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how can i find out if i can install a AGP or a PCI video card?
and how can i tell if i have PCI Express?

Open up the case and look for a brown slot similar to this...



if you have one, then you can use AGP cards.

similar story for PCI-Express, but the slot will look like this (I think, someone please confirm)

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Originally posted by saralk
Open up the case and look for a brown slot similar to this...



if you have one, then you can use AGP cards.

similar story for PCI-Express, but the slot will look like this (I think, someone please confirm)

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i'm not sure i have a the brown slot in the first picture. i opened it ope just to see, andi saw that my fan on my cpu is the size of a cd.
i'll post pictures later.

Simply look it up in your motherboard manual which cards your motherboard supports....

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Simply look it up in your motherboard manual which cards your motherboard supports....

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i don't have the manual for the motherboard... i'll just open up the box and see if i have those slots on the motherboard......

I suggest you take a picture inside your box...that will help to determine

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Originally posted by Mnjul
I suggest you take a picture inside your box...that will help to determine

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ok i will then

EDIT:[b] i can't , my digital camera battery died, i have to charge it.

and i looked inside my computer, and it has 3 white slots
and it has a place where i can add a AGP slot.

i went into my BIOS and it said the video card was on a PCI slot, but it wasn't.

The white slots are PCI slots, what color is the slot where your videocard is now?

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Originally posted by Ezra
The white slots are PCI slots, what color is the slot where your videocard is now?

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a small pink square.

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Originally posted by TheMusicPirate

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Simply look it up in your motherboard manual which cards your motherboard supports....

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i don't have the manual for the motherboard...

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I actually guessed this already Look it up on the internet then... You should always have a manual at hand for stuff like this...

Manuals like this are very important pieces of paper!!! NEVER throw them out. A manual is always included when you buy a motherboard. And when bought your computer at a retail store as a whole package a manual must be included also; iether as a physical book, or iether on your harddisk.

If you still don't have the manual (or the store kepper refuses to give you one; in that case kick his but and go to another shop), you can always download the manual from the motherboard manufacture's site...

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Originally posted by TheMusicPirate
and i looked inside my computer, and it has 3 white slots

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white slots can still mean anything. But these days, it usually are PCI slots...

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Originally posted by TheMusicPirate
and it has a place where i can add a AGP slot.

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This should be a brown slot.

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Originally posted by TheMusicPirate
i went into my BIOS and it said the video card was on a PCI slot, but it wasn't.

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if your BIOS says it is, then it is on a PCI slot. Your BIOS never lies (otherwise your mobo/graphics card wouldn't function anyways)

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Originally posted by TheMusicPirate

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Originally posted by Ezra
The white slots are PCI slots, what color is the slot where your videocard is now?

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a small pink square.

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hu? O.O .... slots are never "square"...