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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Apr 1998 10:17:16 -0800
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On 16 Apr 98 at 10:57, Juan Vaquer Jr. wrote:

> I have a VX Pro chipset motherboard with double USB connector set. My
> CPU is a P200. My OS is Windows 95B (OSR2). I would like to connect a vc
> camera to the USB port.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Will the usbsupp.exe patch work on this motherboard (I keep seeing TX
> chipsets all over the place, but never VX chipsets)?

  "VXpro" is NOT "VX".  430VX is an Intel chipset.  VXpro is a
PCChips chipset; reviewers have generally found it inferior to the
"real" VX.  [The TXpro set seems to compare pretty favourably against
the Intel 430TX, but that's not what you have.]
  Odds are very good that this software support will install fine for
you.

> 2) Since my motherboard didn't come with the USB port jack, is that
> something I can buy at a store, like a serial or parallel port jack?

  The important point is that it came with a USB connector on-board,
right?  [You probably SHOULDN'T by serial or parallel port jacks,
because there are at least two different ways that manufacturers have
chosen to wire the on-board connectors for those ports -- use the
ones that came with the board.
  I'm not aware of multiple pin-outs for USB connectors, so maybe
there's a single standard.  I haven't actually seen such jacks in
stores, but they should exist.

David G

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