Old 1991 PCI Video Card

[opulent]

I am putting a new system together Here is a list of my new parts
I have everything but the new video card (which will arrive next week), and am wondering if it is safe to use an old 1991 Video card to test and get things started on my MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum Motherboard?

 

[mwmorph]

YES, PROVIDINBG IT STILL WORKS, and is VGA compatiable.

 

[cirthix]

heh, should work. run some games and laugh at it though lol

 

[imported_Hi]

didnt 91 pci cards have a difrrent voltage or slot
then pci cards today

 

[mwmorph]

anyone knbow if isa vidoe cards still work? i have a state of the art 2mb isa card i want to paly around with.(ahh... what happened to the glory days of replacing and upgrading the memory chips on your board??)

 

[kmmatney]

It should work fine in the PCI slot. I was using Vesa Local Bus in 1991, so that must have been a pretty fancy card to be PCI back then.

 

[Woody419]

What is the card? A PCI card will work just fine. Most 1991 AGP cards were 3.3v, the new motherboards take a 1.5v card and will not work with the 3.3v card. A 1.5v AGP card has three vertical slots.

Drivers..we don't need no stinkin' drivers. Everything looks just great at 640x480.

edit: if there were agp cards in 1991, my brain is shot, so much information - so little space.

 

[sparkyclarky]

I thought PCI came out in 92 or 93?

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Woody419
What is the card? A PCI card will work just fine. Most 1991 AGP cards were 3.3v, the new motherboards take a 1.5v card and will not work with the 3.3v card. A 1.5v AGP card has three vertical slots.

Well, actually, there may be a problem. I don't know if they were the standard when PCI first came out, but there are 5V and 3.3V PCI cards. I believe that a few new motherboards do not support 5V cards. You may want to check with the manual.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I used my PCI Voodoo3 to get my nF4 running until my X800XL arived. It should work unless the card does not work.

 

[Woody419]

With a set of Windows 3.1 disks you could dual boot

 

[Fenuxx]

Originally posted by: Woody419
With a set of Windows 3.1 disks you could dual boot

ROFL!

Nah, why that? I could send you a copy of the state-of-the-art Windows 1.01 (seriously, I have it in a ZIP file)! That's kickin some SERIOUS ass there