Installing Expansion Cards; Installing Pci Cards - Procom BST1M Series User Manual

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Installing Expansion Cards

This section has some general information on install-
ing expansion cards on the motherboard. This moth-
erboard has five standard PCI expansion slots. The
slots are all 32-bit PCI Revision 2.2 compliant and
are all Bus master capable. There is another special
slot for an optional Modem Riser card. Note that
there are no legacy ISA slots on this motherboard.

Installing PCI Cards

There are several issues that affect your choice and
installation of expansion cards on the motherboard.
These include Bus Master drivers, Plu g and Play and
system power and resource considerations.
Bus Master Drivers
The PCI expansion slots are Bus Master capable.
The Bus Master feature can substantially improve
system performance and also is used by the onboard
IDE channels. To make use of this feature under
Windows 95 you will need to install the default
Windows 95 Bus Master driver. Later versions of
Windows do not need a separate Bus Master driver
to take advantage of this capability.