Gigabyte GA-F2A55-DS3 - 1-7 Back Panel Connectors

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1-7 Back Panel Connectors
PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Port
Usetheupperport(green)toconnectaPS/2mouseandthelowerport(purple)toconnectaPS/2keyboard.
Serial Port
Use the serial port to connect devices such as a mouse, modem or other peripherals.
HDMI Port
HDMI(High-DenitionMultimediaInterface)isanall-digitalaudio/videointerfacecapableoftransmitting
uncompressed audio/video signals. The HDMI port is HDCP compliant and supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD
MasterAudioformats.Italsosupportsupto192KHz/24bit8-channelLPCMaudiooutput.Youcanuse
this port to connect your HDMI-supported monitor. The maximum supported resolution is 1920x1200, but
the actual resolutions supported are dependent on the monitor being used.
After installing the HDMI device, make sure to set the default sound playback device to HDMI.
(Theitemnamemaydifferdependingonyouroperatingsystem.Thescreenshotbelowisfrom
Windows7.)
In Windows 7, select Start>Control Panel>Hardware and
Sound>Sound>Playback, set Realtek HDMI Output - ATI
HDMI Audio to the default playback device.
In order to get better playback quality, when playing the Blu-ray discs, refer to the recommended system
requirements(orbetter)below.
• Processor: AMD A series processors
• Memory:Two1GBDDR31333MHzmemorymoduleswithdualchannelmodeenabled
• BIOSSetup:Atleast512MBofUMAFrameBufferSize(refertoChapter2,"BIOSSetup,""Peripherals\
GFXConguration,"formoreinformation)
• Playbacksoftware:CyberLinkPowerDVD10.0orlater(Note:PleaseensureHardwareAcceleration
is enabled. Whether Hardware Acceleration can be enabled for 3D Blu-ray discs is dependent on the
APUbeingused.)
• HDCPcompliantmonitor(s)