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February 25, 2013 1:40:39 AM

Ineed help with a answer for my labs.What tyes of expansion slots are available for nic, wirelessnic, and video adapter cards? I have studied my textbook and can't seem to find the answer. HELP PLEASE

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February 25, 2013 6:36:33 AM

Look at your motherboard or a diagram of one. NICs - wired or wireless - will fit in PCI slots and more modern PCIe and graphics cards fit in AGP, PCIe and even really old ones used to sit in PCI slots.

A simple Googling for "motherboard slots" found me this https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=motherboard+slots&hl=...
February 25, 2013 8:25:24 AM

Thankyou sooo much. I'm trying my best to learn this stuff, but atthe age 56, and never having had any computer interaction, I'ts hard to grasp sometime.And I feel really stupid sometimes when I ak my much younger and more experienced classmates. They give me this look like where have you been?
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February 25, 2013 9:21:25 AM

you are a GODSEND I just hve one more question,what happens when you boot your comp. an no optical drive is installed.please answer I have 1hour before i have to leave for class.
February 25, 2013 9:32:27 AM

If you want to be complete you can get wired ISA cards but that format is dead and buried now.

To your second question, the pc would boot from a 1) hard drive 2) usb drive 3) floppy drive 4) network or 5) optical drive. The choice of order for boot is set in the bios.
February 26, 2013 5:07:59 PM

Hey tranzz, you're a bit young to remember ISA cards. :D 

@ eric confused - I was a few months short of 56 when I started repairing PCs for a living in 2002. I still do it and it's the best job in the world because every day is different and no-one will ever learn it all. Youngsters may do it instinctively and fearlessly but age is no barrier to learning it, I assure you.

February 27, 2013 9:01:38 AM

thanks, for those words of encourgement. the information you provided definately helped me pass my labs,on monday.My next hurdle will be to install & unstall various windows OP.systms. So, pray for me and I'm sure that by the grace of god, I'll be sucessful. thank all of you for your input.
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