pci Video CArd won't fir in PCI slot

I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
express graphics card. what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.

Mother board: |____|_______________________| I/O plate at back of
computer

Card |_______________________|____| Digital/Analog and
S-video output.

I can't just reverse the card because the I/O would be towards the
inside of the box. Am I crazy or missing something. THe card is for
PCI Express 16X and the computer doesn't specify wether the slots are
1x or 16x etc. would that matter. Every mother board I look at is
the same and every graphics card I see images of are the same. I
don;t see how they fit.

> I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
> express graphics card. what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
> and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.

Have you got a PCI-e graphics card, and only standard PCI slots ?

"Colin Wilson" < o.uk> wrote
in message news: t...
>> I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
>> express graphics card. what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
>> and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.
>
> Have you got a PCI-e graphics card, and only standard PCI slots ?

this is exactly what it sounds like to me. tell us the exact model dell
that you have and what your goal it, and what your budget is and people can
offer you some suggestions on what to buy.
ps. you might get more response from the alt.sys.pc-cone.dell group... this
group barely has a pulse.

On Sep 23, 3:07 pm, APry...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am helping a friend upgrade from a built in graphics card to a pci-
> express graphics card. what i am seeing is the cards PCI connectors
> and the PCI slot on his Dell computer are reversed.
>
> Mother board: |____|_______________________| I/O plate at back of
> computer
>
> Card |_______________________|____| Digital/Analog and
> S-video output.
>
> I can't just reverse the card because the I/O would be towards the
> inside of the box. Am I crazy or missing something. THe card is for
> PCI Express 16X and the computer doesn't specify wether the slots are
> 1x or 16x etc. would that matter. Every mother board I look at is
> the same and every graphics card I see images of are the same. I
> don;t see how they fit.

The computer has regular (old) PCI slots. A PCI-E (express) card
won't fit in an old style PCI slot. It's not meant to. Its a
different communication standard. It would have helped everybody if
those who designed these things didn't use PCI in the name of the PCI-
E. They should have used a totally different acronym and an obviously
different slot pattern, not one that's simply reversed and uses the
same color. It was bound to cause confusion. The XFXforce
installation guide (with a PCI-E card), for example, doesn't make the
distinction between PCI and PCI-E... just refers to PCI !! Shame on
them.