Iii. installation, Asus mediabus card – Asus P/I-XP55T2P4 User Manual

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III. INSTALLATION

ASUS MediaBus Card

ASUS MediaBus allows a cost-efficient solution to a complete multimedia system.
The advantages of using one add-on card is to reduce the slot requirements and
compatibility problems in order to maximize the Plug and Play advantages. The
add-on card inserts into the shared PCI 4 / MediaBus 2.0 Slot.

NOTE: This motherboard uses MediaBus Rev. 2.0. The previous MediaBus
cards designed for MediaBus Rev. 1.2 will not fit into the MediaBus Rev 2.0
that is on this motherboard.

The difference between Rev. 1.2 and Rev. 2.0 is that the later revision has 72 pins
instead of 68 so it does not have to use any PCI slot signals reserved for PCI cards,
therefore the motherboard's PCI Slot 4 can meet standard specifications. The gap
between the MediaBus extension and the PCI Slot 4 has been increased from 0.32"
to 0.40" in order to prevent Rev. 1.2 MediaBus cards from being installed into the
new motherboards and vice versa.

The following are MediaBus cards designed for MediaBus 2.0 that can be used on
this motherboard:

• PCI-AS2940UW

Ultra Fast/Wide SCSI & Audio MediaBus Card

• PCI-AV264CT-N