Installing Expansion Cards - HP Brio 80xx Upgrade Manual

Installing Expansion Cards

What Is an
Expansion cards have sockets at one end which, once the card is installed, are accessible from the back of the computer.
Expansion Card?
There are two types of expansion cards that you can install in your computer: Industry-Standard Architecture (ISA)
cards and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) cards. PCI cards use the computer's PCI bus (information
pathway), and ISA cards use the computer's ISA bus. The PCI bus is faster than the ISA bus.
How Many
The number of expansion cards that your computer has depends on the particular model that you have. You can tell how
Expansion Cards Do many cards are installed by looking at the back of your computer and counting the number of slots that are occupied. This
is the number of expansion cards that are installed.
I Have?
Why Add More
Adding more expansion cards will increase the capability of your computer.
Expansion Cards?
How Many
Your computer supports up to five cards.
Expansion Cards Can
I Install?
Note
For instructions on how to add an expansion card, refer to
These three upper expansion
card slots are not available.
Expansion card slots
Back of computer
The three upper expansion card slots cannot be used.
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