Packard Bell MH4000 manual Option Boards, Option board connectors on system board

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Option Boards

This section describes how to install and remove EISA/ISA and PCI option boards. The system board has four dedicated EISA/ISA bus master expansion slots and six dedicated PCI bus master expansion slots (see Figure 5-11).

The high-performance PCI local bus allows the adoption of newer networking technology, such as ATM and 100 MB/second Ethernet NICs, with a minimum of effort and without concern for I/O bottlenecks. The PCI local bus offers up to 133 MB/second bandwidth.

This combination of PCI and EISA expansion offers continuing support for existing special function EISA add-in boards, such as X.25 Multiport Serial cards.

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Figure 5-11. PCI and EISA Slot Locations

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P10 PCI #13

P09 PCI #12

P08 PCI #11

P07 PCI #10

P06 PCI #01

P05 PCI #00

Option board connectors on system board

ASystem board

BConnectors for PCI option boards

CConnectors for EISA option boards

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P04 EISA #4

P03 EISA #3

P02 EISA #2

P01 EISA #1

Upgrades and Options