Owner manual

3
Introducing the Motherboard
Expansion Options
The motherboard comes with the following expansion options:
• One 32-bit PCI slot
• Two IDE connectors which support four IDE devices
• One floppy disk drive interface
• One CF socket (optional)
The motherboard supports Ultra DMA bus mastering with transfer rates of 100/66/
33MB/s.
Onboard LAN (Optional)
Some hardware specifications and software items are subject to change
without prior notice.
The motherboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
• Three serial ports
• One VGA port
• Four USB ports
• Two LAN ports (LAN2 optional)
• Audio jacks for microphone and line-out
Integrated I/O
BIOS Firmware
This motherboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to configure many system
features including the following:
• Power management
• CPU parameters
• CPU and memory timing
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different processor clock
speeds.
This motherboard may support either of the following LAN chipset:
• Supports 100/10 Mb/s N-Way Auto negotiation operation
• Half/Full duplex capability
• Supports Wake-On-LAN(WOL) function and remote wake-up
• Integrate 10/100/1000 transceiver
• Supports PCI v2.3, 32-bit, 33/66MHz
• Supports fully with IEEE802.3, IEEE802.3u and IEEE802.3ab