3 ISA slots in my motherboard?

[Grayson Peddie]

Hey!

Is there anyway I can transform ISA slots into PCI slots? I don't use ISA any more and because of the fact is that I want to add IEEE1394 adaptor, and/or USB 2.0 adaptor, etc.

I am wondering if there's a transformer at retailers so that I can have an additional 2 aditional PCI slots.

So instead of:

PCI-1 = "ATI Xpert 128 PCI (no AGP slot)"
PCI-2 = "ATI All-In-Wonder VE"
PCI-3 = "DLink Ethernet 10/100 BaseT card"
ISA-1
ISA-2
ISA-3 = "LT Win Modem (controllerless)"

I want to turn it into:

PCI-1 = "ATI Xpert 128 PCI (no AGP slot)"
PCI-2 = "ATI All-In-Wonder VE"
PCI-3 = "DLink Ethernet 10/100 BaseT card"
PCI-4
PCI-5
ISA-1 = "LT Win Modem (controllerless)"

without buying a new motherboard.

Any suggestions? I hate it when I have to change it into a non-IBM motherboard. My computer is bought in 1997.

I heard that some users said that ISA's are not outdated but to my fact: it is! I thought I can phase out my ISA slots to turn it into PCI slots. (Please don't laugh at me. Because I am a computer expert.)

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Aptiva 2140-L5H
Pentium II 233MHz w/ MMX Tech
128MB ram
60GB hd (50GB left)
Windows XP
Creative Sound Blaster Xtigy
ATI Xpert 128
Comcast HighSpeed Service

[bistro]

In a word...Afraid not. Ok...ok...I know...that's two words. But really, no...there's no such animal. Shoot...if they actually were able to make such an adapter, it probably would have cost more than a new motherboard.

[Train]

you might turn this ""DLink Ethernet 10/100 BaseT card"" into a nic and usb2 or nic and IEEE1394 adaptor. Have seen them advertized in the newspaper ads.


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[Rapmaster]

There are adapters to convert PCI into ISA (to use an older card on a system with no ISA) but not ISA into PCI.

PCI is faster than ISA so the ISA bus wouldn't be able to keep up with the speed the devide wants to run at.


However there are ways to add PCI slots directly (I can't comment as to the relability of this)
http://www.magma.com/
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/pressr...pboards-2.html
http://www.aurorasystem.co.kr/pciexp...sion_6slot.htm

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[John Dos]

I am Interested in the Pci to ISA adaptors, can someone give me a website that sells them. thank you.

[Grayson Peddie]

Hey.

If you want to ask if there's a PCI to ISA adapter, you should start a new thread to prevent cluttering my thread. And I'm not getting a PCI to ISA adapter. My computer was built by IBM in 1997.

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Aptiva 2140-L5H
Pentium II 233MHz w/ MMX Tech
128MB ram
60GB hd (50GB left)
Windows XP
Creative Sound Blaster Xtigy
ATI Xpert 128
Comcast HighSpeed Service

[Grayson Peddie]

Hey thanks Rapmaster!

As an addition, I can't believe that I can add more PCI slots (ISA slots? No worries to me). BUT... the prices for all of those cost over $1,000 which is insane! Now... How can those prices are so high? I just feel like I have to wait 4 months until my money (to add it to my bank account) reaches over $1,000 (aka $360+/month). But I can't wait to buy that... maybe for my desktop and my laptop but whoa...! That also costs about $2500.

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Aptiva 2140-L5H
Pentium II 233MHz w/ MMX Tech
128MB ram
60GB hd (50GB left)
Windows XP
Creative Sound Blaster Xtigy
ATI Xpert 128
Comcast HighSpeed Service

[Rapmaster]

I didn't check the prices

at that price you'd be better off replacing the computer

I think those products might be geared to servers where they don't want to replace the whole thing to add a card

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here's one that converts PCI to ISA (probably very expensive as well... http://www.cmi-micro.com/pci-isa_exp_e.htm )

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