Expansion
Options
The mainboard comes with the following expansion options:
• Two 32-bit PCI slots capable of Ultra DMA bus mastering
with transfer rates of 33/66/100 MB/sec
• An AGP slot
• A CNR (Communications and Networking Riser) slot
Integrated I/O
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
• One MIDI/game port
• Six USB ports (two back-panel ports, onboard USB
headers providing four extra ports: header USB1 and
USB2) — all support USB 2.0
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
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
Built-in Ethernet
LAN (optional)
• Built-in 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet LAN
• VT8233 integrates Fast Ethernet MAC and VT6103 LAN
PHY in compliance with IEEE802.3u 100BASE-TX,
10BASE-T and ANSI X3.263 TP-PMD standards
• In compliance with ACPI 1.0 and the Network Device
Class Power Management 1.0
• High Performance achieved by 100Mbps clock generator
and data recovery circuit for 100Mbps receiver
BIOS Firmware
This mainboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to config-
ure many system features including the following:
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters and memory timing
• CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.
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