Installing Add-On Cards - ECS P965T-A Manual

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.
PCIE1/PCIE3 The PCI Express slots are fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
slots
fication revision 1.1.
The PCI Express x1 slots are also fully compliant to the PCI Express Base
PCIE2/PCIE4
Specification revision 1.1.
slots
This motherboard is equipped with three standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
PCI 1~3
Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion
Slots
cards, which for the most part, is a supplement of the older ISA bus stan-
dard. The PCI slots on this board are PCI v2.3 compliant.
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. PCIE2/PCIE4 slots will be disabled when PCIE3 slot is installed.
Installing the Motherboard
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