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Introducing the Motherboard
1. Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
2. Due to chipset limitation, we recommend that motherboard be oper-
ated in the ambiance between 0 and 50 °C.
Integrated I/O
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/
100/66/33 Mb/s.
• One PCI Express x16 for Graphics Interface
• One PCI Express x1 slot
• Two 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One IDE connector supporting up to two IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Four 7-pin SATA connectors
Expansion Options
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
BIOS Firmware
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
The 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.
Onboard LAN
The onboard LAN provides the following features:
• 10/100 Mb/s dual speed transceiver
• MII interface for external MAC devices
• 10/100 Mb/s IEEE 802.3 compliant
• IEEE 802.3 Auto-Negotiation