Well once my ram arrives I want to close my computer up and have it run trouble free which means that the problems I put aside must be done before the ram arrives or they will never be done.
First is involving the ram.
My system has two regular DDR slots and one DDR2 slot. On top with the two 512 DDR sticks I am installing I am wondering if it is safe to put an additional 128 mb of DDR ram into the single unused DDR2 slot or will that cause problems?
Second problem involves power to the USB ports.
There are two headers that allow for an additional four USB ports but the problem is that when the computer is off the ports receive power but when the computer turns on the four ports lose all power and nothing can be done to get power back except turn the system off. The other four ports on the back of the board do not have this problem.
My plan was to sever the 5V line(s) to these four problematic ports and have the required 5V come from a spare drive connector but I don't know if that will cause even more problems (excluding the loss of voltage monitoring on those ports). Would this rewire (which will also be fused) be okay or will I be smelling smoke?
That is all.
First is involving the ram.
My system has two regular DDR slots and one DDR2 slot. On top with the two 512 DDR sticks I am installing I am wondering if it is safe to put an additional 128 mb of DDR ram into the single unused DDR2 slot or will that cause problems?
Second problem involves power to the USB ports.
There are two headers that allow for an additional four USB ports but the problem is that when the computer is off the ports receive power but when the computer turns on the four ports lose all power and nothing can be done to get power back except turn the system off. The other four ports on the back of the board do not have this problem.
My plan was to sever the 5V line(s) to these four problematic ports and have the required 5V come from a spare drive connector but I don't know if that will cause even more problems (excluding the loss of voltage monitoring on those ports). Would this rewire (which will also be fused) be okay or will I be smelling smoke?
That is all.
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