Motherboard Installation
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Chapter 1
Features of the Board
OVERVIEW
Congratulations on purchasing the highest performance 6ABX/LX PENTIUM II
®
motherboard. With
the advanced technologies available today, this motherboard is designed to optimize for Intel’s
PENTIUM II
®
processors at speeds of 100 Mhz/ 66 Mhz bus clock. Three unbuffered, 3.3 Volts, 168-
pin DIMM sockets are included for supporting 16MB to 512M SDRAM. A Slot 1 connector allows an
easy upgrade path for the future PENTIUM II
®
processors.
This motherboard maximum utilizes Intel's 82440BX / LX PCI chipset. The Intel 82371AB PCI/ISA
IDE Xccelerator (PIIX4) provides an integrated Bus Mastering IDE controller with two high
performances IDE interfaces for up to four IDE devices (such as hard drives or CD-ROM). The
integrated super I/O controller integrates the standard PC I/O functions: floppy interface, two FIFO
serial ports, one EPP/ECP capable parallel port, and support for an IrDA and Consumer Infra Red
compatible interface.
The 6ABX is designed to support the new graphic interface standard, Accelerated Graphic Port
(AGP), The AGP interface can reach a theoretical ~532Mbytes/sec transfer rate for 3D graphics data.
The on-board 32-bit PCI local bus slots allows a higher bandwidth data path, which serves as a super
highway, for intensive data-movement such as video or networking. The BIOS support PCI bridge
user configuration, which allows for further expansion of the system with PCI peripherals. Up to three
16-bit ISA slots allow this board backward hardware compatible with the older expansion card. A
total of seven expansion slots may be populated with full length add-in cards, since one PCI and ISA
slot share the same chassis I/O panel.
FEATURES SUMMARY
This motherboard comes with following features:
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Supports Intel PENTIUM II
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Processor 233-400 or higher Mhz with automatically voltage
adjustment. 100 Mhz bus for 6ABX and 66 Mhz for 6ALX.
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Intel 440BX for 6ABX/ LX for 6ALX PCIset, including a 82443BX PCI/Memory controller
(PMC), 82371AB PCI ISA IDE Accelerator (PIIX4).
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AMI PnP BIOS with support for power management, enhanced IDE/SCSI features and desktop
management interface (DMI) which allows higher level of hardware compatibility.
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Flash BIOS for a more easy upgrade path.
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Up to 3 each 168-pin DIMM sockets, supports up to 512MB SDRAM.
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One Accelerated graphic port (AGP) for AGP card.
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Three 16-bit ISA expansion slots and five 32-bit PCI expansion slots.
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Integrated two PCI bus master Ultra IDE controller with two on-board connectors supports up to
four IDE devices such as Hard Disk, CD-ROM or Tape Backup drives.
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Integrated super I/O chipset featuring one floppy disk controller, two 16550 UART compatible
serial ports, one high speed EPP/ECP capable parallel port, one Infra Red port.
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ATX form factor board with size 305 x 190mm