motherboards

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Glenn. One slight correction. He was talking about the ziff  socket
where the processor goes in to the motherboard not a zip slot.  So anyway,
that is what that was about. Smile.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: motherboards


> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> - --
> Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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