Subj : limited to USB 1?
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Mon Jan 03 2005 01:08 am

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Hello Wayne - 

AA>>>  This one gives a lot of technical info and images: 

AA>>> http://www.tmc-uk.com/supports/general_faqs/riser_card.htm 

->> Thank you for the attempt to educate but I really do know
->> what a 'riser card' is. IBM used them in the PS2 machines
->> (they called them 'planar panels' and ACER used them to get
->> a smaller desktop footprint for their desktop machines. My
->> COMPAQ 560 uses a riser for it's cards for the same reason
->> I would guess. 

->> I don't think there is any way to add a riser to my
->> whitebox tower and if there was a way I wouldn't do it
->> anyhow. 

WC> Do a google on "backplane board". IRRC it's a low impedence
WC> buffered slot extention with multiple slots. 

WC> Checking into them theyn run from moderately priced to very
WC> expensive but are a way to add cards. 

I seem to be having a problem explaining myself here. I have
had PS2 machines with planar panels, I have a COMPAQ with a
'riser' in it, and I don't like them - never did. 

The slots at the back of my tower are horizontal to the bottom
of the tower, not vertical. If I put a riser in one of the MB
slots how would I connect cables etc. to the cards installed in
the riser? 

Don't say cut out the back of the tower - please don't. 

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