Aspire TC-651, Service Manual

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Installing Add-on Cards
The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus.
Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these
efficient facilities, you can increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks
that are not part of the basic system.
PCIE X16 Slot
The PCI Express X16 slot is used to install an external PCI Express Graphics Card that
is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 3.0.
PCIEX4 Slot
The PCI Express X4 slot is compliant with all PCI Express X4 device of AVLC, which is
with X4 connectivity, and it has independent video out when install a VGA card.
PCI Slot
This motherboard is equipped with two standard PCI slots. PCI stands for Peripheral
Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards, which for the most
part, is a supplement of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slots on this board are PCI
v2.3 compliant.
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card carefully. If the card is not Plug
and Play, you may have to manually configure the card before installation.