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Installing the Motherboard
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 capabili-
ties by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of the basic system.
FDD1: Floppy Disk Connector
This connector supports the provided floppy
drive ribbon cable. After connecting the single
end to the onboard floppy connector, connect
the remaining plugs on the other end to the
floppy drives correspondingly.
Installing a Floppy Diskette Drive
The motherboard has a floppy diskette drive (FDD) interface and ships with a diskette drive
ribbon cable that supports one or two floppy diskette drives. You can install a 5.25-inch
drive and a 3.5-inch drive with various capacities. The floppy diskette drive cable has one
type of connector for a 5.25-inch drive and another type of connector for a 3.5-inch drive.
You must orient the cable connector so that the pin 1 (color) edge of the
cable corresponds to the pin 1 of the I/O port connector.
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.
AGP Slot
PCI Slot
This motherboard is equipped with three 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 stan-
dard. The PCI slots on this board are PCI v2.2 compliant.
The AGP slot is used to install a graphics adapter that supports the 4X AGP
specification. It is AGP 2.0 compliant.
CNR Slot
This slot is used to insert CNR cards with Modem and Audio functionality.
