Expansion Boards; Locating Expansion Slots - NEC POWERMATE PROFESSIONAL 9000 Service Manual

EXPANSION BOARDS

Your system supports industry standard architecture (ISA) 8- and 16-bit expansion boards
(Plug and Play and non-Plug and Play). It also supports 32-bit Peripheral Component
Interconnect (PCI) expansion boards, which are Plug and Play.
With Plug and Play expansion boards, you can install a board in an expansion slot without
changing the hardware settings. There are no system resource conflicts to resolve. Plug and
Play automatically configures the board for the system.

Locating Expansion Slots

The system has six expansion slots:
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one AGP slot
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two dedicated PCI slots
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one shared PCI slot/RAIDport
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one shared PCI/ISA slot
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one ISA slot.
ISA expansion slots support industry-standard 8- or 16-bit expansion boards.
PCI expansion boards run at half the system's processor speed. The PCI bus handles 32 bits
of data at a time, being wider as well as faster than the standard ISA bus. PCI boards can
send and receive data much faster, boosting system performance.
An AGP expansion board provides high-quality graphics on a video board in support of the
Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) standard.
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