Albatron PI960GLE, User Manual

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Mainboard PI960GLE
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Thanks for choosing PI960GLE Mainboard. It is based on Intel
®
GLE960 Northbridge chipset and Intel
®
ICH8M Southbridge chipset. It supports Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo Mobile processors with FSB (Front Side Bus)
frequencies of 533 MHz.
The PI960GLE provides two DDRII SO-DIMM sockets. These sockets allow you to install 200-pin, non-ECC &
unbuffered DDRII 533 SO-DIMMs, and they also support a total memory capacity of 2GB.
This mainboard provides one Mini PCI slot for use with Mini PCI expansion card is also allowed.
The PI960GLE provides one IDE connector for two IDE hard drives supporting Ultra ATA 100/66/33.
Moreover, this mainboard comes with Serial ATA II supporting with three SATA II connectors which
provide up to 3 Gbps data transfer rates.
This mainboard provides one VGA (=D-Sub) connector, one DVI connector, TV_OUT connector, and four
USB 2.0/1.1 ports on the back panel of your case for use. Besides, there are four COM (Serial ports)
headers, one GPI header, one GPO header, one Printer Port (Parallel port) header, one SPDIF header and
two USB 2.0/1.1 headers can be connected with cables for compliant devices.. There are maximal eight
USB2.0/ 1.1 ports which can be set up on this mainboard.
The onboard High Definition Audio Codec (ALC662) supports high quality performance 6-channel audio
play. The mainboard also supports the Sony/Philips Digital Interfaces (S/PDIF) output function and the
front speaker output function.
The PI960GLE also comes with 1 onboard 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet LAN chips. There are 1 LAN port on
the back panel of your case that you can directly plug into internet cables.
All the information (including hardware installation and software installation) in this manual are for
reference only. The contents in this manual may be updated without notice. The company will not
assume any responsibility for any errors or mistakes within.