What slot is this?

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:20

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

Fakel1ty · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:23

Ish said:
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 http://ish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/slot.jpg

it looks like an original AGP. could be wrong though, it's been a few years

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:24

i should have said the bottom card is a 56k modem

Explicit · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:41

ISA slot maybe? Don't quote me on that though.

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:54

i'm pretty sure isa slots were longer

Monstermunch · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:56

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.

WantoN · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:56

Could we see the motherboard?

Ant :cool:

Explicit · 10 Mar 2006 at 21:59

Run CPU-Z and give us the mobo details. The manufacturer's website should have the spec.

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:02

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

Trigger · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:14

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:

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:17

i couldn't get the new pci card to fit properly in the old version pci slot though

Werewolf · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:23

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).

Ish · 10 Mar 2006 at 22:25

cheers all. werewolf your info sounds right to me :cool: