ATI Radeon 9500 Video Card too long for slot on motherboard - help?
February 22nd, 2008
free2smile_04 asked:
I bought my computer in the fall of 2006, directly from Dell. I purchased an ATI Radeon 9500 video card to add to it (all it had was an Intel Graphics Controller). My motherboard has two PCI-e slots, which match up with the ATI card, with one exception - the ATI video card is too long, so the PCI-e slot does not align properly with the video card. Is this a peculiarity to Dell computers, maybe they make them so they can only use Dell components? Or are there actually different lengths of video cards? What am I missing here?
According to the link you gave me, and to the instruction manual that came with the ATI card, it is definitely a PCI slot on the motherboard. However, you may be right that the video card is an AGP card instead of PCI. I will have to check. Thank you!
Thank you, Antonio, for giving me respect. It looks like the other responder was correct, however - the video card I purchased was AGP, not PCIe, and my computer has PCIe slots. Thank you all for all your help - I am learning as I go.
But Antonio was also correct in that my Dell is “shallow” and needs a shorter card. Thanks for the links!
Sequim PC
I bought my computer in the fall of 2006, directly from Dell. I purchased an ATI Radeon 9500 video card to add to it (all it had was an Intel Graphics Controller). My motherboard has two PCI-e slots, which match up with the ATI card, with one exception - the ATI video card is too long, so the PCI-e slot does not align properly with the video card. Is this a peculiarity to Dell computers, maybe they make them so they can only use Dell components? Or are there actually different lengths of video cards? What am I missing here?
According to the link you gave me, and to the instruction manual that came with the ATI card, it is definitely a PCI slot on the motherboard. However, you may be right that the video card is an AGP card instead of PCI. I will have to check. Thank you!
Thank you, Antonio, for giving me respect. It looks like the other responder was correct, however - the video card I purchased was AGP, not PCIe, and my computer has PCIe slots. Thank you all for all your help - I am learning as I go.
But Antonio was also correct in that my Dell is “shallow” and needs a shorter card. Thanks for the links!
Sequim PC
