keeping old ISA based peripherals and interfaces around is not an issue yet. New motherboards still come with ISA bus. Depending on your computer case you can choose betwen ATX style and older PC AT style motherboards and power supplies. In case you want to upgrade or need to replace the motherboard because of HW problems, I would suggest to migrate to ATX style systems to keep you up to date for the next 5 to 10 years. Tyan motherboard http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinitykta.html for example, has one ISA slot that you could use for legacy card. On the higher end would be Supermicro http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_LE/S2DL3.htm with ethernet and SCSI build in. Many more more options are available. I see them in local store like Fry's etc. They still carry old AT style motherboards for people who just want to upgrade the motherboard with CPU memory and such. And the last resort is surplus stores. Sometimes they carry new motherboards, inventory leftovers or replacements from the upgrades, etc. I doubt that your problems would show up as a strange sound under windows. It's more likely your windows simply needs reinstall. Who knows what happened, all it takes is some weird changes in the registry and the system is screwed. The only way to take care of it is to reinstall it. On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:29:00PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: > I want to continue using hardware speech as long as possible, namely my > double talk PC as the tripple talk pci isn't linux compatible. I'm getting > a strange problem in windows, where if I type a long enough message, I'll > get a loud continuous sound that changes pitch as you type through the PC > speaker, making the assumption this mother board may not go much further. > At 06:17 PM 12/12/01 -0800, you wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:51:25PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote: > >> Is there any adapter type devices out that will allow an isa card to work > >> in a pci slot? I mean, something like stick the isa card in to a card that > >> you put in to the pci slot? > >> > >> > > > >Very unlikely IMO. I follow computer hardware to some degree and haven't > >seen anything like that so far. > > > >The bus protocol, voltage for some lines, and logic are very different for > >ISA or PCI so it's easier to just get the PCI card. Systems come with PCI > >chipsets which have a bridge for ISA bus to support legacy systems but > >that's done on the motherboard. While theoreticaly possible it would not > >get very far in practice due to mechanical issues with it. You don't have > >enough space and the right brackets to accomodate such an arangement. > > > >Depending on what you want to do, there might be an easier solution to > >your problem. > > > >-- > >Rafael -- Rafael