Assassin's Simple/Beginner HTPC Buying Guide - Page 300

Assassin, am I right that with an RF remote, you dont need to be pointed directly at the receiver?

Would I be better off with the Dell/Gyration remote you speak about in your hardware guide?

Weird - I'll wait to see if anyone else has the same issue. Side question, How can I change my password from the default one it sends... Clicking edit profile on the top does not bring up anything for me in IE or Chrome.

Thanks

Okay thanks no big deal I have it saved anyways.

Thanks.

Arggggh. Should have left well enough alone. Found I was using the older bios so flashed the new one. System couldn't find a file so WOULD NOT START. Oh well. There was a problem with the original install so just started over from scratch. It's not the Bios at fault. I had this same issue when I first loaded it but had patched it, somehow.

I'm up and running now but still have a few things to install (Shark, Ccleaner, IEspell...stuff like that.)

Huge thanks to Assassin and the rest of the AVS members who have helped me.
My HTPC is up and running and I'm loving it!
Sorry for the terrible photo quality.

I see that the motherboards that assasin recommended have SATA 3.0 (6 gb's/sec). Is this a worth while upgrade or is the 3 gb's good enough for a HTPC?

Which media browser theme is being used on the first post with the image of Dark Knight (Joker)? I want use the same theme for mine with the movie poster on the right and the disc image on the left.

Question: What software do you guys use to monitor the temperatures inside your machine?

Also, what is typically the cause of a slight disconnect between the audio and video? Is there a way to diagnose the problem somehow?
I noticed it a lot on my macbook pro, but I just thought that it wasnt made for streaming high quality video. But I watched my first full movie tonight and there was a very slight, but noticable audio disconnect.

Oh, and I just posted this from my brand spanking new HTPC. Very cool to read a forum on a huuuge screen!

Core Temp works well, there's even a Media Center add on if you want.

Just an FYI the guides work great now --- Thanks!

Mine had come with a 1.50 BIOS on it, which oddly enough isn't up on their website, but I had upgraded it to 1.60 before my first install.

So far my network issue hasn't resurfaced. I did uninstall all drivers (chipset, video, audio and network) and reinstalled the ones up on the ASRock site. Some where slightly different than the very latest available on intel's site. Not sure if that made the difference or if a reinstall fixed something.

I can help you with that since I have several legacy emulators installed in Gamebrowser.

Under the Configuration screen in Gamebrowser, add the N64 in the list of emulators that may be already listed, then under 'Emulation Settings' add the name and executable location of the N64 emu itself.

In my setup I simply named mine Nintendo 64 (under the that shows up in MediaBrowser under Games. I used an icon of the N64 pic to display in MB as well.

If this helps let me know, otherwise I will try to assist more as I can.

Does anyone know what might cause the above problems? Is there any software that can diagnose these problems or something?

Assassin, A couple of questions for you on your Blog.

1. Are the previous guides ever updated or do you append into new guides? i.e. I've printed Guide 1. Do I need to go back and look for changes in guide 1 or is it pretty much set in stone?

1a. If you do update do you post somewhere that you've updated those guides?

2. Do you have any PDFs of the guides or should we just print the page? PDF's always format much nicer, that's why I ask.

3. What happened to guides 6 & 7? I noticed that 8 and 9 now have content but 6 & 7 are still blank.

Thanks

Josh

This is a movie that i acquired elsewhere. I havent had a chance to test my other files to see if they all have the same problem.

Would it ever be the case that a computer "gets tired" so to speak, after playing a large file for a while and the audio would lag? Just a thought.

I've got everything but the Ceton set up now and it's working great! I got the Harmony One set up and it's working, but I desperately need a new battery. I'm going to try to call Logitech tonight to see about getting a new one. Since I wasn't able to link my Amazon Prime and a couple other sites to my WMC, I just put direct links in my taskbar and decided to buy one of these: Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard. Getting a couple emulators set up now. The Meta data program is not user friendly. You have to set up each game manually. Kind of annoying and time consuming, but it could be worse.

There is one thing I want to do in MediaBrowser, but I'm not sure if it's possible. Right now I have 4 tabs: Christmas, Movies, TV Shows, & Games. What I want to be able to do is either put links for the Christmas episodes of TV Shows in the Christmas tab or to be able to sort out just Christmas episodes of all the shows inside the TV Shows tab. I do not want to copy the episodes twice to get them in the new tab. I doubt it's possible to get them in the Christmas tab from the TV Shows tab, but I think it might be possible to sort out the Christmas episodes. Is there a genre sort in MediaBrowser? If so, does it sort individual episodes of TV Shows?

I wish I knew how to avoid them! :-)

Make your own.

Haha, that costs money ;-)

Not to mention, I dont have a bluray drive in my HTPC.

AVTechMan, what kind of input device do you use to play the N64 (or any emulated games for that matter)? Do you get a USB controller? Wireless? Or KB/Mouse?

I guess this is a general PC gaming from the couch question. Anyone?

-Pak