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I've been meaning to build a Media Center PC for a while and have finally bitten the bullet and bought some components to add to a fairly old socket A Shuttle , which I happened to have lurking around. I bought a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1300 TV card and an...
Still no Windows Mobile 6 update for my Orange SPV M3100, but they did release an update to WM5 recently. Installing said update turned out to be slightly trickier than I expected. I don't know if anybody else has experienced the same problem, but a word...
I decided to completely rebuild my media center PC as I was making no progress on the problems I had discussed in my previous post . I dropped in a new hard disk as drive C: (leaving in my old one to allow me to copy data off) and installed Vista Ultimate...
I have yet to succeed in upgrading from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Each time it runs through to the completing upgrade phase, gets about halfway through that bit whereupon I get stuck in a reboot cycle. I have tried this now on three separate machines...
Our annual Technical Update events are running on January 31 but this time, our Technical Update for Developers is changing ... it is now including Martin Parry, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. The Developer Evangelists for Microsoft are taking...
I have been fiddling a bit more on my Vista media center PC and I thought I had a solution to the sleep issues I previously posted about USB Power Asus (and I think many other brands of motherboard) default the USB ports to have no power during S3 sleep...
In my last post I covered my woes with my upgrade from XP MCE to Vista Ultimate. Well here is an update...... TV After contacting Hauppauge I could not get a date for a HVR 1100 Vista driver. I managed to wait a week with my reduced set of digital channels...
I reinstalled Vista again on my Dell 5150, but this time I used the Nvidia drivers from the http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html and my lack of a login prompt has not reappeared. However, it is not all good news, the Aero interfaces has...
I have been battling with Vista CTP (5308) for a few days. I have now installed it twice on my Dell Inspiron 5150 (80MB drive, 2Gb memory, Bios A38) and both times it has installed fine, automatically updated the Nvidia FX5200 driver via Windows update...