motherboards

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Hi Igor,
Usually an experienced  sighted person has no trouble identifying the types
of slots, and likewise the experienced Blind person will have no problems
here.
I don't believe that they label the PCI slots, and the AGP slot.  We usually
can tell those by our experience.
But one thing, and I think it is referring to what you called the zip slot.
I think that you are referring to the IDE plugs, which your IDE drive will
plug into.  The 3.5 drive plug is the shorter of the three, but there are 2
others that can get mistaken for each other.  That would be the primary
drive plug and the other is the secondary drive plug.  It would help to
label these.
Now the Memory slots are usually easily identified, but what we don't know
is the number of pins and the type of memory for them.  So I would think
that this and some other answers would best be given in the manual, in an
accessible format.  But again, the 2 IDE plugs do need to be identified.
You also mentioned the jumpers.  If there were a way of labeling these, that
would be great, but I don't know how it would be done.  I would suggest that
they go with a switch rather than the old style jumper setting.
Glenn

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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: OT: motherboards


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Hi all. I just got my Asus A7n8x-x board today, and I am reminded once
again that it is next to impossible to figure out the layout of the
board. Like I know I am supposed to be looking for 6 expansion slots (5
PCI and 1 AGP), and I think I found them but not positive of that. I
also think I found the ziff socket and the DIMM slots, but not sure of
that either. So now I'm trying to come up with ideas on how to make
building a box more accessible to the visually impaired. One idea I came
up with is to add/rephrase it in the manual so that you are able to
relate the location of for example, IDE connectors to where your hand
(s) are positioned on the motherboard. Much like documentation for
adaptive equipment. I'm not sure it would be possible to stick little
labels next to/on jumper connectors for example, because I'm thinking
they may melt because of changing temperatures inside the machine/during
the shipping process. Anyone have any other ideas? I am actually
thinking of incorporating any ideas people may have here with ones of my
own and writing to Asus with my suggestions.
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