Will a PCI USB card work in a Pent. 166 Mhz ?

[Scottie]

Will a PCI USB card work in a Pent. 166 Mhz ?

[yoda313]

Hello,

I think my old pentium 200mhz had the ability for usb.

You're restricting factor will be the os. I don't think win 95 had USB support. win98 obviously does

Kevin

[Scottie]

it has Win98SE on it


Thanks for your Reply.

[yoda313]

it has Win98SE on it


Thanks for your Reply.

Hello,

Yeah as long as you've got win98 drivers for it you should be just fine

Kevin

[Scottie]

cool thanks again it's for my mom she want to use her D Camra with it.

[holistic]

Something to consider :

For a few $$ more than a USB PCI card you could get a socket 7 board with USB support AND perhaps a faster processor.
Just the other day infact I picked up a socket 7 board c/w on board sound AND an AMD K6-400 on it for $10

166Mhz ! yikes - How much RAM ?

Sounds like this machine will struggle with your mum's digital camera.

[yoda313]

Something to consider :

For a few $$ more than a USB PCI card you could get a socket 7 board with USB support AND perhaps a faster processor.
Just the other day infact I picked up a socket 7 board c/w on board sound AND an AMD K6-400 on it for $10

166Mhz ! yikes - How much RAM ?

Sounds like this machine will struggle with your mum's digital camera.

Hello,

Yeah... software's a concern...

I did a digital camera on my old p200 with 32mb ram.... Loading was slow....

Be prepared for waiting... And you may have slow printing time

Just a heads up

Kevin

[Scottie]

80 MB of Ram and also the PCI USB Port is USB 2 if that makes a difference ?

[yoda313]

80 MB of Ram and also the PCI USB Port is USB 2 if that makes a difference ?

Hello,

Sounds decent enough for an older system...

The USB2 will speed up the transfer of the files a lot

Just be prepared for slower than normal processing in some areas (compared to a p3 or newer of course ).

Kevin

[holistic]

USB 2.0 will not work in win98se (transfer speeds - that is)
Requires XP SP1 or better - from memory.

[Scottie]

Thanks, instead of buying an CD-ROM, PCI USB Card for this old computer I went to a computershop today and bought a 333 Mhz system with USB ports and CD-ROM already in it thanks for all your help

[yoda313]

Thanks, instead of buying an CD-ROM, PCI USB Card for this old computer I went to a computershop today and bought a 333 Mhz system with USB ports and CD-ROM already in it thanks for all your help

Hello,

You'll probably be happy with it.... Even if it's not blazing fast having usb pre installed is nice

Good luck

Kevin