MSI K7T Pro2-A Manual

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Introduction
The K7T Pro2-A ATX VA mainboard is a high-performance computer
mainboard based on VIA
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the AMD Socket processor for inexpensive business/personal desktop
markets.
The KT133 chipset consists of the VT8363 system controller (552 pin
BGA) and the VT82C686B PCI to ISA bridge (352 pin BGA). The system
controller provides superior performance between the CPU, DRAM, AGP
bus, and PCI bus with pipelined burst, and concurrent operation.
The VT8363 supports six banks of DRAM's up to 1.5 GB and full
AGP v2.0 capability for maximum bus utilization including 1x, 2x and 4x mode
transfers, SBA (SideBand Addressing), Flush/Fence commands, and
pipelined burst. The chip also supports enhanced PCI bus commands such
as Memory-Read-Line, Memory-Read-Multiple and Memory-Write-Invalid
commands to minimize snoop overhead.
The VT82C686B integrates all system control functions such as
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface). The ACPI provides
more Energy Saving Features for the OSPM (OS Direct Power Management)
function. The VT82C686B chipset also improves the IDE transfer rate by
supporting Ultra DMA-33/66/100 IDE that transfers data at the rate
33/66/100MB/sec.
This mainboard which supports KT133 chipset coupled with VT8363
and VT82C686B is ideal for high performance, high quality, high energy
efficiency and high integration desktop AGP/PCI/ISA computer systems.
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KT133 chipset. The K7T Pro2-A is designed for
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