Assassin's Simple/Beginner HTPC Buying Guide - Page 439

Where do you find the time to do all this ?

I've been lurking here for months, bought and followed your guides (as well as ReneTHX's - really hope that guy is ok and will be back soon), built my first HTPC, and have been having a lot of fun with HTPC in general. I soon found that a scalable server becomes a necessity real quick in the world of HTPC, but the learning curve is huge!! So it gave me great relief when I read this post. Thank you so much, Assassin! Really! Hope to see you around here and your blog as much as you can afford after June 3.

hi assassin, sorry to bother u but in your HTPC Blog and under XBMC setup guide, the link to download the Passion XBMC Repository does not work.

The Egg has the Samsung 830 128 GB SSD for $110 with promo code EMCNEJB27.

They also have this:
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thank you sir

It's a new blog, so if I need to sign up, I can accept that. But if not, my credentials from the HTPC are not being accepted.

Not a problem. I hate assuming and perhaps this would forestall others asking.

Is it $25 too? I'm not looking into building a server but heck It'd be a nice read anyways.. after I'm done with the HTPC Blog I'll take a gander.

very excited about this. home server was my next step and the learning curve is steep (at least starting from zero knowledge like me). given how easy to understand and step-by-step your htpc guides are, this should be just what I need. $25 earmarked for this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-22152245-L0E

Use this code -->EMCNEJB48

Is this still the HD of choice in this thread now that it is Seagate-made, not Samsung? I don't know enough to know the difference.

Nice!!

The $25 is not a problem at all. Not complaining just getting clarification.

BTW, I guess we'll be missing you around here in a couple weeks. I hate it when life gets in the way of hobbies..

Ditto on that! Ive been reading through the guide and ordered WHS2011 today.

Thank YOU for stepping out and creating all of these.

Assassin,

I just upgraded my old HTPC with an ASUS P8Z68-m PRO mobo and Intel i3 2105... I cant get the speaker configuration to output DTS-HD and TrueHD audio. Under speaker settings, its not recognizing that my Onkyo TX-SR507 can output them. The configuration doesnt even give me an option for more than 2 speakers.

Please help,

Xzener

Did tou install all the drivers and inteligent management?

Yes, drivers are installed. What is inteligent management?

Fixed the issue with only 2 speaker output... My AVR was outputting sound to the TV speakers. I setup 5.1 surround, but the supported formats still do not indicate DTS-HD and TrueHD??

There isnt an Intel Display Audio driver on the disk, only an Intel Graphics Accelerator. The driver is really old (10/15/2010) , but W7 says its up to date.

I think you meant "Intel Management"... What does that do??