Desktop Board Features; Feature Summary - Intel D945PLRN Product Manual

1 Desktop Board Features

This chapter briefly describes the main features of Intel
summarizes the major features of the desktop board.
Table 1.

Feature Summary

Form Factors
Processor
Main Memory
Chipset
Audio
LAN Subsystem
Expansion Capabilities
Peripheral Interfaces
BIOS
ATX (11.6-inches by 9.6-inches)
Support for an 800/533 MHz Intel
• Two 240-pin, 1.8 V SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
• 533/400 MHz single or dual channel DDR2 SDRAM interface
• Designed to support up to 2 GB of system memory
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Intel 945PL Express Chipset consisting of:
• Intel
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82945PL Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Direct Media Interface
• Intel
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82801GB I/O Controller Hub (ICH7)
• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash or Firmware Hub (FWH)
• Intel 945PL Express Chipset
• Intel
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High Definition Audio interface
• SigmaTel* codec
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Intel 82562 Ethernet LAN controller with RJ-45 connector
• Four PCI bus add-in card connectors (SMBus routed to PCI bus 2)
• One PCI Express* x16 connector
• Two PCI Express x1 connector
• Up to eight Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports:
⎯ Four ports routed to the back panel
⎯ Four ports routed to two USB headers
• Four Serial ATA (SATA) channels (3.0 Gb/s), via the ICH7, one device per
channel
• One IDE interface with ATA-66/100 support (two devices)
• One diskette drive interface
• One parallel port
• One serial port
• PS/2* keyboard and mouse ports
• Intel
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Platform Innovation Framework for extensible firmware interface
• 4 Mbit symmetrical flash memory
• Support for SMBIOS
• Intel
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Rapid BIOS Boot
• Intel
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Express BIOS Update
Desktop Board D945PLRN. Table 1
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processor in the LGA775 package
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