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Introducing the Motherboard
Audio CODEC
• Compliant with AC’97 2.3 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, AUX
• Meets Microsoft WHL/WLP 2.0 audio requirements
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One parallel port
• Four USB ports
• One VGA port
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Integrated I/O
Onboard LAN (optional)
This motherboard may support either of the following LAN with following features:.
Expansion Options
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
BIOS Firmware
• Three 32-bit PCI slots
• One AGP slot
• Two 7-pin SATA connectors
• Two IDE connectors which support four IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• One optional CNR slot
The motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 100/66/33
MB/s
• Supports 10/100 Mb/s N-Way Auto-negotiation operation
• Half-Full duplex capability
• Supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function and remote wake-up
• Integrate 10/100/1000 transceiver
• Supports PCI v2.3, 32-bit, 33/66 MHz
• Supports fully with IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u and IEEE802.3ab
This motherboard uses AWARD BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing