Hello Roy.

26 Jan 03 04:06, you wrote to me:


 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?

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

 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).

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

 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.

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


 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!

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

 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.

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?  :-)

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

Russell

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