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| neopoints generator Guest 17:47:15 |
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Monday, 15 December 2008
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| Maxtor 3100 USB Hard Drive not recognized in XP Pro Jjo 04:27:09 |
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I recently bought Maxtor 3100 portable HD, with USB connectivity and is
supposed to be compatible with both USB 1.1 and 2.0 . It should not
need any driver when connected to XP computer. I have 2 computers one
notebook and one desktop, both running XP pro. I have no problem using
my HD on the notebook which easily recognized my HD when I plug it into
one of the 1.1 USB ports. When I plug the HD to the USB port of the
desktop (2.0), I get the message " One of the USB devices attached to
this computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it".
When I take a look at the USB ports in the device manager, an "unknown
device" is listed. Other hardware runs fine when connected to these
same USB ports. What can I do?
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Thursday, 9 October 2008
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| Samsung HD160JJ/P Problem Richard 18:21:16 |
| | I recently purchased a Dell 5150C with a Samsung HD160JJ/P hard drive. When
running the diagnostic program Sandrasoft a message comes up saying that the
optimum speed is not being used. It shows UDMA 5 instead of UDMA7. The drive
is supposed to be SATA and I beleive therefore should be using UDMA7. I have
checked BIOS and everthing appears to be enabled correctly. Checked Samsung
site and downloaded manual for drive. It mentions a limiting speed jumper
for 1.5GB/S on 3GB/S products in rare occasions. Is this applicable to Dell
computers interface?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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| Error 732 while executing batch with PM8 Patrick E. King 03:54:44 |
| | I trust this is the correct forum for this post.
I'm using Partition Magic 8 to copy the boot partition(NTFS) to a new drive.
I receive the above error and the copy does not succeed.
KB article at Symantec advises using chkdsk /f or /r.
I've tried both to no avail.
I notice there are 2 fragments in the MFT of the boot drive which the OS
defrag does not repair
Could that be the source of the error?
Any ideas please?
TIA
Patrick
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
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| laser printer toner cartridge, re-manufactured, any good? `A tower nj 08:41:32 |
| | Hi,
I have a HP LaserJet 4L printer that I've never changed the toner cartridge
on. So I started shopping around on line tonight to see what they cost.
Most places sell them for $98, and remanufactured ones for $75, but on
pricewatch.com the cheapest ones were $30.
Can anybody tell me if it's ok to use the cheap ones? I mean this is a
really GOOD printer, and I wouldn't want to mess it up by using
cheap toner. If that's possible.
Thanks,
Mike
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Friday, 5 September 2008
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| Asus Motherboard Problems Aedis 08:14:42 |
| | OK. my computer will not turn on. I have an ASUS A8N-e motherboard and
the status light on the board keeps flashing green whenever i geive it
power. However, it will not turn on, no fans or anything come on.
THe first thought that came to my mind was "bad PSU"...this was because
there is a faint buzzing that the PSU emits that is in synch with the
flashing led on the motherboard. But with firther troubleshooting, i
ruled out a bad power supply by shorting 2 pins on the 24-pin connector
which turned everything that was hooked up to the PSU on, but not the
Mobo because it was disconnected.
So now i am stuck and wondering what i could do. The online retailer
(newegg) will not accept it as a return because it is past the initial
30-day period. Asus tech help is kind of flaky, and the search on thier
forum doesnt even work.
So i was wondering is anybody had any good ideas to try and also
whether or not ASUS has any type of warrant on thier motherboards. ANy
info would be helpfull.
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Monday, 11 August 2008
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| Another way to connect a floppy drive? Unknown User 20:41:10 |
| | I have a computer which floppy drive works fine on other computers, but it
doesn't work on this particular one.
The problem comes from my computer, the floppy drive port has been
damaged, and doesn't accept any floppy drive.
Is there another way to use the floppy drive on this computer
(Motherboard: P4C-800)? Maybe using USB, Paraller port, of Firewire...?
Thanks,
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008
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| Looking for an inexpensive desktop Shred 09:18:04 |
| | What is the least expensive way to go as far as a complete system goes,
including OS, keyboard, mouse, and monitor?
