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Rex, you may want to check out Media Center Extenders. They are devices that connect over your home network to a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition or Windows Vista Home Premium. This is a good place to start looking: Newegg.com - Network Digital Media Player, Wireless Media...

Xclio has been my choice lately. They use the same OEM as Antec (CWT), and all reviews I have seen rate them as top notch. Hiper also has some lower end ones that aren't too bad on price. A good place to find old motherboards is www.motherboardpro.com They are a newer site but all the...

It's worth a shot but not likely. I am thinking PSU as well. X-connect is not that great of a brand. They make a flashy PSU but it's not necessarly packing quality under the hood. With all the drives you have and the 7800 you're likely approaching the limit of the PSU anyway, and it may be...

Windows mail does suck, grab Outlook or a third party program. However, I generally like Vista, it does take some time to get used to. I'd force yourself to use it for a month or so, and try to look for the GOOD points, don't focus on what you dislike, or you will still dislike it at the end of...

If you read the posting at the bottom it explains. Not all of them are bad, but many can be. They apparently have 2+ manufacturers. The ones made by CWT are good, but the other ones are of poor quality or are questionable. So it's best not to risk it (uness you can find out somehow if it's a CWT...

22" monitors are the sweet spot right now. They are all 1680x1050 resolution. Standard aspect is phasing out, and most games are supporting widescreen now. You can get a 22" for just a little over $200. Also Steve, what PSU did you order? Many people go WAY overboard on powesupply, and you...

You would plug the modem into the router, and then from the router to your devices. Routers typically have only 4 ports, so you may want to get a 4-port switch if you have additional devices. As far as protection, most routers have a fairly decent firewall...but that only protects things...

Most games do not support multiple monitors. The exceptions I can think of are a few different flight sims and Supreme Commander. The rest do not support it. If you play games with them, the extra monitors will typically turn off. There is a new product from Matrox, the DualHead2Go and...

Well, assuming you were using a standard landline phone service, you would need regular phones that us RJ11 connectors, and I believe phone cable itself is either Category 2 or 3. Ethernet/Data line is either Category 5, 5e or 6 cabling and RJ45 connectors. The RJ11 Phone jack will fit into a...

Well I'm not an AV expert, so I don't know what AV cables you'd want to run, I would probably pick speakers and entertainment systems and match them up. I am a computer expert tholugh, so here is my suggestion for Ethernet: First, you'll want to run Ethernet for everything, computer data AND...

RAID guide bytepile.com/raid_class.php The most common are 0,1,5,10.

Once, but I'm a total compter geek. I never had to study for it or anything. Usually the sample tests are a little more difficult than the real thing, so even if you just pass one them with little margin, you should be fine. However that was for the 301 and 302...not sure about the new ones...

It may be attempting to hibernate or something. Go into personalize, Power options, change plan setting for whichever profile is selected, and make sure it's not set to go to sleep or anything. Then go into the advanced settings and see if it's turning off your hard disks, and tell it to leave...

You can make the start Sleep button into a shut down button, so it takes one less step than XP :-) Go into the Power Options in control panel (you may have to change to classic view). Whatever your current power plan is, click Change Plan Settings. On the next screen you will see a link near...

Media Monkey is one I use. (Google it, I can't post links yet :-( It allows a lot of customization, and mass editing of ID3 tags. It will let you resave your entire collection to any directory/file structure you choose based on the tags...ie: %a %al [%y] %tr - %t would save them to a...