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Introducing the Mainboard
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Congratulations on purchasing the P4S5A mainboard. This mainboard has a
Socket-478
processor socket for
Intel Pentium 4
type
of processors support-
ing front side bus (FSB) speeds up to
400/533 MHz
.
This mainboard integrates the
SiS 645/SiS 645DX
Northbridge along with
961A/961B/962
Southbridge chipsets that supports built-in
AC97 Codec
s up-
port 4-channel speak-out,
2
DDR
+ 2 SDR
modules up to 2GB system
memory. These chipsets’ function is detailed as the Chipset description in next
section. This mainboard has one
4X AGP
slot for highly graphics display, one
AMR
(Audio Modem Riser) slot to support Audio and Modem application, and
built-in
10BaseT/100BaseTX Network Interface
. There is a full set of I/O
ports including two PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard, two serial ports, one
parallel port, one MIDI/game port and four USB ports -- two backpanel ports
and onboard USB header USB1 providing two extra ports (they will support
USB 2.0 if SiS 962 SB installed on the mainboard). By means of the Extended
USB Module connected to the mainboard, you can make two extra USB ports.
This mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer printed circuit board
and measures 305 x 244mm.
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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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One Retention Module
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The User’s Manual