Gigabyte H55N-USB3 Motherboard

Additional Features

The Gigabyte H55N-USB3 has a few additional smaller features. It has two BIOS chips, so in case the main BIOS gets corrupted by a bad BIOS upgrade or a virus, you can easily restore the contents of the ROM chip and prevent your motherboard from becoming “dead.”

The USB ports have fuses to prevent you from burning your motherboard if somehow the ground and VCC pins from the USB ports are reversed, touch each other, or the USB ports get a really high static discharge. In Figure 6, you can see one of these fuses.

Figure 6: Fuse

This motherboard comes a standard accessories set, which you can see in Figure 6. There is a drivers/utilities DVD, SATA and ATA cables (why an ATA cable was included is a mystery, since this motherboard doesn’t have an ATA port), I/O shield for the case, stickers and manuals.

Figure 7: Accessories