Have I bought the right USB2 card?

[MorseLady]

I am in the process of installing hardware upgrades to my husband's Celeron 700mhz PC with MicroStar m/bd. I have just upgraded it from ME to XP Home.

I bought a Belko Low Profile PCI card with two ext and one int port from PC World today. I have just noticed that the bit you put in the slot is not the same as the network card I successfully installed last night ie the slots have one long bit withb a tiny gap and a short bit same as the network card but the USB2 card has a long middle bit and two short side bits. Can I fit it or not and what is a low profile card anyway? I do not want to open the bubble pack if there is a chance it is the wrong part.

[TripleRLtd]

The low profile cards fit in low profile cases which are made by several companies now, including dell and gateway. It sounds to me like you have a "custom" built clone circa 2000 which would require the standard non-low profile cards.
PS
I hate those low profile pcs.

Let me add this:

Low-Profile PCI is a new PCI card standard for space-constrained system designs. The new form factor maintains the same electrical characteristics, protocols, PC signals and software drivers as standard PCI v2.2 expansion cards.
They are also mechanically similar; however, Low-Profile PCI is an additional form factor that defines a shorter raw card and new mounting bracket for card retention.

The mounting bracket wil be the problem you need to be concerned with. IOW: low profile bracket won't mount in your pc, so exchange.

[MorseLady]

The low profile cards fit in low profile cases which are made by several companies now, including dell and gateway. It sounds to me like you have a "custom" built clone circa 2000 which would require the standard non-low profile cards.
PS
I hate those low profile pcs.

Let me add this:
The mounting bracket wil be the problem you need to be concerned with. IOW: low profile bracket won't mount in your pc, so exchange.

Yes indeed TripleRLtd the mounti9ng bracket is way too short and how stupid of me not to notice because I have installed a USB2 card in my main computer and network cards in all three so I should have seen it was too short. I will take it back to PC World and get the right one. All our computers here are mini/midi ATX towers and have standard boards.

I stood there for ages at checkout discussing with our friendly cashier Davina whether I had the right card and even though she is not a tech she thought I should have bought the standard one but it cost half as much again and I did not realise it was different! Teach me to be mean