Motherboard Installation
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Features of the Board
Overview
Congratulations on purchasing the highest performance Pentium
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motherboard. With the advanced
technology available today, this motherboard is designed to run Intel’s Pentium processors at speeds up
to 233 MHz. The on-board system memory consists of SIMM and DIMM giving you the most flexibility
for system design. It supports up to 128 MB of DRAM using standard 72-pin SIMM sockets that accept
either Fast Page Mode (FPM), Extended Data Out (EDO) memory. In addition, two unbuffered, 3.3 Volts,
168-pin SDRAM sockets are also included for 16 to 256MB synchronous Dynamic memory support. A
321-pins type 7, Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket allows an easy upgrade path for the future Pentium
Overdrive
®
processors.
The motherboard uses VIA VT82580VPX PCI chipset. The VIA VT82C586B PCI/ISA Bridge provides
an integrated Bus Mastering IDE controller with two high performance UltraDMA-33 EIDE interfaces for
up to four IDE devices (such as hard drives or CD-ROM). The PCI/ISA Bridge also including an USB
interface. The integrated I/O controller integrates the standard PC I/O functions: floppy interface, two
FIFO serial ports, one EPP/ECP capable parallel port, and support for an IrDA and Consumer Infra Red
compatible interface.
Four on-board 32-bit PCI local bus slots allow a higher bandwidth data path, which serves as a super
highway for intensive data-movement such as video or networking. The BIOS support PCI bridge user
configuration, which allows further expansion of the system with PCI peripherals. Up to two 16-bit ISA
slots are provided so that the board is backward hardware compatible with the older expansion card. A
total of five expansion slots can be populated with add-in cards as one PCI and ISA slots share the same
chassis I/O panel. Two full lengths ISA add-in cards can be installed while the third can be half-length.
All PCI cards can be full lengths.
Auto Jumper Yes
This motherboard is one of our “Auto Jumper Yes” series, which eliminates the necessity for the user to be
bored by jumper settings on the motherboard. It is capable of detecting the CPU brand, and setting the
appropriate CPU core voltage and speed according to instructions from the user through CMOS setup
menu. In contrast to “Jumperless”, “Auto Jumper Yes” allows switching to manual mode that enables
physical jumpers on the mainboard, so as to prevents the potential impacts on jumperless boards from the
future CPU specifications. On the other hand, pressing “F” to clear CMOS setting and “J” to re-detect
CPU during power on the system, to avoid the difficulties to reset the CMOS data.
Features Summary
This motherboard comes with following features:
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Supports Intel Pentium
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Processor up to 233MHz, which included the newest MMX CPU.
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VIA VPX PCIset, including a 82C585VPX PCI/Memory controller , 82C587 data bus Accelerator
and 82C586B PCI ISA IDE Accelerator.
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With a On-Board Crystal™ 3D Sound Chip.
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WAKEUP-LINK interface header supporting Intel Wake-On-LAN
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TA-LINK interface headers supporting E100+ PCI LAN Card using the Intel™ LAN chip.
