PCI Express cards and Touchsmart: HP TouchSmart Dev Zone

wu5262

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February 1, 2009 4:12 PM

where are you getting your IQ820UK? i can't find a place to place my order

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February 1, 2009 4:12 PM

where are you getting your IQ820UK? i can't find a place to place my order

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February 1, 2009 8:14 PM

The HP TouchSmart IQ500/IQ800 series does not have PCI Express slots.

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February 2, 2009 2:38 AM updated: February 2, 2009 2:51 AM

The IQ500/IQ800 series don't, but according to the hp specs, the IQ52x/IQ820 series do. I just wanted to see if anyone had used it before and whats in it when it arrives?

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06a/12454-12454-3352963-3352964-335...

The specification states:

System features
External drive bays
1 Pocket Media Drive bay
Video adapter, bus
1 PCI-Express 16x
External I/O ports
5 USB 2.0 ports (2 in front); 1 FireWireÂ®-IEEE-1394

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February 2, 2009 11:03 AM

Right, it's the bus of the video adapter being based on PCI-Express 16x. That is taken up by the internal video adapter, so not available to end users as far as I know. Let me do some research and see if I can get a definite answer.

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February 2, 2009 11:25 AM

you can get picture of the motherboard for touchsmart pc on HP website

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February 2, 2009 12:09 PM

I went and checked with one of the hardware engineers. There are no PCI-Express slots available to plug something like the TV tuner you mention into. Even if a slot existed on the motherboard, the form factor of the enclosure doesn't have room for conventional PCI-Express cards as seen in standard tower desktop PCs. This goes for the IQ820 series as well.

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February 2, 2009 12:39 PM

Thanks very much for your reply. The motherboard specs say there are 2 PCIe x1 slots but I guess, given the design of the pc, these would be for custom HP parts to fit into.

Its a shame the touchsmart range dont have a hdmi slot so that I could maybe hook up a Freesat hd box to it and utilise the IR Receiver so I could tuck the freesat box out of the way. I think I will have to have a rethink!

Thanks for all you're help.

btw wu5262, i was going to buy my IQ820 from CCL (its marked as IQ520 but pretty sure its the 820 as indicated by price and specs):
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=30763&category_id=591&ma...

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