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Grapic card and wifi card issue on dell vostro

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santy1980   09-25-2009 at 08:34:18 AM

OK Guys am in bigg trouble. I hav this dell vostro 200 mini tower desktop. I recently bought a XFX Geforce 9400 GT 1GB graphic card for it. Now i got following slots on mother board. 1 PCI Express 16 X 1 PCI Express 1 X 2 PCI Now, the F-U is 1 WLAN card is already plugged on the PCI Express 1x slot. The Geforce card is so thick along with the heat sink that if i plug it on the 16 x slot, i need to remove the WLAN card orelse it just wont fit. please help me what can be done. Can the WLAN card be plugged in the PCI slot. i have already purchased the Graphic card and there is no way back.

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r_manic   09-30-2009 at 07:19:39 AM
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Well, you can try getting a PCI ribbon, plug your WiFi card into one end, and the motherboard into the other. A less elegant solution is a USB WiFi adapter.

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