Intel A300 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
A300 Motherboard
BIOS chipset
Super I/O chipset
2.6.8 BIOS
The BIOS flash memory chip on the A300 has a licensed copy of AMI BIOS loaded onto it.
The BIOS flash memory chip is connected to the chipset via the LPC bus. The flash BIOS
features are listed below:
SMIBIOS (DMI) compliant
Console redirection function support
PXE (Pre-Boot Execution Environment) support
USB booting support
2.7 PCI Bus Components
2.7.1 PCI Bus Overview
The PCI bus controller on the ICH4 is compliant with PCI Revision 2.2 specifications and
has a 33MHz PCI clock. The components listed below are all connected to the PCI bus:
PCI socket
Realtek RTL8110S GbE interface
One PCMCIA slot
2.7.2 GbE Ethernet
A highly integrated and cost-effective single-chip, fast RealTek RTL8110S/SC GbE
Ethernet controller is interfaced through first the PCI bus to the CPU and system chipset.
The RealTek RTL8110S/SC controller provides 10Mbps, 100Mbps or 1000Mbps Ethernet
connectivity to the A300. Some of the features of the RealTek RTL8110S/SC are listed
below.
Integrated 10/100/1000 transceiver
Auto-Negotiation with Next Page capability
Supports PCI rev.2.3, 32-bit, 33/66MHz
Supports pair swap/polarity/skew correction
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