Installing Add-On Cards - ECS PT880PRO-A 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-E The PCI Express Lite slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics
Slot
card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
1.0a.
The AGP slot is used to install a graphics adapter that supports the 8X/4X
AGP
Slot AGP specification. It is AGP 3.0 compliant.
This motherboard is equipped with four standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
PCI 1~4
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 v2.2 compliant.
This slot is used to insert CNR cards with Modem and Audio functionality.
CNR1
Slot
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.
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