Subj : limited to USB 1?
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Fri Dec 31 2004 02:12 pm

->  ->> Why are you limited to USB 1?   You can get  USB 2 adapters, with
->  ->> drivers, for under $10 USD (at Tiger).

->  WC> Yup sure can. I'd need a slot stretcher however as the sound card and 
->  WC> BIOS'ed greater than 34 Gig I/O card and sound card take them 
->  WC> all. Hewlett Packard Pavilion.

-> Can you sacrifice any PCI slot and put a multi-port USB 2.0 card in there?  
-> Perhaps retire the existing sound-card with a USB-based model.  Then you 
will
-> have additional USB ports for new devices you want to use.   See the Turtle
-> Beach T777-1012 at Tiger. 
  
The PCI card is Turtle Beach.

-> The manual says minimum system requirements:
-> P-450Mhz, 128meg ram, 50meg hdd space during install process,  Win98SE, ME, 
XP,
-> 2000.                     

433MHz 256 meg RAM here.
PCI sound card came out of a lesser system.

-> Sorry.. but I don't remember the base system that you are referring to.


-> Oh..  I remember when PCI technology was coming out, all the wonderful 
"cards"
-> that were designed for PCI, and all I had was the known-frequency-sensitive 
VLB
-> !   Before then, I invested in an extra 4-port VLB serial card (for BBS
-> expansion plans at the time)   I also had a combo multi-function VLB-based
-> video, harddrive/floppy controller card.   That was a clever way to maximize
-> the already few card slots that my 486dx2-55 had at the time.   I also 
remember
-> a few companies that offered ISA  -> PCI converters.

My current other machine a 486 only needs a different riser card to be
both ISA and PCI compliant, well that and move a jumper.
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