CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
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On-Board IDE
l An IDE controller on the ICH/ICH0 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM
with PIO, Bus Master, Ultra DMA/33 and Ultra DAM/66 operation modes.
l Can connect up to four IDE devices.
On-Board Peripherals
l On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and
2.88Mbytes.
- 2 serial port (COMA + COMB)
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 2 USB ports and 1 USB connector
- 1 IrDA connector for SIR.
- 1 VGA port
Video
l GMCH chip integrated
l 2D/3D Graphics
l Onboard 4MB Display Cache(SGRAM/SDRAM) optional.
Audio
l ICH chip integrated (Software Audio)
- AC’97 Compliant
l Aureal Vortex 8810. (Hardware Audio -- Optional)
- DirectSound hardware acceleration
- Post processing hardware
- Aureal Soft Wavetable
- Aureal Soft A3D
- Full Sound Blaster compatibility
- Aureal Enhanced Motorola Softmodem with Silicon DAA support.
BIOS
l The mainboard BIOS provides “Plug & Play” BIOS which detects the
peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
l The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function
which records your mainboard specifications.
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