[Mal Stewart]

Hi,

That should have read “fire wire” port…:)

ASUS M3A78 AMD
Phenom II x 4
2 x 500GB SATA hard disks
768MB Ge Force 9600

[Mal Stewart]

Oh boy,

I think I really messed up in buying my new computer.

Well…at least the O/S.

I thought getting XP Pro 64 would be the most beneficial. It seems like I should have checked that out beforehand.
Not only did I have to remove 2G of RAM to get the fire port to capture, I now have stuttering video in preview. This was something I didn’t have on my XP32 while using Vegas Movie studio.

Should I put the 2G back in and revert to XP32 or upgrade to Vista64?
I’m so confused. I’ve read to many forums in the last 24 hours my head is going to explode.

Any help or suggestions would be sincerely appreciated.

Mal

[Mal Stewart]

Thanks so much to everyone for the info!

I will certainly be back for help once I buy a system:)

Mal

[Mal Stewart]

Thanks J. Razz,

I’m not sure if I know exactly what you mean by setting up partitions and having 2 different hard drives. I’m a very good operator…not so good with the technical stuff:)

Would that be the kind of set up involving “Administrator” and “Guest” functions and sending different programs to different sides of the partitions? Vegas and Architect on Admin and render the files to the drive on “guest”?

I guess my basic question is, can I buy a system with 2 hard drives or would I have to get someone to make it for me?

Thank you again!