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Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1
The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that
supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This
connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables.
Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/IDE2
The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that
provides PIO Mode 0~5, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100
functionality. It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2
(secondary).
The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you
can connect up to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should
always be connected to IDE1.
Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI 1~3
This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for
expansion cards. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits.
Xtreme Graphics Port Slot: XGP1
This XGP (Extreme Graphics Port) slot is a special design that only
supports compatible AGP VGA cards.
To install the system with an add-on AGP VGA card, please make sure
to install the driver of add-on AGP VGA card before onboard VGA
driver installation. If the onboard VGA driver has already been installed
before you install the add-on AGP VGA card, the system will
automatically set the onboard VGA as the primary graphics adapter.
For the onboard VGA driver can't be removed completely, and to solve
this problem, please follow the steps below,
1. Disable onboard VGA utility under the operating system, and reboot
PC. After PC restarts, the system will automatically set the AGP
VGA card as the graphics adapter. Or,
2. Re-install your operating system to ensure the AGP VGA card
function can be used.
Note:
Please go to "http://www.biostar.com.tw" for more detailed information
about XGP compatible AGP cards.
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