Technical information

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Audio Channel 7.1ch
Audio function control Enable/disable by BIOS Setup
Mono or stereo Stereo
Resolution 20 bits
Compatibility Sound Blaster Pro/16 compatible
Mixed digital and analog high performance chip
Enhanced stereo full duplex operation
High performance audio accelerator and AC’97 support
Full native DOS games compatibility
Virtual FM enhances audio experience through real-time FM-to-
Wavetable conversion
MPU-401(UART mode) interface for wavetable synthesizers and
MIDI devices
Integrated dual game port
Meets AC’97and WHQL specifications
Music synthesizer Yes, internal FM synthesizer
Sampling rate 48 KHz (max.)
MPU-401 UART support Yes
Microphone jack Supported
Headphone jack Supported
IDE Interface
Item Specification
IDE controller SiS 968
IDE controller resident bus PCI bus
Number of IDE channel 40 pin PATA x 1
SATA x 2
Support IDE interface E-IDE (up to PIO mode-4 and Ultra DMA 33/66/100), ANSIS ATA
rev.3.0 ATAPI
Support bootable CD-ROM Yes
Floppy disk drive Interface
Item Specification
Floppy disk drive controller ITE8718Ex
Floppy disk drive controller resident
bus
ISA bus
Support FDD format 360KB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB
Audio Interface
Item Specification