BIOS

Award Elite BIOS in Boot Block Flash with recovery code; save CMOS in Flash option, and boot from LAN capability. Auto configuration, extended setup. CC00-E000 address blocking; PnP tables. Setup console redirection to serial port (VT100 mode) with CMOS setup access. Software enable/disable of onboard Ethernet and SCSI; hardware enable/disable of onboard video. Diskless, keyboardless, and videoless operation extensions. System, video, LAN, and SCSI BIOS shadowing. Programmable memory wait states. Advanced security feature for floppy and HDD; DMI & HDD S.M.A.R.T. support. Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI 1.0),Advanced Power Management (APM 1.2), advanced thermal management (resume, overheat alarm and auto slow down), and Green support.

Board Type

Full Size

Bus Interfaces

PCI/ISA, Front Side Bus (66/100 MHz), AGP Bus (66 MHz)

Bus Speed (ISA)

8.33 MHz

Bus SPeed (PCI)

33 MHz

Cache

16/16 KB Instruction / Data Level 1. 256 KB internal 256-bit wide ATC (Advanced Transfer Cache) with ECC Level 2

Chipset

Intel 440BX AGPset

Clock/ Calender

Real-time clock with 256 byte battery backup CMOS RAM

Compact Flash Module

Optional bootable CompactFlash™ module interfaces

Data Path

64-bit CPU bus; 32-bit AGP bus; 32-bit on PCI bus; 16-bit on ISA bus

DMA Channels (ISA)

Four 8-bit, three 16-bit. Supports scatter / gather, Fast Type-F DMA

EIDE

Four EIDE drives; PIO Mode 4, Bus Master IDE or Ultra DMA/33

Ethernet

PCI 10Base-T/100Base-TX (Intel 82559)

Faceplate

CRT (female DB-15); Ethernet (RJ-45 with link/activity indicators); PS/2 mouse and keyboard (two 6-pin mini-DIN)

Flash Memory

2 Mb (256 KB) Boot Block for BIOS field upgrade. 4 KB Serial EEPROM for user configuration; silicon serial ID TAG for unique board identification accessible via software

Floppy Disk

Support for two drives (360 KB to 1.44 MB)

Headers

USB (10-pin shrouded); serial ports (two 10-pin shrouded); parallel port (26-pin shrouded); floppy (34-pin shrouded); EIDE (two 40-pin shrouded); SCSI-3 (68-pin subminiature D-receptacle); SCSI-2 (50-pin shrouded); PS/2mouse (4-pin locking); CompactFlash™ Module header (40-pin); keyboard, speaker, aand EIDE disk LED (16-pin shrouded); power-down connector (2-pin locking); power supply 4-pin locking; cpu fan 4-pin locking; EIDE activity LED 2-pin locking; battery 2-pin locking

I/O

SMC FDC37C672 Super I/O

Interrupts

11 edge sensitive and configurable. All ISA onboard interrupts are PnP compliant.

Mechanical

338 x 122 x 36 mm at CPU / fan (13.32 x 4.80 x 1.40 in. at CPU / fan).Conforms to IEEE P996 PC/AT bus, PCI Rev. 2.1, & PICMG Rev. 2.0 standards

Memory

Three 168-pin latching DIMM sockets, 64/72-bit Up to 768 MB of SDRAM with 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 M x 64/72, 66/100 MHz Synchronous DRAM / Registered SDRAM non-ECC/ECC mode (single bit error correction, double bit detection via Intel 440BX AGPset); all 768 MB cacheable

OS Compatibility

PC and MS-DOS™; Windows® 3.X; Windows® 95; Windows® 98; Windows® NT 4.0, Windows® 2000; Novell Netware 5; FreeBSD; QNX™; and Linux

Parrallel Port

One bi-directional with all IEEE 1284 protocols supported and BIOS selectable IRQs and addressing

Processor

Intel Pentium III

Processor Support

Intel Pentium III processor in FC-PGA package; 700, 850 MHz. Intel 440BX AGPset

SCSI

PCI Ultra Fast/Wide SCSI-3 with operation up to 40 MB/s and data bursts

Serial Ports

Two RS-232 (16C550) with 16 byte FIFO as COM1-4 with BIOS selectable IRQ's and addressing, serial port 2 BIOS configurable RS-422/485

Supervisory

Two-stage software programmable watchdog timer drives NMI on 1st stage.system reset on 2nd stage. Time out from 16 msec to 4.25 min. CPU temperature monitor/alarm; board temperature sensor; power failure/low battery detector, and two end-user defined open-drain general purpose I/Os; SMBus, I2C Bus, CPU fan failure detection

USB

Two Ports

Video

Integrated Frame Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 64-bit CRT controller with 2 MB 83 MHz SDRAM memory (C&T 69000). Supports CRT with resolution up to 800 x 600, 16.8 M colors; 1024 x 768, 64K colors; or 1280 x 1024, 256 colors, non-interlaced.Compatible with CGA, EGA, Hercules, MDA, VGA, SVGA, XGA, and SXGA