Specifications

be used to transfer files to or from portable devices like laptops, PDAs, and printers.

The Infrared Data Association (IrDA) specification supports data transfers of up to 115

Kbaud at a distance of 1 meter.

BIOS System Support

BIOS, an acronym for Basic Input Output System, acts as the first link between

hardware and software in coordinating the startup configuration of computers. Plug and

play ready, AWARD BlOS automatically configures the computer’s hard drives, disk

drives, processors, chipsets, memory, and boot-up of the operating system.

The system BIOS, from AWARD, provides ISA PnP and PCI PnP compatibility. The

BIOS is contained in a flash memory device. The BIOS provides the power-on self test

(POST), the system Setup program, a PCI and IDE auto-configuration.

The system BIOS is always shadowed. Shadowing allows any BIOS routines to be

executed from fast 32-bit onboard DRAM instead of from the slower 8-bit flash device.

1. Plug and Play Rev 1.0A support.

2. Boot Block Protection.

3. Auto detects Pipeline Burst SRAM and Cache size, IDE mode type and size.

4. Supports APM 1.2.

5. Supports DMI 2.0.

6. Supports USB.

7. Supports Booting from a Floppy drive, IDE device, CD-ROM, SCSI, Floptical or

Network.

8. 1MBYTES/2MBYTES flash EEPROM for easy BIOS upgrade.

PCI IDE

1. “Ultra DMA/33” Synchronous DMA IDE support.

2. Meets Microsoft requirement for PC97/PC98.

3. Fully compatible with PCI spec.V2.1.

4. Supports PCI Bus Mastering.

5. Supports Mode 3 and Mode 4 for Enhanced IDE specification.

6. Supports Multi-word DMA mode 0,1,2.

7. Supports PCI burst Read/Write.

8. Supports Primary and Secondary IDE for a total of 4 drives.

9. IDE CD-ROM support.