Re: usb failing, need new motherboard recommendations
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:28:01AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> After struggling for a week with strange usb problems - posted xsane usb
> problem - I believe my problem is a hardware problem. One usb socket
> has failed: device not seen but device and hotplug ok if another usb
> socket is used. Since I only have motherboard usb sockets I am
> considering replacing the motherboard or, more probably, the motherboard
> and cpu.
Buy a cheap 4 port USB 2.0 card and save your money for a couple of
months?
>The Athlon XP 1800 is ok but can be moved to an older computer
> with a much slower cpu. The question is how big an upgrade? I don't
> need to be at the cutting edge and I do want to be sure of Debian
> compatibility but also I don't want to find out next month, or even
> next year, that I need to upgrade again.
Dual core AMD64 of some sort? Motherboards are relatively cheap - but by
the time you may need to buy a PSU, new SATA hard disk etc. you rarely
profit by building computers in old cases or reusing old components.
Save EUR 450 or so and build a new machine with the components you can
get once you have the money. If you buy now, there will always be
something newer/faster/cheaper three months away that you will wish you
had bought :( Just accept you'll always be behind the times :)
Andy
>
>
Any recommendations?
>
> Tom
>
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