
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
The MICRO ATX AL14 mainboard is a high-performance personal computer
mainboard. This mainboard supports Intel
®
Pentium
®
processor/Pentium
®
processor with MMX
TM
technology, AMD
®
K6/K6-2/K6-III, and Cyrix
®
6x86L/6x86MX/MII processors. This mainboard combines leading edge
AGP ATI
®
3D 128VR technology in graphics and Creative
®
ES1373 PCI
Enhanced technology in audio. The mainboard also supports three 32-bit
PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Local Bus standard slots.
The mainboard uses the highly integrated Aladdin
®
5 chipset to support the
PCI/ISA and Green standards, and to provide the Host/AGP bridge. The
Aladdin
®
5 chipset integrates all system control functions such as ACPI
(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface). The ACPI provides more
Energy Saving Features for the OSPM(OS Direct Power Management)
function. The Aladdin
®
5 chipset also improves the IDE transfer rate by
supporting Ultra DMA/33 IDE that transfer data at the rate of 33MB/s.