computing - specification of Dabs PC
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Specification of PC, originally custom built in April 1999
by Dabs Direct to my specification around
the Pinnacle Miro video DV300 PCI digital video capture card plus various subsequent
additions and upgrades:
| Motherboard |
ASUS Pentium II 440BX ATX LAN/UWSCSI |
| Processor |
Intel Pentium III 450 MHz slot 1 box |
| Memory |
2xDIMM 16MX64(128MB) SDRAM PC 100 = 256MB |
| Floppy Drive |
Mitsumi 1.44Mb 3.5" |
| Hard Disk |
DiamondMax IDE VL17 13.0Gb UDMA66 system drive |
| Hard Drive (in caddy) |
DiamondMax IDE 5120 20.4Gb UDMA 33 9ms |
| Hard Drive (in caddy) |
DiamondMax IDE 3409H4 40.0Gb UDMA 100 |
| Hard Drive (in caddy) |
DiamondMax IDE 6800 13.6Gb UDMA66 |
| Hard Disk |
DiamondMax IDE 8.4 still image storage |
| Removable Disk Caddy |
HDRi IDE Plastic Cradle VP10K |
| DVD Rom |
Creative PC-DVD Encore 5x DXR2 internal IDE |
| Hard Disk |
IBM SCSI Ultrastar 9LZX 9.1Gb U2W internal (for video temporary files) |
| Video Card |
ATI 3D Xpert 98 8MB AGP |
| Video Capture Card |
Pinnacle MiroVideo DV300 PCI (see note re
hardware/software problem) |
| Modem |
Diamond SupraExpress 56e PRO external serial
modem V90 |
| Case |
Vasco BT-238 HQ ATX Full Tower 200W |
| Monitor |
Sony G400 19" FD Trinitron CRT |
| Keyboard |
Logitech Internet Keyboard |
| Mouse |
Logitech Remote control |
| Sound Card |
Creative SB Live! Platinum PCI |
| CD writer/rewriter |
Yamaha SCSI 16r4w4rw internal |
*Note: As many Pinnacle MiroVideo DV300 PCI card owners will
know, because of the idiosyncrasies of the card and its drivers/software, it is very
difficult to successfully install Premier 5.1 and also to take advantage of the special
facility for the Sony DCR-PC1E without the whole system freezing. The only way which
I eventually found to get everything working was to disable USB via the BIOS. This
was the case even before I installed the Creative SB Live! Platinum PCI card which takes
up 2 IRQs. I did not find the Pinnacle website helpful in solving this problem and saw
that they had ignored pleading questions to help. Reading Computer Video and using
their web site, although it did not give me the exact answer to my problem, got me
thinking enough to try this option - eventually!
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