Rick
10-19-2003, 05:02 PM
A Couple of years ago now I started a thread about my first impressions of the Then new Windows XP
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=413&highlight=first+impression
Well it’s been almost 2 years and I haven’t seen much to change to my mind about it
In fact One of the Largest shortcomings of it still bothers me
That being the lack of IRQ support for LTP ports
It is the same shortcoming In win2K
The Usb 2 support is now a little more stable
After 2 years I was able to install and get a usb 2 pci card to work correctly
So Much so that I have moved my Old reliable deskjet 970c to the usb port
Set it to network share and it works perfectly
Including the error messages..
Something that only worked about half the time on the LPT1 port under XP
The Dual Monitor support has always worked well.
But I don’t use a game card. ( Matrox G400 ) It took me awhile to replace the old 17 inch monitor I had installed as the second display.
I can say with 2 nineteen inch displays that It is the best way to go ..
The only things I have found that are a little hard to adjust to are the monitor brightness difference
and the flat screen on one and the old curved screen on the other
One small item.
It has nothing to do with windows.
It’s more on the hardware side
When are they going to stop putting the AGP slot so close to the number one pci slot?
If you install any agp card that requires a cooling fan of any size you loose that first pci slot
A few companies have stuck that worthless modem slot next to the agp..
Unfortunately this Asus M/B doesn’t have that little bugger
So I loose the use of one of my High speed pci slots
In affect reducing the number of cards I can put in my system
As of today I have NO Slots available
I have one empty ( Next to AGP Card) But can’t use it because of clearances
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=413&highlight=first+impression
Well it’s been almost 2 years and I haven’t seen much to change to my mind about it
In fact One of the Largest shortcomings of it still bothers me
That being the lack of IRQ support for LTP ports
It is the same shortcoming In win2K
The Usb 2 support is now a little more stable
After 2 years I was able to install and get a usb 2 pci card to work correctly
So Much so that I have moved my Old reliable deskjet 970c to the usb port
Set it to network share and it works perfectly
Including the error messages..
Something that only worked about half the time on the LPT1 port under XP
The Dual Monitor support has always worked well.
But I don’t use a game card. ( Matrox G400 ) It took me awhile to replace the old 17 inch monitor I had installed as the second display.
I can say with 2 nineteen inch displays that It is the best way to go ..
The only things I have found that are a little hard to adjust to are the monitor brightness difference
and the flat screen on one and the old curved screen on the other
One small item.
It has nothing to do with windows.
It’s more on the hardware side
When are they going to stop putting the AGP slot so close to the number one pci slot?
If you install any agp card that requires a cooling fan of any size you loose that first pci slot
A few companies have stuck that worthless modem slot next to the agp..
Unfortunately this Asus M/B doesn’t have that little bugger
So I loose the use of one of my High speed pci slots
In affect reducing the number of cards I can put in my system
As of today I have NO Slots available
I have one empty ( Next to AGP Card) But can’t use it because of clearances