As an aside...Motherboards today almost always include sound and some sort of video on board. When or if these go out, you can easily put a card in and you have it working again. I don't use the onboard video on any of my machines, I bypass it and use a video card. I've never had a motherboard become useless because sound/video, NIC or USB going out.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Christopher Range <lcms0...@comcast.net>wrote: > Tony, I mentioned, that my computer would hang after the XP Pro logo > screen, following the upgrade to XP SP2, regardless of going by CD or, by > download from Microsoft's website and, installed. > > If I couldn't re-install XP Pro, without formatting the drive, I would > format the drive. Usually, I would just have to re-install without > formatting. > > As for the PCI slots, I have: > > 1. Sound Card > 2. Video Card > 3. USB/Firewire Combo Card > 4. NIC > > I despise on-board technology. Because if one thing goes wrong with the > motherboard, then the motherboard basically needs to be replaced. Replacing > a peripheral card is far cheaper than, having to replace a motherboard each > time. > > The only Firewire connection is, on the outside of the combo card. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony B" <ton...@gmail.com> > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:29:20 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] XP Pro problems > > You forgot to tell us what the problem is. Or what you've already > tried to do to fix it. > > BTW, You don't need too many PCI slots any longer. I have two and one > has firewire. What do you need your other five for? > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
