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One person's harmless japery can be another's night of LaserJet Lego

BinkyTheMagicPaperclip Silver badge

Re: ORLY?

I have customised slots in this way - the best way is to dremel the end of the slot sideways very slowly rubbing away more of the plastic until the card fits. If you do it length ways the probability of breaking things is much higher. Other people have melted the end but I wasn't keen on this.

In general I would strongly recommend a slot converter or extender instead, it's just too risky.

The server I adapted was to run OS/2 for old times sake, so it didn't really owe me anything, and I got it for free (sans hard disk) as work would have had to pay disposal costs otherwise. That server also had a piece of plastic in the middle of the slot, as Dell really *really* didn't want you to use 16x PCIe cards in it. A mini box cutter and customised hacksaw blade from the pound shop worked for that.

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