message- From: Winterlight Sender: hardware-bounces@lists.hardwaregroup.comDate: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:26:07 To: Rep

Re: [H] Win 8 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Winterlight
ardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 5:53 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Win 8 upgrade Back in December, when Microsoft had the promotional for Win 8, I bought a couple of Windows 8 Pro upgrades... one with the download and one with a DVD. I haven'

[H] Win 8 upgrade

2013-08-25 Thread Winterlight
Back in December, when Microsoft had the promotional for Win 8, I bought a couple of Windows 8 Pro upgrades... one with the download and one with a DVD. I haven't used them yet, but plan on doing so with my upcoming new build. I have read about the upgrade process, and the new rules that requi

[H] ESATA cables

2013-08-25 Thread Winterlight
I have one ESATA device. It is a 2TB Fantom external hard drive that supports both USB2, and ESATA. It has an Hitachi drive in an aluminium enclosure that vents at both ends. I put a case fan in front of it that blows air through it, and in the three years I have run it 24/7 it has never given

Re: [H] Greg>> RAM speed

2013-08-18 Thread Winterlight
Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 6:46 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Greg>> RAM speed >>My P9X79 WS has been great. Hi

[H] Greg>> RAM speed

2013-08-18 Thread Winterlight
>>My P9X79 WS has been great. Hi Greg, What RAM speed are you using on your P9X79 WS ... DDR3 2400(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/1866/1600/1333/1066do you think it matters? I am planning or buying Corsair Vengeance series memory. I am not a big overclocking but I would like to get the 4930K running a

Re: [H] Need a network guru

2013-08-16 Thread Winterlight
?Item=N82E16813131798 My brother tried two different X79 boards (ASRock, Gigabyte) and had problems until switching to the Asus P9X79. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Friday, August 16,

Re: [H] Need a network guru

2013-08-16 Thread Winterlight
96547 -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 5:54 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Need a network guru All my real hosts are Wind

Re: [H] New switch upgrade?

2013-08-16 Thread Winterlight
If you are looking for a unmanaged switch I would buy any Gb name brand switch depending on price. I use Trendnet = a 5 and a 8 port and Netgear a couple of 8 ports and they both work fine. I do like the Netgear on a shelf because they are made like rack switches where the inputs and the ligh

Re: [H] Need a network guru

2013-08-15 Thread Winterlight
story. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 3:49 PM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Need a network guru Yes, I have had this since 2010 an

Re: [H] Need a network guru

2013-08-15 Thread Winterlight
January 2013 final version and that is what it is now. At 01:14 PM 8/15/2013, you wrote: Have you upgraded the software on the WD recently? On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:46:58AM -0700, Winterlight wrote: > I am still trying to troubleshoot my WD Live! which works in every > way except when try

Re: [H] Need a network guru

2013-08-15 Thread Winterlight
that ishort bus kind of way... On Aug 15, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Winterlight wrote: > I am still trying to troubleshoot my WD Live! which works in every way except when trying to browse network shares. It can see media libraries. I can access and manage files on the USB drives connected to the

[H] Need a network guru

2013-08-15 Thread Winterlight
I am still trying to troubleshoot my WD Live! which works in every way except when trying to browse network shares. It can see media libraries. I can access and manage files on the USB drives connected to the WD Live. But the WD Live can not see LAN members when attempting to connect to networ

Re: [H] network problems with my WD Live!

2013-08-12 Thread Winterlight
Yes.. I get auto firmware updates and I OK'd the install of the one in January... maybe that is what caused it I will see if I can go back to a previous version. thanks At 05:17 AM 8/12/2013, you wrote: At 05:24 AM 11/08/2013, Winterlight wrote: I have a WD Live! that constantly loose

[H] network problems with my WD Live!

2013-08-11 Thread Winterlight
I have a WD Live! that constantly looses the PC it needs to connect to on the Network. This has been an intermittent problem since I bought it in 2010 but lately it has gotten so bad that I can only connect to Media libraries and it can't see any Network clients. It is not the network and it i

Re: [H] Router opinion?

