Subj : Re: USB lock up - poo! To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Tue Nov 03 2020 18:38:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > KM> Apparently the Space Moose ate your reply... it WAS here, I know > KM> because I read it! but it has since vanished (Techware only shows > KM> me a blank message that won't accept a reply, so methinks it's > KM> vamoosed). > KM> Oh well, think the topic was getting in need of an upgrade anyway > > Techware censored me?! As you said, probably getting into a > verifictaion of a verification verifying it's more than likely probably > the Southbridge. And guess what... remember I was a bit dubious about the future of Cash (Tarnish's twin, except for being made in Taiwan instead of China)... well, yesterday I plugged in the USB floppy drive, and... lordy, the solid lockup like you've never seen!! Took several restarts to get it to remember that it has other USB stuff. Well, I sure won't be using the USB floppy drive with it again! (At a guess, too much power draw...) USB floppy drive worked fine with Bullet. Oh, speaking therewhich, found a USB driver for DOS that works with flash drives (tho the USB keyboard doesn't work at the same time). Will have to find the URL again and post it over in DOSTips. Not only that, but DOS7 works with a 128GB exFAT drive. Would not have expected DOS to be able to read exFAT. (DOS6 is limited to 2GB drives. I prefer DOS7 so don't care.) > Only other item I'm recalling right now is you were considering snagging > some capacitors from sacrificial motherboards to replace failed ones one > otherwise good boards. Should be OK as long as the value is the same or > slightly greate. Some discussion on voltage rating: slightly larger is > fine. So about what I'd guess -- bigger pipe usually good, smaller pipe usually not good! > I've been half-looking at Intel motherboards and CPUs, mainly the Newegg You mean motherboards and Intel CPUs, since Intel not only no longer makes motherboards, they removed all support for their old ones, much to everyone's annoyance. (Bullet has an old Intel mainboard.) > ads because get sent to me. Need to start doing a bit of analysis to > get familiar with the terms and what they do and how interact (for all I > know a 8-core 2.0 GHz unit is overall faster than a 4-core 3.0 GHz one.) Depends what you're doing. For single-threaded apps, faster speed is more useful than more cores. However in my experience more cores is less likely to get pegged at 100% by some CPU hog. Even so, unless you're gaming or doing video rendering or the like, more than the semi-standard 4 cores is not going to see much use anyway. At this point I would not worry too much about it, and would first pick a motherboard with the desired features, then decide how much you want to spend on a compatible CPU (last year's model being so much cheaper for no great loss of performance). You can always upgrade the CPU next year, when this year's model becomes last year's model, so you end up in the same place and save a ton of money. (Well, maybe a ton in pennies..) > Motherboard selection generally seems less complicated: either is able > to use the selected CPU or not, do want certain options, don't need > others, etc. Several SATA3 ports, maybe M.2 ports (but I don't like the idea of something that hot flat against the mainboard, and an adapter in one of the PCIe slots works just as well and stays a lot cooler), at least a couple USB3 ports, more PCIe slots than you think you need (minimally 2 or better yet 3 each of 16x and 4x, not just a 16x and a 1x), at least 4 RAM slots, layout not too cramped so fullsized ATX. That was my basic criteria when I went shopping for Silver's new guts. Happened on a CPU/board combo that was featureful enough, and here we are today. This particular board does not support onboard video, but random card from the parts pile works well enough. Onboard video is slowly going away again, just when we'd become used to it and go hey, where'd it go?? As a general rule, boards with overkill numbers of slots and ports also do not cut corners on less obvious stuff, and boards a bit short on ports probably skimped elsewhere. Over the years I've noticed a parallel trend in longevity, too. > .. Take the lemons and make lemonade! > Take the salmon and make salmonella! Ain't biology wonderful? :D þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .