Hardware Upgrades

Installing and Removing an Expansion Board

This section provides instructions for installing and removing PCI and AGP expansion boards.

Identifying the PCI and AGP Sockets

This workstation contains one AGP socket and six PCI sockets. The following illustration identifies the physical locations of these sockets.

Identifying AGP and PCI sockets

1One 1.5V AGP Pro socket

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Four 32-bit, 33-MHz PCI sockets; primary bus

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Two 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI sockets; secondary bus

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Evo Workstation W8000 supports 4X AGP Pro cards only. Older type AGP cards (3.3V) are not supported and will NOT fit in the AGP socket.

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