Specifications
Table Of Contents
- MX3W-E3 / MX3W-V3
- Hardware Installation
- About “Optional” and “Upgrade Optional”…
- Clear CMOS Data
- CPU Installation
- JP23 Adjust FSB/PCI Clock Ratio
- CPU Jumper-less Design
- CPU and Housing Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring)
- DIMM Socket
- Front Panel Connector
- ATX Power Connector
- JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up
- Power and RAM Power Indicate LED
- AC Power Auto Recovery
- IDE and Floppy Connector
- IrDA Connector
- WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector
- WOL (Wake on LAN)
- CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot
- Support IntelR PRO/100 Network Connection (Optional)
- JP13 LAN Enable / Disable Select Jumper (Optional)
- PC99 Color Coded Back Panel
- COM2 Connector
- Support 2nd USB Port
- DVO (Digital Video Out) Connector
- Chassis Intrusion Sensor
- CD Audio Connector
- Modem Audio Connector
- AUX-IN Connector
- Front Audio Connector
- GPO (General Purpose Output) Connector
- Over-current Protection
- Hardware Monitoring
- Resettable Fuse
- Low ESR Capacitor
- Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall)
- Driver and Utility
- AWARD BIOS
- Overclocking
- Glossary
- AC97
- ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)
- AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)
- AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)
- AOpen Bonus Pack CD
- APM (Advanced Power Management)
- ATA (AT Attachment)
- ATA/66
- ATA/100
- BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
- Bus Master IDE (DMA mode)
- CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)
- CODEC (Coding and Decoding)
- DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM
- DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module)
- DMA (Direct Memory Access)
- ECC (Error Checking and Correction)
- EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory
- EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM)
- EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)
- EV6 Bus
- FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity)
- FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array)
- Flash ROM
- FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock
- I2C Bus
- IEEE 1394
- Parity Bit
- PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)
- PC-100 DIMM
- PC-133 DIMM
- PC-1600 or PC-2100 DDR DRAM
- PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus
- PDF Format
- PnP (Plug and Play)
- POST (Power-On Self Test)
- RDRAM (Rambus DRAM)
- RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module)
- SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)
- Shadow E2PROM
- SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module)
- SMBus (System Management Bus)
- SPD (Serial Presence Detect)
- Ultra DMA
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)
- ZIP file
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Support
- Product Registration
- How to Contact Us

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A disc bundled with AOpen motherboard product, there are motherboard drivers, Acrobat Reader for PDF online manual and
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ATA is the specification of diskette interface. In 80’s, many software and hardware manufacturers instituted the ATA specification
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ATA/66 uses both rising edge and falling edge but doubles UDMA/33 transfer rate. The data transfer rate is 4 times of the PIO
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