USB connection
 

I'm about to purchase a digital camera and most available connect via USB.

My motherboard has two USB connectors. How do I link to the outside of the case? Is it a simple matter of cables?

Help please!

Sounds like you have an old non ATX motherboard. The manufacturer should supply an end plate with the appropiate cables, check their website.

Thanks.

I have a manual for the motherboard, but no mention of manufacturer - just PR5 R2 PCI !

Is there a way of converting the serial output to a USB connection?

[This message has been edited by cyclic (edited 05 March 2001).]

Try to find out the maker, the chips on the motherboard may give a clue. Serial connection is so slow compared to USB.

cyclic,
on my old pre-ATX board I had two USB connectors and with a tiny cable and a metal plate holding the USB outside world connector I managed to fit my first USB peripherie to the PC. Found the cable with the slot-type metal plate and connectors at PCWorld....but, this was many moons ago...
If your board is USB ready there is a chance this may work for you as well.
Somehow I recall that I had to switch on USB in the BIOS as well...perhaps you check your BIOS. On the ATX boards USB is a standard feature.

Thanks

I have found the manufacturer and obtained the USB port connector. Unfortunately, Win95a does not support USB!

As I have a retail version I cannot get OSR2 which means I have to upgrade to Win98. All I wanted to do was put some photos on this machine!

You'd be better off getting Windows ME as it's got a few more whistles and bells for digital camera work.

YOu can buy an internal card. Put into a spare slot on your m/board, and you gain two usb sockets. IN UK costs about £30

Bluesky...this will still not provide a USB connectionif the operating system does not support this...He has two sockets now! Bill Gates first successful attempt to help Intel and others with higher income by providing a useless upgrade from Win3.11 was never intended to provide the than still not fully developed USB connections....

Again, many thanks for your replies. Will ME run with my old machine though?

P133, 32 MB RAM!

Dont even go there!!

Cyclic,

You have a similar spec to my laptop (I've only got 24MB - anyone got some second-hand spare Dell memory modules cheap ? :) ) so I have stuck with Win98.

This is (IMHO) the first reasonably stable issue of WinDoze I have found and runs, just about, okay on my little laptop. I'm certainly not moving up to 2K or ME !

(but I'm seriously investigating Mandrake Linux ;) The full 6-disk set appears to have just about everything I need, even ICQ for Linux!)

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[This message has been edited by ExSimGuy (edited 08 March 2001).]