American Megatrends III - Manual (Page 73)

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Item Description
Expansion slots Three ISA expansion slots
Four PCI expansion slots
L1 internal cache
memory
The Intel Pentium has 8 KB data cache and 8 KB
instruction cache.
L2 secondary
cache memory
256 KB or 512 KB of synchronous PBSRAM, direct-
mapped, write-back.
Cache memory
/system memory
256 KB caches up to 128 MB of system memory
512 KB caches up to 512 MB of system memory
Type of System
Memory
Up to 512 MB mounted on the motherboard in two
banks of 72-pin 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB, or 32 MB
SIMMs.
System memory Fast page mode or Extended Data Out (EDO) SIMMs
operating at 70 ns.
Memory buffer One level posted write memory buffer
Max. system
memory
128 MB
Fast ATA Supports the Fast ATA specification using PIO mode 4
and multiword DMA mode 2.
System BIOS This motherboard has a 128 KB AMIBIOS system
BIOS on a Flash ROM with built-in WINBIOS Setup.
BIOS shadowing The system BIOS is always copied from ROM to RAM
for faster execution. The end user can shadow 16 KB
ROM segments from C000h – DCFFFh.
AMIBIOS
features
IDE block mode support,
IDE 32-bit data transfer support,
IDE Programmed I/O mode 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 support,
IDE LBA mode support,
APM (Advanced Power Management) and Flash BIOS
hooks,
EPA Green PC-compliant,
PCI and Plug and Play (PnP) support, and
DIM (Device Initialization Manager) support,
DMI (Desktop Management Interface) support,
ATAPI support,
can boot from a CD-ROM drive,
automatically detects system memory, cache memory,
and IDE drive parameters,
Intel NSP-compliant,
Fast ATA IDE mode programming,
Boot sector virus protection,
instant-on support,
automatically configures PnP and PCI devices.
IDE Provides two 40-pin IDE connectors onboard that
support up to four IDE drives. IDE controller is on the
PCI local bus.
Floppy Onboard support for up to two 360 KB, 720 KB, 1.2
MB, 1.44 MB, or 2.88 MB floppy drives.
Parallel port Onboard ECP and EPP-capable parallel port connector.
Serial ports Two onboard serial port connectors. Two 16550 UART
serial ports.
Keyboard Includes a standard miniDIN keyboard connectors.
USB Two USB connectors are provided on the motherboard.
Infrared An infrared connector is provided on the motherboard
Mouse Includes a 10-pin berg mouse connector.
Power supply Includes three power supply connectors.
Real time clock/
CMOS RAM
A real time clock and 128 bytes of CMOS RAM with a
battery backup is provided on the motherboard.