Asus P4S333 User Manual

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ASUS P4S333 motherboard user guide

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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), one MPU-401 UART
mode compatible MIDI/game port, and a Flash ROM interface.

Flash EEPROM. This 2Mb firmware contains the programmable
BIOS program.

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.

ACR slot. This Advanced Communication Riser slot is for
communication and audio subsystems. The slot supports modem,
audio, LAN, and Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HPNA) or
Home Networking cards.

LAN PHY. This ICS 1893Y LAN PHY works with the South Bridge
controller to fully support 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet
networking protocols.

(on LAN models only)

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 S/PDIF In (0.5~5V) and S/PDIF Out (44.1K
and 48K formats) professional digital audio interface.
(on audio models only)

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.

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.

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

(on LAN models only)

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

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

(on audio models only)

This manual is related to the following products:

P4S333/C