Biostar M7VIP [11/102] Jumpers headers connectors slots

Jumpers, Headers, Connectors & Slots

Hard Disk Connectors: IDE1/ IDE2

The motherboard has a 32-bit Enhanced PCI IDE Controller that

provides PIO Mode 0~4, Bus Master, and Ultra DMA 33/ 66/ 100/ 133

f unctionality. It has two HDD connectors IDE1 (primary ) and IDE2

(secondary ).

The IDE connectors can connect a master and a slav e drive, so you can

connect up to four hard disk driv es. The f irst hard driv e should alway s be

connected to IDE1.

Floppy Disk Connector: FDD1

The motherboard prov ides a standard f loppy disk connector that

supports 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M f loppy disk ty pes. This

connector supports the prov ided f loppy drive ribbon cables.

Communication Network Riser S lot: CNR1

The CNR specif ication is an open Industry Standard Architecture, and it

def ines a hardware scalable riser card interf ace, which supports audio,

and modem only.

Peripheral Component Interconnect Slots: PCI1-5

This motherboard is equipped with 5 standard PCI slots. PCI stands f or

Peripheral Component Interconnect, and it is a bus standard f or

expansion cards, which has, supplanted the older ISA bus standard in

most ports. This PCI slot is designated as 32 bits.

Accelerated Graphics Port Slot: AGP1

Your monitor will attach directly to that video card. This motherboard

supports video cards for PCI slots, but it is also equipped with an

Accelerated Graphics Port. An AGP card will take adv antage of AGP

technology for improved v ideo efficiency and perf ormance, especially

with 3D graphics.

Serial ATA Connector: (JSATA1/ JSATA2) (Optional)

The motherboard has a PCI to SATA Controller with 2 channels SATA

interf ace, it satisfies the SATA 1.0 spec and can transf er data with

1.5GHz speed. For more details, please ref er to page 21(FastTrak

376).