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December 14th, 2001, 12:23 AM
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| | Canuck
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Langley, BC, Canada
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| Fact or Fiction: Never put a card in the slot directly below the video card.
It may conflict with it.... true with AGP and PCI????? | 
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December 14th, 2001, 12:24 AM
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| | Real gangstas sip on Yacc
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Do you mean any card?
OI know that sound cards can cause quite a few conflicts if placed there.
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December 14th, 2001, 12:25 AM
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I don't know it for a fact, but I always avoid it.
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December 14th, 2001, 12:27 AM
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| | Canuck
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I avoid putting ANYTHING there.... would it be ok to stick say a network card??? | |
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December 14th, 2001, 12:32 AM
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I think that its been mentioned that it might cause some problems but I don't think that it always does. If nothing else, you can always try it and if something does go wrong just move it.
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December 14th, 2001, 12:33 AM
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One thing with my systems is that I never enable "PNP OS" in the bios... seems to clear up the problems with the sharing of PCI ports between the AGP and the 1st PCI slot....
maybe I am wrong but maybe I am right. Not sure but I don't like the O/S mucking automatically with my IRQ and DMA's...
I'd rather set them manually.
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December 14th, 2001, 12:33 AM
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I generally can't put anything there, it's usually a shared slot, (shares same part of rear panel) | |
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December 14th, 2001, 12:36 AM
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yup....I usually put the NIC next to the AGP. Just because it is the most flexable card when it comes to using resources. Just as SixPac mentioned ... setting PNP to NO will allow the mobo bios to assign resources and resolve conflicts (which works a lot better than Microsoft). It usually does so (IRQ wise anyways- memory addressing is hard coded by slot) by assigning built in legacy first and then PCI slot nearest edge as it works towards the AGP slot. Unless assign IRQ to AGP is selected whereas it will assign AGP IRQ before it runs the PCI slots. I've found placing cards such a SCSI controllers and sound cards to work more successfully on first attempt when kept furthest away from the AGP slot without using the shared ISA/PCI slot (if your board has an ISA slot).
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December 14th, 2001, 12:36 AM
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I thought that the main reason to avoid it is because of heat issues.
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December 14th, 2001, 12:51 AM
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I don't have anything in the PCI next to AGP because of the heatsink and fan stuck on it.
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