Quote: Originally Posted by saru boy Keep in mind that no Intel motherboard on the PC side supports SLI (they do support Crossfire, but at two x8 channels and not two x16 channe…

Check out Anandtech's review of the MacPro for a discussion of the chipset: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2811 Quote: A very little talked about aspect …

Quote: Originally Posted by CharlesS Nah, if anything, the price will go up, judging from recent trends. Remember when you could get a Power Mac G4 for $1299? When the G5 made t…

Answering my own post here: Still interested in other options if there are others out there. Thanks! http://home.swipnet.se/ridax/connector.htm

have you tried restoring the iPod?

When it's wiped, an iPod is restored to the factory settings, including being "formatted" for a Mac, NOT a PC. You need to run the Windows iPod updater-the current one- to get it …

Tried that. The iPod updater froze up and didn't do anything for 15 minutes.

What was it doing when it froze? Loading? Looking at the iPod? And have you talked to the shop yet?

It usually freezes when it's loading. The one time it didn't freeze, a message popped up saying that it couldn't update the iPod because it was being used by another program. I did…

Redownload the updater and try it again. It sounds like it got corrupted somehow, and a fresh download should fix that. And of course a fresh restart of the computer is indicated…

Just tried redownloading it and reinstalling it and it's still freezing. No, I haven't talked to the shop yet. Could this just be my computer being quirky? It's been known to c…

Restoring can be done on ANY computer, though you'll want to use a PC if you're interested in syncing it with a PC. But if you're having this kind of problem, and it IS the PC, I …

You could just select all audio tracks on the audio cd and drag them into the Toast window. It should automatically switch the cd format to "Audio CD" and you can go. This techniqu…

http://www.astarte.de/text/softwaree/copy/ for a demo versin of CD Copy. It may work

AndreasVogt: Toast does not support direct audio transfer with Teac drives. (drag and drop from 1 CD to another). That is my problem. Check the toast read me file

Did you try setting your SCSI ID to 3 or 5? Those are the defaults for audio transfer.

There are two pretty cool CD burning utilities out there that might help with some of these problems. Adaptec makes Jam which is made specifically for burning audio tracks to CD. …

First the CD drive you want to copy from must be able to do "Digital Audio Extraction" at high speed or you will suffer "Buffer Underruns" and will have generated a "coaster" inste…

I use Astarte CD-Copy 2.0 to extract any track from cd, weather it be data or audio. Once tracks are saved you then drag them on top of toast and it does the rest. This has a minor…

Toast 3.5 is not the latest version. An updater for version 3.5.5 is available on their website. If you have your manual for Toast, try looking at pgs. 149-153.

There is another CD recording software package called Discribe. It is made by a company called <a href="http://www.charismac.com">CharisMac</a>. If you are interested…

There are a couple of different command sets which CD-R drives use. The most standard one is the Multimedia Command Set (MMC). Another is a command set originated by JVC. With d…

Here is a possible work-around for you. Open Simple Text and select your audio files on the audio CD. The Open button will become Convert. Select Convert and it will give you vari…

I've been making audio compilations for years, and by far the best extraction software I've used is the Toast Audio Extractor program that comes with Toast itself. As much as I'd l…

I recently purchased a 4X/8X CDR from LaCie and included with the package was a floppy with software related to Teac drives. Check the LaCie site to see if it is offered as a downl…