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Video Capture software

I use Dazzle 90 and Roxio to capture a TV program but the output AVI file is extremly large 20G How do I reduce file size without sacrifice on quality?

Can t see IDE HDD anymore

BUT listen When the logic board on the drive is burned out there is no software in the world that can access those platters The logic board must be replaced Period Only professional Data Recovery companies have the parts and technology to do that The exception would be if you bought two identical drives and one failed you could take the logic board off of the good drive and put

Could anyone please advice?

Sorry dude I have NO experience with that or any Video capture software Sometimes it would be nice though I can watch PPV programs on my computer but so far I have no way to record them If you find something that works good I d be glad to know about it Cheers Mates The Doctor 8

SATA IDE USB 2 0 umm so what now? lol

Going all the way back past the topic hijack What s Next? Well we ve already seen an increase in the number of CPU cores and we ve seen the introduction of Solid State Hard Drives Clock speeds are ever increasing too Motherboards are now available that don t have those leaky capacitors on them MSI is quite proud of their new mobo s with new Space Age capacitors that can t lea

Writing to external drive very slow freezes

USB externals are always slow by their very nature But if your CPU is loaded down with background programs wanting attention then the USP drive will take a back seat and wait for its turn for attention from the CPU So shut down all unnecessary programs running in the background before you try to access your USB drive Also make sure you have ample RAM to accommodate your CPU and th

NTLDR Mystery

Hi just went thru this problem myself Solution that worked for me was to go into the BIOS and REMOVE the harddrive entry completely from the boot up sequence I was able to install WinXP and format with no problems Hope this helps

Lcd Monitor Flickers Goes Black

So any thoughts any one on what might be the problem with this tempermental fiend? after unpluging the controls and plugging them back in its working again even now I supose some time soon it will cut out again My guess is what ever semi conductor that prevents the monitor from turning on when i plug the power into the back of it has a problem and goes nuts every so often what do you guys thin

laptop hard drive clicks but no access

Hello Does the laptop hard disk drive in the external hard disk drive enclosure have enough power to spin up? Some enclosures and combinations require an external power source either a second USB cable or a separate power transformer to be connected in order to spin up the hard disk drive in the enclosure Regards Aryeh Goretsky

Brilliant hardware terrible software and firmware

I get email ads from LD products advertising their Epson inks but they still are not accepting orders for the Compatible carts only for OEM carts I can buy the OEM ink from the local Office Supply store for about the same price and have it instantly not a week later I m now buying my compatible inks from Inksell com a Texas company Doc

Mouse regularly stops responding

Then I suppose the lack of power was to blame some way or other And the PC is being replaced :lol: Either it ll be completely replaced or all that will be left by the time I m done is the case with completely new contents :D El

keyboard all messed up

Hello Since it is a new computer it should still be under warranty I would suggest exchanging it for a working unit Regards Aryeh Goretsky

Key stuck in USB Drive

WELL it sounds like the USB port driver chip is blown But all is not lost You can buy a PCI USB expansion card and plug it into a spare PCI slot if you have one If that works you can even run a USB hub off of one of the ports on that card Good Luck The Doctor 8 PS: The USB ports on my mobo are alive and well I still have a PCI USB expansion card for five extra USB ports

Is this a good system?

JFYI: It s a common practice with computer manufacturers to add things that we might even call Eye Candy to make the computer more sellable like the 15 in one card reader and then stick in a Bestec 300 watt PSU well known to fail in the first year or two With today s hardware putting so many demands on the PSU I wouldn t dream of building a new PC with anything less than a 500 wat

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Here is the online support for your scanner http: www epson com cgi bin Store support supDetail jsp?cookies=no amp;oid=14584 amp;infoType=Downloads amp;platform=Windows amp;prodoid=32722 amp;com broadvision session new=Yes select your version of windows so you do not install the wrong driver If you aren t sure what version of driver you are using open device manager right click My Comp

External harddrive refusing access without formatting

Try Cerious Software Thumbs Plus It shows all the photos as thumbnails but won t show corrupted ones MartyWer

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