Unidentified Expansion Slot

[M]

I have a PC with a Chaintec Motherboard. It has a blue expansion slot
beside the PCI slots which I can not identify see
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/images/Products/Motherboard/6aiv_L.jpg
Does anyone know what this is?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Probably an ACR slot which supports a card with Audio, LAN and Modem.

Did you try reading your motherboard manual?

 

[Ron Lowe]

I have a PC with a Chaintec Motherboard. It has a blue expansion slot
beside the PCI slots which I can not identify see
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/images/Products/Motherboard/6aiv_L.jpg
Does anyone know what this is?

http://www.chaintech.com.tw/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=94

It's called an ACR slot.
It supports a modem / audio / LAN riser card, a bit like a AMR slot.
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/image/10185/

 

[M]

Thanks. I did read the manual and it does mention one ACR slot and one CNR
slot. What it doesn't do is make it clear where on the board they are. The
PC actually came with only one expansion card, the modem which was in a PCI
slot. Can this slot be used for anything else?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If you're not using the modem you can remove it and install anything else
that uses a standard PCI slot. None of my desktops have modems in them.
The notebooks do, but only because they're built in and can't be removed.

 

[Andrew Murray]

use any PCI slot for *any* PCI type card e.g. video cards, modems, sound
cards, network cards etc etc etc.