Chapter 1
Introduction
This mainboard has a
Socket 478
for the
Intel Pentium 4
type of
processors supporting front side bus (FSB) speeds up to 400/
533
MHz
.
This mainboard has the
VIA P4M266/A
Northbridge and VT8235
Southbridge chipsets that support
AC 97 audio codec
, and provide
Ultra DMA
33/66/
100/133
function. It supports built-in
USB 2.0
providing higher bandwidth. It implements
Universal Serial Bus
Specification Revision 2.0
and is compliant with
UHCI 1.1
and
EHCI 0.95
. This mainboard has two 32-bit
PCI
slots, one 4
xAGP
slot, one
CNR
(Communications and Networking Riser) slot, and
an onboard
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network
interface (optional). In
addition, this mainboard has a full set of I/O ports including two
PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, one serial port, one VGA port,
one parallel port and six USB2.0 ports– four back-panel ports and
onboard USB connector USB2 providing two extra ports by
connecting the Extended USB Module to the mainboard.
This mainboard is a
Micro ATX size
mainboard and has power
connectors for an ATX power supply.
