8 bios, 7 pci bus components, 1 pci bus overview – Intel iEi Motherboard A300 User Manual

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A300 Motherboard

BIOS chipset

Super I/O chipset

2.6.8 BIOS

The BIOS flash memory chip on the A300 has a licensed copy of AMI BIOS loaded onto it.

The BIOS flash memory chip is connected to the chipset via the LPC bus. The flash BIOS

features are listed below:

SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant

Console redirection function support

PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment) support

USB booting support

2.7 PCI Bus Components

2.7.1 PCI Bus Overview

The PCI bus controller on the ICH4 is compliant with PCI Revision 2.2 specifications and

has a 33MHz PCI clock. The components listed below are all connected to the PCI bus:

PCI socket

Realtek RTL8110S GbE interface

One PCMCIA slot

2.7.2 GbE Ethernet

A highly integrated and cost-effective single-chip, fast RealTek RTL8110S/SC GbE

Ethernet controller is interfaced through first the PCI bus to the CPU and system chipset.

The RealTek RTL8110S/SC controller provides 10Mbps, 100Mbps or 1000Mbps Ethernet

connectivity to the A300. Some of the features of the RealTek RTL8110S/SC are listed

below.

Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver

Auto-Negotiation with Next Page capability

Supports PCI rev.2.3, 32-bit, 33/66MHz

Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction

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