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umheint0   04-05-2003 at 03:23:48 AM

My friend told me a little about these things, and he's looking for one. Anyone know more about them and what they do and where to get them, or at least info about them?

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Toejam31   04-05-2003 at 03:46:11 AM
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Also known as piggyback boards and daughter cards, daughter boards are expansion boards that connect directly to the motherboard and give the computer added features, such as modem capability. Today these type of boards are not usually found or used in desktop computers and have been replaced with ISA or PCI boards.

<A HREF="http://www.secpc.com/" target="_new">Fischer Computer Systems</A> can probably manufacture the type of board your friend requires, if he can't find something locally.

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Crashman   04-05-2003 at 09:07:52 AM
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Daughter Boards or daughter cards are most often found on soundcards, offering such features as additional outputs (Creative's digital daughterboard for the Live) or additional soundfonts.

What your friend might be looking for is a riser card. Riser cards generally relocate the PCI slots.

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umheint0   04-05-2003 at 06:18:33 PM
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He doesn't really want a riser card. What he wants is some ISA slots. He has these old components (can't remember what) that were pretty crazy. He even built himself an expansion card using ISA. He wants to keepusing these cards in his old compter. Personally, I think it would be pretty phat having a few extra PCI slots available. So we're both looking for something different, but will accomplish the same thing - more slots.

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Crashman   04-05-2003 at 10:14:07 PM
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It's possible to link two motherboards together, but you need two processors and two sets of RAM to do it, and a high speed interface. You can controll the second board with the first. There are of course P4 boards recently introduced with onboard ISA, and old Athlon boards with ISA as well.

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umheint0   04-05-2003 at 10:24:23 PM
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Yeah, but that means, as you said, another motherboard and another processor and more ram, and ultimately another case and another PS, which makes it useless. Why not just network two computers together, like in a SETI farm? I mean, that just seems to be more than I want. I was hoping for a case with a little motherboard in it and a bunch of cards in it, hooked up to my current computer either through a PCI slot or USB 2.0, and powered off a molex connector in my current system. Can this be done?

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