Watch Dog Timer - Albatron PX915PC PRO-G User Manual

Supports 3D Acceleration
Supports Video Acceleration
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Micorsoft DirectX compatible
OpenGL driver available
I/O facilities:
One multi-mode Parallel Port capable of supporting the following specifications:
1. Standard & Bi-direction Parallel Port
2. Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)
3. Extended Capabilities Port (ECP)
Contains one serial port, 16550 UART
Contains one VGA port (PX915GC series only)
Supports Infrared Data Transmissions using IrDA
Supports PS/2 mice and PS/2 keyboards
Supports 360 KB/720 KB/1.2 MB/1.44 MB/2.88 MB floppy disk drives
Contains 1 Game header
BIOS:
Phoenix-Award™ BIOS
Supports APM1.2
Supports ACPI2.0 power management

Watch Dog Timer:

This mainboard contains a special feature called the "Watch Dog Timer" which is used to
detect when the system hangs during the POST stage due to certain BIOS configuration
problems. Once a problem is detected, the Watch Dog will reset the configurations and
reboot the system.
PX915PC/ PX915GC Series
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