Elitegroup ST945GM (V1.0) - Manual (Page 24)

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Installing the Motherboard
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 capabili-
ties by adding hardware that performs tasks that are not part of the basic system.
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.
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 is PCI v2.3 compliant. PCI1 Slot
PCIE1 (PCIE
x1) slot The PCI Express x1 slot is fully compliant to the PCI Express Base Specifi
cation revision 1.0a as well.
MINI PCI1
Slot This motherboard is equipped with one MINI PCI slot that gets the same
function of standard PCI slot.
SCN1 Slot The SCN slot is used to install the CF (Comact-Flash) card.
Because the IDE device and SCN1 slot use the same signal, you cannot use
these two devices simultaneously. So you can only choose one of them.