User guide

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

RAID connector. These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors

support Ultra DMA/133 IDE devices. These connectors are slotted to

prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.

Flash ROM. This 4Mb firmware contains the programmable BIOS

program.

South bridge controller. The Intel

ICH5R is a subsystem that

integrates various I/O functions including 2-channel ATA100 bus

master IDE controller, SATA RAID controller, up to eight USB 2.0/1.1

ports, I/O APIC, AC’97 2.2 interface, and PCI 2.3 interface.

ATA133 RAID controller. The VIA

VT6410 IDE RAID controller

provides high performance RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD

RAID methods.

Standby power LED. This LED lights up if there is a standby power

on the motherboard. This LED acts as a reminder to turn off the

system power before plugging or unplugging devices.

Wi-Fi slot. The Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) slot connects a wireless

networking module that allows 11Mbps transmission (with a

fallback to 5.5, 2, and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. Wi-Fi networks

use radio technologies known as IEEE 802.11b to provide a fast

reliable wireless connectivity.

IEEE 1394 controller. The VIA

6307 controller supports IEEE 1394

functionality with maximum data transfer rates of 400 Mbps.

PCI slots. These five 32-bit PCI 2.3 expansion slots support bus

master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum

throughput.

Audio CODEC. The ADI AD1985 is an AC’97 CODEC that allows

6-channel audio playback. The audio CODEC provides six DAC

channels for 5.1 surround sound, S/PDIF output, AUX and Line In

stereo inputs, integrated headphone amplifier, greater than 90dB

dynamic range with the jack sense and jack enumeration feature.

LAN controller. The 3Com

3C940 Gigabit Ethernet is a single-chip

solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) application. The 3C940

provides a 32-bit interface and supports 1000/100/10 Mbps data

transfer rates.

PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.