Packard Bell M5801 manual Installing Add-on Cards, PCIE16X Slot

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Installing Add-on Cards

The slots on this motherboard are designed to hold expansion cards and connect them to the system bus. Expansion slots are a means of adding or enhancing the motherboard’s features and capabilities. With these efficient facilities, you can increase the motherboard’s capabilities by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of the basic system.

PCIE16X Slot

The PCI Express x16 slot is used to install an external PCI Express graphics card

 

that is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification revision 2.0

PCIE1X1~2 Slot

The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification

 

revision 2.0 as well.

PCI Slot

This motherboard is equipped with one standard PCI slot. PCI stands for Peripheral

 

Component Interconnect and is a bus standard for expansion cards, which for the

 

most part, is a supplement of the older ISA bus standard. The PCI slot on this

 

board are PCI v2.3 compliant.

 

Before installing an add-on card, check the documentation for the card carefully. If the card

is

not Plug and Play, you may have to manually configure the card before installation.

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Packard Bell M5801 manual Installing Add-on Cards, PCIE16X Slot