Manual for Advance 6A/Advance 6B
Introduction
On-board IDE
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Supports two PCI PIO and Bus Master IDE ports
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Two fast IDE interfaces supporting four IDE devices including IDE hard disks and
CD - ROM drives
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Supports up to mode 4 timing
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Supports “Ultra DMA/33”Synchronous DMA mode transferring up to 33 Mbytes/sec
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Supports “Ultra DMA/66”Synchronous DMA mode transferring up to 66 Mbytes/sec
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Supports “Ultra DMA/100”Synchronous DMA mode transferring up to 100 Mbytes/sec
(For Advance 6B mainboard only)
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Integrated 16x32bit buffer for IDE PCI Burst Transfers
On-chip I/O
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One floppy port supporting up to two 3.5” or 5.25” floppy drives with 360K/720K/
1.2M/1.44M/2.88M format
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Two high speed 16550 fast compatible UARTs(COM1/COM2/COM3/COM4
selective) with 16-byte send/receive FIFOs
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One enabled parallel port at the I/O address 378H/278H/3BCH with additional
bi-direction I/O capability and multi-mode as SPP/EPP/ECP (IEEE 1284 compliant)
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Circuit protection provided, preventing damage to the parallel port when a
connected printer is powered up or operates at a higher voltage
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Supports LS-120 floppy disk drive and Zip drive
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All I/O ports can be enabled/disabled in the BIOS setup
On-chip Audio
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Build in VIA
VT82C686A( or
VIA
VT82C686B)
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AC’97 codec
On-chip integrated AGP
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Supports AGP 1.0 Specification
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Integrated 2D/3D Graphics Controller
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Share 2M~8M frame buffer from DIMMs
Advanced features
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PCI 2.2 Specification compliant
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Provides Trend ChipAwayVirus® On Guard
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Provides four USB ports, on-board PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard ports
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Provides infrared interface
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Support PC99 color- coding connector Specification
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Supports wake-up on LAN and wake-up on external modem
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supports system monitoring (monitors system temperature, CPU temperature, voltages
and fan speed)
