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Introducing the Motherboard
Onboard LAN (optional)
The onboard LAN chip is incorporated in the chipset providing the motherboard with 10/
100 Mbps fast Ethernet controller and integrated Ethernet PCI LAN capabilities.
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• One serial port
• One parallel port
• Six USB ports (4 ports at the real I/O panel, 1 header supporting 2 ports onboard)
• One LAN port (optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Integrated I/O
BIOS Firmware
This motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
• Power management
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock speeds.
• Supports 100/10 Mb/s N-way auto-negotiation operation
• Supports half/full duplex capability
• Supports Wake-On-LAN (WOL) and remote wake-up function