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Welcome
Congratulations on purchasing the P6VXM2 mainboard. The
P6VXM2 mainboard is a Micro ATX mainboard that uses a 4-
layer printed circuit board and measures 244 mm x 220 mm.
The mainboard features a Socket 370 that accommodates
PPGA Celeron, FC-PGA Pentium III, and Cyrix III processors
that support frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to 133 MHz.
The P6VXM2 uses the VIA family chipset and features the AC
97 audio codec. The mainboard delivers high-level performance
with a 4xAGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot and two PCI Bus
Master Ultra DMA (UDMA) ports that support up to four ATAPI (AT
Attachment Packet Interface) devices. The PCI IDE also supports
PIO Mode 3 and 4, UDMA33/66 IDE (UDMA100 is optional), and
an ATAPI CD-ROM.
Note:
The P6VXM2 supports two VIA South Bridge chipsets—the
VIA VT82C686A and the VIA VT82C686B. The VIA VT82C686A
is standard and supports UDMA33/66. The VIA VT82C686B is op-
tional and supports UDMA100.
The mainboard accommodates PC 100/133 SDRAM (Synchro-
nous DRAM) up to 1 GB using two 3.3V unbuffered DIMM
modules. The P6VXM2 also has a full set of I/O ports, such as
dual channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller, two FIFO serial
port connectors, an EPP/ECP-capable bi-directional parallel port
connector, a dual USB (Universal Serial Bus) connector, and
PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors.
One AGP slot, three 32-bit PCI local bus slots, and one 8/16-bit
ISA slot provide expandability for add-on peripheral cards.
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