Chapter
1
Motherboard
Description
1-1
Introduction
System Overview
Congratulations on the purchase of your new system! This motherboard is designed to
take advantage of the latest industry technology to provide you with the ultimate
solution in data processing. In the tradition of its predecessors, this motherboard
continues the commitment of reliability, performance and strives for full compliance
and compatibility with industry software and hardware standards.
M7SXG Highlights:
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Contains on board I/O facilities, which include one serial port, a parallel port, a PS/2
mouse port, a PS/2 keyboard port, audio ports, USB ports, a game port and a VGA
port.
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Contains on board IDE facilities for IDE devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM
Drives.
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Supports the Intel Pentium
®
4 (Socket 478) processor, a leading edge processor which
brings to you the latest technology in micro architecture design, graphics performance,
system bus design, cache architecture and much more.
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Complies with PC Micro ATX form factor specifications.
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Supports popular operating systems such as Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows
2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Novell
and SCO UNIX.
