Hello Roy.

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

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

 RT> Sounds like you have your hands full...

That you can say again, and the cost of sending them to school is sky 
rocketing, something terrible. :-((

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

 RT>> Yes, it seems to "touch" on the drives except the floppy drive,
 RT>> no 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
 RT>> mobo, with a possibly suspect CPU, board will handle up to 450 -
 RT>> 500 MHz CPU's. I don't have any spare CPU's or motherboards to
 RT>> test with. The RAM 32 MB stick works fine in my ASUS P2B99 mobo.

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


Does sweet blow bugger all. :-((

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

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


Yeah well, I am trying to get me a solution going here that I can use, but 
will probably need a 36 foot network cable to make the extension, and getting 
a hub/switch which can handle 8 ports, might also make life easier. I also 
have a similar problem space wise here, I might get an intergrated amplifier 
in here, but where I would put the speakers, never mind the turntable. :-((

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

I remember,

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

 RT> This should be interesting.


definitely. :-))

Russell

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