Mainboard P4M900
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Introduction
Thanks for choosing P4M900 Mainboard. It is based on VIA
®
P4M900 Northbridge chipset
and VIA
®
VT8237R Plus Southbridge chipset. In addition, the mainboard comprises integrated
the VIA
®
Chrome9
TM
HC IGP graphics optimized. It supports Intel
®
Core
TM
2 Duo/ Pentium
®
D/
Pentium
®
4/ Celeron
®
D/ Celeron
®
Processors with FSB (Front Side Bus) frequencies of 1066
MHz/ 800 MHz/ 533 MHz.
The P4M900 provides two DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Modules) sockets which allowing you
to install 240-pin, unbuffered non-ECC, DDRII 667/ DDRII 533/ DDRII 400 SDRAMs. It also
allows you installing a total memory capacity of 4 GB.
This mainboard provides one PCI-E x16 slot for use with a graphics card. There is also one
PCI-E x1 slot provided for use with a PCI-E x1 compatible expansion card. Two standard PCI
slots for use with standard PCI expansion cards are also allowed.
The P4M900 provides one floppy disk drive connector that can be used with 360KB/ 720KB/
1.2MB/ 1.44MB/ 2.88MB drive. It also has two IDE connectors for hard drives supporting Ultra
ATA 133/ 100/ 66/ 33 IDE devices. In addition, the onboard Serial ATA comes with two SATA
connectors, which the interface can provide up to 1.5 Gb/s transmit speed and also support
RAID 0/ 1 mode
<See Appendix II>
.
The onboard AC’ 97 Audio CODEC (VT1616) supports high quality performance 6-channel
audio play (Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect)
<See Appendix I>
.
The P4M900 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.
