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Introducing the Motherboard
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
Onboard LAN (Optional)
• Integrated Gigabit Ethernet Controller for PCI Express
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Applications
• Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
• Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
The onboard LAN controller provides the following features:
• Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller for PCI Express
TM
Applications
• Integrated 10/100 transceiver
• Wake-on-LAN and remote wake-up support
1394a FireWire (Optional)
• Compliant with single chip hostcontroller for IEEE Std 1394-1995 and
IEEE 1394a-2000
• Integrated 400 Mbit 2-Port PHY for the PCI BUS
• 3.3V Power Supply with 5V Tolerant Inputs
• One PCI Express slot for Graphic Interface
• One PCI Express x1 slot
• Two 32-bit PCI v2.3 compliant slots
• One floppy disk drive interface
• Four 7-pin SATA connectors
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
Expansion Options
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
with out prior notice.
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port (optional)
• One parallel port (optional)
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• One 1394 port (optional)
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone in, line-in and 8-ch High Definition Audio
output
Integrated I/O
• Power management
• Wake-up alarms
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memroy timing
BIOS Firmware
This motherboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following