2013-08-10 Thread Winterlight
At 09:49 AM 8/10/2013, you wrote: Looks like we're both in that boat. I'm currently looking at the http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Wireless-Dual-Gigabit-Router/dp/B008HO9DK4/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1376153328&sr=1-3 WNDR4000 series (Specifically the 4300). This is currently on sa

Re: [H] 750 watt power supply

2013-08-09 Thread Winterlight
I am looking at the PC Power and Cooling Silencer MKIII series 750 watt power supply: I have one of these that I bought back in 2008 before OCZ purchased PCP&C. I also have a Seasonic Silver 850 watt purchased around 2011. They look to me like they were actually made by the same company. Ho

Re: [H] External drive issue

2013-07-28 Thread Winterlight
Maybe a known issue in 2009 but I don't have problems in 2013 copying blue ray rips = 45GB files to my external USB2 drive using Win7Pro At 03:07 PM 7/28/2013, you wrote: It seems to be a known issue with Win7: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8a0ac171-7bd1-4b8d-8e93

Re: [H] External drive issue

2013-07-28 Thread Winterlight
Make sure that your USB cable is plugged directly into the motherboard ...not a hub, and or the case extension... plug into the back of the MB USB port. At 03:01 PM 7/28/2013, you wrote: Hey, I have a 3TB WD external USB 2.0 drive. When I try to copy large files (~50GB), the pc loses the

[H] Sharing wireless XBOX controllers

2013-07-27 Thread Winterlight
I have two XBOX 360s that I use with Media center on two separate TVs. I am trying to figure out if I need to purchase a third controller for mulit player gameing. If I want to play a game with another person on one of the TVs, ...and set up a wireless controller to work with a different XBO

Re: [H] Streaming questions

2013-07-21 Thread Winterlight
If you mean recordings (like WTV) you'd have to use a converter first, and then a DLNA streamer. but you can only convert things that aren't encrypted like over the air broadcasts. Where I am there is no over the air, and just about the only thing on COX cable that is unencrypted in HD is PB

Re: [H] Streaming questions

2013-07-21 Thread Winterlight
Zero ... Media Center will only stream to an XBOX. One Media Center will extend to five separate XBOXs. I have a Samsung LED TV that streams from my Windows 7 PC ... and supports a lot of files..even mkv. At 03:41 PM 7/21/2013, you wrote: Hey, What are my options for streaming Windows Med

[H] Hardware RAID0 for OS

2013-07-14 Thread Winterlight
I have a PC with a ASUS Maximum II Formula board. The OS = Windows 7 Pro is on a 75GB Raptor. The Asus has something called Speeding HDD which is available on two special SATA II ports. This appears to have BIOS setting that allows for Normal single SATA RAID 0 ... or simple Mirroring.

Re: [H] Windows 8 Copy function

2013-07-07 Thread Winterlight
This is true, however, I have been using OPUS explorer replacement since switching to Windows XP, and ever since, I have never had a problem copying anything. In fact, I had completely forgotten that there ever was a Windows copying problem. w At 06:06 AM 7/7/2013, you wrote: Duncan, The

Re: [H] MC plug ins

2013-07-04 Thread Winterlight
Thanks Chris m At 02:19 PM 7/4/2013, you wrote: That was a typo. Mediabrowser.tv -Original Message- From: "Winterlight" Sent: ‎7/‎4/‎2013 3:38 PM To: "hardware@hardwaregroup.com" Subject: [H] MC plug ins I am using Media Center Win 7 Pro with XBOX extender

[H] MC plug ins

2013-07-04 Thread Winterlight
I am using Media Center Win 7 Pro with XBOX extenders and it works great. Right now I am only using the MCL plug in. Can anyone recommend any other worthwhile MC plug ins? Is there anyway to get MC to play mkz files? w

Re: [H] External drives (USB) and power requirements

2013-07-02 Thread Winterlight
I had an external WD Book that went bad ... but I wasn't running it 24/7... just occasionally, but sometimes I would forget to power it off and leave it running for days. When it did die I figured it was the heat rather then then anything to do with power adaptor. Thermal test showed me that

