12RAID connector. These dual-channel bus master IDE connectors support Ultra DMA/133 IDE devices. These connectors are slotted to prevent incorrect insertion of the IDE ribbon cable.

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

South bridge controller. The Intel® ICH5R is a subsystem that integrates various I/O functions including 2-channel ATA100 bus master IDE controller, SATA RAID controller, up to eight USB 2.0/1.1 ports, I/O APIC, AC’97 2.2 interface, and PCI 2.3 interface.

15ATA133 RAID controller. The VIA® VT6410 IDE RAID controller provides high performance RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD RAID methods.

16Standby 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.

17Wi-Fi slot. The Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) slot connects a wireless networking module that allows 11Mbps transmission (with a fallback to 5.5, 2, and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. Wi-Fi networks use radio technologies known as IEEE 802.11b to provide a fast reliable wireless connectivity.

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IEEE 1394 controller. The VIA® 6307 controller supports IEEE 1394 functionality with maximum data transfer rates of 400 Mbps.

PCI slots. These five 32-bit PCI 2.3 expansion slots support bus master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum throughput.

20Audio CODEC. The ADI AD1985 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 with the jack sense and jack enumeration feature.

21LAN controller. The 3Com® 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet is a single-chip solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) application. The 3C940 provides a 32-bit interface and supports 1000/100/10 Mbps data transfer rates.

22PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.

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Chapter 1: Product introduction