Asus P4GE-V User Manual

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ASUS P4GE-V motherboard user guide

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Speech controller. This Winbond speech controller supports the
ASUS POST Reporter™ for configurable vocal POST alerts.

Flash ROM. This 4Mb firmware contains the programmable BIOS
program.

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.

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

Super I/O controller. This Low Pin Count (LPC) interface 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, two standard compatible
UARTs, a Standard Infrared (SIR), and a Flash ROM interface.

PCI slots. These six 32-bit PCI 2.2 expansion slots support bus
master PCI cards like SCSI or LAN cards with 133MB/s maximum
throughput. The ASUS proprietary BlueMagic PCI slot (blue slot)
supports future ASUS function cards compliant to PCI specification.

Audio CODEC. The ADI AD1980 is an AC’97 CODEC that allows
6-channel audio playback. The audio CODEC provides six DAC
channels for 5.1 surround sound, S/PDIF output, AUX and Line In
stereo inputs, integrated headphone amplifier, greater than 90dB
dynamic range, and stereo Mic PREAMP support.

LAN controller. The BroadCom BCM4401 onboard supports
10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet networking.
(on LAN models only)

AGP warning LED. Serving as a smart burn-out protection for the
motherboard, this red LED lights up if you plug in any 3.3V AGP card
into the AGP slot. When this LED is lit, there is no way you can turn
on the system power even if you press the power button.

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

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.

RJ-45 port. This port allows connection to a Local Area Network
(LAN) through a network hub.

(on LAN models only)