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Introduction
1
Power Supply Connector
The system board is equipped with an ATX power supply connector.
Using an ATX power supply, you can either shut down your com-
puter by pressing the Power button located on the front bezel of
your computer or by executing the Shut Down command under the
Windows
95 operating system. Your system will then enter the Soft
Off state.
To power-on your system automatically, enable Resume On Alarm
in the Power Management Setup of the Award BIOS. This will allow
you to set the date and time you would like your system to power-
on.
1.1.2 Technology
AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port)
The system board is equipped with 1 AGP slot. AGP is an interface
designed to support high performance 3D graphics cards. It utilizes a
dedicated pipeline to access system memory for texturing, z-buffering
and alpha blending; delivering up to 533MB/sec. bandwidth for 3D
graphics applications. AGP in this Pentium
II processor based system
board will deliver faster and better graphics with your PC.
PC SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory)
PC SDRAM uses a fast memory interface technology to meet the
memory bandwidth requirements of Intel processors and chipset.
This technology includes using the clock on the chip to synchronize
with the CPU clock so that the timing of the memory chips and the
timing of the CPU are synchronized. Please refer to Intels web site
for more information on PC SDRAM.
Creative SB-LINK
The system board is equipped with a Creative SB-LINK connector.
SB-LINK serves as a bridge between the system board and a
Creative PCI sound card to deliver Sound Blaster
AWE64D
performance. Refer to SB-LINK Connector in Chapter 2 for more
information.
