ECS 965PLT-A, Manual

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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.
1. 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.
2. PCIEX2 slot will be disabled when PCIEX3 slot is installed.
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 standard.
The PCI slots on this board are PCI v2.3 compliant.
PCI1~3
Slots
PCIEX1
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 1.1.
PCIEX2
Slot The PCI Express x1 slots is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
fication revision 1.0a.
PCIEX3
Slot
The PCI Express slot (x4 mode) allows users to install any other PCI Ex-
press device. With two graphics cards installed, this motherboard can enable
quad-display.