[dba-Tech] New virtual drive

Mark:

Here is a page on the slot your curious about. They appear to be mini PCI
express cards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

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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