[filmscanners] Re: Vuescan and 64bit Windows - Ed's reply

["gary" <lists@lazygranch.com>]

FWIW, I don't build PCs using Asus mobos. I find I get a better bang for
you buck with Gigabyte. I've built two systems using the GA-k8n Ultra-9
(x64 and Suse 10.0)

If you are using onboard raid (often known as FRAID for fake raid), it
won't be blazing. I use the onboard raid myself as I really can't
justify the price of a 3ware card. You can tell a fake raid b the
necessity of OS specific drivers. These drivers are doing the busy work
(XOR) of a real raid card. I'm using RAID 10 with 4 drives, which might
have some speed advantage, but I doubt it with FRAID. Perhaps the dual
core helps. I haven't benchmarked it.

James L. Sims wrote:
> Charles,
>
> After I went through a miserable seven hours fighting a blue screen
> error on startup after the first attempt at installing new chipset
> drivers, I finally managed to get the new drivers installed and the
> reader seems to be functioning properly.
>
> I have responded to your questions below.
>
> Incidentally, here is a description of the machine I'm running.
>
> OS: Windows XP with SP 2 (32-bit)
>
> Power Supply: Thermaltake (480 watt)
> Mainboard: ASUS Model A8N-E; with Socket 939 (AMD-64 Dual core CPU)
> RAM: 2gig 800mh FSB
> IDE devices: 2
> Raid devices: 2 (Raid0, mirrored- SLOW!)
> Used USB resources: card reader (2 USB2 ports); printer (USB2 port);
> scanner (USB port); trackball (USB port); scanner (1394 port); UPS
> monitor (serial port).
>
> Thanks for all the help.  Updating the drivers was good advice although
> I am not impressed with ASUS web support.  After all the great reviews
> about ASUS, that was a letdown.
>
> Thanks again - just one of the may aspects I like about this group.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> Charles Knox wrote:
>
>
>>The 7-in-1 card reader may be marginal in its power requirement, and some
>>motherboards are less robust than others in this department (some can
>>comfortably handle up to 800mA, some struggle with 500, some even vary from
>>one port to another) -- I suppose you've tried it in other ports?
>>
>>
>
> The reader has its own power connection from the power supply - I have a
> very good power supply.  I only have four internal USB terminals on the
> MB and I have tried those four - that's in addition to the six ports on
> the back of the machine which I haven't tried..
>
>
>>How does it perform with a flash drive?
>>
>>
>
> Any virtual drive will work when plugged into one of the spare USB ports
> on the back of the machine. When the computer can't see the reader,
> nothing will wake it up.
>
>
>>For best results with USB you do need to be running XP SP1 or SP2 --
>>there's a patch on M$ updates somewhere for the original verion of XP.
>>
>>
>
> I have SP2 installed on the machine.
>
>
>

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