Installing An Interface Card - Procomp BVD2A Manual

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Installing an Interface Card

This section explains how to install new interface cards on your
motherboard. It covers installing ISA cards, PCI cards and AGP cards. There
are seven expansion card slots on the motherboard, one AGP slot, five PCI
slots and two ISA slots. When you get an expansion card, it will come with
instructions on how to install it, so this section covers relevant information for
the motherboard only.
AGP Card and Slot
The AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot is for an AGP display card. With
the Optimum Settings loaded in the BIOS Setup Utility the AGP has a default
memory aperture of 4MB, expandable to 256MB.
PCI Cards and Slots
With very few exceptions, any PCI expansion card you are likely to get will
be Plug and Play compliant. If you are using an Operating System that
supports PnP, such as Windows 9x, you should be able to follow the
installation instructions that come with the card and have the Operating
System automatically recognize and configure the card.
The PCI slots on the motherboard all have "Bus Master" capability. For
installed PCI cards to use this feature, an Operating system specific Bus
Master software driver that comes with this motherboard must be installed
under your Operating System. These drivers are located on the support Disk.
ISA Cards and Slots
ISA expansion cards often use system resources in the form of IRQs and
DMA channels. Newer cards that comply with the Plug and Play (PnP)
standard are designed to allow the Operating System to automatically
configure system resources. Cards that do not support PnP may require manual
configuration of both the card hardware and settings in the CMOS Setup
Utility.
If you have a PnP compliant card to install, there should be little to do other
than follow the installation instructions. If, however, you have a non-PnP c ard
and it requires configuring system resources, you may need to setup the
configuring expansion card resources in CMOS Setup.
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