Operation Manual

Installing the Motherboard

Connecting I/O Devices

The backplane of the motherboard has the following I/O ports:

PS2 Mouse Use the upper PS/2 port to connect a PS/2 pointing device.

PS2 Keyboard Use the lower PS/2 port to connect a PS/2 keyboard.

Parallel Port (LPT1) Use LPT1 to connect printers or other parallel communications

devices.

Serial Port Use the COM1 port to connect serial devices such as mice or

(COM1) fax/modems.

LAN Port (optional) Connect an RJ-45 jack to the LAN port to connect your computer

to the Network.

1394a Port (optional) Use the 1394a port to connect to any firewire device.

USB Ports Use the USB ports to connect USB devices.

Audio Ports Use the three audio ports to connect audio devices. The first jack

is for stereo line-in signal. The second jack is for stereo line-out

signal. The third jack is for microphone.

This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.

1394A2: Onboard IEEE 1394a connector (optional)

Connect this header to any device with IEEE 1394a interface.

Pin Signal Name Function

1 TPA+ 2 TPA-

3 GND 4 GND

5 TPB+ 6 TPB-

7 Cable-Power 8 Cable-Power

Pin Signal Name

9 Key Pin 10 GND

Users please note that “1394A2” shares with “USB1394A1”. That is, only

either of them can function at one time!