IEI Technology IOWA-8522, User Manual

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IOWA-8522 Motherboard
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1.1 Introduction
Figure 1-1: IOWA-8522
The IOWA-8522 is a half-size ISA CPU card with an embedded Intel® Celeron CPU or a
socket 479 interface supporting Intel® Pentium® M and Intel® Celeron M processors.
The IOWA-8522 features an Intel® 852GM Northbridge and Intel® I/O Controller Hub 4
(ICH4) Southbridge. The IOWA-8522 has a maximum front side bus (FSB) frequency of
400MHz, comes with 128 MB of DDR RAM onboard, supports up to 1 GB of 266MHz
DDR RAM, comes with VGA and LVDS video support, and Ethernet support. The IOWA-
8522 supports up to two SATA hard drives, two IDE devices, a CompactFlash® card and
four USB 2.0 devices. The VIA® VT6421A enabled SATA drives support RAID 0 for
performance, RAID 1 for data protection, and JBOD. Onboard audio is enabled via an
AC’97 audio chipset.
1.2 Benefits
Some of the IOWA-8522 benefits are listed below.
High-speed graphics card options with an AGP expansion slot
Expansion capabilities enabled by five PCI slots