[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Hello Jon,
thanks for the terminology, yes what you describe sounds correct.  Do I get
it right that mobo's usually have more them one PCI-Express?, whats normal
two or three?

So what will I do with all the NE2000 network cards that I have here and the
3COM 3c905's :)  Oh, and all the 56k modems I also have ?


Mark



2009/10/6 Tydda Jon - Slough <jon.tydda at lonza.com>

> Sounds like you've got a PCI-Express video card. I think that the smaller
> ones are another type of PCI-E.
>
> I've not seen any motherboards that only come with one full size slot
> though, maybe you were really lucky there :-)
>
> You would need another full size PCI-E slot to put another card in though,
> I don't think you can get cards to fit the smaller PCI-E slots.
>
>
> Jon
>
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> dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
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>
> 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
> >
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