Expansion Slots; Installing Add-On Cards - ECS 945GCD-M230 Manual

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Expansion Slots

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 in-
crease the motherboard's capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are
not part of the basic system.
PCIE Slot
PCIEX16 Slot
PCI Slot
This motherboard is equipped with one standard PCI slot. PCI
stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is a bus stan-
dard for expansion cards, which for the most part, is a supplement
of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slot on this board is PCI
v2.3 compliant.
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.
The PCI Express x1 slots is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Gen 1 (version 1.0a).
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI
Express graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express
Gen 1 (version 1.0a).
Installing the Motherboard