User`s manual

Introduction

Features

The Watchdog Timer function allows your

application to regularly “clear” the system at

the set time interval. If the system hangs or fails to function, it will

reset at the set time interval so that your system will continue to

operate.

DDR2 is a higher performance DDR technology

whose data transfer rate delivers bandwidth of 4.3

GB per second and beyond. That is twice the speed of the conven-

tional DDR without increasing its power consumption. DDR2

SDRAM modules work at 1.8V supply compared to 2.6V memory

voltage for DDR modules. DDR2 also incorporates new innovations

such as the On-Die Termination (ODT) as well as larger 4-bit pre-

fetch against DDR which fetches 2 bits per clock cycle.

The Intel 945GME northbridge chip comes inte-

grated with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

delivering exceptional 3D graphics performance. It supports analog

CRT and LVDS interfaces.

The audio jacks at the rear panel will

support 5.1-channel audio only when the

audio utility is configured to support this function. The front audio’s

mic-in function will not work at this moment.

S/PDIF is a standard audio file transfer format that

transfers digital audio signals to a device without

having to be converted first to an analog format. This prevents the

quality of the audio signal from degrading whenever it is converted

to analog. S/PDIF is usually found on digital audio equipment such as

a DAT machine or audio processing device. The S/PDIF connector on

the system board sends surround sound and 3D audio signal out-

puts to amplifiers and speakers and to digital recording devices like

CD recorders.

Serial ATA is a storage interface that is compliant

with SATA 1.0 specification. With speed of up to

1.5Gbps, it improves hard drive performance faster than the stand-

ard parallel ATA whose data transfer rate is 100MB/s.

watchdog timer

DDR2

5.1-channel audio

graphics

SERIAL ATA

S/PDIF