Just in case anyone was curious....

Installing a NIC and bypassing the integrated NIC fixed the problem on my friends computer.

CEZAR 3.0 LIVES!!!!

Bob, when you get a chance can you throw me that Win7 64 bit cd key.  I guess once you update Win7...it doesn't like the test version.

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Totally legal, public domain DVDs, right?


-b0b
(...ha!)

The encoding time on DVDs...5 minutes!  It was about 20 last time...it now takes longer to rip and burn than it does to analyze and encode!

Encoding on my old laptop took 3 hours...and that was just converting it to an Avi encoded at 702mb.  Ripping took 30-40 minutes.

I thought about Blu-Ray...but after checking it out on Briney's PS3...I am underwhelmed.  I think it should have died off with the HD DVD.  There is no need for it unless you want to side by side compare it with a DVD.  I have a 1080p monitor (and I believe Briney does to) and yes, it looks great...but so do DVDs.  I can easily justify rebuilding a collection if it was as dramatic a transition like it was from VHS to DVD...but I just can't bring myself to pay another $5-$10 for a little, small, fractional improvement on a movie I probably wouldn't notice.

I haven't had any time whatsoever to play any games other than just installing them from my Steam account.  I'm still working on a problem with my 2TB hard drive.  I just haven't had anytime at all this week to work on it.  I don't want to work on it after work when I'm all tired and do something stupid...and then running around before work and then work have my time in a pickle.  However, I've been watching a few movies/tv shows/trailers etc. in HD and it's over my HDMI because my graphics card has a connector for it and it looks awesome.  The text on webpages a little too digitized and sometimes there's a halo effect around them...but hopefully I'll get my games up and running shortly.

As for the Ramage III Extreme (notice the Extreme), you will not have to worry about under powering your mobo.  It's the perfect board for overclockers and the perfect board to run multiple graphic cards.  In fact, I probably have more than enough power helping my graphics card since the thing already takes 3 PCI express power cords to run it.  The board is recommended for 650W but I was careful and went with the 1gigawatt PSU.  I'm still amazed at the size and power of the graphics card.  i think I could drop it on concrete and it wouldn't matter.  The speed of the SSD is amazing.  I would suggest to anyone to get one for your OS and your programs.  The only thing I'm not running on it is my Steam program.  Start up of Win7 is about 10 seconds after initial boot.

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The case I have is pretty cool and the way my  GTX 480 has a decent fan built into it and the thing takes up two bays in the back.  One for the video connectors and one for just exhaust.  The power draw is excellent with the MoBo I have...like I said, the MoBo is a bit overpowered as I could run 4 off the 480 and all I would need is another PCIe connector to the MoBo to be safe and each 480 takes 3 PCIe.  You'd have to get another power supply just for the 480s if you got more but that's not too big an issue anymore.

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If you want to come to TR, I can burn you a copy of Ultimate RTM.  You're on your own finding a key for that one, though.