Will Abit IP35 recognize my 8yr old PCI video card?

[Celstar]

I'm waiting for dell to ship the 8800 gt, but in the meantime I have all my parts but no video card to test with. I have an old PCI video card from years ago but I wonder if there are any issues using it? I am concerned the board won't even recognize the video card, or worse the card might short out the board? I don't have any solid basis for saying that, but I'm feeling paranoid about putting something that old into a new board.

Thoughts? I've been out of the building scene for a while now.

 

[vailr]

Should be fine.
It's a good idea to keep a spare PCI video card around, in the rare case of: when update flashing the regular video card's bios, and something going awry.

 

[jonmcc33]

PCI is a standard. There will be no problems. My only wonder is why such an old video card? You can get a PCIe video card rather cheap these days. I managed to snag a brand new retail Sapphire Radeon X550 from NewEgg for $20. It would probably eat that PCI video card alive...

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Clear CMOS before 1st boot and board should detect the GPU. I don't think anyone can guarantee hardware compatibility. Use the PCI slot closest to the CPU. You may need to shutdown/restart several times for proper detection.

 

[Celstar]

Thx guys, I'll give it a shot and report back if it works.

 

[joeyjojojrshabadoo]

I'm in the exact same shoes, except waiting for the 3870 instead of the 8800gt. Used an old PCI card just fine to get everything going and working and tweaked. Of course, my "Creative Blasters 3D TNT - can't remember what - PCI card" (something like 32mb or memory or some such thing) only gets 40 FPS in Crysis with everything on high...just kidding.
You'll be fine. No worries. Hope Dell comes through for us.