Introduction - Biostar M7VKQ User Manual

Chapter 1

Introduction

System Overview
Congratulations on the purchase of your new system! This motherboard is designed to
take advantage of the latest industry technology to provide you with the ultimate
solution in data processing. In the tradition of its predecessors, this motherboard
continues the commitment of reliability, performance and strives for full compliance
and compatibility with industry software and hardware standards.
M7VKQ Highlights:
8 Contains on board I/O facilities, which include a serial port, a parallel port, a mouse
port, a VGA port, a keyboard port, audio ports, USB ports, a LAN port and a game
port.
8 Contains on board IDE facilities for IDE devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM
Drives.
8 Supports the AMD processor, a leading edge processor which brings to you the latest
technology in microarchitecture design, graphics performance, system bus design,
cache architecture and much more.
8 Complies with PC MicroATX form factor specifications.
8 Supports popular operating systems such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, LINUX and SCO UNIX.
Motherboard Description
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