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From: <mike@michaelplishka.com> > I've had it with trying to find USB interfaces with my Vista laptop > computer. Gone through four: lexicon, maudio, edirol and presonus (In > order from worst to best) and none of them really worked. I'm thinking >of > partioning and installing a different version of windows. What would >this > esteemed group recommend? If your motherboard's USB ports aren't up to the task it won't matter what USB interfaces you hook up to them. My last motherboard was a Asus with USB ports up the wall, but only two out of six were USB 2.0! Ridiculous, even without a music interface attached: cams and mice were either less-than-responsive or non-functional altogether. I go through a lot of hardware because of testing and experimenting; this last mobo bit it because I was trying to eliminate all the fans on it. Not all Zalman heat sinks will fit every motherboard! I had a semi-circle-form heat sink from them that I put on the South Bridge chipset. Unfortunately it was very close to my video card (PCIE Geforce 8600 GT, long card), though not touching it - I figured that 1/4" was a safe margin, but I didn't count on what happens when one bumps the box just enough... Not quite Kaboom, just a loud click and nothing. Thankfully only the cursed motherboard was ruined. So I was saved from having to eventually troubleshoot an already-troublesome series of USB ports. How old is your mobo? Model? Thanks to our even-more-cursed Sky+ HD box starting to give up the ghost (damn you Murdoch!), I have had to move forward my plans to create a quiet, hopefully fanless small-form PC with feckless HD 1080 output, and a dual Sky-compatible tuner card. If anyone on-list is interested in the results I'll keep 'em in the loop. Off-list of course. > Thanks! > > ~peace~ > > Plish > > www.michaelplishka.com > www.scribbledmusings.com > www.myspace.com/michaelplishka > www.myspace.com/bohdanovich > > > > >