Asus K8V User Manual

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ASUS K8V Deluxe motherboard user guide

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Super I/O controller. The Winbond W83697HF provides the
commonly used Super I/O functionality. The chipset supports a high-
performance floppy disk controller for a 360K/720K/1.44M/2.88M
floppy disk drive, a multi-mode parallel port, 2 serial ports, the mouse
and keyboard interface and the LPC (Low Pin Count) interface.

SouthBridge controller. The VIA

VT8237 integrated peripheral

controller supports various I/O functions including two Serial ATA
ports, RAID functionality, 2-channel ATA/133 bus master IDE
controller, up to eight USB 2.0 ports, LPC Super I/O interface,
AC’97 interface and PCI 2.2 interface.

RAID controller. The Promise

R20378 RAID controller provides

high-performance RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 functionality and
complies with the Serial ATA and UltraDMA 133 specifications.

COM2 connector. This 9-pin COM2 connector is for a COM2 cable
for an additional serial port.

WiFi slot. The WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) slot connects a Wi-Fi
wireless networking module that allows 11Mbps transmission (with
a fallback to 5.5, 2 and 1 Mbps) in the 2.4 GHz band. Wi-Fi
networks use radio technologies known as IEEE 802.11b to provide
a fast reliable wireless connectivity.

Speech controller. The Winbond 83791SD facilitates the POST
speech functionality.

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.

Audio CODEC. The ADI 1980 is an AC’97 compliant audio
CODEC for PC multimedia systems.

Gigabit LAN controller. The 3Com

Gigabit LAN delivers transfer

rates up to ten times faster than conventional 10/100 Ethernet
connections. Ideal for handling large amounts of data such as
video, audio and voice.

IEEE 1394 controller. The VIA

VT6307 is a single-chip, low power

2-port IEEE 1394 host controller providing high speed, flexible
connectivity to a wide range of peripherals and consumer
electronics.

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

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K8V Deluxe