Taking My Old PC Apart

[EvilCrow]

I decided to take apart my old P1 computer and put it back together cuz I was bored.

I took out the motherboard and I found a few slots that resemble PCI, but they're longer and can't fit a PCI card, anyone know what they're called? Just curious.

Here's the specs for this PC :

Intel Pentium 166MHz w/ MMX
Some crappy Intel motherboard
46MB EDO Memory
2.1GB Seagate Hard Drive
S3 Trio 64 integrated video w/ 2MB EDO RAM

Hehe...

[Xeroid]

Probably ISA slots.

[meese]

Are you talking about the 8/16 bit ISA slots used for legacy add on cards? If so these used to be the one and only slot built into pc's until PCI came along.

[Einsamherz]

If they're behind a 16-bit ISA slot it could be VESA a.k.a. VLB. If not, they could be EISA (Enhanced ISA).

Have Fun!

[EvilCrow]

Hmm, they're are 3 of these slots, and 3 PCI slots...
I'm thinking it's a type of ISA?

[DoctorReno]

Normally the PCI slots are white and the ISA are blackish. If it is above the PCI slots and smaller/shorter and brown that is an AGP slot.
I would suspect since you have PCI in your machine that what you are talking about is EISA, Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture.

[EvilCrow]

Originally posted by DoctorReno
Normally the PCI slots are white and the ISA are blackish. If it is above the PCI slots and smaller/shorter and brown that is an AGP slot.
I would suspect since you have PCI in your machine that what you are talking about is EISA, Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture.

They are black, and they are definitely not AGP.
They're either ISA or EISA.