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3.11. IDE & ATAPI DEVICE INSTALLATION
There are two Enhance PCI IDE ports (CN6,7) on board, which following
ATAPI standard SPEC. Any one IDE port can connected to two ATAPI
devices (IDE Hard Disk, CD-ROM & Tape Driver), so total four ATAPI devices
can exist in a system.
The booting Hard Disk should be the Master device of 1st IDE channel. The
J6 is the active LED port for ATAPI device.
3.12. PERIPHERAL DEVICE INSTALLATION
After the I/O device installation and jumpers setup, the mainboard can be
mounted into the case and fixed by screw.
To complete the mainboard installation, the peripheral device could be
installed now. The basic system needs a display interface card.
If the PCI - Bus device is to be installed in the system, any one of five PCI -
Bus slots can be used.
3.13. KEYBOARD & PS/2 MOUSE INSTALLATION
The main board supports PS/2 connector type keyboard & Mouse (CN4).
The BIOS will auto detect whether the PS/2 Mouse is installed or nor &
assign IRQ12 for Mouse port if which was installed.
After installing the peripheral device, the user should check everything again,
and prepare to power-on the system.
3.14. KEYBOARD SETTING FUNCTION
After booting the O.S., there are some special functions used by keyboard as
follows:
"CTRL_ALT_DEL"
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Pressing these keys simultaneously will cause
system to Warm Start (Software Reset).
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