Chapter 1
Introduction
This motherboard has a Socket 478 for the Intel Pentium 4 /
Prescott type of processors supporting front side bus (FSB) speeds
up to 533/400 MHz.
This motherboard has the VIA P4M266A Northbridge and
VT8235 Southbridge chipsets that support AC' 97 audio codec,
and provide Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 function. It supports built-
in USB 2.0 providing higher bandwidth. It implements Universal
Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0 and is compliant with
UHCI 1.1 and EHCI 0.95. This motherboard has three 32-bit PCI
slots, one 4xAGP slot, one CNR (Communications and
Networking Riser) slot, and an onboard 10BaseT/100BaseTX
Network interface (optional). In addition, this motherboard has a
full set of I/O ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and
keyboard, one serial port, one VGA port, one parallel port and six
USB2.0 ports– four back-panel ports and onboard USB header
USB2 providing two extra ports by connecting the Extended USB
Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a Micro ATX size motherboard and has
power connectors for an ATX power supply.
Note: You must initiate the HT CPU function through
BIOS setup. It is strongly recommended you refer
to Page 35 for relative details.