SOYO SY-K7VTA User Manual

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Motherboard Description

SY-K7VTA

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software can run transparently in non-USB-aware operating system

environment.

3) Keyboard controller with PS2 mouse support.

4) Real Time Clock with 256 byte extended CMOS. In addition to the

standard ISA RTC functionality, the integrated RTC also includes the

date alarm, century field, and other enhancements for compatibility with

the ACPI standard.

5) Hardware monitoring subsystem for managing system/ motherboard

voltage levels, temperatures, and fan speeds

6) Full System Management Bus (SMBus) interface.

7) Two 16550-compatible serial I/O ports with infrared communications

port option. A third serial port is available to be dedicated to the IR

interface.

8) Integrated PCI-mastering dual full-duplex direct-sound AC97-link-

compatible sound system. Hardware soundblaster-pro and hardware-

assisted FM blocks are included for Windows DOS box and real-mode

DOS compatibility. Loopback capability is also implemented for

directing mixed audio streams into USB and 1394 speakers for high

quality digital audio

9) Two game ports and One MIDI port

10) ECP/EPP-capable parallel port

11) Standard floppy disk drive interface

12) Distributed DMA capability for support O ISA legacy DMA over

the PCI bus. Serial IRQ is also supported for docking and non-docking

application.

13) Plug and Play controller that allows complete steerability of all PCI

interrupts and internal interrupts/ DMA channels to any interrupt

channel. One additional steerable interrupt channel is provided to allow

plug and play and reconfigurability of onboard peripherals for Windows

family compliance.

The VT82C686A also enhances the functionality of the standard ISA

peripherals. The integrated interrupt controller supports both edge and

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