What slot is this?

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I tried to put a new PCI network card in a 5-6 year old pc but it wouldn't fit in the motherboard slot properly.

What kind of slots are these in the pic. The top card in the pic is the new pci network card and the bottom one is one of the cards that was in there :confused: http://ish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/slot.jpg
 
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I tried to put a new PCI network card in a 5-6 year old pc but it wouldn't fit in motherboard slots.

What kind of slots are these in the pic. The top card in the pic is the new pci network card and the bottom one is one of the cards that was in there :confused: http://ish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/slot.jpg
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it looks like an original AGP. could be wrong though, it's been a few years
 
If the PC is an old Pentium 2 or 3 then the pci slots are normally white and at the top, and the ISA slots are normally black and at the bottom. Also the ISA slots are longer than the PCI.
 
i don't have the pc here.all i have is the modem out of it which is in the pic.

All the slots on the mobo were the same apart from the graphics card one
 
It's just an older revision of the PCI interface :) It will still work in newer PCI slots though as we have a lot of older PCI network cards at school that look like that and we still use them :cool:
 
i couldn't get the new pci card to fit properly in the old version pci slot though :(
 
By the sounds of it the old PCI slot was PCI 2.0 or 2.1, and the video card (and most PCI cards) are PCI 2.1 or 2.2 these days.

Whilst the newer slots are usually backwards compatible the cards may not be.

IIRC the slot is not present on newer card versions to prevent you using a card of the wrong voltage in older slots (i think).
 
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