Could I build one cheaper than buy it already put together?
I remember a day when building one was cheaper. Is it still?
My mom's friend needs an inexpensive system for Internet and email.
What is the least she can expect to spend for a system and where can I
get her one?
Or, what components (mobo, cpu, etc...) and where should I go to get
them to build her one?
I usually shop at Newegg.
Thanks a lot.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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| Belkin UPS - strange smell Guest 05:09:11 |
| | I just bought a Belkin UPS 625VA. I plugged it in to start charging it
and after about 2 hours there was a smell of electricity in the air. I
can't explain the smell any other way - it wasn't a burning smell or
anything like that, and wasn't very strong, but everytime I went into
the room I could smell electricity coming from the UPS. After 4 hours
I connected the UPS to my PC and tested it, everything is working fine
except for the smell. Is this normal?
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Monday, 21 July 2008
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| Strange Screws Guest 00:51:42 |
| | I'm looking for a 5-point star shaped screwdriver. I bought a Seagate
80GB external hard drive. Its case uses these special screws. I shot a
picture of a screw here:
http://www.gearhack.com/Forums/Tool/Screwdriver_for_5-Point_Star_Screw.files.hidden/5-point%20star.jpg
Does anyone know where I can find a screwdriver for these screws?
Thanks.
Chieh
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| Problem w/ Netgear WGT624 v3 Guest 00:50:38 |
| | Hi All,
I've been having intermittent problems with the wireless access point
on my Netgeat WGT624 v3 (wireless router).
It goes like this: everything's humming along nicely, both wireless and
wired connections to the router are great, and then all the sudden, all
traffic stops flowing across the wireless "port" on the router.
Meaning, machines are still connected, the "signal level" still shows
up strong, but no data is flowing. New machines can connect, but they
won't pick up an address via DHCP. If they've got static addresses,
they connect fine, but no data flows either to the router, or past the
router (out to the internet).
All machines connected directly to the router via CAT5 still work fine.
Everything in the router web admin tool looks fine, and it reports
that the wireless is up and running, and it even shows devices
connected wirelessly.
The only indication that there is a problem is that on the front of the
router, the LED that shows wireless activity is blinking slowly
(perhaps 1 flash per second?), and steadily. Not the fast, chaotic
flashing you see typically see where there is real network activity.
Sometimes things will work fine for weeks, then we'll have 3
"breakdowns" in the same day. Other times it seems to happen almost
every day. The problem never fixes itself, so I don't think it's
intermittent interference.
The only thing that has ever been successful in fixing this problem is
pulling the power to the router and plugging it back in. That has
invariably fixed the problem once it comes back up, which probably
takes about 30 seconds.
Again, it's a Netgear WGT624 v3. Firmware version is V1.0.128_1.0.1.
There is a utility in the web admin tool to check for firmware
upgrades, and it tells me that I have the latest version for my
hardware.
I am running WPA. There are only 2 devices that regularly connect: an
XP Pro laptop with an integrated 802.11g adapter (I believe it's an
intel chipset), and a Netgear WGPS606 (Wireless bridge). The bridge
connects 2 other devices, and XP Pro machine, an a Mandriva Linux
machine.
The WGT624 has a few "extra" features such as a "range extender" and a
bandwidth doubler that allows it to operate at 108mbps. Is it possible
those are causing problems?
Bottom line: does anybody have any suggestions on how to prevent fix
this? It's getting rather frustrating!
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Thursday, 19 June 2008
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| stop error: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) Gary Roach 19:07:43 |
| | I'm trying to reinstall windows xp on a 533MHz PIII. The machine had been
running windows xp and suddenly began rebooting on boot-up just after the
logo screen. I tried re-installing with all unnecessary h/w removed and ram
and hd replaced. i constantly get the following stop error after the first
reboot of the install:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
I'm having no luck searching for this particular set of parameters. Any
ideas on the problem? Are there any diagnostic tools that will verify the
hardware?
