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On-board I/O
• Two on board PCI fast IDE ports supporting up to 4 ATA, ATA2 , Ultra
ATA33/66/100/133 IDE HDDs, CD-ROMs, ZIP drives and LS-120
drives as boot drive.
• One ECP/EPP parallel port.
• One 16550 Compatible UART serial port.
• One floppy port which supports two FDD of 1.44MB, 2.88MB capacity.
• Eight USB ports (four ports via two headers).
• PS/2 keyboard support.
• PS/2 mouse support.
• One front panel sound connector.
• Infrared (IrDA) support via a header.
Expanded USB Support
• Includes 2 OHCI host controllers, increasing the number of external
ports to eight.
• Includes 1 EHCI USB2.0 Host Controller that supports all eight
ports (Bandwidth is shared between the eight ports).
• This motherboard support USB 2.0 only on Windows
® 2000 (with SP4
or above) and Windows
® XP (with SP1 or above) operating systems.
On-board Realtek RTL8100C/RTL8110S PCI LAN (optional)
• Provides 32-bit performance, PCI bus master capability.
• Full compliance with IEEE 802.3u 100 Base-T specifications and
IEEE 802.3X Full Duplex Flow Control.
• Supports 10 Mb/s, 100 Mb/s and 1000 Mb/s (only for RTL8110S)
operation.
• Supports Wake-On-LAN function and remote wake-up.
• Supports ACPI, PCI Power management and PCI VPD.
TV Out
• Integrated TV encoder.
• 10-bit DAC with 4-tap filter.
• PAL/NTSC TV Out with Composite and S-Video outputs (via a header).
• ATI’s exclusive “Composite Dot Crawl” freeze option for PAL and
NTSC to improve the picture quality.
• TV-Out power management support.
PCI Express Graphics interface
• One 16-lane (X16 port) PCI Express Graphics port, Fully compliant
with the PCI Express Base Specification revision 1.0a.
• A base PCI Express frequency of 2.5GB/s only.
• PCI Express support and Enhanced Addressing Mechanism.
