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Thank you for choosing 748-A mainboard. The 748-A is designed to fit the
advanced AMD processors in the 462-pin package. Based on the ATX form
factor featuring the SiS748 Northbridge and SiS963L Southbridge chipsets.
The
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Southbridge chipsets. The SiS748 Northbridge features an AGP 8X bridge
and a DDR-400 Memory controller, supporting AMD Athlon S2K FSB up to
400 MHz. While the 963L Southbridge integrates the Universal Serial Bus 2.0
Host Controllers and Audio Controller with AC 97 interface.
The 748-A is designed to give customers a high quality, multimedia solution
and state-of-the-art technology. It provides advanced set of I/O ports, such as
dual channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller, one high-speed serial port, an
EPP/ECP capable bi-directional parallel port connector, four USB (Universal
Serial Bus) connector, a PS/2 keyboard connector, mouse connector and au-
dio jacks for microphone, line-in and line-out. One AGP slot and five PCI local
bus slots provide expandability for add-on peripheral cards.
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Compare the mainboard's package contents with the following checklist:
Standard Items
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One mainboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable (optional)
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One IDE drive ribbon cable
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One auto-install software support CD
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One I/O panel
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This user's manual
Introducing the Mainboard
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