Hi,
Can someone please help me,
I have just brought a new chipset and processor and was hoping to use my old graphics card in it until I could afford to upgrade.
The trouble is that the new board only has AGPx8 slot and PCI Express slot and my graphices card is AGPx4.
When I boot up the pc I get nothing displayed on my monitor, is this because I can't use an AGPx4 in an AGPx8 motherboard or is there something else wrong??
I would be greatful for any help you can provide.
Regards
Canary_mark
The AGP slots are backwards compatible, so there shouldn't be any issues running an AGP4x card in an AGP8x slot. Read your motherboard's manual carefully to ensure that you have set everything up properly. I haven't worked with boards that have both AGP and PCI-E, but I'm sure that you need to make some jumper or configuration modification to tell the mobo which slot to use.
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