I bought a new graphics card and it won't fit.

[biggandy]

Hello
I recently bought a nVidia Quadro 2 MXR for my new desktop. I took it out of its box and tried to put it in the AGP slot, but the card itself is too big, so the slot doesnt match up with the pins on the card. I'm wondering, why the card is to long, I thought there are standard sizes for length of a card so this wouldn't happen.

Thank you very much,


Andy Long
bigg_andy@hotmail.com

PS for a little visual if you didnt get what i meant by the pins didnt match up with the slot, it looked sorta like this
|if these four were the slot
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||and these were the pins on the card
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[rwise2112]

It sounds like one of two things:
[ol]
[li]The card you bought is a PCI card, and you are trying to install it in an AGP slot.
[li]The card you bought is a AGP Pro card, which will only fit in an AGP Pro slot, not an AGP slot.
[/ol]

 

[butchrecon]

Looks like rwise2112 is correct in the second part of his post. the Quadro 2MXR is an AGP Pro card. It looks like your AGP slot is an older AGP 1.0 slot. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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