motherboards

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Igor.
Some modern motherboards such as, Intel, don't require jumpers to be set. In
my case once my Pentium  processor was dropped  in to the ziff  socket the
bios detected the voltage and bus speed which was really nice.
As for finding the ziff  socket mine had a little bar  on it which slipped
over the processor once it was seated in the socket.
As far as PCI and AGP slots go I'd have to look inside my case to compare
them again, but my 4* AGP port had a center piece that kind of split the
slot.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:16 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.
> - --
> Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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