Asus D700-NIB User Manual

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Chapter 1: Product introduction

South bridge controller. Referred to as the Intel I/O Controller
Hub 2 (ICH2) of the Intel 845 chipset, this controller provides the
I/O subsystem that allows access to the rest of the system. The
ICH2 integrates I/O functions such as system bus interface, Ultra
ATA/100, Low Pin Count (LPC) interface, Universal Serial Bus
(USB) 1.1 interface, PCI interface, and CNR interface.

ASUS ASIC. This chip performs multiple system functions that
include hardware and system voltage monitoring, power
management routing, among others.

Onboard LED. This onboard LED lights up if there is a standby
power on the motherboard. This LED acts as a reminder to turn off
the system power before plugging or unplugging devices.

CNR slot. This slot is specifically designed for the Communications
and Networking Riser (CNR) card. The CNR supports V.90 analog
modem, six-channel audio, HPNA, USB Hub, and the 10BASE-T/
100BASE-T Ethernet networking.

Audio controller. This C-Media 6-channel PCI audio chip supports
legacy audio and HRTF 3D positional audio functions. The chip
also supports 24-bit SPDIF In (0.5V~5V) and SPDIF Out (44.1K
and 48K formats) professional digital audio interface.

PCI slots. These three 32-bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots support bus
master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum
throughput.

AGP slot. This Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot supports 1.5V
AGP4X mode graphics cards for 3D graphical applications.

LAN controller. This RealTek 8100 PCI LAN controller fully
supports 10BASE-T/100BASE-T Ethernet networking.

Microphone jack. This Mic (pink) jack connects a microphone. In
6-channel mode, the function of this jack becomes Bass/Center.

Line In jack. This Line In (light blue) jack connects a tape player or
other audio sources.

Line Out jack. This Line Out (lime) jack connects a headphone or
a speaker.

Game/MIDI connector. This connector supports a joystick or a
game pad for playing games, and MIDI devices for playing or
editing audio files.

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