I have a Dell 8400 that I have to fit an RME optical/ADAT card ( which is PCI) into the Dell which is running XP Professional.

tire333 · May 12, 2015

The RME card is PCI based and the Dell is PCIe based I have drivers for RME but not sure how an adapter PCIe to PCI will fare. Any ideas?

Phillip Corcoran · May 12, 2015

The 8400 is not "PCIe based". It's got both types of slots.

Adapter not required. According to the user manual the 8400 has got 3 x PCI slots. plus 2 x PCIe slots:

http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_dimension_desktops/dimension-8400_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf