Installing the motherboard – Elitegroup CDC-I (V1.0) User Manual

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Installing the Motherboard

Installing Add-on Cards

The slot on this motherboard is designed to hold expansion card and connect it to the
system bus. Expansion slot is a mean 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.

Expansion Slots

The platform requires DDR3 SODIMMs to be populated starting with the SODIMM
at the far end from the processor as indicated in Table below. Here, SODIMM2 is si-
tuated at the far end from the processor.

Table. Raw Card Support Matrix for 2 SODIMM Configuration.

Unpopulated Raw Card B

Unpopulated Raw Card F

SODIMM1 SODIMM2

Raw Card B Raw Card B

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.

PCI Slot

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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