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Installing the Motherboard
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.
Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card care-
fully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually configure the
card before installation.
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. PCI 1~2
Slots
PCIEX16
Slot
The PCI Express slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card
that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
Installing Add-on Cards
Expansion Slots