MVBX2-X User’s Manual
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2. Introduction
2. Introduction
The MVBX2-X is a high quality, high performance, function enhanced motherboard, base on the
powerful Intel Slot1 Pentium II/III and SEPP Celeron series processors, they operate at a 66/100/
133MHz FSB and CPU speed up to 667MHz.
This motherboard uses the VIA Apollo Pro-133 chipset which includes the VT82C693A (North
Bridge) and VT82C596B (South Bridge) chip in the ATX form factor.
The MVBX2-X motherboard offers outstanding I/O capabilities. It contains a full set of PC I/
O, such as two channel PCI IDE interface, a Floppy controller, two Serial ports, an SPP/
EPP/ECP capable bidirectional Parallel port, two USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, a PS/2
Keyboard and Mouse port. One AGP slot, five PCI slots and two ISA slots provide expandability
for add on peripheral cards. It also offers optimized system performance integrated power
management, system manageability and Creative Sound Blaster Link.
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Optimized System Performance : AGP improves the graphics performance dramatically,
Ultra DMA33/66 speed up disk drive access, Enhanced SDRAM support for fastest access to
memory and Concurrent PCI enables simultaneous data transfer.
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Integrated Power Management : ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) support
enables O/S and application programs to direct the system power management.
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System Manageability : Winbond W83977EF Hardware Environment Monitoring chip enables
the ability for system voltage, temperature and fan speed monitoring.
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Creative Sound Blaster (SB-LINK) : This 2x3 5-Pin header enables the migration of Creative
Sound Blaster DOS program compatibility to the PCI bus. Some DOS programs require the
use of signal which were previously only available to an ISA bus card. These signals have
how been made available to a PCI bus card which may require them, through the use of this
header.
In addition to superior hardware capabilities, features like Plug and Play, APM (Advanced
Power Management), Keyboard Turn On, External Modem Ring On, Wake On LAN and
BIOS upgradability are provided on the MVBX2-X platform.
