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Are SATA,USB, Ethernet, mouse, keyboard, serial/parallel ports connected to Southbridge via PCI bus?


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I was wondering how to understand the right-down corner of the picture?


Are SATA,USB, Ethernet, mouse, keyboard, and serial/parallel ports connected to Southbridge via PCI bus? In other words, are the buses from Southbridge and Super I/O to "Cables and ports leading-off board" PCI buses?



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Are SATA,USB, Ethernet, mouse, keyboard, and serial/parallel ports connected to Southbridge via PCI bus? I



No those items are only connected to the southbridge and super-io chips



are the buses from Southbridge and Super I/O to "Cables and ports leading-off board" PCI buses?



The lines to "cables and ports ..." are the respective rs232, USB etc types of electrical connection, not PCI


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