Re: [H] Greg 4930K

2013-06-26 Thread Winterlight
So if I want to go six core, and don't want to wait until some undetermined time next year, ... the best choice is to wait until September and go with the 4930K and Ivy bridge board? w At 08:40 AM 6/26/2013, you wrote: No newer platform is expected. It is widely anticipated that Intel will

[H] Greg 4930K

2013-06-24 Thread Winterlight
Greg, have you heard anything about when Intel plans on releasing the Haswell 4930K? Do you think that any Haswell motherboard purchased now would work with a 4930K? Thanks w

Re: [H] time to change Usenet server

2013-05-30 Thread Winterlight
This looks like good value. Do you want me to use a referral ID? At 04:21 AM 5/30/2013, you wrote: I have a good experience with usenetserver.com On May 28, 2013 5:59 PM, "Winterlight" wrote: > I am subscribed to Supernews but I'm not really happy with the retention >

[H] time to change Usenet server

2013-05-28 Thread Winterlight
I am subscribed to Supernews but I'm not really happy with the retention ... what is the best service out there. Thanks.

[H] dual screen saver ?

2013-05-12 Thread Winterlight
there are screensavers that will do it by design... = Marine Aquarium 3 which I have used across three large monitors.. pretty cool. You can also try UltraMonitor which will add a title bar to each monitor and other tricks and is suppose to put the same or different screensavers on different m

[H] XBOX 360 Question

2013-05-10 Thread Winterlight
I have a basic 4GB XBOX 360s that I bought back in November to hook up to my HDTV and use Media Center as a extender from my PC using a Silicon Dust Network tuner. It works great and I decided to buy another XBOX on Ebay for another TV and save the cost the renting another cable box. Today I

Re: [H] Two NICs

2013-05-04 Thread Winterlight
system where I have three network cards and two internal networks attached. On Saturday 04 May 2013 20:42:02 Winterlight wrote: > Every Motherboard I have purchased in the last ten years has twok Gb > NICs. I understand that they can be used for two different Networks, > but I have yet to fi

[H] Two NICs

2013-05-04 Thread Winterlight
Every Motherboard I have purchased in the last ten years has twok Gb NICs. I understand that they can be used for two different Networks, but I have yet to find anyone who needs to do this let alone actually uses them. It seems to me to be about as useful as the Firewire port they seem to put o

[H] Panasonic Vera SD card video codec

2013-03-25 Thread Winterlight
I have had a Panasonic Vera Plasma TV for 3 years now. The SD card slot is suppose to support pictures ( it does) and video = mpeg-2 but it doesn't. Apparently there is some secret mpeg-2 codec that only Panasonic knows about . When I put mpeg 1 or 2, avi, or any generic video file... like reco

Re: [H] Switch from ATI 5750 Crossfire to NVIDIA what?

2013-03-16 Thread Winterlight
What is the difference between 660 TI and the plain 660 besides a hundred bucks in the price? Is there any Nvidia card manufactures to stay away from? At 12:03 PM 3/16/2013, you wrote: 660ti? On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Winterlight wrote: > I am currently running two Sapphire

[H] Switch from ATI 5750 Crossfire to NVIDIA what?

2013-03-16 Thread Winterlight
I am currently running two Sapphire ATI 5750 Crossfire video cards driving three monitorsone 30 inch and two 24 inch monitors. I have the three monitors connected to a single video card, and I have the second one plugged in for Crossfire support. I have been running this since 2008. I rarel

[H] USB 3

2013-02-28 Thread Winterlight
I own a few USB flash and external drives but I have no USB3 ports yet. I know that USB3 is backward compatible with USB2 but does it also use the same cables and hubs as USB2 to obtain it's maximum speeds?

