Software functional overview – FIC M296 User Manual
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Software Functional Overview
Controller Chip
Description
Display
System auto detects LCD or CRT presence on boot and lid
closed.
Support Panning while LCD in a display resolution greater than
supported.
Support Microsoft Direct 3D.
Support AGP 4x BUS
Hard Disk
Enhanced IDE spec.
Support auto IDE detection.
Support LBA mode for larger capacity HDD.
Support Ultra DMA 33/66/100.
Support Fast PIO mode 1-4 transfer.
Support 32 bit PIO transfer.
Support Multi-Sector transfer.
Support SMART monitoring
Multi Boot
Allow the user to select boot from USB FDD, HDD and CD-
ROM
Plug and Play
Support PnP Run Time Service and conflict-free allocation of
resource during POST
Smart Battery
Support BIOS interface to pass battery information to the
application via SMBus.
Keyboard Controller
Support Fn hot keys, one Win95 hot keys, built-in Glide Pad and
external PS/2 mouse/keyboard
PCMCIA
Compliant with PCMCIA 2.1 specification.
Power Management
Support
The power management is compliant with ACPI 1.0B
specification and supports the following power state:
S0 (Full-On) Mode
S3 (Doze) Mode
S4 (STD) Mode
S5 (Soft-Off) Mode
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