Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:27:17 -0700 From: David Burton <odyseus2000@earthlink.net> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: asus recommendation Message-ID: <20000925132717.C4086@slick.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251445590.78246-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>; from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:54:49PM -0500 References: <20000925123700.B4086@slick.earthlink.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009251445590.78246-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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no onboard video. It does have on board sound which was above it. I thought this perhaps percluded them. However I was at a computer store that had different mboards laying out(still in the ESD sack) so you could look at them i.e. on display. I was looking at some of the asus ones and noted another model that had the on board audio but implemented both com ports beneath it on the first row, so it was definately because they couldnt do it. though perhaps with that chipset maybe had problems routing the traces from the chip to the connector, so they just made it into a header instead. Other than that just laziness is the only other reason. Or perhaps I am remember it wrong and that second connector wasnt a com port but rather a video port, but even if that is the case I would think they could put a com port in that real estate. I like my Tyan but the traces are too close to the mounting screw hole and such that they recommend using plastic stanoffs and only one screw and the installed cards to hold it in place. sound like a jurry-rig. so I havent fired that one up yet because I was putting it in an old full tower AT case I had and cannot do it as they recommend. I am pretty sure the metal standoffs are not on any traces. I pray :-). And of course no issues with my Intel Seattle BX-2. On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:54:49PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, David Burton wrote: > > > My first impression with an ASUS board (CUV4X) was good except for > > one nagging factor. They were either too lazy or too cheap to > > integrate the second com ports right beside the first on the atx > > edge. But rather put as a header on the board and mounted it on a > > bracket to take up an expansion slot. Looking at some other models > > I saw that they had put both coms on the atx edge(what ever the > > proper name for it is). IMHO that really sucks. > > I'm sure it wasn't out of lazyness, since the header, cable, and > bracket would cost them more money and more engineering time than just > putting the second COM port on the ATX backplane. Was on-board video > an option on that board? If so, thats where the video connector would > have gone. > > > -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net > FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. > For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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