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Expansion Options
Five 32-bit PCI slots, an AGP slot, and an AMR slot provide
plenty of expansion potential. The MB694A PCI slots support Ul-
tra DMA33/66 bus mastering with transfer rates up to 33/66
MB/sec.
Integrated I/O
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors. The
I/O template on the backplane includes two PS/2 ports for
mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one VGA port, one parallel
port, one MIDI/game port, two USB ports with an onboard
header providing two extra USB ports, and audio jacks for mi-
crophone, line-in and line-out. The board includes two PCI IDE
channels and a floppy disk drive interface.
Keyboard Power on Feature
Using the system BIOS setup program, you can configure the
system to turn on using a keyboard-typed password. A green
keyboard is not required.
Programmable Firmware
The mainboard includes Award BIOS that allows BIOS setting of
CPU parameters. This fully programmable firmware enhances
the system features and allows users to set such items as power
management, CPU and memory timing, and modem wake-up
alarms. The firmware can also be used to set parameters for dif-
ferent processor clock speeds so that you don’t need to change
mainboard jumpers and switches.
This concludes Chapter 1. The next chapter will cover installing
and building a working system.
