[ale] AGP card slot issues, again

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Sat Jan 8 14:47:40 EST 2005


> Are you aware that there are different agp slots for a reason?   The older
> slots are for earlier cards and have different voltages for those cards.
> The later cards use lower voltages, IIRC, and if you can force one of
> those into an old slot, you may have some smoke at worst or simply a dead
> card from then on.
> 
> Bottom line, check your mobo specs and be sure they match your AGP card.

Yep.  The Radeon 7000 is 2X/4X AGP, and the Gateway E3200 is older, so
I'm taking the risk that Gateway didn't spend extra money to make an
office-targeted machine forward upgradeable....

I' m starting to think I need to take photos of the mobo, the card and
all to make myself clear....thousand words and all that....


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