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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
No, this makes no sense at all. It sounds like your tech guy doesn't know what he is doing or talking about or he is pulling one over you.
The only way this makes any sense is two things:
1. If you are trying to install two cards as some multi-videocard motherboards will only accept Crossfire (ATI) or SLI (nVidia).
2. For a single card, anything at all should work in there unless your motherboard is really bad and the slot is PCI-E 1.0. which it shouldn't be unless it's a very old system in which case any modern videocard from Nvidia or ATI can encounter problems.
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No reason for him to be "pulling one over on me". I would say that he really knows his stuff. It could be I am mis-stating his thoughts. This is costing him time and $ to fix the problem. THe ATI card worked once on installation, but was not found on any further re-boots. One theory was that my computer came with an NVIDEA card, and was constructed to prefer NVIDEA cards. He also thinks it may simply be that the ATI card is faulty.