Chapter 1
Award BIOS
Supporting Plug & Play specification which detects the
peripheral devices and expansion cards automatically
Supporting CD-ROM, SCSI, LAN BOOT, Temperature sen-
sor, LAN, Alarm Bus CLK setup
Supporting Desktop Management Interface (DMI) func-
tion for recording mainboard specification
ATA 133 On Board
Supporting PIO Mode 5, Master Mode, high performance
hard disk drives.
Supporting Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Bus Master Mode.
Supporting 4xIDE devices, including CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-
RW, LS-120 and high capacity hard disk drives with LBA mode
PCI-Based AC 97 Digital Audio Processor
AC 97 2.2 compatible Codec, 6-channel Audio interface.
8-bit Stereo Full-Duplex Codec with up to 48 KHz samp-
ling rate
4 Analog Line-level Stereo inputs for connection from Line,
CD, Viedo and AUX
2 Analog Line-level Stereo inputs for speakerphone and PC
beep
PC'99 Color-coded I/O Ports
6 USB ports, USB 2.0 compliant.
2 COM ports; 1 Parallel port
1 PS/2 Mouse port; 1 PS/2 Keyboard port
1 Line-in; 1 Line-out; 1 Mic
Hardware Monitoring in Chip W83697HF
Core voltage, CPU temperature and Fan speed monitoring
Motherboard 7KT400
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