Mainboard PM945GZ
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Thanks for choosing PM945GZ Mainboard. It is based on Intel
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945GZ Northbridge chipset and Intel
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ICH7 Southbridge chipset. It supports Intel
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Core
TM
2 Duo/ Pentium
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Extreme Edition/ Pentium
®
D/
Pentium
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4/ Celeron
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D Processor with FSB (Front Side Bus) frequencies of 800 MHz/ 533 MHz.
The PM945GZ provides two DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) sockets which allowing you to install
240-pin, unbuffered non-ECC, DDRII 533/ 400 SDRAMs. It also supports Dual Channel Technology and
allows you installing a total memory capacity of 2 GB.
This mainboard provides one Universal PCI-E interface slot up to x4 mode which is recommended that
insert a graphics card onto the Universal PCI-E slot. In addition, three PCI slots come with this mainboard
and are capable for use with expansion cards.
The PM945GZ provides one floppy disk drive connector that can be used with 360KB/720KB/
1.2MB/1.44MB/2.88MB drives. It also has one IDE connector for IDE hard drives supporting Ultra ATA
66/100. Moreover, the mainboard comes with Serial ATA II feature, four SATA II connectors which the
interfaces can provide the transmit rate up to 3 Gbps.
The onboard AC’ 97 Audio CODEC (ALC655) supports high quality performance 6-channel audio play
(Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect)
<See Appendix I>
. The mainboard also supports the Sony/Philips
Digital Interfaces (SPDIF) output function (Optional).
The PM945GZ also comes with an onboard 10/100 Mbps Ethernet LAN chip. There is a LAN port on the
back panel of your case that you can directly plug into an Internet cable.
There are maximal eight USB2.0/ 1.1 ports which can be set up on this mainboard.
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.
