Asus AW171 User Manual

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ASUS SK8N motherboard user guide

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Standby power LED. This 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.

IEEE 1394 controller. The Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A device
is an integrated 1394a-2000 OHCI PHY/link-layer controller (LLC)
device that is fully compliant with the PCI Local Bus Specification,
the PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, IEEE Std
1394-1995, IEEE Std 1394a-2000, and the 1394 Open Host
Controller Interface Specification. It is capable of transferring data
between the 33-MHz PCI bus and the 1394 bus at 100M bits/s,
200M bits/s, and 400M bits/s.

SATA RAID controller. The Promise

PDC20378 RAID controller

provides high-performance RAID 0/RAID 1/RAID 0+1. Together
with the UltraDMA133 devices, if present, the Serial ATA RAID
devices may be set up as a multi-RAID configuration.

SATA connectors. These two 7-pin connectors support Serial ATA
HDDs and allows for up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, faster than
the standard Parallel ATA with 133 MB/s.

PCI slots. These five 32-bit PCI 2.3 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
AGP8X mode graphics cards for 3D graphical applications.

Audio CODEC. The Realtek

ALC 650 is an AC’97 CODEC that

allows 6-channel audio playback. The audio CODEC provides six
DAC channels for 5.1 surround sound, AUX and Line In stereo
inputs, and an integrated headphone amplifier.

LAN PHY. The Realtek

RTL8201BL Ethernet PHY with the CK8

MAC forms a solution for LAN on Motherboard (LOM) application.
They support 100/10 Mbps data transfer rates.

PS/2 mouse port. This green 6-pin connector is for a PS/2 mouse.

Parallel port. This 25-pin port connects a parallel printer, a scanner,
or other devices.

IEEE1394 port. This 6-pin IEEE 1394 port provides high-speed
connectivity for audio/video devices, storage peripherals, other
PCs and/or portable devices.

This manual is related to the following products:

SK8N