CHAPTER 2
HARDWARE INSTALLATION
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2.27 PCI and ISA Slots
There are 5 PCI slots and 2 ISA slots. All PCI slots can be used as master. If
there’s an on-board Creative chip, the 1st and 5th PCI slots will share the
same bus master signal. Therefore only one of these slots can be used as a
master at a time; which means that if a master card is installed in PCI slot 1,
PCI Slot 5 can only accomodate a slave card, and vice versa.
PCI Slots
ISA Slots
PCI Slot 1
PCI Slot 2
PCI Slot 3
PCI Slot 4
PCI Slot 5
NOTE: 1. If on-board Creative sound is not installed, then all 5 PCI slots
can use Bus Master cards. If Creative sound is installed, PCI
slot 1 and PCI slot 5 will share one Bus Master cards.
2. PCI 2.2 Specification