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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. PCI-E1 slot will be disabled when PCIEX2 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.
PCI 1~3
Slots
PCI-E1
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.
PCI-E3
Slot
The PCI Express x1 slots is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
fication revision 1.0a as well.
PCI-E2
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.