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Introducing the Motherboard
Audio
Expansion Options
This motherboard may support either of the following Audio chipset.
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• One PIC Express x16 slot (optional)
• Three 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One 40-pin IDE low profile header that support two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Four 7-pin SATA connectors that support four SATA devices
The 915G-M5 motherboard supports UltraDMA bus mastering with transfer rates of
100/66 MB/s.
BIOS Firmware
Integrated I/O
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port and one parallel port
• Four USB ports
• One VGA port, one 1394 port (optional) and one LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone in, line-in and line-out (Audio jack for microphone
in, line-in and 8-ch High Definition Audio out if supports Azalia Audio CODEC.)
• Compliant with the 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, AUX
• Supports S/PDIF output and input function
• Compliant with Azalia specification, supporting 8 channel DACs with
SNR>95dB
• Capabilities: 192/96/48/44.1 KHz with 24/20/16 bits
• 8 Smart Jack I/O port support
• Extensive jack detection via RNM (resistors network method) that can
be used to monitor the plugging status of each jack
• Digital S/PDIF OUT & IN support
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
with out prior notice.
This motherboard uses AWARD BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds.
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