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Introducing the Motherboard
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Thank you for choosing this motherboard. This motherboard is designed to fit
the advanced AMD Athlon processors in the 462-pin package. Based on the
micro-ATX form factor featuring the VIA VT8378 (KM400) Northbridge and
VT8235/VT8237 Southbridge chipsets. This motherboard provides the stan-
dard 200/266/333 MHz CPU front side bus with extra capability.
Taking advantage of the highly integrated chipsets, the VT8378 (KM400)
Northbridge provides superior performance between the CPU, DRAM, V-Link
bus and internal AGP 8x graphics controller bus with pipelined, burst, and
concurrent operation. The VT8235/VT8237 Southbridge supports standard
intelligent peripheral controllers such as USB v2.0/1.1 and Universal HCI
v2.0/1.1 compliant, real time clock with 256 byte extended CMOS, integrated
bus-mastering dual full-duplex direct-sound AC97 link compatible sound sys-
tem and full System Management Bus (SMBus) interface.
This motherboard is equipped with advanced full set of I/O ports, such as dual
channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller, a high-speed serial port, a VGA
port, an EPP/ECP capable bi-directional parallel port connector, four USB
(Universal Serial Bus) connector, a PS/2 keyboard, mouse, 1394a connectors
and audio jacks for microphone, line-in, line-out. One AGP slot and three PCI
local bus slots provide expandability for add-on peripheral cards.
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Compare the motherboard’s package contents with the following checklist:
Standard Items
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motherboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable
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One IDE drive ribbon cable
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One auto-install software support CD
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One I/O shield
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One SATA cable
(included when your motherboard supports the SATA header)
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One SATA power cable
(included when your motherboard supports the SATA header)
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This user’s manual