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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
