
PCI/ISA System Board
8
BIOS
•Award system BIOS (Flash EPROM optional)
•Supports IDE HDDs larger than 528MB under DOS
(LBA mode only)
•System and EGA/VGA BIOS shadow
Super I/O Interface and Fast IDE
•Two NS16C550 compatible serial ports
•One parallel port with EPP and ECP support
•Supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, and 1.44MB floppy
drives
•Two fast IDE connectors:
Primary IDE connector provides a VL-bus IDE
interface to support up to two Mode 4
enhanced HDDs
Secondary IDE connector provides an ISA IDE
Interface to support an ATAPI compliant
CD-ROM or a tape drive
Cache Memory
•128KB, 256KB, or 512KB
•Supports Level 1 and Level 2 write-back/
write-through cache
Memory Onboard
•1MB to 128MB
•Two 72-pin SIMM sockets
•Supports memory parity check function
•Supports 256KBx36, 512KBx36, 1MBx36,
2MBx36, 4MBx36, 8MBx36 and 16MBx36 SIMMs
Expansion Slots
•Three PCI slots
•One shared PCI/ISA slot
•Three 16-bit ISA slots