Adding An Expansion Card - Gateway E-420 Maintaining & Troubleshooting

Adding an expansion card

The E-4200 system board has seven expansion slot connectors:
•
One shared ISA/PCI slot
•
Three PCI local-bus slots
•
One ISA slot
•
One AGP slot
The E-4200 system board accepts three types of expansion cards: ISA, PCI,
and AGP .
Some ISA expansion cards have jumpers or switches that set interrupts and
I/O addresses. They come with instructions that explain how to set them to
avoid hardware conflicts. Follow the instructions carefully.
Refer to the appropriate system board illustration earlier in this chapter for
the correct installation location.
Set any jumpers and switches on the card, if required in the card
1.
instructions.
Turn off the system and disconnect the power cord.
2.
Open the case, observing the "Static electricity precautions" on
3.
page 2.
To add an expansion card
Important!
Your desktop system only
supports half-length AGP
cards.
System Components 55