Amy Developer Motherboard.

[Darrin]

I'm not sure what you mean by "hard to spot" PCI graphics cards when all the major retailers (including Walmart) have bucket loads of brand new ones cluttering up the shelves.

[Darrin]

Are you sure they aren't PCI-EXPRESS ones?

The day you'll plug a PCI EXPRESS card in a PCI slot and you'll succeed running it, please call me and tell me how you did. Until that, it's impossible, and PCI cards (not the easy-to-spot-since-there-are-loads-of-them PCI Express ones) are now rare, obsolete and pricey.

Absolutely.  I do know the difference.

Is there a chance that what you think are PCI-E cards are actually PCI cards?  You'll have a hell of a time trying to fit a PCI card into your PCI-E slot.  If you do manage it then give me a call and tell me how you did it otherwise it's impossible you know.  

PCI cards are still everywhere here and are extremely cheap, unlike the more expensive PCI-E cards.  Places like Walmart love them because almost everyone has a spare PCI slot in their PC and most of their customers probably don't know the difference between PCI, AGA and PCI-Express (although they do sell all of them online).

[Darrin]

Hope this pic of one of our Software development and testing systems (taken today) helps?

Why are you apparently testing it on the floor on a nylon carpet?  I recommend some sort of workbench - it will save you some back pain.