Re: Of Expansion cards, Expansion slot expansion and USB and Firewire devices.

Barry wrote:
> I have a system put together with a Socket "A" mother board and an
AMD
> Althon running at 1.1 Ghz. I have only two PCI slots that are both
> being used. One for a SCSI controller for my Scanner and one for a
> Sound Card. I want to add an external DVD writer with a Firewire
> connection and an external Video capture card (which I have already
> purchased that is USB 2.0 compatible. I have 2 USB ports but both
1.1
> of course. I have found expansion cards that are very inexpensive
> that add both Firewire and USB 2.0 on the same card, but I don't have
> an spare PcI slot. Is there a way of expanding the number of card
> slots with an external chassis or any other way for that matter? Any
> ideas would be appreciated, I am sure there is a way of doing this,
if
> you know what you are doing.
>
> Thanks
> Barry

I know! this would be as simple as getting the following 2 items:
1. a USB 2.0/Firewire combo card
2. a USB sound card

I'm quite sure you'll be satisfied with that

"Pandora Xero" <> wrote in message news:<cfgplm$>...
> Barry wrote:
> > I have a system put together with a Socket "A" mother board and an
> AMD
> > Althon running at 1.1 Ghz. I have only two PCI slots that are both
> > being used. One for a SCSI controller for my Scanner and one for a
> > Sound Card. I want to add an external DVD writer with a Firewire
> > connection and an external Video capture card (which I have already
> > purchased that is USB 2.0 compatible. I have 2 USB ports but both
> 1.1
> > of course. I have found expansion cards that are very inexpensive
> > that add both Firewire and USB 2.0 on the same card, but I don't have
> > an spare PcI slot. Is there a way of expanding the number of card
> > slots with an external chassis or any other way for that matter? Any
> > ideas would be appreciated, I am sure there is a way of doing this,
> if
> > you know what you are doing.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Barry
>
> I know! this would be as simple as getting the following 2 items:
> 1. a USB 2.0/Firewire combo card
> 2. a USB sound card
>
> I'm quite sure you'll be satisfied with that

By USB sound card he means external, which you probably understood.
The top of the line external sound card would be the SoundBlaster
Extigy, which has a lot of very nice things. I want one. But I'm
too frugal.

Please get one so I can be happy. Just kidding.

Aaron

Thanks guys, I didn't know such a thing existed, there are a couple of
different manufactures but for the small difference in price, I will
probably go with the good one. I just , because I am not really happy
with my sound card and I have had two ISA Somissed a Buy Now on Ebay
for $75, which seemed like a good buy. The is a good solution I have
had two ISA SouundBlaster cards and they were great, so I suspect this
will work real well.

Thanks again,
Barry