[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

There are three types of Video cards, PCI, AGP and the new standard PCI
Express (New standard). The layout on each slot is different so they are not
inter-changeable. If your computer is within the last 2 years then it has a
PCI Express slot.

If you want the capability of more than 2 monitors you will have to buy the
appropriate video cards: 

http://www.9xmedia.com/products/video_cards/index.php

(I have installed a lot of 4x monitor video cards for investment sections of
banks.)

I have not seen those 'mini' slots that you describe before. Just read the
code off the MoBo and 'Google' it. Here is a link to the range of MoBo
slots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Motherboard_expansion_slot

HTH
Jim 

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:19 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New virtual drive

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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