ejhuzy's Finally Done Thread! Pictures too! - Page 7

So the Jensen SUB-1RR came today. It's much heavier than I thought it would be. I hooked it up and no more hum when I touch the sub cable to metal!

That's the good news. The bad news is the noise I'm hearing is still present from the sub.

So, I decided to call Hsu about it. I called there customer service and the woman took my info and said someone would call me back. Sure enough about 10 minutes later a guy called from tech support. Very knowledgable and very helpful.

I went over what's happening and he right away ruled out the ground loop. I let him hear the noise over the phone (surpised the worked). He thinks it's either the amp or the driver (what else is there? ).

Anyway, he gave me some homework to verify whether it's the amp or the driver. Hopefully I can get to it this weekend.

Not sure if I'm keeping the Jensen, we'll see about that. Not that I think the Jensen wasn't working, it just didn't fix this problem.

I finally got off the sidelines and into the game. Today I purchased a Popcorn Hour A-200. It still has the major flaw of not bit streaming HD audio from standalone files, but I don't have any rips yet anyway! It does HD audio from BD ISO and folders, so I'll do that for now.

This media player is for the home theater. If this works out, I'll add a PopBox or Boxee for the family room TV that doesn't need HD audio.

The final decision came down between the A-200 and a Dune 3.0 Base. While the Dune plays HD audio from standalones right now, I just wasn't happy with My Movies. YAMJ/skins support on the PCH was deal maker for me.

Hopefully my order makes the 4/2 shipment batch.

So I know I haven't posted my pictures, build thoughts etc about my PC, but I've been busy. Man work gets in the way of everything.

Anyway, last night I had a strange problem. I turned on my new PC and it booted up ok. I clicked on Firefox and waited forever for it to not come up. Tried some other things and the system was hung.

Rebooted and tried again. First thought was a virus so I started up Avast! and tried to start a scan. Very slow response and when the scan "started" it never got by the first file.

Then I noticed that the hard drive light was ON. Not blinking on, steady on. Booted into safe mode and everything was fine, but the HD light was still on. Looked at the event logs and saw that Windows was complaining about a time out with the hard drive!

So, on a different computer I downloaded Western Digitals HD diagnostics and created a boot CD. From there I did a "Quick Test" and the HD passed. Next was a full test which took around 3 hours. But at the end it said that it "Fixed some problems". Nowhere can I find what it fixed.

So, booted up into Windows 7 and so far so good. All is normal. Should I be worried? Should I try and RMA the hard drive (it is brand new)?

I don't have AVG. I have Avast! on this PC.


I did open the task manager (it took forever to come up). I didn't see anything eating up resource.

Last night I ran a virus scan and nothing showed up.

I really think something was wrong with HD. Windows notified me that "Windows lost contact with the HD" and suggested I run a test on it. I did that and it's fine now. Actually the PC is fine since I ran the WD diags and "it fixed errors".

Well, I'll just keep an eye on it for now. Thanks for the tips guys.

Corsair 4GB PC6400 DDR2 RAM (800 Mgz I think). I have a link to it on a previous page.

Why?

Vric, thanks for the input. I'll download one of those programs and check for spyware.

BTW, the WD HD diag did not say the disk is OK. It said it "Fixed Errors".

Vric, just downloaded MalwareBytes and ran the scan. Sure enough, I had one malware. Clicked to remove and rebooted. We'll see how the PC behaves from here.

Thanks for the help.

Only one, but remember this is a brand new PC I just built. There's not even a lot of extra nonsense on the PC (like what you get when you buy from Dell or HP).

That said, I installed Malwarebyte on my family PC too. That one turned up 37 malwares!

The mobo can handle up to 4 memory sticks. Right now I have two 2G sticks in.

The PC is running great again after running the WD diags and Malwarebyte's anit-malware.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

So, I've been having a problem with my sub. I thought it was a ground loop problem, but it appears that the driver is bad.

See this post for the debug process Hsu put me through.

Well, after a few weeks with no problems on my PC, I had hard drive issues again. Same symptoms where the PC was incredibly slow. Ran the WD diags and it found errors but fixed them. Now the PC is running fine again.

I'm a little worried about the HD.

I really hope it's not the mobo, but either going bad sucks. Not the end of the world either though. I guess we'll see if the problem happens again. I figured it was the HD because the diagnostic program keeps "fixing" something (program's words, not mine). Then reboot and the PC is fine again.

On a brighter note, my new driver came from Hsu today. I really missed the LFE this thing produces. However, I will say that the Ascends did an admirable job compensating for a week.

Installed the new sub woofer driver from Hsu. Very easy, just a few screws and a two wires to hook up.

Man is it great having my sub back! I didn't realize how much I missed it until I hooked it back up.

Thanks to Hsu for great customer service.

I guess I've been enjoying my HT because I just got the dreaded "Replace Lamp" message on my projector.

Anybody have a good place to buy a new lamp for a Panny projector?

WOOlly,

Yeah, been a while. I'm still an avid AVSer, but mostly just reading. Back in November 2011 I did upgrade my PJ from the Panny AX100 to a Panny 7k. I really wan't expecting much of a difference, but it really did feel like a huge upgrade the first time I fired it up. My wife even noticed the difference. Other than the PJ, I haven't changed anything. Still building my blu-ray library. The unRaid box I built has been great. I did have to upgrade the license when I expanded to a fourth HD. I would totally recommend unRaid to anybody looking for a simple, growable, and reasonably priced NAS.

I just said to my wife the other day the only thing I miss about going to the movies is the popcorn "butter" they use. And even that I (and my waistline) can do without.

Hmm, just noticed my last post was about needing a new lamp. Just to close the loop on that, I did buy a new lamp for my Panny AX100. I however made the rookie mistake of buying an OEM lamp! Don't do it, it was a huge waste of money. The new lamp's brightness was nowhere near what a new lamp should have. Morale of the story is buy the manufacturer's lamp.

That poor lamp purchase ended up leading me to buying the new Panny 7k I mentioned above, so I guess it wasn't a totally bad story