PCI express to PCI converters are available

[brianz999]

OK, maybe I know what this could be used for (correct me if I am wrong)

If you have a PCIe-16 video card (Like I do) then another Video card that is PCI legacy, they will not mesh together. (as far as I can tell)

BUT, if you had one of these converters, and converted it to X1, then you would be OK with the PCI device. Because X1 and X16 work well together.

Can you use a PCIe-16 and regular PCI card together when video is concerned? I would vote no.

SO, I realy want and need one of these cards for that.

I bought an HP8100y, and it only has the PCIx slots and the PCIe-16 and one legacy PCI.

[Steve]

What do you mean by mesh together; use in the same PC for multi-display purposes?

If so, you can mix any flavour of graphics card in hardware - software conflicts are your only likely issue.

You can tell motherboards which graphics card to initialise first through the BIOS: PCI/PCIE (or AGP on older systems).

[Funkstar]

BUT, if you had one of these converters, and converted it to X1, then you would be OK with the PCI device. Because X1 and X16 work well together.

No reason a PCI-e and PCI graphics cards wouldn't work together other than driver issues.

Anyway, they adapter doesn't turn the card isn't a PCIe card, it turns the slot into a PCI slot (of mulptiple slots). So the OS will still see a PCI bus and a PCI graphics (or whatever) card in there.

[Agent]

Can you use a PCIe-16 and regular PCI card together when video is concerned? I would vote no

PCI ports are dumb. They don't care what you plug in them, it will work.
If they don't at the POST level, its either a BIOS bug or a IRQ issues (unlikely).

If you have any software issues, that's an OS issue, nothing to do with the ports that are used.
Just for reference I know loads of people (and I have too) that have used the two together fine. In fact if you flash your graphics cards BIOS and mess it up, you'll probably go this route to fix it