Wednesday, February 16, 2005
New HTPC up and running
After swapping some old components around, I was able to get my new HTPC up and running tonight.
I pulled an ancient ATI All-in-Wonder video card from a Windows 2000 Advanced Server box that I have running as a print and DNS caching server. I didn't want to shell out $40 or $50 for a new PCI video card with an S-video out. The AIW only has 4MB of video memory; however, it looks fine on my 20" TV (and the price was right).
I still need to pick up a Y-adapter to split the audio signal and some sort of input device. I'd like to use a remote of some sort; however, a wireless mouse would work okay, too.
Now that I have 3 HTPCs on the network, I am going to test out my network capacity. I want to see if I can watch 3 different movies simultaneously. Of course, I'll post the results of this nerdy endeavor.
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After swapping some old components around, I was able to get my new HTPC up and running tonight.
I pulled an ancient ATI All-in-Wonder video card from a Windows 2000 Advanced Server box that I have running as a print and DNS caching server. I didn't want to shell out $40 or $50 for a new PCI video card with an S-video out. The AIW only has 4MB of video memory; however, it looks fine on my 20" TV (and the price was right).
I still need to pick up a Y-adapter to split the audio signal and some sort of input device. I'd like to use a remote of some sort; however, a wireless mouse would work okay, too.
Now that I have 3 HTPCs on the network, I am going to test out my network capacity. I want to see if I can watch 3 different movies simultaneously. Of course, I'll post the results of this nerdy endeavor.
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