User`s guide

Chapter 1: Introduction

• Support 48 KHz of S/PDIF output is compliant with AC’97 rev2.3

specification

• HRTF 3D Positional Audio and 10 Bands of Software EQualizer

Onboard I/O Ports

• Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard

• One serial port

• One parallel port

• One VGA port

• One LAN port (optional)

• Four back-panel USB2.0 ports

• Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out

Fast Ethernet LAN (optional)

• Single Chip 100Base-TX / 10Base-T Physical Layer Solution

• Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps

• Half and Full Duplex

• MII Interface to Ethernet Controller

• MII Interface to Configuration & Status

• Auto Negotiation: 10 / 100, Full / Half Duplex

• Meet All Applicable IEEE 802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-Tx Standards.

• On Chip Wave Shaping – No External Filters Required.

USB 2.0

• Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0

• Compliant with Intel’s Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification

Revision 1.0

• Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface Specification Revision

1.1

• PCI multi-function device consists of two UHCI Host Controller cores for

full-/low-speed signaling and one EHCI Host Controller core for high-

speed signaling

• Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with integrated physical

layer transceivers shared by UHCI and EHCI Host Controller, up to eight

functional ports

• Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Specification release 1.1

• Legacy support for all downstream facing ports

BIOS Firmware

This motherboard uses AMI BIOS that enables users to configure many system

features including the following:

• Power management

• Wake-up alarms

• CPU parameters and memory timing

• CPU and memory timing