What's wrong with this pic of the new Asus A7V266 mobo?

[Helevitia]

Check it out, it looks like it has 6 pci slots but the one on the end looks backwards? what am I missing? Also, notice the caps are no longer on a riser board to give extra room for a big fat fan. And why is the floppy port near the pci slots? Enquiring minds want to know...

Dave





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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it's all about?

[windigo]

looks like they used every available inch of the pcb as for the backwards pci no clue...

and your question as to the hokey pokey
if it is what its all about then we must do the hokey pokey
(not with each other mind you

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[LvR]

W2K SP2 will be supplied in a hardware format - Socket will be used for that after a bios upgrade to be released later this year.

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[This message has been edited by LvR (edited 09 February 2001).]

[Wombat]

That could be a 5V notch instead of a 3.3V notch (like you see on DIMM's). Or, it could be a 66/33MHz notch.

[lindberg]

Isn't that the AMR-port? It seems to have the same location at the mobo as the AMR but it's just a bit longer. This is probalbly why it's turned backwards since it is the AMR standard. They wouldn't wan't you stuff in a PCI card there...
I have an AMR port on my Asus K7V but it's a lot shorter, maybe this is something that is new with the longer port.

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[Liquid Snake]

That is an ACR - Advanced Communications Riser.

[Novdid]

It´s PCI-slot keyed for 3,3V. I´m not sure but I almost think it´s so.

[dZeus]

Liquid Snake is right.. it's the latest AMR/CNR/Whatever variant used by VIA.

I think Intel switched standards twice already.. so there now are 3 different 'worthless expansion slot' types?

[paulcs]

Frankly, I think it's collective insanity.

Stick a cracker in it. Maybe a slice of dry toast. Let's face it. You're not going to get anything else in it.

Of course, a single ISA slot might actually be useful.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[paulcs]

All those perfectly good faxmodems...

I'm telling you, I might just faint if I ever see a device on the shelves that will fit into one of these slots.

Paul
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[MultimediaMan]

It's an ACR slot: Advanced Communication Riser, which are compatible with CNR devices as well. A pity that the CNR devices are without exception software based, while the ACR allows for some hardware accelerated devices.

3.3V PCI slots are 64Bit 66MHz: The slots are physically longer, and they have two dividers instead of one. They come in two flavors: 3.3 Volt versions look like a "Backwards" long PCI slot, while 5.5V Slots are 100% backwards compatible with a regular PCI slot (But are longer as well), and have a 64 bit wide data path clocked at 33MHz.

Most newer chipsets set up two distinct PCI bus': one PCI64/66MHz, and the other PCI64/33Mhz.

Most newer chipsets will support PCI64: look for it to become mainstream by the end of this year.

ISA slots, by Intel and Microsoft decree, are to have gone the way of the dodo this year:

Windows 2000 "Certified" systems made after 1999 CANNOT have an ISA bus present. Windows XP (Whistler) will be the absolute last version of Windows with ISA support. (So M/S says, anyway.)

I agree that the good old ISA bus was a handy way around some thorny problems that couldn't be overcome with PCI devices. Modems mostly, but getting your system "just so" is important.






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[Dr Mordrid]

I feel the same way. We get a new communications riser just in time for everyone to start using el-cheapo NIC's for cable modems and DSL

Dr. Mordrid


[This message has been edited by Dr Mordrid (edited 11 February 2001).]