Installing Add-On Cards - ECS 915PL-A2 User 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.
PCI-E1 The PCI Express slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card
Slot
that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
The PCI Express x1 slots is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Speci-
PCI-E2
fication revision 1.0a as well.
Slot
PCI-E3
The PCI Express slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card
Slot
that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
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 standard.
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. PCI-E1 slot will be disabled when PCIEX2 slot is installed.
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