Posts by Joshua Garcia3

Go ahead and download "MPC-HomeCinema."

Give this a shot:
When you're booting up the PC, tap the F8 key to pull up the startup menu.
Once that Windows Advanced Options screen pops up, just use the arrow keys to navigate to Last Known Good Configuration and hit ENTER.

Just buy a decent 5m HDMI cable—something high quality if you want the best picture. Anything else is just overcomplicating things. You end up needing all these converters and adapters that cost a fortune, only to end up with a worse image anyway.

Edit: If you’re really hell-bent on using RCA cables, then maybe grab this converter. It plugs right into the VGA port on your motherboard; one side has one connector and the other has two VGA ports, so you can hook up the device and your computer monitor at the same time. Just check out the manual for that specific device.

Hold on, can you actually connect an HDMI output from the motherboard directly to an HDMI input on a plasma TV, or is that going to be another headache too?

rrrrregoc said:I can't get my TV to work with the integrated graphics on my motherboard. I can't find any way to connect it because I don't have any other cables right now.
Here is what the back of my PC looks like. Since all I have is a RCA cable for the TV, how am I supposed to hook this up?
Does this mean HDMI is my only option?

If I'm following you correctly, you've got an old CRT TV with RCA inputs, and you're trying to link it to the video output on your motherboard.

You won't be able to use an HDMI cable here. You'll probably need some kind of adapter—basically, something that converts the VGA signal from the motherboard into RCA for the TV. For the sound, you'd likely need to run a 3.5 mm jack from your speakers into a red/white RCA split for the TV.

I mean, why not just search on Google? You've got Video tutorials right here.

Alright, so we’re sticking with the "Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU top/DI/1GD5".

Joshua Garcia3 said:I'm stuck between two options: Asus EAH6670/DIS/1GD5 or Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU/DI/1GD5. I'd appreciate any suggestions or thoughts.

Joshua Garcia3 said:Both use DDR5.

I guess I put the wrong name and the wrong Nvidia link earlier; this is actually what I meant:

Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP/DI/1GD5

Now there's a third option on the table. What do you guys think about the Gainward GeForce ® gt 640 1024mb?

crimsonstag84: EDIT: Good link you posted there.

I messed up the card name and the link in my first post. It's actually this Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU top/DI/1GD5 model. I guess its "Engine Clock", "Shader Clock", and "Memory Clock" are all a bit higher than the one I mentioned before.

Both are DDR5.

I messed up the name and the link for Nvidia earlier; this is actually what I meant:

Asus ENGTS450 DirectCU TOP/DI/1GD5

I'm stuck in a bit of a dilemma here. NVIDIA RTX 4090 versus EVGA GeForce RTX 4090. I'd appreciate some suggestions or any thoughts you might have.

Robert Vaughn22 said:It won't work. I tried setting it to Germanic/Western European Languages first, but it's always the same result regardless of which subtitle settings I throw at it.

I set it to "Germanic/Western European Languages (ISO-8859-2)," and after converting everything to .wmv, the subtitles actually work fine on my PC.

Robert Vaughn22 said:I've got a General Electric LCD, and I usually stream movies via a streaming stick. The headache starts when I try to use Any Video Converter to convert files; every single time, the subtitles come out broken. Instead of standard American characters, I just get a bunch of weird hieroglyphics where the accented letters should be.

http://www.any-video-converter.com/a...tput-video.php

Go to Edit > Options > Subtitles and set it up like this:

http://i50.tinypic.com/zk6f60.jpg

When you say LCD, I assume you’re talking about a TV. Which manufacturer and specific model are we looking at, and what device are you using to watch it?

Which motherboard are we talking about here? I need the manufacturer and the specific model.

Jack Hayes said:I’m leaning toward LibreOffice myself.
For work, I mostly stick to Microsoft Office 2003, though I do dip into LibreOffice occasionally, mostly because someone inevitably sends over a docx file.

Just download an update for Microsoft Office 2003, and you should be able to open docx files without much trouble.

Either LibreOffice, which I guess is better than OpenOffice

Maybe grab one of those Nvidia cards from this link or check out this ATI link

They really should have included the cables you need to hook the monitor up to your PC.
If they didn't, you’ll probably need a VGA to VGA cable, though I guess it depends on whatever video output your computer or laptop actually uses.

It’s not going to recover, don't sweat it. It looks like something was scraping away at your Windows installation.