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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.Some PCI-E x16 graphics cards may be so bulky that it could block one PCI-E
x1 slot.
3.Please pull out the PCI-Ex16 graphics card straightway to remove it when you
want to uninstall it.
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
AGP
Express
Slot
The AGP Express slot is used to install an AGP graphics card that emulates
the AGP function. To get better performance and compatibility on our
special designed AGP Express slot, we recommend users use one of the AGP
graphics cards that have been tested by out company. See the “Supported
AGP 8X/4X VGA Cards List” or visit our website at “http://www.ecs.com.tw”
for the updated supported list.
PCIEX16
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
1.0a.
PCIE1~2
Slots
These two PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
Specification revision 1.0a as well.
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