Biostar T-Series
TForce4 SLI
User’s Manual
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ERIPHERALS
A. Card and I/O 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.
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2
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Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2
The motherboard has two 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controllers that provide
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.
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2
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IDE2 IDE1
Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1~PCI3
This motherboard is equipped with 3 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.
PCI1
PCI2
PCI3
PCI-Express Slots: PEX16-1/PEX16-2/PEX1-1/PEX1-2
PEX16-1 (Normal Mode):
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PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
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Maximum bandwidth is up to 4GB/s per direction.
PEX16-1/PEX1-1/PEX1-2 (Normal Mode):
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PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
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Maximum bandwidth is up to 250MB/s per direction.
PEX16-1/PEX16-2 (SLI Mode):
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PCI Express 1.0a compliant.
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Maximum bandwidth is up to 2GB/s per direction.
PEX16-1
PEX1-1
PEX1-2
PEX16-2