[H] T60 Network Gbit card

2013-02-26 Thread Winterlight
I have an older, but still good Thinkpad T60. It came with XP Pro but I upgraded it years ago to Win7 PRO. Something has happened to the Ehternet card = Intel Pro/1000 PL. It is getting terrible speeds, averaging only 9 MB/s. All the network components are working fine on the other computers

Re: [H] Loss of power, followed by overheated smell

2013-02-25 Thread Winterlight
I have had similar episodes that turned out to be the video fan happened to me twice... and the CPU fan ... happened to me once. The fans don't die they just slow down and stop pushing enough air. The MB over heats and shuts down the computer and every thing feels and smells hot. Good luck.

Re: [H] New build prices ... and a NIVIDA card

2013-02-17 Thread Winterlight
A The GTX 6xx are cheaper than they were 6 months ago. I know nothing about Nvidia as I have always used ATI cards. What would be the equivalent of what I have = two Radon 5700 Crossfire... anybody know? Just so I can baseline this and have a starting point. Thanks

[H] New build prices ... and a NIVIDA card

2013-02-17 Thread Winterlight
Last August I was getting ready for this new build, Thermaltake Level 10 GT VN10001W2N No PS Full Tower Case PC Power and Cooling S75QB 750W .. which I all ready have. ASUS P9X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS Intel Core i7

[H] Powerline

2013-02-01 Thread Winterlight
When using a powerline network do need two powerlines for each IP address ? Do you plug Powerline one into the router and Powerline two into end user device.. is that how it works? They sell them at 200Mbps and 500Mbps... do you really get those kind of speeds. thanks

[H] dual boot 8 and 7

2013-01-18 Thread Winterlight
I am working with a new Dell Windows 8 laptop. I want to dual boot windows 7. I know that Windows 8 has a new boot loader, and there are issues with dual boots. There are lots of articles on how to boot your Windows 7 PC with Windows 8, but not the other way around. Has anybody accomplished thi

[H] wifi on network

2012-12-13 Thread Winterlight
I have a Thinkpad that connects to my LAN wirelessly on the same router that supports my Work group. It is not the only device that connects to the LAN on wifi. My phone and two other laptops do as well. The other devices are working fine on wifi. The problem laptop is running Win7 Pro and a

[H] used Xbox Games

2012-11-28 Thread Winterlight
I see people selling used XBox games on Amazon.aren't they part of DRM ... once used can't sell to be used to be used again...how does that work? thanks

[H] won't remember log in

2012-11-15 Thread Winterlight
I have a laptop that I use to record and stream media with a Hauppauge HDPVR. There has never been a problem logging into this computer from other computers using but if I try to log into a computer on the LAN, from this computer it always asks for user name and password regardless of how many

[H] XBOX 360

2012-11-08 Thread Winterlight
I am about to order a Xbox 360 4GB Console which I need to use as an Media Center extender for my SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME HDHR3 TV turner. It is the cheapest, basic XBOX 360. I assume if I do end up needing a hard drive I just need to plug a USB2 drive into one of the five ports? When you

[H] Win7 Remote connection

2012-10-15 Thread Winterlight
I am trying to create a remote connection from my desktop to my laptop. My desktop will be at home on my LAN and my laptop will be somewhere else on wireless. Trying to figure out how to connect to my desktop = Windows 7 Pro from my laptop Windows 7 Ultimate is turning out to be a big hassle. W

[H] Bitlocker

2012-10-10 Thread Winterlight
I want to encrypt my IBM Thinkpad T60 laptop drive which is running Windows 7 Ultimate. Is BitLocker a good choice? thanks

[H] VPN

2012-10-05 Thread Winterlight
I have to spend some time in the hospital. They will have wireless internet service, but I need to be able to make secure transactions from my laptop to monitor things, and pay my bills. Is my best bet to use a VPN? I know I could use my home cable service with something like Hamachi LogMeIn bu

[H] blue Screen

2012-09-24 Thread Winterlight
I have been getting blue screens and spontaneous reboots this year. It doesn't happen very often and I am usually not doing anything when it occurs. My first thought was memory but Memtest left to run 18 hours says the RAM is good. The log file says it was caused by these two files crashing

Re: [H] ESATA

2010-10-09 Thread Winterlight
smartphone from Zain -Original Message----- From: Winterlight Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.comdate: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:22:45 To: Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] ESATA Is native External SATA port on the motherboard something that can be treated like a USB port ...

