Compaq Deskpro EN video card slot?

Question

I have a Compaq Deskpro EN, and I would like to get a video card. I have someone willing to sell me one, but he needs to know what kind of slot I have. Does anyone know what kind of slot this is, or where I can find out without taking my computer apart?

Answer 1

Go to the hp wesbsite and look up the model of your pc ,it will give the specs of it

Answer 2

If you look at your Compaq EN, you will notice that the video card is separate from where you would insert any other add on cards. Also the hole through which you can see the card is about half the height of all the other slots in your PC. (There are two such half height holes together.) If you were to open your PC, you would see that your video card actually covers BOTH of those half height opens.

While the slot is a standard PCI slot, the openings to which it attaches are not. Because of this, 99% of video cards on the market will not fit in the Compaq EN case. Compaq actually made their own video cards for the EN series, and like just about everything in the EN computers, they are non-standard.

So you can not replace that video card with anything else.

(Work in a site where I have supported about 800 ENs for several years).

Answer 3

I did a quick search and it seems that a Deskpro EN is an older model Compaq. It only handles AGP cards, frankly I wouldn't go crazy upgrading it, unless you can get the video card for really cheap.

Answer 4

sure you are able to. The exterior video enjoying cards are certainly the excellent ones and are some distance extra proper to integrated video enjoying cards. while you're thinking approximately getting an exterior video card, be certain you know which slot your motherboard helps(AGP or PCI-exhibit), and confirm you disable the integrated snap shots card in BIOS in the previous you set the exterior one in.