Onboard I/O
Ports
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One VGA port
• One parallel port
• Six USB2.0 ports (four back-panel ports, onboard USB
header providing two extra ports)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Built-in Ethernet
LAN (optional)
• 10Base-T/100Base-TX Physical Layer Solution
• Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps
• MII Interface to Ethernet Controller/Configuration & Status
• Auto Negotiation: 10/100, Full/Half Duplex
• Meet All Applicable IEEE802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-
TX Standards
USB 2.0
• Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revi-
sion 2.0
• Compliant with Intel’s Enhanced Host Controller
Interface Specification Revision 0.95
• Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface
Specification Revision 1.1
• PCI multi-function device consists of two UHCI Host
Controller cores for full-/low-speed signaling and one
EHCI Host Controller core for high-speed signaling
• Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with
integrated physical layer transceivers shared by UHCI
and EHCI Host Controller
• Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface
Specification release 1.1
• Legacy support for all downstream facing ports
BIOS Firmware This mainboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to config-
ure many system features including the following:
• Hard drives, diskette drives, and peripherals
• Power management
• CPU parameters and memory timing
• Hardware monitoring parameters
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
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