Mike Garcen

[Mike Garcen]

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Sure but give me a few hours to respond.  My car broke down so I’m attempting to rebuild an alternator…
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Also please exactly which other xbox is it you have? i see you have an xbox slim but is the other one an arcade or elite? how many gigs of storage?
I wanted to buy a plain vanilla xbox arcade which to my knowledge has almost no storage and little ram…
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There should be absolutely 0 difference in Extender experience between any XBox 360, new or old, fyi. The benefit to the Slim is that it’s quieter and uses less power.

[Mike Garcen]

i’m still obviously on the burn-in stages, but i normally watch tv at night anyways so having to turn the contrast and brightness down doesn’t bother me. stil super impressive.

and….playing madden on this is so awesomely awesome compared to my old 32″. not sure it makes me a better player, but i sure think it does something 😉

[Mike Garcen]

hopefully y’all saw the Fandango Visa Signatures deal for B1G1 free coupon over at Slickdeals.net

not on my plans to go see….it’s tough to justify paying to watch a movie outside when i just paid a lot to make my own home theater nice 🙂 that being said, the movie does look pretty good….except for Randy Couture…dude can fight, but terrible actor

[Mike Garcen]

yeah, it aint cheap. but silence rarely is. the funny thing is that the Antec Phantom which came out around what, 4 years ago…and was 500 watts…cost $150. So 5 years later…still fanless, and 100 watts less…and costs around the same. Power supplies are an odd beast huh

[Mike Garcen]

there is almost no chance the card that’s already activated to another device will work without un-re-pairing it to the new device. I’ve paired over 50 cards in the last couple years here in the Bay Area with Comcast and only had it work that way ONCE, and it was basically because the card was mis-paired to begin with (some channels didn’t work).

By all means doesn’t hurt to try, just mentioning my experience 🙂

[Mike Garcen]

4 should honestly be fine (of course more won’t hurt you) for only 3 extenders.

When i was working on a 8 tuner x 10 extender product last year it maxed out at 4 and while memory was close to fully capping it, it still made it. So you should be fine with 4gb and only 3 extenders.

[Mike Garcen]

as Mikinho mentioned, the memory utilization with HD streams is pretty intense, so depending on your number of Extenders it definitely helps to have 64-bit and more RAM.

[Mike Garcen]

couldn’t help but chuckling when i read this user’s comment…”Went to 2 Best Buys and it was by far the worse looking TV on the wall out of the 50 or so on display.”

still surprising to see it at such a low rating, but hey…that’s one person’s opinion 🙂 i’m loving it so far (of course, i did upgrade from…well, you know :-P)

[Mike Garcen]

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I am just curious if something in the software stops the CETON services from running if it sees the RAM is less than the requirement.
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see below for actual answers 🙂

[Mike Garcen]

hrmm…i’m trying to remember if the ATI DCT did the same. I do remember seeing that Viewing Conflict before, just don’t recall when.

[Mike Garcen]

thanks for the link woolooloo, i’ve wasted countless hours reading that thread! also, i updated my blog with a picture…it arrived this morning!!! Anxious to get off work to play with it some more, but for now it’s a good start.

[Mike Garcen]

whoa whoa whoa

Steve Carrell in The Office = i love
Steve Carrell in Bruce Almighty = i wanted to kill myself

In Date Night he’s more of the humor from 40year old virgin than either of the above. So i’d say if you enjoyed that one, you’ll love this one. Now, if you just hated all of em…then no way you’ll enjoy it

[Mike Garcen]

I saw the Joneses finally and wish i hadn’t…really bad movie. the plot is ridiculous and you can see the ending coming from a mile away. ugh

anyone seen Triage?

[Mike Garcen]

judging by your description, it sure sounds like it has to be the mobo. There’s really nothing else since you ruled out the hard drive (which woulda been my other guess. Can’t see the PSU doing anything like this).

you don’t need me to advise against doing a motherboard install with a different motherboard but same chipset with an existing installation…right? 🙂

From articles i’ve read about doing so (since even i yes have wanted to avoid reinstalling) make sure you uninstall all the chipset drivers from device manager before doing so, and cross your fingers. still, if you *can* a reinstall is definitely the best way to go.

[Mike Garcen]

i think you already know what i’m gonna say…but i have to say it out loud. It sounds like a motherboard problem. very small bit of me thinks it could be the PSU, but it really sounds like a mobo issue (since you switch sata ports and same issue, yes?)

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