I have a Dell computer built Jan 1997. I went to install a new video card only to find out that it has both an AGP and PCI slots? I took the tower to Best Buy to show the tech guy. He said that it was an early version and the new 2x/4x AGP cards will not work. The sticker on my original card shows it to be a (1.7) Velocity 128 AGP. Another source told me the new 2x/4x cards should be "reverse" swap-able?
The new card will fit the slot, but will it work?

My mother board has 4 white PCI slots and one brown AGP slot? I was told this is a rare board, albeit, a rock in horse sh!t is rare , but that doesn't make it worth anything http://www.chevelles.com/forum/redface.gif

Just about every computer mother board has PCI and AGP slots.

A 4x AGP slot can run at 2X so you can use a 2x or 4x AGP vid card. If your AGP slot is 2x only, I think your video card has to support 2x to work. I am not certain and every video card I have seen is 2x/4x so I've never thought about it.

Tim.

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What card is it? I dont think Geforces will work on anything but 4x

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Radeon 7000

It says it is 2x compliant, what are the specs of your computer? This card may be way more then what your computer could possibly use.

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* Upgraded with one 256 ram stick
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[This message has been edited by Cardiac (edited 03-30-2002).]

If you already have the ATI card I have a recommendation. Put the card in and see if it works. Isn't going to hurt anything if it doesn't. By all means use the AGP slot if you can. Is the AGP slot used by the existing card? If not you may want to tell your bios to use AGP first instead of PCI, assuming you have the option. Also suggest setting the video to VGA in XP before you make the swap. Also most motherboards seem to use the same IRQ for the AGP slot and the first(adjacent)PCI slot. Some PCI cards like network adapters hate to share an interrupt so I'll leave the first PCI slot empty unless I have a card that will play nice there.

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The first PCI slot and now the AGP slot is empty. The original card was a Dell Velocity 128 AGP (1.7)

I ended up with a ATI "Radeon" PCI card per recommendations from "Best Buy" because he thought there may some conflicts with my motherboard and the new AGP card. The new card has an extra tab (w/elect. connectors) that just hangs over the edge of the slot. I was told this appendage is for a "Pro-Slot"? This "new" AGP card will fit in the slot though.

The PCI card seems to work OK although I probably wouldn't know if something was amiss anyway.
I want the AGP card, but don't want to run into problems down the road when I can't return it.

If I'm going to return the PCI card I need to do it within the next 10 days

i have been reading about new video cards recently because my primary system quit and thought i was going to have to build myself a new one. saw the agp pro compatible motherboards and cards. the guy at best buy is correct about the tab. i don't think i would try the pro card in you system since it's likely to be too advanced to work. i do think a decent 2x compatible card would be ok though. have u talked to dell about this? they should be able to tell you for sure what you can use. sorry i can't be more certain. maybe i should just shut up.

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As a matter of fact I just posted here.... http://delltalk.us.dell.com/messages/message_view.asp?name=dim_dim_video&id=zxpaz