1. This is Award BIOS release
2. New BIOS Release
Specifications:
CPU
· Supports Socket A for AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron/Sempron processors @FSB 266/333/400MHz
· Supports up to 3200 processor or higher
Please refer to CPU Support for compatible CPU; the above description is for reference only.
Chipset
· NVIDIA nForce2 400 Ultra Chipset
- Supports DDR200/266/333/400
- AGP 8X and PCI Advanced high performance memory controller
· NVIDIA nForce2 Gigabit MCP Chipset
- Integrated Ethernet MAC
- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller
- Supports USB 2.0
- Integrated SATA Interface
Main Memory
· Supports six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR DIMMs
· Support Dual channel PC3200/2700/2100/1600 DDR SDRAMs
· Supports both 64-bit and 128-bit DDR SDRAM
· Maximum memory size of 3GB
· Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM
Slots
· One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4X/8X slot
· Five 32-bit PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)
On-Board IDE
· Two IDE controller on the NVIDIA nForce2 Gigabit MCP chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
· Can connect up to four IDE devices
SATA Interface
· Integrated SATA Phy, supporting up to 2 ports
· One SATA controller, supporting two drives in master mode
NV RAID (Software)
· Supports 2 serial ATA plus 1 ATA 133
- RAID 0, or 1, 0 1, JBOD is supported
- Booting from RAID
- Cross controller RAID support
- Rebuilding on the Fly
- Spare Disk Allocation
· Supports Windows 2000 and later versions
Audio
· Chip integrated (5.1 channel H/W audio)
- Direct Sound AC97 audio
- 6 channel analog output
- Digital SPDIF out signal compatible W/S-Bracket
Network
· On-Board 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- A 802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000 BASE-T/100 BASE-T/10 BASE-T Gigabit/Fast Ethernet/Ethernet
- RGMII for Gigabit/Fast Ethernet/Ethernet
USB Interface
· 8 USB ports
- Controlled by Gigabit MCP southbridge
- 4 ports in the rear I/O, 4 ports via external bracket
In-Chip IEEE1394
· Supports up to 3 * 1394 ports (via external bracket). Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps.
On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
- 1 floppy port that supports one FDD with 360KB, 720KB, 1.44MB and 2.88MB
- 1 serial port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 1 Audio jack(5-in-1), coaxial/fiber SPDIF out
- 3 IEEE1394 connectors (via external bracket)
- 8 USB ports (Rear x 4 / Front x 4)
- 1 RJ-45 jack
- 1 D-Bracket2 pinheader
BIOS
· The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices
and expansion cards of the board automatically.
· The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records
your mainboard specifications.
Dimension
· 30.4 cm(L) x 24 cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting
· 9 mounting holes
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