Old(er than I thought) Video Card, New Motherboard

[AlexSmrgle]

So my main computer started having trouble and it seems like it might be the video card so, feeling sure that I had an old video card my dad gave me when he upgraded a bit ago sitting around here that I thought worked, I figured I'd just swap it in to see if that was the problem (considering current pricing of things) only to discover upon digging it out that the card I remembered having is...older than I thought.
Old enough that its not on PC Part Picker for me to look up whether its compatible with the motherboard I have.
My knowledge of hardware is scant at best and when it comes to this card, which is almost as old as me, basically nonexistent, so, slightly odd/possibly dumb question but is it even worth trying to plug in a Matrox Millennium II from around 1997 to my Asus Z97-A motherboard to see if the issue was the video card or should I give in and take it to a shop where they likely have newer cards or something they can test with.
I'm not even sure the card will plug in physically because its so much smaller than the current card in there.
I haven't actually tried slotting it in because I noticed the massive size and age difference between my card and the old card I had laying around as soon as I found it in my old computer bits cabinet so I haven't bothered with the always hard to unfasten thumbscrews my video card is held in by.

 

TLDR: Will a Matrox Millenium II video card plug into an ASUS Z97-A motherboard at all? Will it run in any fashion at all, sufficient to seeing if my (much) newer video card is the problem?

[Middcore]

The Matrox Millennium II is an AGP card, so no, you can't plug it into your motherboard. 

[Jurrunio]

Your board only takes PCIe cards, Millennium 2 is AGP from what I can tell.

[AlexSmrgle]

@MiddcoreI knew it was AGP because I have that marked on the package its in but I don't know anything else about AGP so I wasn't sure but figured it wouldn't. Thanks for the speedy reply.

 

[AlexSmrgle]

@JurrunioI was trying to figure out what AGP even was, I  had it marked down but wasn't sure what it even meant or why I marked that down. Not being compatible with PCIe would explain why I wrote that. I should make a note of this and put on it explicitly this time.

Thanks for the quick reply!

[DigitalGoat]

7 minutes ago, AlexSmrgle said:

@JurrunioI was trying to figure out what AGP even was, I  had it marked down but wasn't sure what it even meant or why I marked that down. Not being compatible with PCIe would explain why I wrote that. I should make a note of this and put on it explicitly this time.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Advanced Graphics Protocol, Accelerated Graphics Port, forget the exact description, the Millennium 2 was a fairly decent card for the times considering Matrox were more into the motion video side of things.

[Jurrunio]

45 minutes ago, AlexSmrgle said:

@JurrunioI was trying to figure out what AGP even was, I  had it marked down but wasn't sure what it even meant or why I marked that down. Not being compatible with PCIe would explain why I wrote that. I should make a note of this and put on it explicitly this time.

Thanks for the quick reply!

AGP and PCIe are different connection standards, or simply slots that dont work with each other directly. Maybe there are adapter cards that would make it work indirectly, but those are rare and expensive