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Hmmm. When your board came in its package, was the socket open or 
closed? I believe mine is closed by the looks of it...But unfortunately 
I need some eyes to be able to tell. 
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:55:05PM -0400, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> Hi, Igor.
> Some modern motherboards such as, Intel, don't require jumpers to be set. In
> my case once my Pentium  processor was dropped  in to the ziff  socket the
> bios detected the voltage and bus speed which was really nice.
> As for finding the ziff  socket mine had a little bar  on it which slipped
> over the processor once it was seated in the socket.
> As far as PCI and AGP slots go I'd have to look inside my case to compare
> them again, but my 4* AGP port had a center piece that kind of split the
> slot.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:16 PM
> Subject: OT: motherboards
> 
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> > Hi all. I just got my Asus A7n8x-x board today, and I am reminded once
> > again that it is next to impossible to figure out the layout of the
> > board. Like I know I am supposed to be looking for 6 expansion slots (5
> > PCI and 1 AGP), and I think I found them but not positive of that. I
> > also think I found the ziff socket and the DIMM slots, but not sure of
> > that either. So now I'm trying to come up with ideas on how to make
> > building a box more accessible to the visually impaired. One idea I came
> > up with is to add/rephrase it in the manual so that you are able to
> > relate the location of for example, IDE connectors to where your hand
> > (s) are positioned on the motherboard. Much like documentation for
> > adaptive equipment. I'm not sure it would be possible to stick little
> > labels next to/on jumper connectors for example, because I'm thinking
> > they may melt because of changing temperatures inside the machine/during
> > the shipping process. Anyone have any other ideas? I am actually
> > thinking of incorporating any ideas people may have here with ones of my
> > own and writing to Asus with my suggestions.
> > - --
> > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
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