motherboards

[Igor Gueths]

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Although I suppose I am lucky in one regard...I have to confirm this in 
the manual, but as far as I know I don't have to really fuck around with 
jumpers...Bc the defaults will be suitable for me. Alex, in terms of the 
multiplier, I believe this particular board is able to autodetect those 
values and you are able to modify them in the BIOS.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:34:22AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
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> or jumpers in a liniar form for say the multiplier instead of 
> clustering them together so you cant tell one from the other.
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> Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:12:18PM -0500, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:
> > 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.
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