Microsoft IBUS-BAT-1370 manual Introduction, Expansion Slots, Desktop Management Interface DMI

Introduction

Expansion Slots

The system board is equipped with 1 dedicated AGP slot. AGP is an interface designed to support high performance 3D graphics cards. It utilizes a dedicated pipeline to access system memory for texturing, z-buffering and alpha blending; delivering up to 533MB/ sec. bandwidth for 3D graphics applications. AGP in this system board will deliver faster and better graphics with your PC.

The system board is also equipped with 3 dedicated PCI slots, 1 dedicated 16-bit ISA slot and 1 shared PCI/ISA slot. All PCI and ISA slots are bus masters.

Desktop Management Interface (DMI)

The system board comes with a DMI 2.0 built into the BIOS. The DMI utility in the BIOS automatically records various information about your system configuration and stores these information in the DMI pool, which is a part of the system board's Plug and Play BIOS. DMI, along with the appropriately networked software, is designed to make inventory, maintenance and troubleshooting of computer systems easier. Refer to Chapter 4 for instructions on using the DMI utility.

Connectors

•2 connectors for external USB ports

•1 connector for IrDA interface

•2 serial ports

•1 parallel port

•2 IDE connectors

•1 floppy connector

•1 PS/2 mouse port

•1 PS/2 or AT keyboard port

•1 20-pin ATX power supply connector

•1 12-pin standard AT power supply connector

•1 Wake-On-LAN connector

•1 SB-LINK connector

•3 fan connectors for CPU, chassis and AGP fans

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