Expansion Slots; Installing Add-On Cards - ECS A890GXM-A2 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 Slots
P C I E X 1 6 /
P C I E 1 6 X _ S
Slots
P C I E 1 6 X _ T
Slot
(PCIEX4 Slot)
PCI Slot
The PCI Express x1 slots are fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0).
The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI
Express graphics card that is fully compliant to the PCI
Express Gen2 (version 2.0).
The PCI Express x4 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Ex-
press Base Specification revision 2.0.
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.
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 installa-
tion.
Installing the Motherboard