ATI Radeon 9000 All in wonder, installation trouble?

Question

I bought an ATI Radeon All in Wonder 9000, Phillips TV-Tuner, AGP PCI card, but it doesn't fit my old PC's PCI slot.
Any suggestions to solve the problem apart from buying a new PC :)
Thanks

Answer 1

It's an AGP card, & requires an AGP slot, not a PCI slot.
If your motherboard has no PCI slot then one of them will have to go.

If you investigate replacement of the motherboard, keep in mind that there exist different flavours of AGP - not all are compatible. (see link below).

Also, even if the new mobo will take your existing processor, you will probably need to remove the heatsink to remove the cpu. Then you will need to clear the cpu * base of the heatsink with special solvent and reapply some arctic silver or similar to ensure an even and efficcient connecion between the two.

Then it's likely that you would need to reload all your software from scratch.

If you were to buy a new new PC it might not have an AGP slot, as this is being superceded by the PCI-E slot.

Sorry. The only possible ray of hope is that your PC actually has an AGP slot - you just weren't looking for it, and it already has a graphics card therein. The R9000AIW would replace this card.
This might make you feel foolish briefly, but I hope that's the case, because it's all there is!

Answer 2

buy a agp cable splitter. it will be connected to the AGP slot then provide 2 extra PCI slot on the cable. then u insert. the 2 cards into the AGP slots on the cable. i doubt its easy to find. it is because my friend ever mentioned got such splitter AGP cable.just a suggestion. might not exist maybe because i never find before.

Answer 3

I was hoping to find an ISA card which would host a pci apg connector but the cost involed doesn't make it pratical. I would just get an ISA tuner card.