Installing Add-On Cards - ECS P6VEMT Manual

When you first start up your system, go immediately to the Setup Utility to
configure the floppy diskette drives that you have installed.

Installing Add-on Cards

The slots in this mainboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect
them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing
the mainboard's features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you
can increase the mainboard's capabilities by adding hardware which performs
tasks that are not part of the basic system
PCI Slots This mainboard is equipped with 3 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. This PCI slot is designated as 32-bit.
ISA Slot The mainboard is equipped with one standard ISA slot. ISA stands
(optional) for Industry Standard Architecture and was designed as a bus
standard for expansion cards in the early 90's for PC XT/AT ma-
chines. This mainboard retains backward compatibility with this
order and slower bus architecture.
Note: 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 con-
figure the card before installation.
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