1: Introduction
Sound System
Complies with the PC98 audio specification
16-bit CODEC for full-duplex playback and recording
HRTF 3D professional audio supports both Direct Sound
3D
®
and A3D
®
-compatible interfaces plus support for
4-
channel speakers
Driver support for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows
95/98/2000/NT 4.0
Built-in 32ohm earphone buffer and 3D surround sound
Provides MPU-401 Game/MIDI port and legacy Sound
Blaster 16 support
Downloadable Wave-table Synthesizer supports Direct
Music®
Stereo Mixer supports analog mixing from CD-Audio and
Line In or digital mixing from voice, FM/Wave-table and
digital CD-Audio
Onboard I/O Ports
Provides PC99 Color Connectors for easy peripheral device
connections
Floppy disk drive connector with 1Mb/s transfer rate
Two serial ports with 16550-compatible fast UART
One parallel port with ECP and EPP support
Two USB ports
Two PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse
One infrared header for optional module
Hardware Monitoring
Built-in hardware monitoring for CPU & System
temperatures, fan speeds and mainboard voltages
Fax/Modem DAA Module
56 Kbps Fax/Modem DAA module
Supports V.90, V.34, V.32bis, V.32, V.22bis, V.22
Supports Auto Fallback and MNP 5, V.42bis data
compression with 115,200-compatible Virtual UART
Requires 16MB RAM and Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT
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