How To Build A Home Media Server From An Old PC

With your Raspberry Pi desktop computer up and running, you will no doubt want to use particular applications. Office, email and web browsing apps are all available for PC upgrade guide|https://pcbuildinsight.com/ the Pi. Some are included – but would you want to use t


In Windows 10 you might come across error messages that affect MOV and MP4 files. But with the right tool you can fix the 0xc00d36e5 or the 0xc00d36c4 error. It's typically accompanied with the message "Item is unplayable, please reacquire the conte


Before screwing in the PSU, verify everything is working. Connect the power suppy and try to power it on. Without a video card installed yet, there's an initial error beep - but this is fine, it’s just to check the switch wiring, and the motherboard fan is spinn


Each USB port requires 4 cables, so the bundle of 8 can be split up into two sets of 4 cables. One USB port uses the top set of pins, one the bottom. The cables should be labelled with either a 1 or 2 , plus something similar to the follow

Then again, standard computers and phones cannot be the key element of a low budget space program or be integrated into a remote controlled car. The price of the Raspberry Pi alone is reason enough to buy it – this computer is just as versatile (if not more) than a standard desktop, laptop or even a ph


You may find your power supply doesn’t match up if your case is particularly old and you’re trying to use it with a newish motherboard. Older PSUs have only 20 pins, while newer ones have 24. You can see the difference in this ph


Having recently heard the woes of some family who are getting by with a tiny netbook and some kind of obscure Linux, I decided to build them a real computer for Christmas using components I have left over after various upgrades. I thought it would make for an interesting article to document the build process with photos, so here it

First of all, you will need to determine how much memory you wish to apportion to graphics. You can do this on the first boot of your Raspberry Pi or in the configuration menu later on, accessed by opening the command line and entering raspi-config where you should use the keys to navigate to memory_split . Alternatively, find the Raspberry Pi Configuration via the desktop menu in Preferenc


At times, Windows 10 error messages can be caused by other underlying issues. Be sure to take the time to fix them. Failure to deal with these can lead to worse problems, such as the Windows 10 Black Screen of Dea


Most DVD drives need to be installed from the front, so that means taking the front panel off carefully and avoid pulling the wires for the power switch. It's also better to connect any cables now before it's slotted in, as things can get quite tight back th


I suggest electrical tape or the amazing, adhering substance known as duct-tape, to fasten the material in place. Pretty much any adhesive will do. However, you will probably want to avoid using extremely powerful rare earth magnets as fasten


Power for system components will come from either a regular molex 4 pin, or SATA style plug for SATA devices. Case fans will often come with daisy chain connectors for regular molex power plugs, like t



Webmail can put unnecessary load on your browser as webmail apps tend to use a lot of AJAX and JavaScript. Fortunately, you can use the bundled Claws Mail email client. Other lightweight alternatives include the Mozilla Thunderbird-like Icedove Mail, which you can install


After all, there may be times that you need to check your email or browse the web. You might want to use your Raspberry Pi to make notes of what you’re doing (perhaps keeping track of your progress using the programming tools, for instance), or use the web browser to carry out some brief resea


M4V files are purchased from the Apple TV app, and previously iTunes. So if you have used this service to buy video files and they won't open in your regular software, use Apple's media player softw


Windows 10 features two media players pre-installed. First is the legacy Windows Media Player 12, which while regularly updated, was released with Windows 7 back in 2009. Second is Film & TV, a video playing app supporting a wide selection of video form


Sapphire Radeon HD 7770 GHZ 1 GB DDR5 HDMI/DVI-I/DP PCI-Express Graphics Card 11201-17-20G : AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards are pretty much head to head, so I just stuck with a graphics card from AMD because I have plenty of past experience with those. I actually picked the graphics card last, because I wanted to spend as little as possible on the remaining parts, and then spend the rest of the remaining $500 budget on the graphics card. Placing such an emphasis on the graphics card is important because plenty of games today tend to be GPU-limited, so major improvements in the CPU will only yield an extra frame or two per second at best. With approximately $113 dollars left to spend, the Radeon HD 7770 was the best graphics card I could find. Based on the specs that it includes, it's already better than the Radeon HD 6950 that I use for my own gaming desk