Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Jdub03 on May 21, 2003, 09:54:00 AM
Title: Anyone with [u]EXPERTISE[u\]???
Post by: Jdub03 on May 21, 2003, 09:54:00 AM
Anybody know about AGP and PCI Expansion ports. I have an Emachine 900mhz Celeron. I need to install my newly acquired graphics accelerator, but its an AGP card. There are two pci slots and a third that says pci but nothings there. My question is can I add a AGP card to that empty slot or can I take the Other pci out and add an APG expansion slot. If so where can I get it from. I dont want to buy a whole new motherboard just to have the slot. Help me out if.
Title: RE: Anyone with EXPERTISE???
Post by: RickPowers on May 21, 2003, 10:17:13 AM
The AGP slot should be a brown color (usually), and isn't quite parallel with the white PCI slots. NO, you can not just "replace" a slot, or put an AGP card in a PCI slot. It sounds like your eMachine just doesn't have AGP, which was a pretty standard way to cut costs on those machines. Sorry.
Title: Anyone with EXPERTISE???
Post by: Jdub03 on May 21, 2003, 11:59:57 AM
Darn! Thanks for the help. So Ill have to buy another graphics thats pci compatible then. I figured that, I just didnt want to give up on my new geforce3 ti500. Oh well.
Title: Anyone with EXPERTISE???
Post by: Praxius on May 23, 2003, 03:14:55 AM
Well, I'd hang onto the Vid Card. You can pick up some decent motherboards with AGP Support for around $120 + and they'll last you a while, with upgrad capabilities and such. You will notice, however, most Video Cards now a days are all AGP. You might not have the option (Depending where you live) to get a PC Card. And in my opinion, it's worth the extra money.
Title: Anyone with EXPERTISE???
Post by: Grey Ninja on May 23, 2003, 01:10:10 PM
emachines are complete crap... I have had experience with them before.
If you don't have an AGP slot, the best you can hope for might be a GeForce2 MX. They are pretty rare in PCI though, so best of luck to ya in finding one. The video card is nice though, so I really would hold on to it in case you decided to get a new computer later on.
