Asus A7N8X with an ATI ALL IN WONDER??

[mosprovider]

I just purchased and A7N8X and I was attempting to put the ATI card in the agp slot. The slot is different?!?! Will this work if I just put it in there? The card is a 32MB all in wonder, it says its a 4x card with I was told it would work in an 8x board. Or am I mistaken? HELP!! PLEASE..

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[BentValve]

The motherboard is defective, send it back to Newegg so they can sell it to me as a "reburb".

 

[mosprovider]

Thanks for the help a**..

 

[Mutilator]

I think that board has an AGP Pro slot... it'll look a little different but your ATI card will work just fine.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Mutilator
I think that board has an AGP Pro slot... it'll look a little different but your ATI card will work just fine.

it is an 8x AGP slot. it should work fine

 

[mrbios]

Are you sure the All-in-Wonder card you have is a 4x card? I think any pre-Radeon All-in-Wonder is 2x AGP, which will not work in your board. I could be wrong on the pre-Radeon part though. Maybe someone else could elaborate.

 

[magomago]

Are you trying to say that a TNT2 won't fit into a AGP8x slot!?!


I thought AGP Pro (8x?) was a little bigger to allow for more voltage - but there were no conumer cards with that ability!

Right off of the FAQ foo!

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: magomago
Are you trying to say that a TNT2 won't fit into a AGP8x slot!?!


I thought AGP Pro (8x?) was a little bigger to allow for more voltage - but there were no conumer cards with that ability!

Right off of the FAQ foo!

AGP Pro extends the existing AGP connectors on both ends to deliver additional power on the 12 V and 3.3 V rails. AGP Pro is intended to supplement, but not replace, the existing AGP connector set. There are an additional 20 pins at the start and 28 pins at the end of the normal AGP slot.

An AGP Pro slot will accept and operate with standard AGP cards (although certain restrictions apply in the case of i845 and i850 motherboards). AGP Pro cards however, are not compatible with standard AGP4X slots.

There is no performance difference between AGP4X and AGP Pro.

From Anandtech faq's dated 2-9-2002 before 8x agp became available.

Agp 8x is in no way exclusive to the Agp pro slot. While an AGP Pro socket can be 8xAGP it isn't certain that it is. 8x AGP is a function of the chipset not the physical agp slot. An agp Pro slot can be 1x-8x agp depending on the capabilities of the agp controller in the board chipset.
Your ATI card should work. You will just have extra unused slot space sort of like the old isa slots. Some isa cards didn't use all the slot connectors so no part of the card plugged into that part of the slot. As i recall there should be a little spacer with a yellow label over it in the rear portion of the slot that you remove if you are using an AGP Pro card and leave in if using a standard agp card to prevent incorrect alignment of the card contacts.

 

[mosprovider]

To update... Thanks for the help...

The card fit in the slot because the slot was bigger than the card. The card is suppose to fit there. They are both AGP so it worked. I looked at the manual when i got home and it shows my kind of card fitting in the slot and I knew I was okay.. Thanks for the help guys...

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