How do I get a PCI 2.1 Slot on my motherboard, if I don’t have one? I got this great new audio card, an E-MU 0404 (that I can’t return), but I don’t have a slot to put it in… I’m freakin pissed, so any help would be greatly appreciated. 
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you have to have PCI unless your computer is seriously really old. Its usually a black looking slot…otherwise unless your computer is acient and I meen acient you would have ISA… but every computer has PCI
are you sure you don’t mean PCI Express? I’m pretty sure a PCI 2.1 card plugs into a plain old PCI slot.
PCI express = video and not all boards have it.
some other cards are using PCI Express now, not just video.
who the hell would want to transfer sound that fast.
the same nerds who ran Quake III at 300fps?
<---- this guy right here 
motherboards made after 1998 support pci 2.1
This is the connectors on the card that I have:
The only slot in my computer, only accepts the first 2 sections of the connector…
Am I just being retarded here or something?
how old is it?
every computer I have takes the same thing, even my old piece of crap gateway from 2000 will take it
lol yes you are trying to plug into the agp slot.
take a pic of your mobo
her computer is not that old, it has PCI which is a white connector, EISA slots are brown or black and haven’t been put on a motherboard since I’d say around 99-2000…
I’ve had PCI cards like that where the 3rd ‘leg’ of the card is not actually in the slot - and it worked fine.
It was a SATA controller, FYI.
you’ve seen the inside of my computer, so will the white PCI connector work even though it doesn’t have the third section of it?
I bought this computer in June.
I’ve had PCI cards like that where the 3rd ‘leg’ of the card is not actually in the slot - and it worked fine.
So… should I try it and see if it works??? I’m really not trying to break anything… lol.
32bit vs 64bit
jenn… slam that in there and see if it works…it should line up fine… it will be limited to 32bit (from the sounds of it) on your motherboard… no big deal really.
if the first two will fit then put it in…data throughput will just be lower…but on a soundcard it’s not going to matter…
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I’m sorry I can’t really remember what the inside looked like but that really looks like a normal PCI card and I don’t imagine it having any problems fitting into a normal PCI slot, just the end might stick out, as mentioned before.