[A Question About Dvd's]

I have no problems burning I just wanna clear up some information about DVD's. I can burn DVD's like a champ. Skimming is very bad. You need to read the whole thing I learned that the hard way with books I was supposed to read in high school.

Also I got that DVD burned fine I just wanna know why it had to reduce the quality of four 175MB 25 min videos on a 4.7GB 120 min discs.

I think you'll find that 24 minutes of .avi(raw uncompressed) video is closer to 1.75gigabytes. Encode all 4 episodes to MPEG2 DVD and they should fit

[Stained Windows! Microsoft To Mark Illegal Copies]

missing the true point here....what is next? Will they be scanning our hard drives to see what else we might have? Its about privacy.Open the door,let them in and you have no privacy.

If M$ can find a way to mess this up,they will.Not known for doing things right the first time. I see a 'patch' for the update and then a patch for the patch somewhere down the line.

For a company that depends almost entirely on its software for revenue,they seem to be bending over backwards to drive people to open source.

nagulator=BillyTrojan

[Need An Audio Recording Program]

I might try JetAudio too. I'm sure if it was the age and performance of the system, audacity, or just the screen savver but on longer recordings i got bumpy audio later on. I think it was the screen saver.

For simple audio importing to the pc, i just use the free version of MusicMatch Jukebox which lets you choose .wav,wma,mp3 or customs bitrates.

[Strangest Thing]

I managed to get the processor of the heatsink. I am just amzed it ripped it out of the socket while the socket was in the locked position. I am even more amazed none of the prongs got bent.

release the HS/Fan spring lever and twist the HS/Fan to break the thermal pad/grease bond and remove em while the CPU is still in the lock position. when you reseat the CPU use 2 fingers and put some slight downward pressure on the CPU then lock the lever.

[Am I Paranoid Or Should I Be Concerned]

your not by chance running an IBM machine with auto-updates on are ya?

Probably mail spammer

[Floppy Question]

Everytime I try to use my floppy drive, I get this message:

A:\ is not accessible.

No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk.

Anybody have a clue? (I sure don't).

Boot to BIOS and make sure Floppy A is set to YES/ENABLED and not NONE

[Playing Vcd File On A Dvd Player?]

Ok I have a movie in VCD format if I burn that to a CD-R will it play in a dvd player?

Most all DVD players will support VCD if encoded properly in mpeg1 format. You can also play a VCD in any cd-rom drive by opening the mpegAV folder and double clicking the .dat file. windows media player will play it.

[Problem Solved! New Dvd Burner Doesn't See Discs]

well i can't tell ya the model number now cause I'm in my room and don't want to bother anyone asleep but I suppose any of these will do.

Lite-On DVD Burners

I think mine is the lower end one. I've had mine for a little while yet I still have yet to buy a black Floppy drive to finally complete the system and get rid of beige completely. ( I'm still using an old beige one from a 5 year old gateway)

I see you provide a link to newegg. That's were I got this drive. When I went to the site to get a RMA I was told I couldn't get an on line RMA for this product. I don't understand that. I can't call them until Monday.

Have you done business with them before? Are they going to give me a hard time about a refund?

Can anyone tell me their experience with newegg?

First i'd disconnect the power cable and IDE cable from your old drive and set the new drive as master,boot to bios and make sure it shows correctly then run the tests to determine if the drive is defective. If it turns out to test ok then you know it's your jumper and cable configuration you need to correct. If a return is needed then just call customer support at newegg, they'll set ya up with the RMA.