Installing Expansion Cards - DFI G586IPB User Manual

We recommend that the IDE hard drives be from the same manufac-
turer. In a few cases, drives from two different manufacturers will not
function properly when used together. The problem lies in the hard
drives, not the G586IPB/E system board.
Preparing an IDE Drive for Use
IDE disk drives are already low-level formatted, with any bad-track er-
rors entered, when shipped by the drive manufacturer. Do not attempt
to do a low-level format or you may cause serious damage to the
drive.
To use an IDE drive, you need to enter the drive type (this information
is provided by the drive manufacturer) into the system' s CMOS setup
table. Then run FDISK and FORMAT provided with DOS.
Warning:
Do not run FDISK and FORMAT programs on a drive that has already
been formatted or you will lose all programs and data stored on the
drive.

Installing Expansion Cards

The G586IPB/E system board is equipped with 4 dedicated PCI slots
and 3 dedicated 16-bit ISA slots. All PCI slots are bus masters. You
can only install one card in one or the other of the shared slots at a
time; you cannot install devices in both slots.
Due to the size of the CPU with its accompanying fan/heatsink compo-
nent, the length of the add-in cards in PCI slots 4 and ISA slots 1 is
limited to 18cm (measured from the bracket of the card).
With the add-in card installed in PCI slot 3, the components on the
solder side of the add-in card in PCI Slot 3 must not protrude more
than 5mm. There is no limit to the length of the add-in card installed in
PCI Slot 3.
Refer to page 12 for the locations of the expansion slots.
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