Has anyone experienced an echo in your rear speakers with an Audigy 2 sound card? The sound is muted and echoing the front speakers. When I run a speaker test, they ring loud and clear, but when I play music they mute and echo.

And can anyone recommend a decent sound card that runs with Windows 7?

Thanks!

What can cause my screens to now act like a slideshow? I am pretty sure my vid card is on it's way out and am now working with my onboard graphics. I went back to the crappy default resolution but came back to 1280x1024 when it didn't improve anything scrolling-wise, it still looks like it's intermittent and not "fluid" when I scroll down the screen.

First, the facts:

1. We are on satellite internet (don't get me started), and therefore have a bandwidth usage cap, forcing me to be very circumspect with any large file downloads.

2. I didn't purchase Dawn of War II through Steam...I purchased it on sale through, I believe it was THQ's UK site, and when I installed it, it set itself up on my Steam account. I guess it uses both Games for Windows Live and Steam for DRM?

This is where I am with mine:

I have a Canon M490 inkjet. I can turn this POS on and 2 minutes later it's still whizzing, and whirring and buzzing and clicking, ratcheting, and well whatever the hell printers do before they finally decide to STFU and print. Then, literally in the middle of printing a page, it will sometimes just shut completely off, as in no power. Getting it to actually print a page successfully is like asking Whitney Houston to lay off the pipe for a day or two.

In prep for our relocation, we're migrating our data from a G5 tower and a Mac Pro over to a single iMac. I think the best way to do this is:

* Clone/Time Machine the Mac Pro and G5 separately (2 drives)
* Restore clone/time machine of Mac Pro to the iMac
* Create new account and selective restore the G5 data to that account

This should work, but I'm wondering if I should do a clone or use my time machine backups. Is there an advantage to one or the other?

Other tips and advice welcome!

The HD calibration videos (DVE, Avia) try to match your TV with the standardized film patterns, right?

Are there standardized patterns that game developers use?

I'm not convinced that a TV calibrated for a bluray movie experience would provide optimal color for games.

Once again I'm appealing to the great GWJ hive mind; I'd greatly appreciate a recommendation for a couple of SW or sites that could get me out of a bind.

After almost a year of negotiations, I've been finally granted the budget to create a platform that will help me plan, coordinate and measure the efficiency of my team.

I was planning to order an HDMI cable today and I noticed this on monoprice:

http://www.monoprice.com/home/view_notice.asp

It looks like the site was down for a few days, and they're still not accepting credit card payments. It looks like you can use Google checkout/PayPal.