pcmcia slot on dell laptop?

bestyman

Hi,
I have a dell inspiron 1300 laptop about a year old. I bought from ebay a tv card , its a pcmcia . It wont fit in the slot . I tried my mates wifi pcmcia card and that wont fit either .
Does the dell have a special slot and if so what is it called?

Thanks in advance

Mark

joshm_2

It's Expresscard 34 - google it for more info.

bestyman

Thanks,
I think it could be expresscard54 as the bit that comes out is L shaped and the nearest size.

Problem now is that if i put expresscard 54 in ebay or ebayer i get very few results. I wanted to connect a ps2 to the laptop and the pcmcia tv card I have just bought would have been ideal if it had fitted.

Any ideas where to find a phono type input for this please?

Mark

Stephen_Leak

Dell laptops use a PCI Express Card slot. Technically, it is better than PCMCIA (People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms), but worryingly still not very well supported, even though it has been around for a long time in computing terms.

Browntoa

def 34 , not 54

bestyman

Thanks for replies.
Looks like USB may be the answer.
Any ideas if this would work please?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TV-Video-Audio-to-USB-2-0-PC-Capture-Adaptor-SVHS-Phono_W0QQitemZ270127130442QQihZ017QQcategoryZ67859QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

espresso

bestyman wrote: »

Thanks for replies.
Looks like USB may be the answer.
Any ideas if this would work please?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TV-Video-Audio-to-USB-2-0-PC-Capture-Adaptor-SVHS-Phono_W0QQitemZ270127130442QQihZ017QQcategoryZ67859QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That is an adaptor not a tuner. You would need something like this.

bestyman

Thanks. Are you sure a ps2 would connect to that though?

espresso

bestyman wrote: »

Thanks. Are you sure a ps2 would connect to that though?

Sorry I read your first post regarding a 'tv card' and not your second post where the PS2 was mentioned. No go for the PS2 with that USB tuner.

bestyman

Thanks, so would the first one work do you think?( the one on ebay).

I was thinking of connecting up the ps2 the same way as I would a camcorder .

espresso

bestyman wrote: »

Thanks, so would the first one work do you think?( the one on ebay).

I was thinking of connecting up the ps2 the same way as I would a camcorder .

I would think so but I have no experience of a PS2 and there is not too much techie info on that ebay page.