Re: PCI cards

Hi Jonny,

It was pretty clear, even though poorly written. The user wants to replace a
four port USB2 PCI card with another that has four USB2 ports in addition to
two firewire ports. He/she is curious as to whether the motherboard needs to
support the firewire connection directly. The answer would be no, it relies
on the PCI bus and drivers supplied by the card vendor.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Jonny" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"deango" <deango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi. Can I replace a four port USB 2.0 card with a four port USB 2.0 and
2 port Firewire card? Or does my motherboard have to have a Firewire
connection to plug into eventho the PCI card comes with software

Can't make out what the heck the above partial sentence means. Can MVPs
translate this for my reading pleasure?

.........Running WinXP on a Dell 4300. .......Thanks. deango
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Jonny



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