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Mainboard Installation
Features of the Board
OVERVIEW
Congratulations on purchasing the highest performance motherboard. With the advanced technologies
available today, this motherboard is designed to optimize for Intel's processors. Three
unbuffered, 3.3
Volts, 168-pin DIMM sockets are included for supporting SDRAM.
This motherboard utilizes VIA's VT82C691 PCI chipset. The VIA's VT82C586B PCI/ISA IDE provides
an integrated Bus Mastering IDE controller with two high performance IDE interfaces for up to four IDE
devices (such as hard drives or CD-ROM). The integrated super I/O controller integrates the standard PC
I/O functions: floppy interface, two FIFO serial ports, one EPP/ECP capable parallel port, and support for
an IrDA and Consumer Infra Red compatible interface.
This mainboard is designed to support the new graphic interface standard, Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP),
The AGP interface can reach a theoretical ~532Mbytes/sec transfer rate for 3D graphics data. On the other
hand, the on-board 32-bit PCI local bus slots allow a high bandwidth data path, which serves as a super
highway, for intensive data-movement such as networking. The BIOS support PCI bridge user
configuration, which allows for further expansion of the system with PCI peripherals. Up to two 16-bit ISA
slots allow this board to be backward compatible with the older expansion card. A total of six expansion
slots may be populated with full length add-in cards, since one PCI and ISA slot share the same chassis I/O
panel.
AUTO JUMPER
This mainboard is within our " Auto Jumper" series, which eliminates the necessity for the user to be
bored by jumper settings on the motherboard. It is capable of detecting the CPU brand and core voltage,
setting the appropriate CPU speed according to instructions from the user through CMOS setup menu.
In addition, two "safe keys" are defined. Pressing "F" during power on clears the CMOS RAM data, while
pressing "J" during power on re-detects CPU in "Auto Jumper" mode.
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