The chipset has the following advanced USB features:
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Compliant with Enhanced Host Controller Interface
(EHCI) Specification Revision 0.95 and Universal Host
Controller Interface (UHCI) Specification Revision 1.1
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PCI multi-function device consists of two UHCI Host Control-
lers for full/low-speed signaling and one EHCI Host
Controller core for high-speed signaling
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Supports PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Specifi-
cation release 1.1
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Legacy support for all downstream facing ports
Expansion
The mainboard comes with the following expansion options:
Options
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Five 32-bit PCI slots
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One 8xAGP slot
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A Communications Network Riser (CNR) slot (AC97 inter-
face only)
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Two IDE connectors which support four IDE channels and
a floppy disk drive interface
The MS9127C is capable of Ultra DMA bus mastering with
transfer rates of 33/66/100/133 MB/sec.
10/100 LAN
The VT6103 is a Physical Layer device for Ethernet 10BASE-T
(optional)
and 100BASE-TX using category 5 Unshielded, Type 1
Shielded, and Fiber Optic cables.
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Dual Speed – 100/10 Mbps
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Half And Full Duplex
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Meet All Applicable IEEE 802.3, 10Base-T and 100Base-
Tx Standards
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Adaptive Equalizer
Integrated I/O
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors:
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Two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard
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Two serial port
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One parallel port
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Six USB ports (Four backpanel ports, onboard USB
headers providing two extra ports)
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Audio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out
BIOS
This mainboard uses Award BIOS that enables users to con-
Firmware
figure many system features including the following:
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Power management
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CPU and memory timing
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Modem wake up alarms
The firmware can also be used to set parameters for different
processor clock speeds.
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