<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Walter Dnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org">waltdnes@waltdnes.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I said to myself "No problem, I've got a PCI video card kicking<br>
around. I'll stick it in and I'm set". Unfortunately, PCI slots seem<br>
to have changed over the years, and the video card doesn't fit into the<br>
slots on the older Dell. I don't know the names of the specs, but as<br>
they say "a picture is worth a thousand words". First a picture of the<br>
slots in the older Dell...<br>
<a href="http://clients.teksavvy.com/%7Ewalterdnes/misc/slots.jpg" target="_blank">http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/slots.jpg</a><br>
Next is a snap of an older firewire card (left) which fits the slot, and<br>
the spare video card (right) which does not fit...<br>
<a href="http://clients.teksavvy.com/%7Ewalterdnes/misc/cards.jpg" target="_blank">http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/cards.jpg</a><br></blockquote><div><br>That's an AGP video card, not PCI: <a href="http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html">http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html</a><br>
<br>And there were at least two variants of AGP connector, and about three different voltages the cards could work at. <br><br>I think the black slot is also an AGP slot, but it's too old for your video card. <br></div>
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