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Introducing the Motherboard
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
Expansion Options
• One PCI Express x16 slot for Graphics Interface
• Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• Two 40-pin IDE headers
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Two 7-pin SATA connectors
• One CNR slot (optional)
Audio
The motherboard may support either of the following Audio Chipset:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One parallel port
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and 6-Ch line-out & microphone
Integrated I/O
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters and memory timing
• CPU and memory timing
BIOS Firmware
This motherboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure many system features
including the following:
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds.
• Compliant with AC’97 v2.3 CODEC
• Supports 6-channel audio CODEC designed for PC multimedia systems
• Provides three analog line-level stereo inputs with 5-bit volume control:
Line-in,CD in
• Meets Microsoft WHQL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard supports UltraDMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/100
/66/33
MB/s.