American Megatrends Megathon, User Manual

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Megathon PCI Motherboard User’s Guide 20
Step 9 Connect I/O
Onboard Adapters The Megathon PCI motherboard has:
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one serial port,
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a parallel port,
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an IDE controller on the PCI bus (with a primary IDE connector and
secondary IDE connector), and
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a floppy controller.
The serial and parallel port connectors are described below.
Conflicts AMIBIOS minimizes conflicts between onboard and offboard I/O devices.
AMIBIOS automatically checks the adapter cards installed in the expansion slots
on the Megathon PCI motherboard for a hard disk or floppy controller and serial
or parallel ports.
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