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1 Product Description
What This Chapter Contains
1.1 PCI Bus Terminology Change ....................................................................................11
1.2 Overview ....................................................................................................................12
1.3 Online Support ...........................................................................................................17
1.4 Processor ...................................................................................................................17
1.5 System Memory .........................................................................................................18
1.6 Intel
®
915G Chipset....................................................................................................23
1.7 PCI Express Connectors ............................................................................................27
1.8 I/O Controller..............................................................................................................28
1.9 Audio Subsystem .......................................................................................................29
1.10 LAN Subsystem..........................................................................................................31
1.11 Hardware Management Subsystem ...........................................................................34
1.12 Power Management ...................................................................................................36
1.13 Trusted Platform Module ............................................................................................43
1.1 PCI Bus Terminology Change
Previous generations of Intel
®
Desktop Boards used an add-in card connector referred to as PCI.
This generation of Intel Desktop Boards adds a new technology for add-in cards: PCI Express.
The 32-bit parallel bus previously referred to as PCI is now called PCI Conventional.