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<blockquote data-quote="Daveoxo" data-source="post: 98360" data-attributes="member: 27941">I’m a newbie to building a htpc, and just ordered the following equipmentI’m going to be running the latest version of medial portalCan anyone please help me with the following questions?1) Once I’ve built/ assembled all the components and start to in stall operating system do I have to do anything special to get the SATA hard drive recognizes and or installed2) Does anyone have any feedback on my selection of equipment?3) I would like to be able to run the Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 to be able to get the followingUK Satellite Sky TV - via scart to RGB inputUK Digital Terrestrial FreeviewUK FM radioReceive relevant EPGI’ve heard that I can’t get all three at once? Unless I use media portal (which I intend to do) any help on this oneCase - Silverstone LC16M Case SilverPower Supply - Zalman ZM460B-APS ATX Noiseless PSU 460WMotherboard - Abit iL-90MV i945GT, S479, DDR2 533/667/400, SATA I, SATA RAID, MODT, uATX, VGAMemory - Crutial DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64Intel Core Duo T2500 Socket479, Yonah, 2.0GHz, 2MBCache, FSB667 Retail250 Gb Samsung SP2504C SpinPoint P120, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 9.0 ms, NCQTV Card - Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 Analog &amp; Digital MCE PCI Kit c/w Remote and nVidia *Gold* DVD DecoderSoftware - Microsoft OEM Windows XP Media Centre 2005 SP2B (Release 2) - 1PKDVD - NEC AD-7173A-0B Labelflash Black 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer inc 12x RAM OemSoftware - Nero Burner with LabelFlashKeyboard - Microsoft Media Centre KeyboardMouse - Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 - Moonlight Silver</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daveoxo, post: 98360, member: 27941"] I’m a newbie to building a htpc, and just ordered the following equipment I’m going to be running the latest version of medial portal Can anyone please help me with the following questions? 1) Once I’ve built/ assembled all the components and start to in stall operating system do I have to do anything special to get the SATA hard drive recognizes and or installed 2) Does anyone have any feedback on my selection of equipment? 3) I would like to be able to run the Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 to be able to get the following UK Satellite Sky TV - via scart to RGB input UK Digital Terrestrial Freeview UK FM radio Receive relevant EPG I’ve heard that I can’t get all three at once? Unless I use media portal (which I intend to do) any help on this one Case - Silverstone LC16M Case Silver Power Supply - Zalman ZM460B-APS ATX Noiseless PSU 460W Motherboard - Abit iL-90MV i945GT, S479, DDR2 533/667/400, SATA I, SATA RAID, MODT, uATX, VGA Memory - Crutial DDR2 PC2-4200 • CL=4 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-533 • 1.8V • 128Meg x 64 Intel Core Duo T2500 Socket479, Yonah, 2.0GHz, 2MBCache, FSB667 Retail 250 Gb Samsung SP2504C SpinPoint P120, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache, 9.0 ms, NCQ TV Card - Hauppauge WinTV HVR1300 Analog & Digital MCE PCI Kit c/w Remote and nVidia *Gold* DVD Decoder Software - Microsoft OEM Windows XP Media Centre 2005 SP2B (Release 2) - 1PK DVD - NEC AD-7173A-0B Labelflash Black 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer inc 12x RAM Oem Software - Nero Burner with LabelFlash Keyboard - Microsoft Media Centre Keyboard Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 - Moonlight Silver [/QUOTE]

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