thanks for that. Will check that when i do the new build. NO point is spending too much time in trying to sort out an old machine that is going to be put out NAS pasture in the foreseeable future.

How can I solve any ground loop issues? Do I need to earth them to some other socket?

I'm going to go for one without the integrated graphics support.

I'm also running 4 monitors from the PC.

I have a couple of Nvidia GeForce cards, the GT 730 and GT 1030, and was wondering if these can be used in my New build i9 PC? I dont do any gaming or 3D graphics work so just need a good basic card that does what it needs to do. Will the latest Mobos be able to take these cards or has there been an ...

Hate to admit it but it seems that I need to put my ESI Juli@ out to pasture... Sad really. Looks like I will have to buy myself a new card. Looking on the bright side, I do hear high pitched hard disc reading sounds in my speakers when I move my mouse around or other such noise, hopefully with my ...

Actually, why can't I just get a PCIe to PCI adapter like this one. https://www.reichelt.de/de/de/shop/produkt/konverter_pcie_x1_karte_1_x_intern_pci_riser_asm1083-319186?PROVID=2788&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20983792034#closemodal This is less than €20. Will it not do the job? Are there any d ...

the MOTU is a little more than I really need to spend. I really dont need anything that great any more. I think I might just get another ESI card for around €140. Am still loath to spend the money since the Juli@ has nothing wrong with it. Is there any benefit to getting an internal PCIe card over a ...

I get you, but a new interface is not going to be any better than what I already have. I am loath to spend money on something new when the current one does a fine job. Upgrading is great because shiny new toys are better in some way. But getting a new toy and it being just the same as the old toy ...

Damn...... I was hoping to continue using my ESI Juli@ card. If current Mobos dont have a PCI slot..... I assume that a PCI to "what ever current mobo slot" adapter will either not work or just not be worthwhile? Any recommendations for a soundcard? Don't need anything fancy just a couple of in and ...

I'm looking to build an Intel i9 socket 1700 PC here in Germany and was wondering if anyone can recommend any good and reliable component suppliers. I will need: Intel i9 CPU Mobo RAM Video Card Power supply SSD Drive Water Cooling. I could also buy these from a UK supplier and bring them over with ...

Seems that I need to update my PC so I am going to build an intel i9 PC with a socket 1700. I have an ESI Juli@ soundcard that has served me well all these years and I was wondering if I can still continue to use that in my new build. I think it is a PCIe slot but I am not 100% sure. Do i just need ...

Well I managed to copy the MBR onto the SSD2 with a live linux. Am now just reinstalling one of the Linux Distros and then installing Grub. Hopefully this should fix the issue.

Will have to use Qubes as a live usb instead of putting it onto a multiboot system.

I think that I am using legacy boot.

Thanks for that link. Seems like Quebes does not like other OSs!!!

OK, I have another SSD(1) that has the original windows bootloader on it. I could clone that drive to the one with all the linux distros SSD(2) on it but then I will have to reinstall all the distros again. Is there a way that I can copy the MBR from the original SSD(1) onto the SSD(2) with the ...

Not sure if any Linux people are still here. I had W10 on my machine and have been installing various linux distros on it. They were all fine and installed Grub alongside the windows bootloader. But now Qubes seems to have removed the ability to boot into the windows 10 bootloader and has installed ...

I don't want a Plex server or anything like that just that. I want a stand alone music player that just plays music. I don't really need it to do anything else.

As a matter of interest, how was your Pi4 experience? Was it time consuming? Was it what you expected?

I'm thinking of building a dedicated music player and am looking at the Raspberry Pi. Al the machine will be doing is acting as a controller to read Flac files from the USB drive and send them to a hi end DAC, perhaps an RME. The analogue output of the DAC will then be sent to the Preamp. The R Pi ...

thanks for that. I assume that there is no way to reverse engineer the distorted voice. To prevent this I suppose we need some kind of random noise added so that it would be impossible to reverse engineer.

Am I right?

I'm doing an interview with someone who needs to disguise their voice for legal reasons.

Any software apps that I can use for this purpose?

Many thanks

It is a back up drive, so it contains back ups of files.

The SATA to USB adapter has an external power connector as well, that connects to the mains.

I will try connecting to the mobo directly again.

I can hear some clicking when I power it with the SATA to USB cable, but nothing happens.

I dont really know an IT geek to run software on this. I am the IT Geek!!!.

Can you recommend any software recovery tools?

I have a HDD that I used as one of my back drives but I can no longer read it. This is when it is connected as an internal drive. The drive letter just doe snot appear or if if does Windows can not access it. I cant even run chkdsk to repair the drive. Although the system does try to repair it on ...

Happy New Year everyone. Just a quick update on this matter. I seem to have fixed the issue by buying a new Midi to USB interface. I went for the one made by ESI. It looks the same as the other one I had but I suppose the electronics in it are more reliable and actually do what they are supposed to ...

James, I did just re install the Juli@ drivers. That seems to have reduced the issue with the USB - MIDI interface but not completely eliminated it.

I still can't seem to get anything from the midi connections into the Juli@.

Do I need to install specific Midi drivers for the Juli@?

Many thanks.

I managed to find the place in the BIOS where this was enabled and disabled it.

Thanks for the replies.