pci network card dosnt fill out the pci slot?
 

Hey
I am putting a new network card in a computer, I cant get the card into the pci slot.
However the slot is about ½ inch too long, the card however can still plug in.

Is there anyone that can confirm, that that is the reason I cant get that shit to work?

Thanks

http://dabagroup.com/netkort.jpg

if this is not a joke it seems your mainboard has pci slots and your nic seems is a pci x4... and yes this is the reason why it won't work :-)

allrighty, ill go get a network card that actually fits the slot then

Thanks..

is that a supermicro mobo?
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I have no clue about that.

I don't have any PCIe 4X cards but I was able to fit a PCIe 1X card into a PCI32 slot. First time I've tried that... kinda scary that they still mate. (Note the mainboard was not plugged in. :1orglaugh )

TommyM: PCI32 (the older style) and PCI Express are two completely different expansion slots which have different connectors and pinouts. If the backplate was on the card I doubt it would have matched. I'm amazed you didn't blow something up.

Go ahead with this setup, some cards are indeed are shorther, usually the cheap ones.
There are some longer cards on PCI-X that are compatible with pci.

OP is trying to put a PCI Express card into a PCI32 slot. That will never work.

(PCI Express is a stupid choice of name since it sounds a lot like the existing, but completely incompatible, PCI-X slot)

If you look on his picture, that is a PCI card into the slot but it is shorter.
The PCI Express card will not even fit in the slot.
I have too a shorter PCI card that is working.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...PCIe_Slots.jpg