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Bob...thank you - I had completely forgotten about directx. One question on that. Under WinNTv4 and Win2K - I was under the impression that whenever you installed directX....you had to reapply the last service pack. Is that now no longer...

Thanks Jeff...I'll reverse numbers 4 and 5. Judging by your sig it doesn't look like you have any OC left to do...hehe

Ok, the 8890 is coming tomorrow...hopefully in the AM. I've tried to read about whatever I could about installing the OS. Since Win2K isn't going to support HT...I'm going with WinXP Pro. Now, these are the issues I found here on talk...

Well, I got the I/O Magic (normally I avoid this brand - but this was the only one they had) usb v2 enclosure. It basically is an extruded aluminum box just barely larger than a standard 9.5mm 2.5 inch drive. Overall it measures 5"...

That sounds like a sound card driver issue, particularly if it does it on known good avi's. If you switched sound cards or have two installed it can mess up the timing (synch) of audio to video. Multiple video card registry entries can...

ziad_228 I don't own one yet, but have read about many. The ones most people like the best were by Western Digital, and Maxtor - they have various sized 7200rpm 3.5 inch drives (usually 100-250 gb) and the thing most people liked about...

Man UPS sucks. It took 2 days for the 8890 to go 3000 miles. It arrived to UPS at 3:00pm yesterday - 5 miles from my house. The last five miles are going to take 3 days. They won't deliver until Monday.

TMPGEnc will do it, as well as probably 20 other applications from AVID, Pinnacle, Vegas, and Adobe Premiere etc. With TMPGEnc you would need the MPEG2 plugin as well (I think) and it is by MainConcept (perhaps it is bundled with TMPGEnc...

Yippee!...I just got my tracking number...it shipped.

Laura@PCTorque, I ordered thru Don S. @ powernotebooks.com - got an email on the 15th that the money had gone to Sager and that..."Your SAGER notebook computer is in production and should ship within 6 business days" - later...