Subj : limited to USB 1?
To   : Wayne Chirnside
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Dec 31 2004 03:37 pm

Hi WAYNE (of 1:123/140),
On Fri, 31 Dec 04 at 14:12 o'clock, you wrote me:


 WC> The PCI card is Turtle Beach.
 WC> 433MHz 256 meg RAM here. PCI sound card came out of a lesser 
 WC> system.
 WC> My current other machine a 486 only needs a different riser card to
 WC> be both ISA and PCI compliant, well that and move a jumper.


AHHH!  "riser card" is a NEW term for me.  I had no idea those things were 
available.  One site helps with this info: 

   "Determining What Riser Card to Use

"It is easy to determine what riser card is suitable for your motherboard. 
Every motherboard has a circular mounting hole. The first mounting hole beside 
the onboard I/O ports can be used to determine whether or not the board has the 
right slot locations for normal riser cards. The first PCI slot about 1" to the 
left of this mount hole. This is where the riser card is installed. "

However,, it seems that most of these "riser cards" are intended for 
rackmounted systems?

Even with the ability to install one on a regular computer/mobo, wouldn't the 
connectors that would normally come out at the back of the computer case be 
blocked by the case design and oriented at 90 degrees?


d(-_-)b  ...August

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