Installing Expansion Cards; Installing Pci Cards - Procomp BIW2A User Manual

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Installing Expansion Cards

This section has some general information on in-
stalling expansion cards on the motherboard. This
motherboard has five standard PCI expansion
slots. The slots are all 32-bit PCI Revision 2.2
compliant and are all Bus master capable. There is
a sixh special slot for an optional Modem Riser
card. Note that there is no legacy ISA slots on this
motherboard.

Installing PCI Cards

There are several issues that affect your choice and
installation of expansion cards on the mother-
board. These include Bus Master drivers, Plug and
Play and system power and resource considera-
tions.
Bus Master Drivers
The five PCI expansion slots are all Bus Master
capable. The Bus Master feature can substantially
improve system performance and also is used by
the onboard IDE channels. To make use of this
feature you must install the appropriate driver for
the Operating System you are using after you in-
stall the motherboard. The Bus Master drivers are
located on the Support Disk and you can access
them via the automatic install interface that runs
from the disk. There is information on installing
them in Chapter 2.