Installing Add-On Cards - ECS RC410-M2 Manual

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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.
PCIEX16
The PCI Express x16 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 PCI Express x1 slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics
PCIE1
card that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision
Slot
1.0a.
This motherboard is equipped with two standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
PCI 1~2
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 v2.3 compliant.
1.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.
2.Some PCI-E x16 graphics cards may be so bulky that it could block one PCI-E
x1 slot.
Installing the Motherboard