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What are the best upgrades I need for my new Media Center PC to keep the CPU from spiking?
January 12th, 2009 | 
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skycorgan asked:
I have a Compaq Media Center PC with an Athlon 64 3500+ processor, 1 GB memory, 256MB shared video memory, and a 200GB hard drive. I installed an after market PVR-500 TV Tuner.
I have a Compaq Media Center PC with an Athlon 64 3500+ processor, 1 GB memory, 256MB shared video memory, and a 200GB hard drive. I installed an after market PVR-500 TV Tuner.
My CPU usage keeps spiking. Would either a memory upgrade, a new video card with dedicated memory, or both, help this problem? I am trying to do other tasks while it is recording television shows, but the CPU spiking is prohibiting that, making things very slow, and causing problems with the connection to the XBOX.
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how do I upgrade older computer to media center pc?
geri4gears asked:
I have a 3 year old dell and I want to add components to make it a media center pc. I want to use my tv as a monitor, record a few shows. Possibly play a pc game.
Do I need to purchase microsoft media center software or will software come with the video cards?
In addition I would like to use my tv as a monitor.
I have a 3 year old dell and I want to add components to make it a media center pc. I want to use my tv as a monitor, record a few shows. Possibly play a pc game.
Do I need to purchase microsoft media center software or will software come with the video cards?
In addition I would like to use my tv as a monitor.
Help my computer doesn’t recognize my cd/dvd rom or my dvd writer. whats wrong?
sara asked:
I have an hp media center pc m385c that I bought in 2002 or so well the dvd writer it came with didn’t work so I bought an LG super multi dr gsa 4163b and installed it… all went well until this summer when I did a factory reset and tried to reinstall the driver for the LG… I don’t know what I did wrong but now neither my cd/dvd rom (which is what came standard with the comp) nor my LG dvd writer will even show up on the my devices manager or in my computer or even on a search for hardware… please help… i dont know if it was the factory reset or if I contracted a virus
Im using windows xp with service pack 2 should I be looking into that?
I have an hp media center pc m385c that I bought in 2002 or so well the dvd writer it came with didn’t work so I bought an LG super multi dr gsa 4163b and installed it… all went well until this summer when I did a factory reset and tried to reinstall the driver for the LG… I don’t know what I did wrong but now neither my cd/dvd rom (which is what came standard with the comp) nor my LG dvd writer will even show up on the my devices manager or in my computer or even on a search for hardware… please help… i dont know if it was the factory reset or if I contracted a virus
Im using windows xp with service pack 2 should I be looking into that?
New video card help?
BOLD asked:
I have an hp m8020n pavilion media center pc, and I was wondering what new video cards are compatible with my pc? And also plz tell whether I can attach the new vid card by myself.
Thank you
I have an hp m8020n pavilion media center pc, and I was wondering what new video cards are compatible with my pc? And also plz tell whether I can attach the new vid card by myself.
Thank you
I’m building my own computer but don’t have drivers for optical drive?
Soon C asked:
im building my own computer and i want to use the optical drive in my pc that im using now but i don’t have drivers how do i get them? I have an HP 8020n media center pc but I’m not sure what brand of optical drive it is I think HP too not sure
im building my own computer and i want to use the optical drive in my pc that im using now but i don’t have drivers how do i get them? I have an HP 8020n media center pc but I’m not sure what brand of optical drive it is I think HP too not sure
How good is a nividia geforce 7500LE graphics card and this pc?
numaan_ifthikhar asked:
also pls let me no how good this pc is for gaming and music ect because i am looking to buy a pc with theses specs
also pls let me no how good this pc is for gaming and music ect because i am looking to buy a pc with theses specs
# Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400
# 2 x 2.13GHz, 1GHz FSB, 2MB Cache
# Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
# 2GB DDR RAM
# 250GB Hard Disk Drive
# Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer Drive
# 512MB nVidia GeForce 7500LE Graphics
# 9-In-1 Media Card Reader
# 7 USB Connections
