Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT>> What do these do if no drives are connected at all?

 RT>> Does sweet blow bugger all. :-((

 RT> You swapped ram out,  did you try other video hardware?  Other power
 RT> supply?

 RT> I swapped RAM out, other video hardware, and the power supply
 RT> is/seems fine.  As soon as I finish, building the owner's new
 RT> system, the case and mobo will  be mine, so I will have lots of
 RT> time to play with it, been battling to get  hold of a ATX case and
 RT> powersupply for over a year, and suddenly I have 2 off  them, 

I have as of yet made no moves in this direction...  Got one ATX supply
here, which doesn't work.  I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is
(somewhat burned filter coil makes it pretty obvious which diode is bad
:-).

 RT> Also got a 16-port hub,  and only ports 1-5 are in use so far,  though
 RT> I have plans for several more machines.  Too bad it's only 10MB,  but
 RT> the price was right (free).

 RT> 16 ports is not too shabby, even at 10MB.

Yes.  Even though 100M is "the thing" these days I can work with
this quite a bit.  I've been advised that 10 will even handle streaming
audio,  which sort of fits in with my plans here.

 RT>> I also have a similar problem space wise here, I might get an
 RT>> intergrated amplifier in here, but where I would put the
 RT>> speakers, never mind the turntable. :-((

 RT> I used to hang 'em on the wall.  Radio shack makes a nice set of
 RT> brackets for this purpose.  These are not what you could call small
 RT> speakers,  either -- each cabinet is a couple of feet tall,  at least.

 RT> Could hang the Wharfdale Diamonds I have here on the wall, but not
 RT> the amp if I want to be able to reach it comfortably.

No,  never tried that with the amp.  :-)

 RT> You don't happen to remember what I figured out,  do you?  :-)

 RT> Right now I have the dual cassette deck plugged into the sound card's
 RT> line in jack.  I'm thinking that perhaps I can try feeding the
 RT> turntable into the tape deck's inputs,  see how it likes that...

 RT> Once I have some place in here to PUT the darn thing,  that is!

 RT> Plugging a turntable direct into a line input has never worked for
 RT> me, as all the cartidges I used and have ie. Moving Magnet (MM) or
 RT> moving coil (MC) have required a RIAA stage to sound at their 
 RT> best, am seriously considering buying a $20 RIAA equalization
 RT> stage over the internet to put between my turntable and my sound
 RT> card, seems the cheapest "reasonable" solution for me.

For that price I'd buy one too.  But my cartridge isn't of the magnetic
variety,  it's ceramic,  so what preamp is needed is just a matter of
impedance matching more than anything else.

But first I gotta get the software working!

 RT>> Right now I'm in the middle of browsing a whole mess of README
 RT>> and HOWTO files plus there are assorted doc files that came with
 RT>> the burner,  pdfs and all sorts of other stuff.  Perhaps tomorrow
 RT>> if I get the energy I'll be able to get some hardware swapped
 RT>> around and at least make a start on geting the software side of
 RT>> things going...

 RT> Got the hardware part of it done,  anyhow.

 RT> Good.  half the battle done .....

 RT>> This should be interesting.

 RT>> definitely. :-))

 RT> Yep.  We'll see how it goes,  from here.  Think gramofile will deal
 RT> with a cassette tape?  :-)

 RT> It might, tho I think it was done more with LP's in mind.

Yeah.  Now all I need to do is figure out why it won't run!  :-(

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