Biostar P4TCA PRO, Description

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Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots
Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1
The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K,
720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector supports the
provided floppy drive ribbon cables.
Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2
The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO
Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133 functionality. It has two
HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary).
The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can connect up
to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1.
Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1-5
This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for Peripheral
Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion cards. This PCI
slot is designated as 32 bits.
Accelerated Graphics Port Slot: AGP1
Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard supports video
cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP).
An AGP card will take advantage of AGP technology for improved video efficiency
and performance, especially with 3D graphics.
Communication Network Riser Slot: CNR1
The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and it defines a
hardware scalable riser card interface, which supports modem only.
Serial ATA Connector: JSATA1/JSATA2
The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels STAT interface, it
satisfy the SATA 1.0 spec and can transfer data with 1.5GHz speed.
IDE-Raid Connector: RAID1/2
This connector supports RAID0 or RAID1 or RAID 0+1 configuration through the
onboard Parallel ATA (VT6410)
controller chip. You can use the IDE feature to
set up a disk array configuration and to support additional IDE devices. However, it
can only support master mode IDE HDD.