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Welcome
Congratulations on purchasing MB694A mainboard. The
MB694A mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 304 mm x 190 mm. The
mainboard features a Socket 370 that accommodates PPGA
Celeron, FC-PGA Pentium III, and Cyrix III processors that sup-
port frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to 133 MHz.
This MB694A uses the VIA family chipset and features the AC
97 audio codec. The mainboard delivers high-level performance
with a 4xAGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slot and two PCI Bus
Master Ultra DMA (UDMA) ports that support up to four ATAPI (AT
Attachment Packet Interface) devices. The PCI IDE also supports
PIO Mode 3 and 4, UDMA33/66 IDE, and an ATAPI CD-ROM.
The mainboard accommodates PC 100/133 SDRAM (Synchro-
nous DRAM) up to 1.5 GB using three 3.3V unbuffered DIMM
modules. The MB694A also has a full set of I/O ports, such as dual
channel IDE interfaces, a floppy controller, two FIFO serial port
connectors, an EPP/ECP-capable bi-directional parallel port con-
nector, a dual USB (Universal Serial Bus) connector, and PS/2
keyboard and mouse connectors.
One AGP slot, five PCI local bus slots, and one audio modem riser
(AMR) slot provide expandability for add-on peripheral cards.
