Watch Dog Timer - Albatron PM266A PRO User Manual

VIA VT6103 LAN Controller on board:
1/10/100 MHz full and half duplex operation
Independent 2K byte FIFOs for receive and transmit
Magic packet and wake-on-address filtering
Software controllable power down
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)
Supports two serial ports, 16550 UART (one on back panel and one on front panel)
Supports Infrared Data Transmission using IrDA
Supports one VGA port
Supports PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard
Supports 360 KB, 720 KB, 1.2 MB, 1.44 MB, and 2.88 MB floppy disk drives
MIDI compatible
Game port compatible
IDE Facilities:
Supports Ultra ATA 66/ 100/ 133, DMA and PIO modes
Supports IDE interface with CD-ROM
Supports high capacity hard disk drives
Supports installation of up to 4 drives, with separate IDE connections for Primary and
Secondary connectors

Watch Dog Timer:

This mainboard contains a special feature called the "Watch Dog Timer" which is used to
detect when the system is unable to handle over-clocking configurations during the POST
stage. Once a problem is detected the system will reset the configurations and reboot the
system after five seconds.
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