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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
Its blocking them and i need them
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
what card ya got? you only got one pcie slot? absolutely no option of moving it about?
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
how do you move it around
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
well what motherboard do you have?

chances are your graphics card is in a pcie slot (hopefully)

if your motherboard has two of these slots then we can just simply move it into the other
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
mrdavey: most boards with 2 SLI slots have the other running at a lower speed (typically 8x). I wouldn't recommend that. You might have IRQ conflicts, and 99% of the time the top PCI-E slot is the one you're supposed to put it in (so it's unlikely moving it will help, probably hurt :p).

If it's in the bottom slot move it up, if not get a new board.
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
Originally Posted by Carbon View Post
mrdavey: most boards with 2 SLI slots have the other running at a lower speed (typically 8x). I wouldn't recommend that. You might have IRQ conflicts, and 99% of the time the top PCI-E slot is the one you're supposed to put it in (so it's unlikely moving it will help, probably hurt :p).

If it's in the bottom slot move it up, if not get a new board.
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Default My Graphics Card is blocking my PCI slots what do i do?
Lots of the newer Graphics Cards have tall components/fans that will block the PCI slots.
There's not a lot you can do about it, other than change your Graphics Card, but that isn't usually practicle.

What do you need the PCI slot(s) for ? and what is in the PCI slots currently? ..... there maybe a workaround perhaps ?
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