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8590 MAINTENANCE
8590 MAINTENANCE
The 376-pin VT8233 BGA south bridge supports four levels (double words) of line buffers, type F DMA transfers
and delay transaction to allow efficient PCI bus utilization and PCI-2.1 compliant. The VT8233 also includes an
keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support , integrated DS12885 style real time clock with extended 256 byte
CMOS RAM, integrated bus master mode enhanced IDE controller with full scatter / gather capability and
extension to UltraDMA-33/66/100 for 33/66/100 MB/sec transfer rate, integrated six USB interface with root hub
and two function ports with built-in physical layer transceivers, Distributed DMA support, integrated AC-97 link for
basic audio and HSP based modem functions, integrated hardware monitoring and OnNow / ACPI compliant
advanced configuration and power management interface. VT8233 also integrates a 10/100 Mbit Fast Ethernet
Controller / MAC (Media Access Controller). The LAN controller uses an MII (Media Independent Interface)
connection to support an external 10/100 Mbit PHY for Ethernet.
The ENE CB710 CARDBUS controller supports one PCMCIA or CARDBUS interfaces.
The VIA 6306 controller supports three port multimedia feature.
To provide for the increasing number of multimedia applications, the AC97 CODEC VIA 1612A is integrated
onto the motherboard which contain 3D audio output.
A full set of software drivers and utilities are available to allow advanced operating systems such as Windows Me
and Windows 2000 and Windows XP to take full advantage of the hardware capabilities such as bus mastering IDE,
Windows 95-ready Plug & Play, Advanced Power Management (APM) and Advance configuration and power
interface (ACPI).
Following chapters will have more detail description for each individual sub-systems and functions.