Fujitsu AD11, Manual

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Overview
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CNR, AGP, and PCI Expansion Slots
One CNR audio/modem slot, one AGP Bus expansion slot, and five PCI
Bus expansion slots provided the room to install a full range of add-on
cards.
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Compact Onboard Audio Subsystem
Embeded in VIA 686B, an integrated PCI-mastering dual full-duplex di-
rect-sound AC97-link-compatible audio subsystem. Hardware sound
blaster pro and FM blocks are combined for MS Windows DOS box and
real mode DOS compatiblity. Loopback capability is implemented for
guiding audio streams into USB and 1394 speakers for digital sound.
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Super Multi Input/Output (I/O) Support
Integrated Plug and Play multi-I/O chipset features two high-speed UART
16550 compatible serial ports, one EPP/ECP capable parallel port, one
media connector (Mic-in, Line-in, Line-out, Midi/game port), and one FDD
connector.
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Convenient Rear Panel USB Connection Support
Two USB ports integrated in the rear I/O panel with two USB front panel
connections allow convenient and high-speed Plug and Play connec-
tions to the growing number of USB compliant peripheral devices on the
market.
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Onboard Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)
The motherboard is installed one 32-bit AGP bus with a dedicated 66MHz/
133MHz path from the graphics card to the system memory offering much
greater bandwidth than the 32-bit PCI bus does. AGP enabled 3D graph-
ics cards can directly access main memory across this fast path instead of
using local memory. To make use of the improved AGP performance, the
motherboard should be installed with SDRAM type memory and the VGA
card and drivers should also be fully AGP compliant. Using Microsoft’s
Windows 98 and Windows 2000/ME which implement DirectDraw will
allow the system to take full use of AGP’s benefits without the need to
install additional drivers.