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Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots - motherboard specs

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MMootthheerrbbooaarrdd DDeessccrriippttiioonn Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2 The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that provides PIO Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133 functionality. It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2 (secondary). The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can connect up to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be connected to IDE1. Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1 The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables. Communication Network Riser Slot: CNR1 The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and it defines a hardware scalable riser card interface, which supports audio, and modem only. Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1-5 This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for expansion cards, which has, supplanted the older ISA bus standard in most ports. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits. Accelerated Graphics Port Slot: AGP1 Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard supports video cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an Accelerated Graphics Port. An AGP card will take advantage of AGP technology for improved video efficiency and performance, especially with 3D graphics. Serial ATA Connector: (JSATA1/ JSATA2) (Optional) The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA interface, it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and can transfer data with 1.5GHz speed. For more details, please refer to page 21(FastTrak 376). 9

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Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots
Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2
The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that
provides PIO Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133
functionality.
It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary) and IDE2
(secondary).
The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slave drive, so you can
connect up to four hard disk drives. The first hard drive should always be
connected to IDE1.
Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1
The motherboard provides a standard floppy disk connector that
supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M floppy disk types. This
connector supports the provided floppy drive ribbon cables.
Communication Network Riser Slot: CNR1
The CNR specification is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and it
defines a hardware scalable riser card interface, which supports audio,
and modem only.
Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1-5
This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands for
Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard for
expansion cards, which has, supplanted the older ISA bus standard in
most ports. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits.
Accelerated Graphics Port Slot: AGP1
Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard
supports video cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an
Accelerated Graphics Port. An AGP card will take advantage of AGP
technology for improved video efficiency and performance, especially
with 3D graphics.
Serial ATA Connector: (JSATA1/ JSATA2) (Optional)
The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA
interface, it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and can transfer data with
1.5GHz speed.
For more details, please refer to page 21(FastTrak
376).