Ch1. Motherboard Feature Introduction - Procomp BVD2A Manual

BVD2A
Chapter 1
Motherboard Feature Introduction
Congratulations on purchasing the BVD2A motherboard. We are certain it
will provide you with many years of outstanding and reliable performance.
Based on the VIA Pro-Plus 133A chipset, the BVD2A comes with a Socket
370 interface and supports Intel Celeron PPGA and Intel Coppermine FCPGA
processors operating at speeds ranging from 300 to 750MHz . An ATX-sized
board, the BVD2A measures 210mm by 305mm and includes AGP, ISA and
PCI expansion slots, as well as three DIMM sockets for adding up to 768MB
of memory.
The BVD2A 's clock generator can operate at speeds of 66, 100 or 133 MHz,
and up to 256MB of RAM may be added to each of the board's three DIMM
sockets. In addition, the BVD2A comes with one AGP, two ISA and five PCI
slots for the addition of devices such as graphics adapters, modems and sound
cards. One ISA and one PCI slot are shared, meaning you may connect either
two ISA and four PCI cards or one ISA and five PCI cards.
The board has a 2MB Award PnP BIOS with enhanced ACPI features. Not
only does the BIOS support 120MB ATAPI floppy disk and ZIP disk drives, it
also allows multiple boots from a wide selection of IDE, SCSI, CD-ROM and
FDD drives. The Trend ChipAway AntiVirus protection built into the BIOS
helps ensure that your system remains virus-free. The BIOS also comes with
system heat and fan speed detectors, and can be configured to generate a
warning if user-defined fan speeds or temperatures are exceeded.
Other advanced features include keyboard and mouse power-on, a
wake-on-LAN header, wake-up alarm support, HDD S.M.A.R.T. error
detection, and PC'99-compliant color-coded connectors. The BVD2A comes
with one parallel port, two serial ports, two USB ports, a PS/2 mouse port, and
a PS/2 keyboard port.
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