CHAPTER 1
Preface
The motherboard is a 4-layer, 2/3 baby AT size high performance mainboard. It includes VIA
VT82C598MVP (MVP3) system chipset, Winbond W83877F super I/O chip.
Features
Processor
•
Intel Pentium/MMX, Cyrix 6x86L/6x86MX/M II and AMD K6/K6-2 CPU.
•
The mainboard can run with following speeds:
90, 100, 110, 120, 133, 150, 166, 200, 233, 250, 266, 300, 333, 350, 366, 380, 400 and
450MHz
Chipset
•
VIA VT82C598MVP (VIA MVP3 System Controller)
•
VIA VT82C586B (PCI ISA IDE Xcelerator)
•
Winbond W83877F Super I/O Controller
Cache Size
•
Built in 0/512KB Synchronised Pipelined Burst Mode SRAM to achieve the high Pentium
system performance.
Main Memory
•
Support Mixed Memory Technologies: Extend Data Output (EDO), Standard Page Mode
(SPM) and Fast Page Mode (FPM) and Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) can work together.
•
Memory configurations from 8MB to 384MB are possible using combination of 1M*32 to
8M*32 module (32 bit no-parity 72-pin SIMM module) and 2M*64 to 16M*64 SDRAM
DIMM module.
Multi I/O
•
On board Multi-I/O supports two serial, one parallel ports and floppy drive controller.
•
Serial ports are 16550 Fast UART compatible.
•
Parallel port has EPP and ECP capabilities.
•
PS/2 mouse and keyboard supported.
•
IrDA supported.
•
Dual standard USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports supported.
PCI IDE
•
On board supports PCI Master IDE Controller, two connectors support up to four IDE
devices such as HDD, CD ROM drive and Tape Back-up drives, etc.
•
PCI Master IDE controller supports PIO Mode 3 and 4 devices, I/O data transfer rate can be
up to 17Mb/s. DMA mode transfer rate can be up to 22Mb/s.
•
Ultra DMA Mode supported. Transfer rate can be up to 33Mb/s.
INTRODUCTION
1