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Buses and Expansion Slots

Bus Connections

On-Board Ports, Connectors and Riser Slots

Expansion Slots

Types of Expansion Slots

Interface (Expansion) Cards

Interface (Expansion) Cards (continued)

PC Bus

Modern Expansion Buses

Modern Expansion Buses

AGP

PCI-X

Mini-PCI Find Mini-PCI in just about every laptop Designed to use low power and to lie flat Both good features for a laptop expansion slot

PCI Express

PCI Express

System Resources

System Resources Preset I/O address and IRQ combinations for the serial and parallel ports “COM” ports for serial connections “LPT” ports for parallel ports

Installing Expansion Cards Step 1: Knowledge Step 2: Physical Installation Step 3: Device Drivers Getting the Correct Drivers Removing the Old Drivers Installing the New Driver Step 4: Verify

Installing Expansion Cards Unsigned Drivers Bad - it simply means that they haven’t gone through Microsoft’s exhaustive quality assurance certification procedure Driver Rollback Windows XP offers the nifty feature of rolling back to previous drivers after an installation or driver upgrade

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards Properly installed expansion card rarely makes trouble An improperly installed card usually shows up the moment you first try to get that card to do whatever it’s supposed to do and it doesn’t do it