Don
Sat Mar 22 04:59:21 PDT 2008
"98 Guy" <98@Guy.com> wrote in message news:47D372CB.63AA8B62@Guy.com...
> > 1. How do I evaluate motherboards for functionality and durability?
>
> > 2. Drives: most MBs now seem to offer only two or three card
> > slots. My (year 2004) ASUS has six populated by video card,
> > modem, TV receiver, audio card, etc. and I should like to have
> > as many, so as to use the Audigy sound card (2 cards) etc.
>
> Are you saying that you have 2 sound card? Why?
Thanks for helpful comments.
Current problems seem now solved: (were annoying in
Dec.-Jan. when both UPS and power supply died
simultaneously, first replacement UPS battery was
itself faulty, then the brand-new power supply failed
in less than 6 weeks. Free replacements hardly
compensated for weeks of puzzlement. . .
The Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum EX is an elaborate kit
with extra components I do not need (e.g. TV remote control)
and some I simply do not understand e.g. the "External
Sound Blaster Audigy Drive." This unit was bought when the
MB audio circuitry failed and I had to add a sound card. I
wanted highest possible fidelity under Win98SE (for music
recording and editing) and this seemed the only truly hi-fi system
with Win98 drivers. It has an "extension card" that slots
next to the audio card.
http://193.95.171.84/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=410,E=0000000000341948178,K=4679,Sxi=12,Case=obj(2596),Kb=ww_english_add,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com/
> Do you really still use dial-up?
1. No cable at this address.
2. The cell phone/cable TV/ISP company did not know
wireless Internet service was available just here until
badgered by both municipal politicians and mysellf.
3. Wireless service was in 2006 notoriously faulty,
e.g. would simply be unavailable at least one day
every month. No one ever knew why. Service now is
satisfactory but speed varies hugely, from 0.5 to 10
Mb. per min.
4. My spouse's private PC was in 2006 a Pentium2
without an ethernet card, i.e. connected only dial-up
3b. which was useful for urgent email when wireless
high speed failed.
My spouse's PC now is WinXP (acquired because we
needed to display a CD of medical scans written with
XML code) that enables both Ethernet and (with a
wireless card) network connections with the Win98
PC elsewhere; (and we have also reanimated a WinXP
laptop discarded by a friend; at this rural location mains
electricity fails a couple of times a year, usually for less
than 12 hours but we need to feel prepared.)
> I recommend this board:
Recommendations copied with thanks for future use.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)