Quake3World

i've got an old Dell L866r sitting here, but cant find out what type of mobo it uses, i know its a P3 but thats about it. Dont see name on mobo itself and google didnt help.

the problem, there was a fire so firefighters sprayed some or alot of water on it and now only 1 USB port works and both PS/2 ports are dead, i wanna find out if the mobo supports an USB addon card since this would solve the problem, or maybe point me to the mobo manual.

Dell makes their own motherboards... or has someone make them, whatever.

If it has a PCI slot, it's sure to 'support' a USB card.

Although if 1 of the built-in ports works then you could get by with a hub.

creep wrote:Dell makes their own motherboards... or has someone make them, whatever.

If it has a PCI slot, it's sure to 'support' a USB card.

ya it does have PCI, i'll look at it again and see if i see an extra connector for USB

creep wrote:Although if 1 of the built-in ports works then you could get by with a hub.

i'd have to buy it then, but dont want too since i have an addon USB card with 4 USB's

Are you talking about a PCI addon card or simply a USB header bracket like this:

yeah foo thats it, but after looking at the mobo closely theres nowhere to connect it to the mobo. fucking dell

guess i'll have to get a hub

Ahh... that's just a header. The "USB Controller" for those exists on the motherboard.

You said "card", so I assumed you meant an add-in USB Controller/Port card, which is different.

A hub still makes more sense... both are meager investments but you'll be more likely to reuse the hub sumeday.

SoM you cheap fucking bastard.