Expansion Slots - ECS 945GCT-M2 Manual

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 increase the motherboard's capabili-
ties by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of the basic system.
PCIEX16 The PCI Express slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card
that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
Slot
PCI 1~2 This motherboard is equipped with two standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
Slots 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 care-
fully. If the card is not Plug and Play, you may have to manually configure the
card before installation.
Installing the Motherboard
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