Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 04:18:36 CDT 2009
Hello Jim, May I ask you a question that I have been trying to figure out for a while, but have not found a suitable place to ask. I have a new Dell PC with the intel i7 processor, I upgraded when I bought the machine to include the 4850 video card. It has two DVI outputs on the back and I can sucessfully run two monitors from the card both at 1920 x 1600, which is really great. However, I am now curious how I would run a third monitor - not really because I think I would use it, mostly just wondering whether I could do it. When I look at the connector on the video card, and the socket it is installed in, there is only one such socket. Sorry that I do not know the name of the socket. In the olden days, it would have been ISA or PCI, but I am not sure what this socket is called. The 4850 socket is about 5-6 inches long, there are about four or five other sockets on the mobo, but they are all only approx 1 inch long, I was shocked when I saw them. Initially I thought, Hey there are no expansion slots in this machine other than the video card, then I saw these little baby sockets. Are they new? I guess so, but does that mean that this mobo only supports one video card? thanks for any info, Mark 2009/10/4 Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> > Last night I installed a new ASUS M4A78 Plus mother (2600 MHz), in my > wife's > old computer. The motherboard was $100, $30 x 2GB for memory and CPU. > Quad-core AMD... the whole arrangement came to about $230 with taxes... the > only additional expense was having to get an optical DVD drive, $40. > > The new board comes with a 1 GB NIC, two video card slots, eSATA/SATA > connection, 5 on the board and two off the back (all BIOS configurable), in > addition it come with 12 USB ports (auto-sensing; from legacy to high speed > 2.0), sound and for backward compatibility it comes with COM and LPT port > connectors as well as IDE slots. The board also supports Firewire but I > have > not figured out how to configure it as of yet. > > She seems happy but for how long? > > Now the question. I hope to just install a virtual PC (VirtualBox?) and > simple install the old XP boot drive in/on the virtual. The old drive was > 60GB and the new one is 500GB. I remember there was some talk, on the Lists > about just backing up a drive on to a VPC but I have had no first hand > experience. > > Any suggestions? Best methods? Best software? Gotcas? Etc.. > > MTIA > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >