Mainboard Installation
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Front Panel Function Connector
For your convenience, all the front panel functions are integrated into a single connector, which included
power LED and keyboard lock, turbo switch, reset switch, SMI switch and speaker.
Flash BIOS
The flash BIOS allows user to have more flexibility to upgrade their motherboards. The flash BIOS can be
programmed by software easily.
Floppy Disk Drive Connector
A 34-pin connector on-board allows connection up to two 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44, 2.88M floppy disk
drives.
IDE Connectors
This motherboard have two independent high performance bus-mastering PCI IDE interfaces capable of
supporting up to Mode 4 and UltraDMA-33 devices.
The system BIOS supports automatic detection of the IDE
device data transfer rate and translation between different kinds of device mode such as Logical Block Addressing
(LBA), Extended Cylinder Sector Head (ECSH) translation modes and ATAPI (e.g., CD-ROM) devices on both IDE
interfaces.
In a true multi-tasking operating systems like Windows
95 and Windows
NT, the IDE interface can
operate as a PCI bus master capable of supporting
PIO Mode 4 devices with transfer rates
of up to 16 MB/sec.
Audio Connector
All the Line-In, MIC In, Line-Out and MIDI/JOYSTICK for the On-Board Sound are located here.
Audio CD Connectors
The Audio CD input connector for the On-Board Sound.
WAKEUP-LINK Interface
This header is used to connect an add-in NIC (Network Interface Card) which has Wake-On-LAN
capability to the motherboard.
