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No more meddling with Power and Reset jumpers
on the board. The Power button and Reset buttons are built on board. It is
easy for DIY users to test the board then to short the wrong pins. |
The BIOS is socketed onto the mainboard. This
might not be good for modders as they will experiment with BIOS and if the
BIOS is killed, there is no way you can get a new BIOS chip to replace it.
On the right of the chip is 4 Diagnostics LEDs. |
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VIA VT6306 1394 controller chip |
The SiliconImage SIL3112A supports 2 x SATA
ports configurable for RAID 0 or 1. The other two ports are supported by
ICH5 (south bridge) |
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CMI9739A 6 channel audio codec |
Realtek RTL8110S Gigabit LAN PCI controller
chip. |