Owner manual

eKINO-945GSE Motherboard
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The six USB ports implemented on the eKINO-945GSE are connected to three internal
connectors and one external connector shown in
Figure 2-5.
2.6 LPC Bus Components
The iTE IT8718F LPC bus is connected to components listed below (and shown in
Figure 2-5):
 BIOS chip
 Super I/O chip
 Serial port chip
2.6.1 BIOS Chipset
The BIOS chipset has a licensed copy of AMI BIOS installed on the chipset. Some of the
BIOS features are listed below:
 AMI Flash BIOS
 SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant
 Console redirection function support
 PXE (Pre-boot Execution Environment) support
 USB booting support
2.6.2 iTE IT8718F Super I/O chipset
The iTE IT8718F Super I/O chipset is connected to the Intel® ICH7M Southbridge through
the LPC bus. The iTE IT8718F is an LPC interface-based Super I/O device that comes
with Environment Controller integration. Some of the features of the iTE IT8718F chipset
are listed below:
 ACPI and LANDesk Compliant
 Enhanced Hardware Monitor
 Fan Speed Controller
 Two 16C550 UARTs for serial port control
 One IEEE 1284 Parallel Port
 Keyboard Controller
 Watchdog Timer