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P5F97/P5F103 User’s Manual
Chapter 1: Introduction
1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
The P5F97/P5F103 is a high quality, high performance, function
enhanced mainboard, based on the powerful Intel Pentium, AMD K6/
K6-2 and Cyrix MX/MII processor. This mainboard is designed
around the latest ALi (Acer Lab) Aladdin V chipset in a Micro-ATX
(P5F97) or ATX(P5F103) form factor.
The P5F97/P5F103 mainboard delivers workstation level performance
with its integrated AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), Bus Mastering
EIDE (Enhanced IDE) controller, concurrent PCI bus, and its ability to
accommodate EDO (Extended Data Out) and SDRAM (Synchronous
DRAM) memory. When this high data stream bandwidth mainboard is
equipped with powerful processor with MMX technology, your
system has the power to handle future demanding communication,
multi-media, multi-tasking and intensive 32-bit applications on
advanced 32-bit operating systems.
P5F97/P5F103 mainboard achieves the highest reliability by
supporting the ECC (Error Checking and Correction) memory
protection. This enables the P5F97/P5F103 mainboard to achieve
superior data integrity and fault-tolerance, in respect to memory errors
while running applications.
The P5F97/P5F103 mainboard offers outstanding I/O capabilities. It
contains a full set of PC I/O, such as dual channel PCI EIDE
interfaces, a floppy controller, two FIFOed serial port connectors, an
SPP/EPP/ECP capable bidirectional parallel port connector, an IrDA
compatible infrared port, dual USB (Universal Serial Bus) port, and a
PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector. One AGP slot, two(P5F97) or
four(P5F103) PCI local bus slots and two(P5F97) or three(P5F103)
ISA bus slots provide expandability for add on peripheral cards.
The P5F97/P5F103 mainboard is OnNow PC, Managed PC and
PC98 compliant. It also offers optimized system performance,
integrated power management, and system manageability (optional).
