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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 in-
crease the motherboard’s capabilities 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
carefully. 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 x16 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0a.
PCIE1 The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0a as well.
slot
Installing Add-on Cards
Expansion Slots