Thanks,
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Gary Roach
ADB Services
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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| APC Smart-UPS vs Cyberpower CPS1500AVR 00_DotNetWarrior 06:12:25 |
| | Thanks a lot for all the comments, I think I will get a better one. I went
to tigerdirect, they carry APC Smart-UPS 1500 VA and they also carry
Cyberpower CPS1500AVR (1500 VA) Is this Cyberpower any good? It said it's
design for running server, it's like 30% less expensive than Smart-UPS...
any idea?
Thanks
Alex.
"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
news:4k_uf.1779$0y2.1104@bignews2.bellsouth.net...> 00_DotNetWarrior wrote:>> I have been using APC products at least for 6-7 years and I have 10 of >> their products in the office and I am happy with them UNTIL recently. I >> have one of my regular desktops I left it on all the time protected by >> APC Back-Ups Office 500 VA, I went out for 2 hours and came back. The >> computer was off and the whole room got burning smell. I found that my >> APC was not working, So I examined my computer, monitor everything were >> fine when plugged directly to the elec outlet.>>
Now, I opened up the APC, Look at the photos!!>> The unit was not overloaded, and I checked my log file from other APCs >> software, there wasn't any surge during the day.>> Now, the questions are:>> 1. What caused this? anyone had similar experience?>> 2. If I am using APC for my servers (I do have several servers running >> 1000VA series), I am SO WORRIED this will happen and shut down by itself >> like this. How can I prevent this and WHAT'S THE POINT of having a >> backup when APC can't even function by itself?>> 3. See the photos? The burning is pretty bad, it can actually cause fire. >> I should think about APC product if I were to buy again.>> And how many pieces of electronic equipment do you own that will never and > can never fail? Was the UPS supplying a computer controlling, for example, > your life support system?> I'd say that if the UPS failing didn't damage your computer, and given > that the UPS in question is about the cheapest model that APC makes, > things worked out pretty well all things considered. By all means, go and > buy some other manufacturer's UPS if it makes you happy but if you > continue to buy from the bottom rung you probably shouldn't expect any > better experience and may well do far worse.>
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Monday, 2 June 2008
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| New Build GigsByte GA-8I955X-Royal--Ideas?? Spareone3 06:12:07 |
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Model Name : GA-8I955X-Royal
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M/B Rev : 1.1
BIOS Ver : f8
Serial No. : SN0543000024
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VGA Brand : GIGABYTE Model : 7800GT
CPU Brand : Intel Model : 830 Speed : 3GHz
Operation System : N/A SP :
Memory Brand : Corsair Type : DDRII
Memory Size : 2 x 512 Speed : 667
Power Supply : Aspire ATX-AS500W-BK
System fails to fully boot or enter BIOS setup, (Get 1 beep which is normal
I think). Will fully complete on screen Memory check OK finds 1Gb running in
Dual mode, IDE scan finds drives, then crashes/hangs and I lose VGA sync and
cannot even reset motherboard by case reset button! (Reset works OK if I
reset within first 2 seconds prior to hang) GigaByte DPS blue LEDs
illuminate one at a time and then all go out at point of hang. I have
cleared CMOS and removed motherboard from chassis disconnecting all but VGA
card. This is a new system build and therefore has never booted. No O/S is
loaded on the machine. I have a 24 pin connector fitted to m/b, however I
only have a 2x2 12V supply to the CPU. All literature suggests that only on
a 840 and 845 CPU requires 2x4 12V..Is this correct... I have worked with
Gigabytes boards week in and week out and this seems an uncommon failure,
however it is the first Dual core system and so this hardware configuration
is unproven!
Has anyone run an 830D on this or any other board using just the 2x2 12v P4
supply?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Friday, 28 March 2008
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| PC3000 David 15:44:13 |
| | What happens if you have a hard disk which spins erratically, or the
heads are making clicking noises, or maybe everything seems fine but
the disk is just not recognized by the PC or any other tool? Since you
don't have access to the disk you may conclude that it is due to the
controller board failure or some mechanical or physical damage, and
whatever you try to do to fix the drive is then driven simply by your
intuition because you have no information about the status of a drive
that is simply not recognized by your utilities.
