Re: pci Video CArd won't fir in PCI slot
- From: thomasetc@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:48:35 -0700
On Sep 23, 3:07 pm, APry...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
express graphics card. what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.
Mother board: |____|_______________________| I/O plate at back of
computer
Card |_______________________|____| Digital/Analog and
S-video output.
I can't just reverse the card because the I/O would be towards the
inside of the box. Am I crazy or missing something. THe card is for
PCI Express 16X and the computer doesn't specify wether the slots are
1x or 16x etc. would that matter. Every mother board I look at is
the same and every graphics card I see images of are the same. I
don;t see how they fit.
The computer has regular (old) PCI slots. A PCI-E (express) card
won't fit in an old style PCI slot. It's not meant to. Its a
different communication standard. It would have helped everybody if
those who designed these things didn't use PCI in the name of the PCI-
E. They should have used a totally different acronym and an obviously
different slot pattern, not one that's simply reversed and uses the
same color. It was bound to cause confusion. The XFXforce
installation guide (with a PCI-E card), for example, doesn't make the
distinction between PCI and PCI-E... just refers to PCI !! Shame on
them.
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