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Introducing the Motherboard
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
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
• One parallel port
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Expansion Options
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• Three 32-bit PCI slots
• One AGP slot (support 1.5V only)
• Two IDE headers which support four IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Two 7-pin SATA connectors
• One optional CNR (Communication Networking Riser) slot
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 133/100/66/
33 MB/s.
Onboard LAN (optional)
The onboard LAN provides the following features:
• Supports 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way Auto-negotiation operation
• Half and Full Duplex
• Supports standard MII interface to an external PHY for 10/100 Mb
base-T Ethernet
• Supports Wake-On-LAN(WOL) function and remote wake-up
BIOS Firmware
The 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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