But help is at hand, because the PC3000 is a unique tool that can
communicate with the drive in such situations by using vendor specific
commands to switch the drive into kernel mode - the one that is used by
the manufacturer to provide read/write access to the firmware on the
controller board and firmware modules, such as Microcode Overlays, HDD
Configuration Tables, Defects Tables, SMART Attributes, Security
Subsystem, Adaptives, etc., stored at the disk service area
(maintenance track) at negative cylinders. When the drive is not
recognized by the PC, it basically means that the HDD cannot boot up
properly due to electrical failure, mechanical/physical damage or
corruption of the firmware modules on the controller or the disk
service area (maintenance track). By using PC3000 you can diagnose the
drive and determine exactly what is causing the failure. Furthermore,
in our experience more than 50% of such failures (and for some
particular HDD models over 90%) are due to firmware related problems
that can be resolved using PC3000. You can simply reload firmware
modules onto the damaged drive or just use one of the PC3000 built-in
fixes available for the most common failures of the particular HDD
model, such as Fujitsu MPG's firmware damage, Maxtor's G-List/P-List
corruption (e.g. 'Maxtor N40P' and 'Maxtor Athena' family), Western
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Tuesday, 8 January 2008
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| recovory cd for model# ze4325us laptop Guest 02:38:50 |
| | my hp laptop crashed and im told that i need this recovory cd to fix the problem my only problem is that i cant find this disk if anyone knows where i can d/l this recovory disk i could really use that info thanx |
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Friday, 7 December 2007
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| motherboard for FX-51 Beall 03:13:02 |
| | I have an AMD Athlon FX51 CPU. I have been using an Asus SK8V motherboard
which I have really liked, but after a recent thunderstorm my ethernet card
seems to have taken a hit. Now, I am having to use the USB port for my
cable internet service. Just out of curiosity, I have been surfing around
looking for a replacement motherboard. Not much available. Anyone else
have the FX51? If so, do you have a good web site to buy older motherboards
for that particular CPU? Or do you know of any other options? At present,
I do not plan to upgrade my cpu, but I will get the itch sooner or later...
kev
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Thursday, 6 December 2007
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| Western Digital Settlement Approved Andy 10:28:27 |
| | <http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-briefs28.3jun28,1,7805653.story?coll=la-headlines-business>
Western Digital Settlement Approved
From Bloomberg News
June 28, 2006
A U.S. judge has approved a settlement between Western Digital Corp.
and a class-action group of hard-drive purchasers.
Buyers contended that the Lake Forest-based company overstated its
hard disk drives' storage capacities by about 7%.
Western Digital will give free backup and recovery software worth $30
to members of the class. About 1 million purchasers are eligible.
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Sunday, 2 December 2007
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| PSU load tester Skeleton Man 12:59:41 |
| | Hi all,
I'm soon to be reviewing a new 750W psu but I don't have anything for load..
I have seen heavy mention of wire wound power resistors of 'various values'
but no mention of what those values are. I can get various load resistors
of around 100ohm/10W from ebay.. but oviously 100ohm isn't gonna be
sufficient.. I'm not sure if 10W is heavy enough either..
Any suggestions on the values I should use to create a good load... I'm
talking like 600W+ at least.. and if I can setup multiple banks of
resistors that would be good too so I can have 100W, 200W, 350W, 500W, etc..
Just to be clear I want a _load tester_ not a $10 PSU tester that tells me
if it's dead or alive..
I have a good DMM and will probably buy a second so I can measure V and A
simultaneously.. I also plan on getting a Kill-A-Watt P3 meter.. so the load
tester is the only real concern I have..
Thanks in advance..
