re cards on a card motherboard carl christensen christen astro ocis temple edu wrote this may be the dumbest question of the year but is there a way to piggyback or expand a slot motherboard all bit to get the usual my case has slots for and i d like to get a scanner but with all my other cards i m already max d out i m hoping that a simple solution exists e g an adapter that turns i m not sure if this will work but how about using one of those t expanders used in the low profile cases they allow slots staggered on either side of the card you can install it in the last slot and then probably have or sideways slots this is actually how it is done in the low profile cases a standard motherboard the t connector in one slot and the expansion cards plugged into the t i guess you could do this at each end of the slots to add even more the t connectors are simply tracks with slots on them no electronics on it the only downside your case won t close but for a homebrew system that may not be a problem don t know about performance though i ll leave that discussion to the engineers gerry george anything good in life is either school of management boston univ illegal immoral or fattening internet ggeorge acs bu edu any item not in the above three compu erve compuserve com categories causes cancer in rats