[H] ESATA

2010-10-09 Thread Winterlight
Is native External SATA port on the motherboard something that can be treated like a USB port ... can you plug a ESATA drive in and out while running? Or do you have to treat the drive the same way you would an internal drive? thanks

Re: [H] my new email address is upsd...@consolidated.net

2010-10-07 Thread Winterlight
You have to go the HWG web page, and log into your account to change your address / settings. Go back and read your welcome to the list email. At 10:25 AM 10/7/2010, you wrote: Hope this gets to the LIST manager. my new email address is : upsd...@consolidated.net Thanks,

Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD

2010-09-20 Thread Winterlight
lcd, just blown caps.. $4 spent to digikey, some solder work, and *bam* perfect. :). Best $200 I spent on craigslist in a while Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message----- From: Winterlight Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:13:58 To: Reply-To: hardwa

Re: [H] Google voice calls

2010-09-19 Thread Winterlight
dialing your own google number. There also happens to be apps for cell phones and a newer gmail feature. -Original Message- >From: Winterlight >Sent: Sep 19, 2010 5:37 PM >To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com >Subject: [H] Google voice calls > >Has anybody initiated ca

Re: [H] Google voice calls

2010-09-19 Thread Winterlight
Now, if you have Gmail, GV does integrate with that and allow you to make VOIP calls. --- Brian Yes, that is what I have, and that is what I am asking. I have been using Google Voice and Gmail since the beginning of the beta, I don't need that explained... but they just activated th

[H] Google voice calls

2010-09-19 Thread Winterlight
Has anybody initiated calls yet from their Google voice account. I am a little confused here. You can't make calls directly from your computer with a mic/headphone setup..right? So you tell it to call a number, and then it calls you at the number you have set it up for once it has made the conn

Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD

2010-09-18 Thread Winterlight
: Take plenty of pictures while you're disassembling... On 9/18/2010 9:42 AM, Gaffer wrote: On Friday 17 September 2010 04:27:10 Winterlight wrote: Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-

Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?

2010-09-18 Thread Winterlight
At 03:02 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote: Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? The only reason would be if you installed a patch and then had issues caused by the patch...but when has that ever happened. I routinely delete them all...and the al

Re: [H] Building a file server?

2010-09-17 Thread Winterlight
At 09:42 AM 9/17/2010, you wrote: 1st, this is for home use. But I frequently work on "work" stuff at home, so I do consider a lot of my "data" to be critical to me...but I have a lot of it spread between multiple computers (work and home). If you aren't talking about TBs of stored streaming

[H] replacing a laptop LCD

2010-09-16 Thread Winterlight
Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-463CL which is laptop with a 17 inch screen designed to be parked. The had it on the floor while moving their furniture and stepped on the LCD w

Re: [H] Outlook 2007 export

2010-09-16 Thread Winterlight
to:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:18 PM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: [H] Outlook 2007 export > > I know there are serious Outlook users on the list. I have a friends > PC with a lot of da

[H] Outlook 2007 export

2010-09-16 Thread Winterlight
I know there are serious Outlook users on the list. I have a friends PC with a lot of data in their Outlook 2007 program. They have a new PC with Office 2007 so they want to export from the old, and import to the new. A data check shows they have have a business contact folder, two personal fol

Re: [H] dead drive

2010-09-13 Thread Winterlight
First of all is it spinning? yes If it is, does it click? no What's the model number? ST31000340AS you can see front and back here www.winterlight.org/ST31000340AS.pdf There can be so many things wrong with it, it's not funny. my best guess is the controller Some of the fixe

Re: [H] dead drive

2010-09-11 Thread Winterlight
If I recall those were the early 1.5TB drives. At 12:00 PM 9/11/2010, you wrote: might this be one of the bad firmware seagates? if you go back a few months in the archives you'll find my posting about the $8 interface I used to reset mine. When mine died it was during a reboot, was there & w

