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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.

Parallel Port Use LPT to connect printers or other parallel communica-

(LPT) tions devices.

Serial Port Use the COM port to connect serial devices such as mice or
(COM1) fax/modems.

VGA1 Port Connect your monitor to the VGA port.

USB
. Ports Use the USB ports to connect USB devices.
LAN Port Connect an RJ-45 jack to the LAN port to connect your
computer to the Network.

Audio Ports Use the three audio jacks to connect audio devices. The first
(optional) jack is for stereo line-in signal. The second jack is for stero
line-out signal. The third jack is for microphone.

This motherboard may adopt 8-channel audio ports that

correspond to the A,B, C, and E port respectively. In addi-
tion, 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.

A: Center & Woofer D: Line-in

B: Back Surround E: Front Out
C: Side Surround F: Mic_in Rear

The above port definition can be changed to audio input or

audio output by changing the driver utility setting.

This concludes Chapter 2. The next chapter covers the BIOS.

Installing the Motherboard