USB on va 503+

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I'm sorry if this is to much or to 'small' for this group. But my intention
is to find out as much as possible about this board.
Yesterday I put to use USB on va503+. With the USB bracket from some newer
board.
(Whell , almost fried my tiny condenser on mbo when used wrong bracket
connector pin assignment).
The matter is that in manuals this USB on board was described to be put in
use by means of an 'riser card' (like its optionaly shiped with the board).
Now, also according to manual the onboard USB connector pin layout is like
any nowdays
MOBos are equiped and they have this bracket not 'riser card'. So I used
this bracket on
VA 503+, enabled it in BIOS, boot to XP. Et viola! USB hub root showing up
in computer managemant/devices. To be shure, used usb wingman to test. In 15
seconds the gamepad was ready to go. I was deligted(if I sppelit right) .
And now this amd K6 at 500 MHz on VA 503+ is guaranted to live up to 2006.
With role as a client network infrastructure component.
or. . .
Anyway, my VA 503+ sys. is in full use of expansion slots, even used com and
lpt and an isa yamaha sound and sound blaster live 5.1 with promise PCI
ultra ATA100 controler, and in one period there was instaled an AGP ati 9800
se 128 ddr ram ( now that's GeForce 440 MX ).
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In article <ckrgkd$160$2@brown.net4u.hr>, edi <krarti@net4u.hr> writes
>I'm sorry if this is to much or to 'small' for this group. But my intention
>is to find out as much as possible about this board.
>Yesterday I put to use USB on va503+. With the USB bracket from some newer
>board.
>(Whell , almost fried my tiny condenser on mbo when used wrong bracket
>connector pin assignment).
>The matter is that in manuals this USB on board was described to be put in
>use by means of an 'riser card' (like its optionaly shiped with the board).
>Now, also according to manual the onboard USB connector pin layout is like
>any nowdays
>MOBos are equiped and they have this bracket not 'riser card'. So I used
>this bracket on
>VA 503+, enabled it in BIOS, boot to XP. Et viola! USB hub root showing up
>in computer managemant/devices. To be shure, used usb wingman to test. In 15
>seconds the gamepad was ready to go. I was deligted(if I sppelit right) .
>And now this amd K6 at 500 MHz on VA 503+ is guaranted to live up to 2006.
>With role as a client network infrastructure component.
>or. . .
>Anyway, my VA 503+ sys. is in full use of expansion slots, even used com and
>lpt and an isa yamaha sound and sound blaster live 5.1 with promise PCI
>ultra ATA100 controler, and in one period there was instaled an AGP ati 9800
>se 128 ddr ram ( now that's GeForce 440 MX ).
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The 503+ is a very very good board. For five-ish years I used one then
another.
Best wishes for a long and productive ownership.
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Great post. I never figured USB would work on the 503+. Is the USB 2.0
compliant? I'm still using my 503+ w/a K6350 as a MP3 player.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

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No, just USB 1.1 compliant. USB 2.0 did not come out until several
years later.

Thanks for the great post, Edi!

Wblane wrote:
> Great post. I never figured USB would work on the 503+. Is the USB 2.0
> compliant? I'm still using my 503+ w/a K6350 as a MP3 player.
> -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

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Wblane wrote:
> Great post. I never figured USB would work on the 503+. Is the USB 2.0
> compliant? I'm still using my 503+ w/a K6350 as a MP3 player.
> -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

USB 1.1 works fine on my 503+.

I was wondering about it for a long time but
didn't have any way to actually test it until
eventually it occurred to me that I had enough leftover parts
sitting around to put together a second pc,
so I picked up a pair of xterasys-2122b
USB wireless adapters on ebay for $10 each, and now I
have a really nice 2-box network.

Currently, I have it set up like this:

va-503+/k6-3-400 <--(wireless)--> no-name/k6-2-500 <--> 56K modem

I am (still) running win98se, win2k, and redhat fedora on the va-503+
and installed redhat fedora on the no-name. (The va-503+ has a 20GB disk
and 128MB ecc sdram; the no-mane has a 6.4GB disk and 64MB ecc sdram.)

Simple as it is, this setup really opened a bunch of new doors for me.

For example, if in the past I was using Realplayer to listen to an
internet radio station while I was running a browser on Windows, the
radio feed would always cut out every couple of minutes because the
buffer was emptying out faster than it was filling up, and the packet
error rate was so great that pretty soon Realplayer would lock up.

As an experiment, I moved my sound card to my no-name "host" and
discovered that, just by running Realplayer on the no-name, I can browse
the internet using my va-503+ and listen to online radio at the same
time with no interruptions and no lockups for as long as I want.

I think that is very interesting.

Also, the ability to make 10MB/sec file transfers between the two
"nodes" on my network has given me a taste of what broadband would be like.

Now if only I can find a local wireless "hotspot" that I can use.

Bill

 

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Thanks!
I was on fire for years to spill it out.
Glad to help.