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Introducing the Mainboard
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Congratulations on purchasing the P4IBAD2 mainboard. The P4IBAD2 main-
board is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer printed circuit board and
measures 304.8 mm x 220 mm. The mainboard features a mPGA478 Socket
that accommodates Intel Pentium 4 Willamette/ Northwood processors sup-
porting system speeds up to 400/533 MHz and data bus bandwidths up to 3.2
GB/s.
The mainboard comes with a full set of I/O features conveniently integrated on
the rear I/O panel, including support for PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors,
two USB ports, a LAN connector, two high-speed serial port, an EPP/ECP
parallel port, audio jacks for microphone, line-in, line-out and CD-in and a
game port, as well as supporting Plug and Play.
The P4IBAD2 incorporates the Intel i82845 (MCH) and the Intel 82801BA
(ICH2) chipsets, which supports 2.5V DDR DRAM, 2X/4X AGP (1.5V only),
and the AC’ 97 codec.
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Compare the mainboard’s package contents with the following checklist:
Standard Items
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One mainboard
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One diskette drive ribbon cable
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One IDE drive ribbon cable
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Software support CD
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Retention Module
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This user’s manual