Recent content by Space monkey 12

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    Hp 6305 £50

    Hi everyone im thinking about buying a hp 6305 for £50 It's specs are CPU: AMD A4 5300B RAM: DDR3 4GB HDD: 260gb Few questions 1) is that a good price 2) what is the 'B' at the end of the processor name, I no know about K ect 3) is there any reason why I couldn't take the cpu out and...
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    Help can't delete files

    Hi everyone bit of a problem hoping someone knows what to do will try explain as best I can I own a NAS I recently ran a backup from this nas using the Rsync protocol, I used DeltaCopy for Windows to allow the Rsync to a windows pc, the backups ran perfectly completed no errors. MY problem...
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    Help on Upgrade ram for a old tower

    Hi again everyone, I have a old tower sitting around not doing much there is a few posts concerning this computer already but this is a different one. What I would like to do is increase the ram slightly from DDR2 6GB (2x2GB + 2x1GB) to 8GB 4X2GB for use as a free nas box I am useless with...
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    Help understanding and adding a wireless access point

    Thanks for a quick reply you confirmed what I already thought it's just over advertising then. But yes I will be looking for a access point that has a gigabit port Wouldent that just cause packet loss as the wap was receiveng data at 300Mb and off loading at only 100Mb data would constantly...
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    Help understanding and adding a wireless access point

    Hi everyone I understand most of the things relating to my home network at the moment I am thinking about adding a small wireless access point in my bedroom just for that room the thing I don't get is most wireless access points I have seen are rated at things like 300Mbps but use a single...
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    Help with upgrading a router

    The gateway being the router in front of the modem ? And I aren't sure if my ISP will send me anything they tight (virgin media) but you are allowed to put the router they sent ages ago into modem mode and run your own router As for wireless access points rated 300Mbps but only use 10/100...
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    Help with upgrading a router

    Hi sorry for the long wait on a reply and thanks for your speedy reply, After more reading I have discovered that my router has got gigabit ports My problem is that my modem is still acting as a router and constantly crashing and loosing all connections and also my switches are reporting that...
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    Help with upgrading a router

    Hi all I have an existing broadband connection with virgin media and I am still using the super hub 1 at the heart of my network all my devices and wires and switches are all gigabit cat 6e cable the super hub is not So what I plan to do is put Virgins super hub into modem mode, Buy a more...
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    Help with Dolby Digital & DTS VIA Optical cable USB sound card

    Ok good news I think I have now managed to run the DD & DTS sound check via Windows playback devices that part performed great and now new problems have arisen 1) once I load Kodi it outputs Audio via PCM (that parts fine) , once I then load a movie with a DD / DTS audio track the format...
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    HELP!!! Windows 10 has no dolby digital 5.1 surround sound support?

    Lol it's ok I thought you had replied to me after I sent a message I realised you didn't, As for enabling pass through in Kodi Yes I told it that it's DD AND DTS capable I don't get any sound once I enable this And in Windows Audio setting I told it the same stuff but when I told it to test...
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    HELP!!! Windows 10 has no dolby digital 5.1 surround sound support?

    My other post might help more you would be the first person answe :) http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2872159/dolby-digital-dts-optical-cable-usb-sound-card.html
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    HELP!!! Windows 10 has no dolby digital 5.1 surround sound support?

    Hi geto thanks for a quick answer being reading all day just to clarify my AVR does not have HDMI it uses digital audio in It's a older Yamaha home cinema receiver I use Kodi to play .mkvs with Dolby digital audio and some DTS it sends its audio via a optical cable and the AVR is receiving...
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    HELP!!! Windows 10 has no dolby digital 5.1 surround sound support?

    Do you need a special sound card to enable pass through of 5.1 Dolby digital and DTS via optical cable (USB SOUND CARD) in question I have a old sound blaster card that I use to pass PCM audio to my AVR that supports decoding of DD and DTS the only format I can get to work is PCM
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    Need a USB sound card

    Any suggestion on a USB SOUND CARD capable of DTS & DD via optical cable