Help with an ATX form card

rosciol

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Sep 30, 2001
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My parent's computer has a (very crappy) atx form card that supplies two additional usb ports and two additional ps2 ports. I now have a need for the usb ports for a present I'm giving to my mother, only the usb ports aren't recognized by the system. I opened the system to get all the information on the card I could, which was scant at best. The following were found on the card:

A large "S" with "TECH" under it, theoretically some type of "S TECH", "S-TECH", or "S* TECH".
"94V-0" over "9842" next to the S/TECH.

The number and letters for the latter were hard to read and may be inaccurate, though I hope not. I'm trying to find any drivers I can poke up for the form card that might make the system recognize its features. Unfortunately, running several dozen searches on google has thus far availed me not.

Any idea where I could find something to make this card work, or what a good alternative is (pci usb card or pci to serial adapter?) please let me know. For reference, the item being connected to the computer is a camera, the Nikon Coolpix 2500.

If you can help out, that'd be great.


Thanks!
 

rosciol

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Sep 30, 2001
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Disregard the above. While posting the message, the thought finally occurred to me that, since it was a form card, I should change the bios around. Sure enough, they'd never used the usb and it had to be enabled in the bios. A little playing around with bios settings and windows settings later, everything worked the way it should. Whew, good.

Note to self: don't play with high tech equipment at 3:30 if you're not prepared to be unable to diagnose simple problems for at least an hour.