newbie down....help!

[Guest]

I have an old computer, tyan tomcat cyrix 166, anyway I just bought a asus a7v. I was hoping to use some of my old componets sound card, modem, video card; but only the v card will fit. What gives? The sound card is a very early version of sb 64. Do I have an ISA sound card?? I am very confused, call me Bambi even. What should I do, buy new cards if so, what?

 

[yoda271828]

With a computer that old, they are most likely ISA cards. As for a sound card, everyone says that the Soundblaster live! cards are the best, but I've never used one. Maybe someone else would have more input for you.

 

[JoeHead]

Hmm the A7V doesn't have one ISA slot? I'd keep the ISA modem if you do have 1 ISA slot and go with the SBLive. No Platnum needed. By the way your memory is DIMM? only 66 MHz I bet. So make sure to set it for that IN THE BIOS. That would be the nest thing to upgrade. 128 mb at most will due. 64 would even be a great start.

<b> Fragg at will!!! </b>

 

[Flyboy]

Sounds like an ISA modem and soundcard. The A7V does not have an ISA slot. ISA's are old and almost phased out. Your going to have to buy a new modem and soundcard if you want to use the A7V. Soundcards are cheap. You can buy a SB Live! Value card for about $50.00. Modems vary greatly, but you should be able to get a good one for $60.00.

So I'd go with a SB Live! sound card...and if you have the money get a Sportster modem (~$100.00). Just do not get a WinModem! They rob your CPU...

Good Luck

 

[Guest]

I've got a Tomcat III-S which I haven't used in a while. Keep in mind that you've got a PCI video card. Depending on your card, you may want to add a new, inexpensive AGP card on your list of future purchases. But you certainly don't need to do this right away.

I've got a 16 meg. PCI TNT card I put in the Tomcat when they dropped to $99. When my AGP GeForce 32-meg DDR card died on me a few months ago, I used the TNT card until my replacemet arrived. It was okay for office-type apps, but what a tremendous performance difference in games and anything else that was "video intensive."

Out of curiosity, I presume you had to get a new ATX case, too?

Mike