1.) 2 serial / com ports??? How can I do that? The machine only has one serial port. . . I'm guessing I'd have to go buy a PCI card that has an extra serial port. . .or do a virtual thing with USB port, or maybe a parrallel to serial conversion?
2.) Yeah I figured as much about 2 tuners. . . and that's fine. . .just means i gotta go spend some more money. . .
3.) Yes, i also figured that this is a bad idea. . . until now I only had a 17 inch monitor. . . so that made watching stuff somewhat painful. Now I have a 24" wide flat screen so its much much better. but the reason i have it set up this way is 2 fold. . .a.) b/c some people just weren't comfortable or familar with the HTPC setup (although this is getting better since the new machine works so well), b.) b/c I have to have a tv in the room to play xbox, ps2 etc. I suppose I could try hooking up the game console to the pc (via the tv tuner) but i've never done that and i'm not sure how it would work. . .not too mention you'd have the same issues about if you were recording something, an xbox session might interrupt that unknowingly. . .Any suggestions? (maybe going s-video on one of the cards for the game consoles would work, if i went coax on the inputs from the satellite boxes, and then all i'd have to do is switch the source in BeyondTV, but i don't know how to do that w/o using the setup wizard or web admin).
Sean
P.S. Yeah actually I have a secondary 250MB drive for that. . .(could always use more), but since virtual memory and os operations almost always take place on the primary drive. . . the raptor 10000RPM makes a huge difference).