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Audio
The AC’ 97 Audio codec is compliant with the AC’ 97 2.3
specification that meets the PC2001 requirements and sup-
ports S/PDIF Out. It also has a built-in buffer and internal PLL.
Features 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
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
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Three 32-bit PCI slots
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One AGP 3.0 compliant slot with 8X/4X speed (supports
1.5V AGP Interface only)
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A Communications Network Riser (CNR) slot (AC’ 97
interface only)
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Two IDE connectors which support four IDE devices
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One floppy disk drive interface which can support 2 FDD
devices
This motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with
transfer rates of 33/66/100/133 MB/sec.
Onboard LAN
(optional)
The onboard LAN is a Fast Ethernet Phyceiver with MII inter-
face to MAC chip. It provides the following features:
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Support MII interface
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Support 10/100Mbps operation
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Support half/full duplex operation
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3.3V operation with 5V signal
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Low operation power consumption
Integrated I/O
The motherboard 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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One serial port (COM1)
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One VGA port
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One parallel port
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Four
USB
ports
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One LAN port (optional)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
BIOS
Firmware
This motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to
configure 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.