[H] dead drive

2010-09-10 Thread Winterlight
I have a 18 month old 1TB Seagate HD that has apparently died. I had about 800GB of video on it, two thirds of the space were backups of my DVD collection and I still have the DVDs so it could of been a lot worse. I was running it in an external drive bay, pretty much 24/7 when it just disappe

Re: [H] dual monitor laptop

2010-08-31 Thread Winterlight
l D series or E series Latitude laptops with a dock will support two external monitors. > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:12 PM > To: h

Re: [H] dual monitor laptop

2010-08-31 Thread Winterlight
mp; go to display properties to enablke. Rick Q quilh...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Winterlight wrote: > Just about any laptop will allow you to clone it's monitor to an external > monitor but will any of them allow you to run dual seperate monitor in > windows 7?

[H] dual monitor laptop

2010-08-31 Thread Winterlight
Just about any laptop will allow you to clone it's monitor to an external monitor but will any of them allow you to run dual seperate monitor in windows 7? Or is the only solution the Maxtox DualHead2Go external interface?

[H] multiple NICs

2010-08-30 Thread Winterlight
All my 3 desktop motherboards, both old and new, are high end and all came with multiple Gb NICs. I am not sure why, and have often wondered if there was any use for this other then maybe in a large office with multiple networks, or if you wanted to use your PC as gateway to share a broadband

[H] Make up CAT6 cable

2010-08-30 Thread Winterlight
Up to now I have only made up CAT5 and 5e cables. I have the tools necessary to do this. I want to replace and end of a factory made CAT6 cable with a new connector because the existing one lost it's clip. After looking into this it appears that CAT 5e and CAT6 are exactly the same for the purp

[H] network storage adaptor

2010-08-27 Thread Winterlight
Can anybody recommend a good USB2 to RJ45 network storage adaptor. Are they as fast as regular USB2 transfer? thanks w

Re: [H] remote softare

2010-08-22 Thread Winterlight
limited user rights for them) lopaka From: Winterlight To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 3:36:38 PM Subject: [H] remote softare There is lots of different remote software available, and a lot of it is free. Is there a stand out program for

Re: [H] Blackberry and Wifi

2010-08-22 Thread Winterlight
OK thanks... so you are saying it should support PSK2 ? At 05:02 PM 8/22/2010, you wrote: Ah. Well, find out her carrier and go to blackberry.com and grab the newest os from there Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Winterlight Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] Blackberry and Wifi

2010-08-22 Thread Winterlight
this is a 19 year old college girl with her new Bold... I don't want to risk screwing it up or mess up her warrenty. m At 04:56 PM 8/22/2010, you wrote: If they haven't already, grab bb os5 @ crackberry --Original Message------ From: Winterlight Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwar

[H] Blackberry and Wifi

2010-08-22 Thread Winterlight
Chris, you use a Blackberry don't you? I have an employee with a new Blackberry Bold that can't access my WAP. I am guessing it is a security issue. I am using WPA PSK2 personal. The Blackberry appears to have some kind of PSK support but it isn't clear on which one it is. Thanks

[H] remote softare

2010-08-22 Thread Winterlight
There is lots of different remote software available, and a lot of it is free. Is there a stand out program for controlling your desktop from afar using Windows 7 machines?

Re: [H] new system build suggestions or upgrade

2010-08-03 Thread Winterlight
Can tell me how to allocate the swap file to RAM? T Just go to System / Advanced Tab / Performance settings /Advanced/virtual Memory change Then just make sure all drives are set to no paging file. The OS won't use a pagefile which means it must use RAM. Be advised that a very few programs

Re: [H] Insane method for protecting an ethernet join in a hole of water

2010-07-22 Thread Winterlight
The only way to do this is to go to Home Depot and get around six inches to a foot of 1 inch (to accommodate the inline connectors) schedule 40 PVC pipe. You can buy larger diameter pipe as needed ... up to 1/2 inch to 4 inches. Buy two end caps for the pipe. Drill an appropriate hole in the e

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