Aaron Ledger
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Make sure to disable any dynamic contrast settings in your video card driver. There’s also an alternate fix that many use by setting the NominalRange debug value in the registry for Windows Media Center.
You can use RDP from your Win7 machines to the server to install programs.
You can get a great receiver for less than $500 these days. Those speakers are fairly sensitive. I would feel confident in any mid-range receiver from a manufacturer such as Denon or Onkyo unless you’re setting them up in a concert hall 😉 I purchased a Denon 2112 about a year ago and am pleased with it. Some of the benefits you realize from a receiver like that are easy to setup Audyssey room correction and dynamic volume along with ability to decode and cleanly amplify compressed and HD audio sources that are bitstreamed in from the PC or aother devices.
This question comes up every so often. There have been some efforts in the past to have internal amplifiers for PCs, but they have gone away. Those weren’t such a great idea, primarily due to the heat, bulkiness and power requirements of the solution. When it comes to external amplifiers, you can find dedicated amplifier only solutions, however, these are typically aimed at the high-end audio market and generally cost much more than a receiver. Your best bet really is a receiver. You also will generally have improved audio experience all around by going with a receiver as PCs just aren’t that good out-of-the-box. PCs typically will feature inferior DACs and not have a lot of nice audio features found in receivers (or do those features as well or conveniently).
Just reread my comment above. I linked directly to the current guide with the patcher that works with Win7 Home Premium x64. Make sure to download the attached file and follow the step-by-step instructions listed there.
I have never had an issue with Win7 x64 SP1 Home Premium following the guide. If you’re really struggling to make that work, you could always try something different like one of the VNC variants, TeamViewer, LogMeIn, etc, all of which can be free to use.
That board should work. The DH61AG has UEFI BIOS. Are you perhaps thinking of Intel’s Visual BIOS?
FWIW, the ASROCK is using a Realtek NIC which historically doesn’t have such a good reputation though maybe they’ve now fixed all the bugs in Rev. E!
The chassis opening is smaller than the IR lens but it still works. If the lens were more exposed it would probably have a better off-axis performance. As it is, there’s at least a 45 degree off-axis range in either direction from on-axis.
Something like that fan header would probably work fine. IIRC, I soldered to the board in place of the IR receiver a 3-pin header with 100 mil spacing. I also made a cable using some spare 5-pin 100mil housing (such as that you would use for an internal USB connection or similar).
I used the item Andrew linked to. There are two holes on the front of the chassis for LEDs. I decided against using the top power LED in favor of the CIR IR receiver. In order to make it work, I unsoldered the IR receiver from the board itself (3 pins). I then took some wires and connectors and soldered them to the board and IR receiver such that the two could be unlinked as needed. The IR receiver lens portion was superglued to the chassis which has held well. The board was placed inside the chassis and held down with some velcro.
It’s not too difficult if you’ve got the items on-hand and have done some soldering before.
Unfortunately, there are currently no commercial scanning software products available that can handle encrypted content. If you have some shows that are not protected, you could have those programs analyzed and easily configure DTB not to scan the programs containing protected content.
In general, you should figure out all of the connectivity and features that you need and then buy the level of receiver that fits your scenario. For a few hundred dollars, you can get decent offerings from Denon, Onkyo, etc. One thing you will have a hard time finding at the “budget” level is a receiver with phono input for you turntable. You can overcome this by purchasing a phono preamp.
Many displays now are capable of reading photos files or videos off a USB stick or using DLNA. You could probably find one that cycles through a bunch of photos in a directory or you could convert material to a video file. I haven’t used Powerpoint much, but I would imagine it allows exporting as a video or there is probably some tool to do that.
The only one I have tried on the list is Revolution and I checked out after 30 minutes. I couldn’t intellectually suspend so much disbelief in the concept. The technologies that “work” are just arbitraily chosen. Everyone on earth forgot how a mechanical motor worked? Oh, but guns work, of course. Clothing is freshly laundered and looks great though. The acting and dialogue was also bad from what I saw.
To eliminate all traces of a driver, you can go to the cmd prompt and enter “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1”. Then open up devmgmt.msc (Device Manager) and click the option to show hidden devices.
It is interesting that your audio driver is labeled ATI and made by Realtek. I suppose that is what the particular hardware takes. For my 6570, the latest Catalyst installs an AMD-branded HDMI audio driver with no references to Realtek.
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