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Re: Adding USB ports?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:37:21 GMT
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Hehehe... I HAVE to add on to this.
Scott is quite right. I have a PC that I had a small local company build
for me a couple of years ago. I looked all over it and could not find any
USB ports on it, so I was looking into getting a PCI card with USB ports.
Turns out my machine is using all of its PCI slots, so I was stuck.
I opened up my machine for about the third time to examine my options, when
I noticed a small silver box on the back of the motherboard, right against
the back of the case. I looked on the back of the case, and for the first
time noticed that there was a metal punchout on the case that was still in
place. It just happened to be in the shape of a square, so I punched it
out, and.... Voila! 2 USB ports. :-)
Pretty funny, I thought.
-Andy Lynch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott A" <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk>
> USB ports are quite small and easy to miss. So much so that the computer
> "expert" in my old Dept managed to overlook 2 on a co-workers PC - he then
> ordered a card with a further 2 on it. All this was a total waste of time • as NT
> does not work with USB - he did not know that either.
>
> Check your PC again, most post 1997 PC's have them. If not, look out for a
> card.
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| (...) :) I had that experience with a car stereo, once. I got an econo-box without a radio. Just for the heck of it, I checked behind the speaker grilles, and *amazing*, there were speakers installed. They were even wired. :) One cheap radio later, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) USB ports are quite small and easy to miss. So much so that the computer "expert" in my old Dept managed to overlook 2 on a co-workers PC - he then ordered a card with a further 2 on it. All this was a total waste of time as NT does not work (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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