24 MIC-3318 User's Manual
3.1 OverviewAdvantech provides a CD-ROM with utilities and drivers included.
Please install the Chipset INF driver, VGA graphics driver, LAN driver,
Intel Application Accelerator (IAA) driver, Watchdog Timer (WDT)
driver and the hardware monitoring utility (WinBond HWDoct)
sequentially.
The Intel Application Accelerator is a performance boosting software
package for Intel chipsets. It reduces the storage sub-system bottle-
neck, enabling faster delivery of data from the hard drive to the
processor and other system level hardware. Meanwhile, it enables a
performance-enhancing data pre-fetcher for Intel Pentium 4 and
Pentium M processor-based systems. In addition, it delivers faster
overall system boot times by significantly accelerating the load time
of the OS, which enables you to build Pentium 4 and Pentium M
processor-based systems with a better overall end-user experience.
IAA supports 48-bit Logical Block Addressing (48-bit LBA) for 137
GB and larger hard drives. Furthermore, IAA enables Automatic
Selection of Highest DMA Transfer Mode by the ATA/ATAPI device/
Intel chipset.
This chapter will list the utilities and drivers for MIC-3318, and make a
brief introduction for two of them: the USB driver and the Watchdog
Timer utility.