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Welcome
Congratulations on purchasing the P6VPA2 mainboard. The
P6VPA2 mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer
printed circuit board and measures 222 mm x 304 mm. The
mainboard features a Socket 370 that accommodates Celeron,
FC-PGA Pentium III, and Cyrix III processors that support
frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to 133 MHz. The P6VPA2
features the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset which combines support
for the new high-bandwidth Double Data Rate (DDR) 266
SDRAM with a high-speed V-Link Hub Architecture, and the AC
97 audio codec.
Note:
SDRAM provides 800 MBps or 1 GBps data transfer
depending on whether the bus is 100 MHz or 133 MHz. Double
Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM) doubles the rate to 1.6 GBps
or 2.1 GBps by transferring data on both the rising and falling
edges of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional power and
ground lines and requires 184-pin DIMM modules rather than the
168-pin DIMMs used by SDRAM.
The mainboard delivers high-level performance with a 4xAGP
(Accelerated Graphics Port) slot and two 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, UDMA33/66/100 IDE, and an ATAPI CD-ROM.
The mainboard accommodates DDR200/DDR266 or
PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous
DRAM) up to 3 GB using three 2.5V unbuffered DIMM modules.
The P6VPA2 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 connector, a dual
USB (Universal Serial Bus) connector, and PS/2 keyboard and
mouse connectors.