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Installing the Motherboard
Connecting I/O Devices
The backplane of the motherboard has the following I/O ports:
PS2 Mouse Use the upper PS/2 port to connect a PS/2 pointing device.
PS2 Keyboard Use the lower PS/2 port to connect a PS/2 keyboard.
Parallel Port (LPT1) Use LPT1 to connect printers or other parallel communications
(optional) devices.
Serial Port Use the COM port to connect serial devices such as mice or
(COM1) fax/modems. COM1 is identified by the system as COM1/3.
VGA Port Connect your monitor to the VGA port.
LAN Port Connect an RJ-45 jack to the LAN port to connect your computer
(optional) to the Network.
USB Ports Use the USB ports to connect USB devices.
1394a Port Use the 1394a port to connect any 1394a device.
(optional)
Audio Ports Use the three audio ports to connect audio devices. The first jack
(optional) is for stereo line-in signal. The second jack is for stereo line-out
signal. The third jack is for microphone.
This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.
This motherboard may adopt 8-channel audio ports that correspond to the
A,B, C, and E port respectively. In addition, all of the 3 ports, B, C, and E
provide users with both right & left channels individually. Users please refer
to the following note for specific port function definition.
A: Center & Woofer D: Line-in
B: Back Surround E: Front Out
C: Side Surround F: Mic_in Rear
The above port definition can be changed to audio input or
audio output by changing the driver utility setting.