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Updating my Windows Media Center config

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For com­plete­ness, updat­ing the con­fig­ur­a­tion of my Win­dows Vista Media Center

  • Installed Vista Ulti­mate x64 (all drivers found and installed OK, just need to load SATA RAID drivers for Giga­byte mother­board at install time)
  • Upgraded the case, swapped out the 500Gb PATA with a quieter Sam­sung 500Gb SATA drive (mak­ing a total of 4Tb in the house, ouch!)
  • Try­ing a Leadtek PvR3200 as tuner for Digital TV
  • Using MCE Buddy to transcode to .WMV to place on Win­dows Home Server
  • Using Win­dow Media Cen­ter Extender tech­no­logy to con­nect to Xbox 360 on new 42inch LG HD TV
  • 4Gb of RAM taken from Gen­eral Melchett’s upgrade to 8Gb. My desk now has 17Gb of RAM across 4 computers.

Written by Nick Hodge

January 11th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

Posted in technology,windowsmediacenter

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