PCI is an old technology. It's slowly being replaced by other technologies.
The PCI slot is faster. Offer mayor speed because the PCI use more faster BUSes and new architectures. The PCI EXPRESS is the newest version of the PCI architecture.
The slot which the video card needs to work. The slot is usually either an AGP slot (which is currently outdated), or the more recent PCI-E slot, which all new graphics cards nowadays use.
Take out your side panel of your computer. Find the PCI-Express slot or any slot that you have. Try to take out the graphic card from your motherboard and replace with a new one.
IA stands for Industrial Standard Architecture and is used for transfer data bits
Try re-seating the video card in it's pci slot, or installing a new card if the video is on the motherboard.
Most computers come with an Integrated Video Chipset, which means yes it's pre-installed. If you buy a new motherboard, it may not come with Integrated graphics, but it will have either a VGA or PCI-E slot to add an external one. Then again, if a motherboard had integrated graphics it also may still have a VGA or PCI-E slot to upgrade.
Hi im Theo How Do you go about checking the motherboard NIC Drivers
Neither. The motherboard is only equipped with PCI slots. There are solder holes on the board where a PCI Express slot would have gone, but HP chose not to populate it on this model. The circuitry is probably still intact, but it would take some moderate soldering skills to attach a new slot, and would certainly void your warranty.
A PCIe x16 graphics card will not work in a normal PCI slot. PCIe or PCI Express is a new standard in expansion interfaces. PCIe is physically and electronically incompatible with PCI slots.
You can disable the onboard video, and install a new video card into a pci slot. It should work fine. Good luck. but my PC doesnt turn on?
No, this is not possible. The chipset on your motherboard controls your interfaces, and if it's programmed to understand AGP instructions, it cannot use PCI express instructions. The chipset is soldered onto the board, and cannot be replaced. Not to mention you can't plug a PCI express card into a AGP port, or a regular PCI port, so you don't even have anyplace to plug the card in. In short, if you must have PCI express, and your motherboard isn't built for it, your only option is to get a new motherboard.
If you want the best performance that's the way to go.If you're buying a new motherboard it's the current technology.