10Speech controller. This Winbond speech controller supports the ASUS POST Reporter™ for configurable vocal POST alerts.

11Flash ROM. This 4Mb firmware contains the programmable BIOS program.

12Standby power LED. This LED lights up if there is a standby power on the motherboard. This LED acts as a reminder to turn off the system power before plugging or unplugging devices.

13ASUS ASIC. This chip performs multiple system functions that include hardware and system voltage monitoring, IRQ routing, among others.

14Super I/O controller. This Low Pin Count (LPC) interface provides the commonly used Super I/O functionality. The chipset supports a high- performance floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/2.88M floppy disk drive, a multi-mode parallel port, two standard compatible UARTs, a Standard Infrared (SIR), and a Flash ROM interface.

15PCI slots. These six 32-bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots support bus master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput. The ASUS proprietary BlueMagic PCI slot (blue slot) supports future ASUS function cards compliant to PCI specification.

16Audio CODEC. The ADI AD1980 is an AC’97 CODEC that allows 6-channel audio playback. The audio CODEC provides six DAC channels for 5.1 surround sound, S/PDIF output, AUX and Line In stereo inputs, integrated headphone amplifier, greater than 90dB dynamic range, and stereo Mic PREAMP support.

17LAN controller. The BroadCom BCM4401 onboard supports 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet networking.

(on LAN models only)

18AGP warning LED. Serving as a smart burn-out protection for the motherboard, this red LED lights up if you plug in any 3.3V AGP card into the AGP slot. When this LED is lit, there is no way you can turn on the system power even if you press the power button.

19AGP slot. This Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot supports 1.5V AGP4X mode graphics cards for 3D graphical applications.

20PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.

21Parallel port. This 25-pin port connects a parallel printer, a scanner, or other devices.

22RJ-45 port. This port allows connection to a Local Area Network (LAN) through a network hub. (on LAN models only)

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