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780G chipset sound output through HDMI

Posted on Tue, 2009-07-21 13:29

I had a few issues with my HTPC where the sound only came out as stereo on my Sony STR-KS1300.

All drivers were installed correctly and the onboard sound was disabled.

HTPC resetup using Windows 7 and MCE

Posted on Mon, 2009-07-20 13:05

From my previous post about building my HTPC and configuring the HTPC using MediaPortal, I have now changed my setup software wise.

Command prompt and regedit fail to open and restart explorer.exe

Posted on Tue, 2009-04-21 23:57

On a Windows XP SP2 machine I have had, both the command prompt (cmd.exe) and regedit (regedit32.exe) failed to load and just restarted explorer.exe which closed all open windows and brought you back to the desktop. This also brought up the Restore Active Desktop message on the desktop and the Restore button failed with a script error.

On most start ups, explorer didn’t load at all, but could be manually by bringing up the task manager (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) and going to File –> Run and typing ‘explorer.exe’ (without the quotes).

I don’t know where the malware came from, but there were traces from Limewire, so one could hazard a guess that this was likely the cause.

“HTTP request status” in Drupal 6.x on localhost

Posted on Mon, 2009-04-20 19:30

I just set up XAMPP on my Vista x64 PC and found that after installing Drupal 6 that the status report was throwing up an error.

HTTP request status

Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.

Another spammer - 65.94.2.210

Posted on Fri, 2008-10-31 08:02

Another spammer caught in action.

Some others that have come up:

  • 94.102.60.43
  • 94.102.60.77
  • 94.102.60.39

Built my first HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer)

Posted on Sun, 2008-10-26 12:31

The idea of an HTPC is to have a PC that can fit in with your amplifier/receiver underneath your TV which will act as a DVD player but with more features.

Hardware wise it is identical to a normal PC with CPU, RAM, motherboard etc etc but generally put in to more stylish cases specially built to fit in most TV stands.

Spam from 93.174.93.89

Posted on Fri, 2008-10-24 13:45

One of the sites I look after is getting a lot of spam from 93.174.93.89 with messages being posted like below:
comment2, http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/d34w79rvw Clitorus sex site, fgx, http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/d34w254d5 Clitoris sex site, :), http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/d34woxbl0 Clits major size sex, 02056, http://www.ipetitions.com/petit

Google Chrome really Safari in disguise?

Posted on Tue, 2008-09-02 21:29

While enabling Google Gears from within the newly released Google Chrome, I noticed something odd about the wording.

In Firefox and IE, you get the same text:

How do you play PS3 AVCHD ISO files on Windows?

Posted on Wed, 2008-07-09 17:12

Does anyone know how to play these files on Windows?

WMP, SMPlayer, VLC, PowerDVD 7 and PowerDVD 8 fail to play it.

Opening the ISO in WinRAR displays an empty file.

EDIT: I found out away in my post [How to] Convert AVCHD ISO to MKV.

Getting Creative X-Fi to work in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8)

Posted on Mon, 2008-05-05 21:12

I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my PC forgetting that I have an X-Fi sound card and that it wouldn’t work. I have used Ubuntu previously, 6 and 7.

But I thought that things may have changed, much like the ease of graphics card driver installation.

Previously I have ended up enabling on board sound and using that with ALSA within Linux, but not anymore.

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