Chris
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Saturday, 24 November 2007
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| Gamepad disappeared Ampersand 07:28:18 |
| | I'm having a problem right here: I have 2 Gravis Game Pad Pro gamepads
(regular, not USB), but I usually only keep the first one connected since my
system is becoming choppy when both are connected. Usually, when I connect
the second one, Windows (XP) recognizes it as the second gamepad, and simply
lists it in the Game Controllers control panel as being "OK". Then I can
unplug it and plug it back later and Windows will still recognize it as the
same gamepad. However, yesterday, I connected it (the second one), and I
had a PnP message saying "New hardware had been found", and so Windows
installed the appropriate Game Pad Pro driver, something that never happens
normally, because I always plug in the same additional gamepad. So I tried
to play a game but only my first gamepad worked; I then looked at the
control panel's Game Controllers only to find out that 3 (!) Game Pad Pros
were listed as "OK", even if only 2 were connected. I clicked on
"Properties" to find out which was the first, and as I expected, the buttons
on the first pad responded. Same thing for the second one listed, whose
buttons would not respond: the first one's buttons did respond, though.
Just as if the first pad was listed twice. I then tried to click on
"Properties" for the third pad, but couldn't see the appropriate window, as
it kept on disappearing right after popping up. What I did is I deleted the
second pad (because I thought it was a duplicate of the first one), and then
both of my gamepads disappeared in the "Game Controllers" control panel. I
thought rebooting would make Windows redetect the gamepad(s), but it didn't.
Same when I turned my computer back on this morning: nothing. Just in case
one might wonder: yes, my gameport is listed in the "Hardware" section. I
desperately need help on this one, as it has never happened before (maybe it
is because of the fact that I recently installed Gravis Xperience (a week
ago) to use keyboard emulation in one of my games and it was the first time
I plugged in the second pad since installing it. Who knows?) I thought
about going into the registry and deleting every Gravis Game Pad Pro entry I
could find, except for the entry where all Windows-recognized gamepads are
listed. However, I'm not sure this wouldn't screw up something so I'd
rather ask first. Any ideas? Thanks you very very very very much!!
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Tuesday, 18 September 2007
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| Samsung 970p TFT Monitor Arm Problem Dune2 21:31:30 |
| | Hi,
Anyone with this monitor that have problems with the Arm?. Last days
the panel don't stay at his highest position. I can't see were can I
manipulate to force that it stay were I leave it. I think in a few days
the panel will drop until the table 
sorry by my poor english, I hop you could understand my problem.
thanks.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007
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| ARGOSY - HD363N - Network Storage BobVal 06:23:17 |
| | I have just purchased a Argosy - HD363N Network Storage Enclosure and
put in my Maxtor 200 gig drive.
This Enclosure connects to your router by RJ45 and allows adding
Network storage cheaply.
It supports Fat16, Fat32.
The problems I am having:
1) When the drive wakes up after being unsed for a while it does not
allways connect properly and needs to be restarted.
2) I copied all the files I needed to the drive and have just used
applications that READ only from the drive but do not write and now I
have files that are corrupted.
Is anyone using this Network Enclosure?
Are you having any of these problems?
Bob Valentino
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Monday, 23 July 2007
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| usb NAND chip replacement? Guest 21:35:50 |
| | i was wondering, would it be cool to replace a nand chip found in usb
flash drives. I recently came upon a flash drive of mine and wanted to
know if replacing nand chip is ok or practical; the original chip seems
loose.
also how many pins do these chips have, i tried counting, to no avail.
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Sunday, 8 July 2007
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| I have a mini Dv VTR that it is JVC IEEF 1394 JVC VTR Guest 05:38:39 |
| | It has the problem of interface it can not capture i think the IC has Born any where that i should send it and can solve my problem please send me the add of that jvc where VTRs are making can u send me the phone number or Add of that company please coz i am working in a TV Chaneel i should make it as soon as possible i am in afghanistan i wana send that or have the IC from any company that can make the JVC VTR. please send me the feedback Early. |
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Monday, 28 May 2007
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| What do I need to edit and burn DVDs? Buckaroo_Banzi 03:15:37 |
| | Have Microsoft XP Media Center Edition (preloaded). Looking to buy USB
external dual-layer DVD writer and everything I need to edit and burn
movies (ones I can not purchase).
Two questions:
1) Which DVD writer? (looking at iomega)
2) List of everything else I will need.
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