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Motherboard User’s Guide
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Low pin count for both host and devices
AC’97 Codec
6- channel and compliant with Intel
®
AC’97 (REV. 2.3)
Spec, meeting with Microsoft
®
PC2001 requirements
Advanced power management and power saving capabili-
ties.
Stereo Line-in function shared with Surround out.
High quality pseudo-differential analog CD Audio input.
S/PDIF Output support: Output 96 / 48 kHz with 24 / 20 /
16 bits
Valuable add-on software technology: Support most industry
standards of PC 3D sound and unique karaoke function
support featured with microphone echo, key shifting, and
vocal cancellation.
Onboard I/O Ports
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
One serial port
One parallel port
One VGA port
Four back-panel USB2.0 ports
One LAN port (optional)
Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
Fast Ethernet LAN (optional)
10 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s operation
Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC, physical chip, and trans-
ceiver onto a single chip
Supports 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way auto-negotiation
Support ACPI power management
Full Duplex Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) and Half/Full
duplex capability
