2.8Installing an expansion card

In the future, you may need to install expansion cards. The motherboard has one 32-bit PCI slot and one Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP) slot. The following sub-sections describe the slots and the expansion cards that they support.

2.8.1Expansion slots

PCI slot

The PCI slot supports PCI slots such as a LAN card, SCSI card, USB card, and other cards that comply with PCI specifications

AGP slot

The AGP slot supports AGP 8x cards. When you buy an AGP card, make sure that you ask for one with 1.5V specification.

Install only +1.5V AGP cards. The motherboard does not support 3.3V AGP cards.

Make sure to unplug the power cord before adding or removing expansion cards. Failure to do so may cause you physical injury and damage the motherboard.

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