AC’ 97 Audio
Codec
The AC’ 97 Audio codec is compliant with the AC 97 2.2 speci-
fication that meets the PC2001 requirements and supports
S/PDIF Out. It also has a built-in buffer and internal PLL. Fea-
tures include support for analog switch for rear-out (share), the
line-in jack (share), center/bass (share), and MIC jack to output
6 channels audio.
Expansion
Options
L7VTA2 has five 32-bit PCI slots, an AGP slot (supports 1.5V
AGP card only) and CNR (Communications and Networking
Riser;
optional
) slot.
The L7VTA2 supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer
rates of 33/66/100/133 MB/sec.
Onboard LAN
(optional)
The VT6103 is a Physical Layer device for Ethernet 10BASE-T
and 100BASE-TX using category 5 Unshielded, Type 1
Shielded, and Fiber Optic cables.
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Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps
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Half And Full Duplex
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Meet All Applicable IEEE 802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-
Tx Standards
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Adaptive Equalizer
1394a (optional)
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VT6307 PCI 1394a integrated host controller
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Compliant with 1394 open HCI specifications v1.0 and
v1.1
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Supports provisions of IEEE 1394-1995 standard for high
performance serial bus and the P1394a supplement 4.0
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32 bit CRC generator and checker for receive and trans-
mit data
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Compliant with PCI specification v2.2
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High-performance bus mastering support
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Provides two 1394a fully compliant cable ports at
100/200/400 Mbit per second
Integrated I/O
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
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Two serial port
(COM2 optional)
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One parallel port
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Four USB ports
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One 1394a port (optional)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
BIOS
Firmware
This mainboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to con-
figure many system features including the following:
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Power management
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Wake-up alarms
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CPU parameters
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CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
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