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

 RT> Heh.  Of the six grandkids,  all but two are preschool yet,  which is
 RT> still fun.  The two oldest are both 12,  and rapidly approaching
 RT> teenagerhood.  :-)

 RT> Well there is the step-daughter 16, the stepson 13, and the little
 RT> one 3, who  is far to darned clever for his size  he plays on
 RT> the computer next to me  most evenings.

Sounds like you have your hands full...

 RT> That non-functioning MB you're messing with,  you're saying it seems
 RT> to briefly touch on attached drives?  Am I remembering right here?  I
 RT> saw "no video,  no beeps" go by fairly recently...

 RT> Yes, it seems to "touch" on the drives except the floppy drive, no
 RT> video, no beeps, figure the mobo or CPU is gone, then I have 
 RT> another here with the same symptoms, but that is a brand new mobo, 
 RT> with a possibly suspect CPU, board will handle up to 450 - 500 MHz 
 RT> CPU's. I don't have any spare CPU's or motherboards to test with. 
 RT> The RAM 32 MB stick works fine in my ASUS P2B99 mobo.

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

 RT> Was thinking of putting it next to my pre-amp, using it to record 
 RT> LP's and then save them over the network to another HDD that has 
 RT> space to store the files, before writing them to CD-ROM, seems it 
 RT> is going to be a while before I grant myself that luxury. :-) 
 RT> until then I will have to keep on lugging my puter to the Hi-Fi, 
 RT> record the LP's, then lug the 'puter back to it's normal position,
 RT> and then do the required processing before putting them on to CD.

Heh.  I have not yet even begun to deal with the logistics of how I'm going
to handle that stuff here.  There's no room in here at all!  I guess some
rearranging is in order,  for sure.  The stereo is in the other room,  and
hasn't been hooked up for some years now -- I unpacked it when we moved in
here but never bothered going beyond that point,  and the speakers are in a
corner in here.  This is obviously going to have to change if I plan to get
some of the stuff I have on vinyl in cd format.  I don't suppose that the
25 foot extension cords I have will quite reach...    :-)

Then there's the matter of a preamp for my turntable,  which is not a match
for the phono input of the receiver.  I thrashed this out quite extensively
in the electronics echo a while back,  arrived at some sort of a solution, 
and lost the archived messages when I lost that drive last summer.  :-( 
I'll figure something out,  I suppose.

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

This should be interesting.

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