Chapter 1
Introduction
This motherboard has a
Socket 478
for the
Intel Pentium 4 /
Prescott
type of processors supporting front side bus (FSB) speeds
up to
533
/400
MHz
.
This motherboard has the
VIA P4M266A
Northbridge and
VT8235
Southbridge chipsets that support
AC’ 97 audio codec
,
and provide
Ultra DMA
133/
100/66/33
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 motherboard has three 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 motherboard 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 header
USB2 providing two extra ports by connecting the Extended USB
Module to the motherboard.
This motherboard is a
Micro ATX size
motherboard and has
power connectors for an ATX power supply.
Note: You must initiate the HT CPU function through
BIOS setup. It is strongly recommended you refer
to Page 35 for relative details.
