Card Slot Identification - Revision history

Kevin.Williams at 23:25, 5 July 2014

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Sophia at 00:49, 16 October 2009

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Kathie2.0: add exercise instructions

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add exercise instructions

Kathie2.0 at 23:07, 27 June 2009

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Kathie2.0 at 22:55, 27 June 2009

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Sophia at 21:47, 27 June 2009

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Rfs at 15:30, 29 May 2009

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Kathie2.0 at 21:09, 9 May 2009

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	'''OBJECTIVE:''' Be able to recognize the types of card slots on the motherboard and install and remove them efficiently		'''OBJECTIVE:''' Be able to recognize the types of card slots on the motherboard and install and remove them efficiently

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	'''OBJECTIVE:''' Be able to recognize the types of card slots on the motherboard and install and remove them efficiently		'''OBJECTIVE:''' Be able to recognize the types of card slots on the motherboard and install and remove them efficiently

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 ;    1.  '''Checking the distance between the outside of the box on the motherboard and the beginning of the pins'''
-:         AGP slot will have about a 2 5/8" gap between plate and pins
+:         AGP slot will have about a 2 5/8" (6.7 cm) gap between plate and pins
-:         PCI slot has about a 1 5/8" gap between plate and pins
+:         PCI slot has about a 1 5/8" (4.1 cm) gap between plate and pins
-:         PCI-express (PCI-e) video slot will have approximately 1 3/4" between plate and pins, slightly farther from plate than PCI
+:         PCI-express (PCI-e) video slot will have approximately 1 3/4" (4.3cm) between plate and pins, slightly farther from plate than PCI
-:         ISA slot will have about a 1" gap between the plate and pins
+:         ISA slot will have about a 1" (2.5 cm) gap between the plate and pins
 ;    2.  '''Looking at the connector contact openings on the slots themselves'''

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 ;    1.  '''Checking the distance between the outside of the box on the motherboard and the beginning of the pins'''
-:         AGP slot will have about a 3" gap between plate and pins
+:         AGP slot will have about a 2 5/8" gap between plate and pins
-:         PCI slot has about a 1 1/2" gap between plate and pins
+:         PCI slot has about a 1 5/8" gap between plate and pins
 :         PCI-express (PCI-e) video slot will have approximately 1 3/4" between plate and pins, slightly farther from plate than PCI
 :         ISA slot will have about a 1" gap between the plate and pins

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-There are standard colors for the card slots: black for ISA, tan for PCI, brown for AGP but that does not mean that all motherboard vendors will stick with those colors.  So you cannot rely on the colors of the slot plastic to be able to identify them.  There are also standard locations for the slots but again, you can't depend on that.
+There are standard colors for the card slots: black for ISA, tan for PCI, brown for AGP but that does NOT mean that all motherboard vendors will stick with those colors.  So you cannot rely on the colors of the slot plastic to be able to identify them.  There are also standard locations for the slots but again, you can't depend on that.
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 The Industry Standard Architecture slot was first implemented in the early 1980's by IBM. This card was capable of transferring data to and from the computer, opening up a world of possibilities from printing to networking with other computers.
 The 8 bit technology of the ISA card was soon improved upon and a 16 bit bus was implemented.  Increasing the slot and card length allowed for data to transfer much faster. The bright side of the new architecture was that you could still use a 8 bit card in a 16 bit slot, allowing users who could only afford a new computer and not new cards to maintain the usability of their new computer.  While the 8 bit ISA slot and 16 bit ISA slot differ in length they both start a little less than 1 inch from the back of the motherboard.
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 ;    1.  '''Checking the distance between the outside of the box on the motherboard and the beginning of the pins'''
 :         AGP slot will have about a 3" gap between plate and pins
-:         PCI slot has a slightly less than a 2" gap between plate and pins:
+:         PCI slot has about a 1 3/4" gap between plate and pins
-:         PCI-express video slot will have approximately 2 1/4" between plate and pins
+:         PCI-express (PCI-e) video slot also will have approximately 1 3/4" between plate and pins, so check the below information to distinguish between PCI and PCI-express
 :         ISA slot will have about a 1" gap between the plate and pins
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 The PCI-E slot
-The Peripheral Component Interconnect Express card or PCI-E slots can very in sizes from 1 3/4 to 3 1/4 and is found about 2 1/4 in from the back of the mother board. There are two types of this card slot. One is for video card known as a PCI-E 16x slot type and the other is a small slot type known as PCI-E 8x. The 8x card slot is designed to be as versatile as the standard PCI slot in the wide array of cards that can function in this slot. This card slot is 4x faster then the speed of the PCI bus. That means that there is a Gigabyte of information going to and from the card.
+The Peripheral Component Interconnect Express card or PCI-E slots can very in sizes from 1 3/4 to 3 1/4 and is found about 1 3/4 in from the back of the mother board. There are two types of this card slot. One is for video card known as a PCI-E 16x slot type and the other is a small slot type known as PCI-E 8x. The 8x card slot is designed to be as versatile as the standard PCI slot in the wide array of cards that can function in this slot. This card slot is 4x faster then the speed of the PCI bus. That means that there is a Gigabyte of information going to and from the card.

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	The 8 bit technology of the ISA card was soon improved upon and a 16 bit bus was implemented. Increasing the slot and card length allowed for data to transfer much faster. The bright side of the new architecture was that you could still use a 8 bit card in a 16 bit slot, allowing users who could only afford a new computer and not new cards to maintain the usability of their new computer. While the 8 bit ISA slot and 16 bit ISA slot differ in length they both start a little less than 1 inch from the back of the motherboard.		The 8 bit technology of the ISA card was soon improved upon and a 16 bit bus was implemented. Increasing the slot and card length allowed for data to transfer much faster. The bright side of the new architecture was that you could still use a 8 bit card in a 16 bit slot, allowing users who could only afford a new computer and not new cards to maintain the usability of their new computer. While the 8 bit ISA slot and 16 bit ISA slot differ in length they both start a little less than 1 inch from the back of the motherboard.

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