Most modern mainboards only support one serial port anymore, and I am not even sure why. I am waiting for standard serial ports to go away. The problem is, as always, peripherals that are still functional, and are based upon the standards that are being discontinued. As a system builder, I am seeing a lot more motherboards, especially the MATX form factor boards, that are moving forward, and doing away with what are antiquated standards. This is going to be the wave of the future. The system has a 500 GB Level 1 RAID subsystem, and the Promise RAID controller occupies the only PCI slot that is available. The problem is that this is one of the new MATX ASUS mainboards that supports no parallel port, and only one PCI slot, but has three PCIe Type 1 slots, and one PCIe Type 16 slot for a video card.
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