Crooked PCI bracket
Well i was installing a wireless card into a 2 year old gateway...not too sure about the model number etc...but i will look into it later
at any rate...when i installed the wireless card, it was impossible to put in...when i lined up the PCI card into the slot..the backet that would screw into the back was crooked...
(if you were looking down onto the motherboard, from the front. the bracket was slanted and was slanted to the left towards the bottom and a little too much towards the right on the top side IE: / )
at any rate, i couldnt install this, and i tried different PCI slots..and even took out the modem which was installed and used that PCI slot...and the same problem occurred... interestingly enough, there were no visible signs of slantedness when i looked at the card... at any rate
I took off the backet and installed it like that...could this cause a power surge? Also has anyone seen anything like this... i have an idea of how to correct it but im not 100% sure
at any rate...when i installed the wireless card, it was impossible to put in...when i lined up the PCI card into the slot..the backet that would screw into the back was crooked...
(if you were looking down onto the motherboard, from the front. the bracket was slanted and was slanted to the left towards the bottom and a little too much towards the right on the top side IE: / )
at any rate, i couldnt install this, and i tried different PCI slots..and even took out the modem which was installed and used that PCI slot...and the same problem occurred... interestingly enough, there were no visible signs of slantedness when i looked at the card... at any rate
I took off the backet and installed it like that...could this cause a power surge? Also has anyone seen anything like this... i have an idea of how to correct it but im not 100% sure
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Unless someone has stepped on the card it has to line up.
It is either bent, or it isn't a PCI card.
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BUT
will not having the bracket make the comp more suseptible to a static shock?
I did the same thing when I started working on my first pc.
And have seen others do the same until they figured the tilt thing out.
You have to angle the card, get the end in the slot then set the card.