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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.
ESATA Port Use this port to connect to an external SATA box or a Serial ATA
(Optional) portmultiplier.
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.
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.
Audio Ports
This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.
Use the three audio ports to connect audio devices. The first jack
is for stereo line-in signal. The second jack is for stereo line-out
signal. The third jack is for microphone.
This motherboard may adopt 8-channel audio ports that corre-
spond 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.
The above port definition can be changed to audio input or audio
output by changing the driver utility setting.
A: Center & Woofer D: Line-in
B: Back Surround E: Front Out
C: Side Surround F: Mic_in Rear
(Optional)