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Studio PC Part 4
I re-installed the nVIDIA video card. The built in video just doesn't support good resolution rates. DVD playback works if I DON'T use Windows Media Player 11 9Or whatever the latest version I have installed is) That damn thing is a resrouce hog. I can use the Media Player "Classic" and it works fine.

Studio PC Part 3
I think I fixed the video playback issue - I yanked the NVIDIA video card, and am now using the onboard video with the latest drivers. Sure, the resolution isn't as good, and it does take up 8mb of (shared memory), but it looks like I have DVD video now. Yea!   Now if those tools at Micro X computers off eBay would just respond to my emails about the bad memory...  

Studio PC Part 2
Here is the latest progress report:   Install 2nd (20gb) HD just for audio data - DONE. Install DVD Drive - DONE. Complete Power Amp Build and hook up - DONE. Still to do:   Send back the 1gb of RAM I got off ebay. (Machine only sees half of it). So right now, I am running 640mb. Figure out video issues with video playback. Everything seems to work fine, but playback of any video material (i.e. youtube, or DVD) performance is terrible! Start recording some music.

re-building the studio PC
The old PC that I was using for music finally died. Therefore I re-building the heart of "No Budget Studios" with parts from another old PC. This is in the hopes of finally getting back into some recording, maybe some original material. So far it consists of:Celeron 1.3Ghz - Overclocked to 1.7GHz1GB of RAMSonar 4 XL Home StudioLine 6 DI-S USB interface with Gearbox and POD farm plug inI still need to:Hook up and configure second hard driveInstall DVD driveFinish buildi